Posted by: zanshin, 2008-11-22 02:07

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You're Scaring Me, Obama: Let the Bush Years Die
Heather Wokusch, 2008-11-21 (Friday), Common Dreams
To be honest, Obama, you lost me when you voted for the PATRIOT Act reauthorization in 2006. You lost me again when you voted for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) amendment in 2008. And you lost me every single time you voted for yet more war funding.
Don't even get me started on your vote for the $700 billion Wall Street bailout.

I cast a ballot for you in November, but I just can't share in this moment of collective euphoria over your election.

So, if your transition team really wants feedback on "where President-Elect Obama should lead this country," here's a Top Five list:

1. Dump the Bush Doctrine and don't start more wars

You've made it clear that the US has to "take out Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants if we have them in our sights" and you've argued for "more resources and more troops to finish the fight against the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11."

What exactly does that mean?

Take troops out of Iraq and shove them into Afghanistan? Further destabilize Pakistan?

The whole idea of preemptive war (a.k.a. the Bush Doctrine) has no place in a civilized society and must be laid to rest, along with those sacrificed in Bush's military adventurism these past eight years.

Yet your approach to preemptive war, Mr. Obama, is nuanced at best.

During the January 2008 Democratic presidential debate, you said that if the US had "actionable intelligence" and Pakistan didn't "take on Al Qaida in their territory," then "I would strike." You added, " And that's the flaw of the Bush doctrine. It wasn't that he went after those who attacked America. It was that he went after those who didn't."

No, the flaw of the Bush Doctrine is that it's just plain wrong. We've learned that the hard way.

2. Ditch the warmongers

What's with all of the hawks in your new administration?

You presented yourself as a peace candidate and then chose Joe Biden as your VP. Yes, he brought in the white male vote, but he also backed the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Just last month Biden warned that if you were elected, there would be "an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy." He said that you would make some "incredibly tough decisions" that could alienate the Democratic base, because if decisions are "popular, they're probably not sound."

In other words, a popular decision, one that the majority of the people wants, is probably not a good decision. Democracy to Biden…

And then there's Robert Gates, widely rumored to be staying on as your Defense Secretary. Questions about Gates' role in Iran-Contra, not to mention his skewing of intelligence about Russia, still linger.

But especially disturbing is his recent push for beefing up the US nuclear arsenal: "As long as other nations have or seek nuclear weapons – and can potentially threaten us, our allies and friends – then we must have a deterrent capacity that makes it clear that challenging the United States in the nuclear arena, or with weapons of mass destruction, could result in an overwhelming, catastrophic response."

Let's get this straight: if other nations are even imagined to "seek" nuclear weapons, that "could result in an overwhelming, catastrophic response" from the US.

Obama, you've often insisted on taking "no options off the table" in dealing with Iran. How does Gates' proposal for the preemptive use of nuclear weapons factor in there?

While we're on the topic of warmongers in your midst… Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff? Yet another hawk, hell-bent on Iran and enamored with nuclear weapons.

And now we've got Clinton as Secretary of State.

Why is it that none of the 23 senators and 133 House Reps who voted against the war in Iraq are even on a short-list for these critical posts?

3. Close Guantanamo – and the whole system of secret prisons

Shutting down Gitmo is said to be a priority for your new administration. Terrific.

But what about Bagram? What about the other CIA "black site" secret prisons set up in Afghanistan, Thailand, Eastern Europe and elsewhere? What about the CIA torture flights? Will those end too?

Closing Gitmo also raises questions over how "high value" defendants will be handled. Your administration is reportedly considering setting up an alternative court system to deal with sensitive cases. But what safeguards will be in place to be sure that this new system won't degenerate into kangaroo courts, like Bush's military commissions?

It's a disturbing signal that you've appointed John Brennan, who has supported extraordinary rendition and warrantless wiretapping, to help review intelligence agencies for your administration. As former CIA and State Department analyst Mel Goodman noted, Brennan "sat there at [former CIA Director George] Tenet's knee when they passed judgment on torture and abuse, on extraordinary renditions, on black sites, on secret prisons. He was part of all of that decision making."

