End ALL The Wars Immediately, The Only Real Power Obama Has Left

Since the Democrats threw the interests of their constituents, and in
the last election their majorities in Congress, under the bus, the
only real power Obama has left to exercise is his executive power, in
particular as commander in chief. While we might argue whether
presidents have the constitutional power to unilaterally start wars,
grossly abused by the latest succession, there is no question whether
Obama has the sole authority to STOP them.

We, the 99 percent, demand that President Obama immediately withdraw
all U.S. troops, including armed so-called "contractors", from all
foreign countries we now occupy against the will of their own people
(as opposed to the corrupt local quislings we have installed in
power).

End ALL The Wars Immediately Action Page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1084.php

We're not really interested in any legislation Obama might propose at
this point, with exactly zero chance of actually passing given the
intractable Republicans. The recent proposed jobs bill can only be
taken as some kind of cynical election year grandstanding stunt. It's
as if to say, "Elect more Democrats so we can pass this bill," doing
his best impersonation of Lucy with a football. Except they won't. If
they had the votes they'd just turn it into something feeble or
counterproductive like the health care and financial supposed reform
bills, as we have so painfully already seen.

No, the only meaningful thing Obama retains the power to do right now
is to stop ALL these wars immediately, get all our troops and
equipment on transports and hustle them home at once. In short, to
actual earn the Nobel peace prize that the committee in Norway was so
ill advised to award him so preemptively. And until he does that we
are frankly not interested in another single word he has to say.

It is now nearly a decade since we were told that, "When they stand
up, we will stand down." Let's face it folks, if it has not happened
by now it's just not going to happen ever. All the dishonest
assurances that we at last have various withdrawal timetables means
absolutely nothing as long as it's SUBJECT to "conditions on the
ground", which is to say military commanders get to veto the
president. The fact is, we have no intention of ever leaving any of
these countries we have invaded. The people who greased us into these
conflicts in the first place had a vision of permanent South Korea
style encampments, and have said so.

An even bigger lie is that any of this is to head off the revival of
the operation of terrorist cells, as for example in Afghanistan.
There could be no more friendly haven now for such operations than
the tribal regions of Pakistan, drone attacks notwithstanding. And
generational hostilities there are if anything exacerbated by our
unwelcome intrusions in neighboring countries. So having troops in
EVERY other muslim country on the planet is just global whack-a-mole.

Last War Crime Movie Production In Home Stretch

At long last . . . we are now a couple weeks away for the first film
festival submissions for "The Last War Crime", the new full length,
independent feature film about indicting Cheney for torture. We
should have no problem at this point making the submission deadlines
for Slamdance, Santa Barbara, SXSW, Ann Arbor, San Francisco
International, Tribeca, Cinequest and others, perhaps not with the
very final cut, but with something pretty close. One of the things we
are still working on is getting some unions musicians to perform the
already completed score, real strings, etc. So keep an eye and an ear
out and we'll keep you posted.

After you submit the action page above you can request one of the new
bumper stickers for the movie, and there is no charge, not even
shipping, unless you want to voluntarily make a contribution to help
us finish the production. Or you can get one directly here, where you
can also see and video clip from the movie's dramatic closing
argument to the grand jury.

Last War Crime Bumper Stickers:
http://www.peaceteam.net/bumper_stickers_lwc.php

And here is the Facebook link for End ALL The Wars Immediately action
page further above.

Action Page:
http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum1084

And this is the Twitter reply for this same action

@cxs #p1084

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