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There is an article from Counterpunch - "The Obama Puppet:  The World's Least Powerful Man" - over at The Confluence that says Obama is trying to start a war in Pakistan (all in quotes):

This is a big “ouch” The Obama Puppet, by Paul Craig Roberts at Counterpunch

Essentially, Obama is irrelevant.

President Obama can promise that he is going to bring the troops home, and the military lobby says, “No, you are going to send them to Afghanistan, and in the meantime start a war in Pakistan and maneuver Iran into a position that will provide an excuse for a war there, too. Wars are too profitable for us to let you stop them.”

And the mere president has to say, “Yes, Sir!”

Obama can promise health care to 50 million uninsured Americans, but he can’t override the veto of the war lobby and the insurance lobby. The war lobby says its war profits are more important than health care and that the country can’t afford both the “war on terror” and “socialized medicine.”

The insurance lobby says health care has to be provided by private health insurance; otherwise, we can’t afford it.

The war and insurance lobbies rattled their campaign contribution pocketbooks and quickly convinced Congress and the White House that the real purpose of the health care bill is to save money by cutting Medicare and Medicaid benefits, thereby “getting entitlements under control.”

Entitlements is a right-wing word used to cast aspersion on the few things that the government did, in the distant past, for citizens. Social Security and Medicare, for example, are denigrated as “entitlements.” The right-wing goes on endlessly about Social Security and Medicare as if they were welfare give-aways to shiftless people who refuse to look after themselves, whereas in actual fact citizens are vastly overcharged for the meager benefits with a 15% tax on their wages and salaries.

Confluence link:  http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/thursday-morning-grab-your-coffee-and-go/

Article link:  http://counterpunch.org/roberts12022009.html

Building 4112 wrote:

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Well, Pres. Zardari just divested the Prime Minister (Gilani) with the command of nuclear power decisions. Some say he's losing his grip on power.

I think our inexperienced Prsident had better be paying more attention to this.

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Two questions:

1.  Wonder where they're getting their nuclear weapons?

2.  Is it better for us to be there to help monitor said nuclear weapons?  I know that they might have an itchy trigger finger where India is concerned, if I remember correctly...