Obama’s specious soliloquy, which posed as a presidential address, to argue his reasons for an unwarranted attack on Syria, the media and the talking heads apparently chose to ignore what Obama had said in a speech he delivered October 2, 2002, emphatically arguing his opposition to the war in Iraq. Obama said: “…I am opposed to a dumb war…What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Hillary Clinton and other armchair weekend warriors in the [Bush] administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.” He continued: “…I am opposed to…the attempt by the political hacks like John Kerry to distract us from…a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income – to distract us from…scandals…That’s what I’m opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but…not on principle but politics…I suffer no illusions about [Syria’s] Bashar Hafez al-Assad. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. … But I also know that Assad poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States or to his [Assad’s] neighbors.” mychal-massie/premium/look-what-the-media-purposely-ignored/
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 00:36:12 +0000
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