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"What now then, with Obama as President? Does he expose this, or has he only pretended to be everything that Bush wasnt?"
That is an excellent question! And my position is...that he has "only pretended to be everything that Bush wasn't."
Far from exposing this, he wants a troop buildup in Afghanistan. Why? Because Afghanistan must be stabilized so the long-delayed plans of Unocal to build an oil pipeline from Central Asia through Afghanistan through Pakistan can be finally realized. That's why we went to Afghanistan in the first place...to take matters about the pipeline into our own hands because the Taleban regime was too unstable.
In short, Obama works for essentially the same people that Bush works for. These people own large portions of the world and want the rest. To them it is a zero-sum game. They are psychopaths with no conscience. And that is Obama in my opinion...a polished psychopath doing the bidding of elites. He supported the first bail out, which was simply robbery of the poor & middle class to give to the same Wall Street thieves who had already robbed the nation into relative poverty.
Obama is not president by accident. If we had a true democracy or true republic, that might be possible. But what we have is an oligarchy with a facade of democracy/republicanism. Enough of the 'mob' (i.e., enough citizens) were so disgusted with the previous administration, and with the economy, etc., that the appearance of 'change' was necessary to keep the rabble in line. And that's what we have...the appearance of change.
The real issue here is power. Those who have it want to keep it, and want more of it, lest they lose what they have. And believe me, what you hear on the nightly news (whether it is Fox on the 'right' and MSNBC on the 'left') AINT the truth!
A good book on this is written by Webster Tarpley, called "Obama: The Postmodern Coup - Making of a Manchurian Candidate." Remember (I mentioned a few posts down) that Tarpley also wrote "9/11 Synthesis Terror: Made in the U.S.A." Tarpley has since expanded his Obama book by a couple-hundred pages and published it under the title: "Barrack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography." But I haven't read that one.
This brings up another point about the 9/11 question. It is not a Left-Right issue. For example, Alex Jones is one of the most conservative of talk show hosts (see his websites, prisonplanet.com & infowars.com). He supported Ron Paul for president (who, incidentally, I would have voted for had he been on the ticket..and I did NOT vote for Obama or McCain). Alex Jones has been exposing the truth about 9/11 for several years, alongside the truth about the illegality of our income tax, for example.