President Obama: Ending Combat in Iraq - Speaks to the National Convention of DAV in Atlanta [35:36]

[MrObama]

Run time: 35:36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOkayW8BG0U   Posted on YouTube: August 02, 2010 By YouTube Member: whitehouse Views on YouTube: 2346   Posted on DU: August 03, 2010 By DU Member: MrObama Views on DU: 506

 
President Obama speaks to the national convention of Disabled American Veterans in Atlanta, GA about the upcoming end of combat operations in Iraq and his Administration's pledge to honor our nation's commitments and responsibilities to veterans. August 2, 2010.

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[jody]

1. "Ending Combat" with DOD forces and "Beginning Combat" with Dept of State forces aka contractors. nt

[Grinchie]

2. Semantic wordplay reframing the role of Combat troops...

We're not in combat, yet many sacrifices are yet to come.. "very dangerous" "Al Qaeda in Iraq"

All the same fucking codewords utterd by Bush and Cheney like the gospel, now uttered more eloquently by Reverend Obama from the pulpit to a captive, crippled audience.

I could only stomach 15 minutes of this tripe before I had to turn it off.

[ooglymoogly]

3. Oh great, moving the deck chairs on the titanic

and renaming them after corporations with private armies; That'll fool a lot of folks; Especially for those desperately needing to be fooled and nominally keep faith with the letter of the contracts with Iraq and the UN to get the hell out.

Hey we are getting out; Don't mind that benevolent jackboot on your neck, called comically, "The new and improved and militarized state dpt." with just 500,000 kindly stenographers to keep the embassy running; That has taken up the strings of power where money and revenues are concerned; Or how fast that oil revenue mysteriously disappears down the rabbit hole;

Or should I say keeps on disappearing.