In ’68, Mayor Daley’s police force brutally broke up the antiwar demonstration in Chicago so as to preserve the dignity of the Democratic convention…
Forty years on, and Daley’s son, Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago, has quashed a City Council resolution opposing war with Iran saying that it hurts native son Obama. "Passing a resolution like that puts a… burden upon his candidacy and injects something that should not be injected” into the presidential campaign, Daley said.
What’s being injected? Daley brings up Israel. "Let’s be realistic. The U.S. did [create Israel]," he says. I.e., we’re joined at the hip. The resolution came after a hearing featuring realist John Mearsheimer and Scott Ritter. The Sun-Times account of course fails to point out the importance of Jewish votes in FL, let alone Jewish money to Obama…
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Phil, thank you for your comments.
Let us hope that a change is starting to take shape.
link to antiwar.com
Scott Ritter, the former chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq and author of Target Iran: The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change, discusses the Chicago city council’s attempt to bring attention of the possibility of war with Iran to the Illinois congressional delegation, the effectiveness of city council’s antiwar resolutions, Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ attempt to focus attention on Iraq instead of Iran, Cheney’s role, the chances he’s giving that the U.S. will attack Iran, Iran’s influence in Iraq, the bad Ho Chi Minh Trail analogy, Iran’s possible response to a U.S. military attack, the scenario of a what a war between the U.S. and Iran would look like, Iran’s air defense system, why a U.S. strike on Iran would be the worst thing for Israeli national security, the president’s lack of constitutional authority to go to war, and takes questions from callers.
It would really be explosive if somebody in the MSM, especially on TV, actually raised the questions samuel burke raises, and
then showed a real pro and con discussion–over, say at least a half hour program…
Of course that's asking way to much of the only superpower's Fourth Estate, to actually clue the American public in, especially when we have more important things to do like choosing the next President where that office is much more important than it is in, say, Iran…