And this is who will help lead us out of this mess?

You've criticized the use of torture, yet reportedly will not bring criminal charges against those who authorized or conducted torture during the Bush years. Your administration doesn't see it as politically expedient, and Bush might give "preemptive" pardons anyway.

But can we really end this dark chapter in our nation's history without even an investigation? A Truth Commission, perhaps? Providing blanket immunity to all low-level and senior government officials won't prevent possible war crimes from happening again. Quite the opposite.

4. Expose Bush & Co., and ditch the national surveillance state

Speaking of war crimes, how about Bush, Cheney and the rest? You'll soon be given access to Bush-era secret orders and opinions authorizing everything from surveillance to detention. You'll no doubt rescind many, to great fanfare, but what about sharing this evidence of Bush-year excesses with the public?

Yes, Bush could file a lawsuit and invoke executive privilege, but it's worth the fight. The only other option is shielding Bush & Co., similar to how you will reportedly shield those government officials involved in torture. But the public deserves to know. And if Bush administration officials violated the law, they should be prosecuted.

Now, back to your vote for both the PATRIOT Act reauthorization in 2006 and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act amendment in 2008. These and other rollbacks in domestic civil liberties under Bush are inexcusable and must be addressed. We'll be waiting for you to do that.

5. Choose Main Street (not Wall Street)

Just this month you promised Americans that they can "turn the page on policies that have put the greed and irresponsibility of Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street."

Yet, as Bloomberg notes, "almost half the people" on your Transition Economic Advisory Board "have held fiduciary positions at companies that, to one degree or another, either fried their financial statements, helped send the world into an economic tailspin, or both."

This includes, for example, Anne Mulcahy and Richard Parsons, both of whom were Fannie Mae directors when the company fudged accounting rules. Ditto for another of your team members, William Daley.

Mulcahy and Parsons additionally held executive posts when their companies (Xerox Corp. and Time Warner Inc., respectively) got busted for accounting fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Also on your team is Richard Rubin, who as Bloomberg notes, was "chairman of Citigroup Inc.'s executive committee when the bank pushed bogus analyst research, helped Enron Corp. cook its books, and got caught baking its own. He was a director from 2000 to 2006 at Ford Motor Co., which also committed accounting fouls and now is begging Uncle Sam for Citigroup-style bailout cash."

The list of questionable appointees to your Transitional Economic Advisory Board goes on and on, begging the question: Is this really the best you could come up with? How about Joseph Stiglitz, Sheila Bair, Nouriel Roubini or James K. Galbraith, for starters? Someone who represents labor?

Meanwhile, we're stuck with this nasty bailout bill – which you voted for.

Others, such as Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI), realized the bill's problems and voted against it. Feingold said that the Wall Street bailout legislation, "fails to reform the flawed regulatory structure that permitted this crisis to arise in the first place. And it doesn't do enough to address the root cause of the credit market collapse, namely the housing crisis. Taxpayers deserve a plan that puts their concerns ahead of those who got us into this mess."

Feingold was right.

In short, Mr. President-elect, you promised "Change we can believe in," but across the board it's looking a lot more like "Business as usual."

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2008-08-30Transcript: Al Gore's speech at Invesco Field
2008-09-02Stoking Tensions, Risking Confrontation: A High Stakes US Gamble with Russia
2008-09-02Torture and liberty
2008-08-25Securitarism, reproduction of disorder and erosion of democratic rule of law
2008-08-25The changes in the fight against illegal immigration in the Euro-Mediterranean area and in Euro-Mediterranean relations
2008-08-25The Worldwide Threat 2004: Challenges in a Changing Global Context
2008-08-27'What Happened' by Scott McClellan -- BOOK REVIEW
2007-10-05Drum beaters for Iran war should think again
2007-10-05David Wurmser: a neocon unbowed
2007-10-02A Tale of Extraordinary Renditions and Double-Standards -- THE FORGOTTEN PRISONER
2007-10-03The Bush administration's ties to Blackwater
2007-09-28The Next Intervention
2007-09-25The Irrational Drama of a Declining Empire
2007-09-21Why Capitalism Needs Terror: An Interview with Naomi Klein
2007-08-29President Bush Addresses the 89th Annual National Convention of the American Legion
2007-09-07Understanding the U.S.-Israel Alliance: An Israeli Response to the Walt-Mearsheimer Claim
2007-11-02Vice President's Remarks to the Heritage Foundation
2007-11-04While Pakistan Burns
2007-11-06Is a Presidential Coup Under Way?
2007-11-22Fool Me Once . . .
2007-11-20PJB: Bush’s Failure in Pakistan – And the World
2007-11-20Breaking Away -- Francis Fukuyama and the neoconservatives
2007-11-12NATO Expands into Arab South
2007-11-13The new wars of religion
2007-11-13Is the Military Our Last, Best Hope for Averting War with Iran?
2007-11-16The Crisis Of Pakistan: A Dangerously Weak State
2007-10-19Is Brand America In Trouble?
2007-10-30Michael Ledeen discusses the Iranian Time Bomb
2007-10-12The Iconoclast
2007-12-07A new Chinese red line over Iran
2007-12-20Press Conference by the President
2007-12-10Moment of Reckoning
2007-12-12Iran:Time for a New Approach -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
2008-01-02How to Defuse Iran
2008-01-02Turkish accession to the European union: challenges and opportunities
2007-12-31Bhutto Killing Caps West's Year of Failure
2008-01-11The General in his Labyrinth
2008-01-08Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer Announces Top Risks and Red Herrings for 2008
2008-03-01Day of Reckoning -- Pat Buchanan
2008-02-29Islamist Bubbles -- Beware the light at the end of the Islamist tunnel
2008-03-04The Three Trillion Dollar War: Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard Economist Linda Bilmes on the True Cost of the US Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
2008-02-23The Two Faces of Saudi Arabia
2008-02-21The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Better
2008-02-05The radicals are rising
2008-02-04Arming the Middle East
2008-01-29Challenging a Unipolar World
2008-01-30The two faces of Amis
2008-01-31THE NEW WORLD ORDER' -- A Critique and Chronology
2008-01-24Root Causes and Rotten Ideas: On Dinesh D'Souza's The Enemy At Home
2008-10-11America and Political Islam: Clash of Cultures or Clash of Interests?
2008-10-11Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
2008-10-08Iran’s Secret Bargain With Bush?
2008-10-09U.S. Study Is Said to Warn of Crisis in Afghanistan
2008-10-13Letter to Chairman Rockefeller and Vice Chairman Bond
2008-10-13Restoring The Rule Of Law -- Testimony
2008-10-04Robert Fisk's World: When it comes to Palestine and Israel, the US simply doesn't get it
2008-10-22Colin Powell endorses Obama
2008-10-25The Battle Plan II: Sarah "Evita" Palin, the Muse of the Coming Police State
2008-11-08For Eyes of President-Elect Obama Only
2008-11-10Fighting the real fight
2008-11-07Country Reports on Terrorism -- Chapter 2 -- Country Reports: Middle East and North Africa Overview
2008-11-04The More Things “Change” The More They Stay The Same
2008-11-13No Breathing Space in Washington -- Don't Let Barack Obama Break Your Heart
2008-11-13What to Do with Bush and Cheney? -- The Electoral Remedy
2008-11-20'Eurasia and Europe should Cooperate against America' interview with Alexandr Dugin
2008-11-21For U.S., bigger issues require Russian help
2008-11-24Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World -- Executive Summary
2008-11-25A Word of Advice from Europe: Soft Power Works
2008-12-07Are Key Obama Advisors in Tune with Neocon Hawks Who Want to Attack Iran
2008-12-18Bill Moyer interviews Glen Greenwald from Salon - transcript
2008-12-16The Return of Realpolitik in Arabia