Clock radio goes on, and I'm dreaming an American president says we overthrew Iranian government

I guess I was still half asleep. I had this weird dream this morning after the clock radio went off and half woke me up. I know it was a dream, because what I heard could not actually have happened.

So in this dream, the president of the United States is giving some speech somewhere, and first off, reason I know I'm dreaming is that he mentions the idea that the Cold War caused proxy wars to be fought around the world without regard to the aspirations of the people in whose countries those proxy wars were fought. Now, I know that "Marxist" university professors like Noam Chomsky or Howard Zinn might admit something, but it is a truism of American politics that American presidents never speak about certain issues; they never give "fact-based" assessments of past foreign policy blunders or admit that anything America has ever done has been cynical or calculated, but that the only things we have done have been to promote "freedom." No president would say that proxy wars were fought without regard to those foreigners' aspirations. What a dumb thing to hear in my dream!

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Moreover, I've been told over and over and over on the liberal blogosphere that Obama is exactly the same as Bush, and I never heard Bush mention any American responsibility for proxy wars during the Cold War. I'm finding it hard to remember the chronology of the dream, but I remember that in the dream, this guy who was supposed to be president in the dream said that the US overthrew a democratically elected government in Iran! Now whether we students of history think that happened, we all know damn well that no American president ever admits to that kind of CIA skullduggery! OK, I think he even mentioned the word "colonialism."

OK, now this is where the dream got really weird.

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The American president quoted the Koran. The current president, I'm confidently told is exactly the same as Bush, and we all know that Bush was (or presented himself to be) a Christian fundamentalist, who believed that the Christian Bible is the inerrant and only inerrant word of God. No American president would quote approvingly from the Koran. Also, in the dream, the guy giving the speech claimed to have grown up overseas in a Muslim country and admitted that his middle name was Hussein. I mean shit, why didn't the dream president just admit he faked his birth certificate!

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Oh, and there was this kind of heckling from a Muslim audience -- people saying "we love you."

In other words, this had to be a dream because this was supposed to be a speech to a bunch of Muslims and no one threw a shoe at the American president.

OK, the next part is kind of embarrassing. You know how sometimes you have this dream, and its kind of unrealistic and dreamlike, but then it gets downright bizarre? I hesitate to tell you about the next part on a public bulletin board because it's so weird that you'll probably want to do some kind of Freudian analysis or something.

The speaker who claimed to be president said something about not seeking any permanent bases in Afghanistan or Iraq. He said that the US planned to withdraw all troops from Iraq by 2012.

<On edit: Oh shit! I just remembered! The "president" in this dream called the Iraq war a "war of choice"!!! God, I'm so embarrassed! And he said that he ordered the end of torture :silly:>

Now I know from a fact, 'cause I read it right here on DU, that Obama, just like Bush, wants to keep American bases in Iraq forever, that the current president is torturing even more than Bush. Pretty weird dream, huh? Ok I admit it, it was

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In this surreal part of the dream, the speaker also referred to the West Bank and Gaza as Palestine, and said that the US now opposes settlements in the occupied territories.

I have it on reliable authority that the "real" president is just a pawn of the neo-cons who controlled Bush, so I know this could not actually have happened.

Well, I won't go on and on. There's nothing more boring than someone telling you about a dream they had. Dreams are always more important to the dreamer than to the listener.

Anyway, I eventually woke up, but I didn't have time to listen to the news.

What's the top story of the day?

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... I'm gonna be VERY mad when I wake up from this dream to see President Jeb Bush on the TV.

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Darker than Dark!

once supported same-sex marriage, but then counted potential votes and decided he needed to suck up to the homophobes and changed his mind? I wouldn't put too much stock in what he says today. It could change by next week.

this statement, but of course he didn't do so in "real life" because I have it on firm authority that on the ME, he's just another Bush, and on equality, he has not said one word about anything.

The liberal blogosphere is never wrong in its predictions of "more of the same" from the Democrats and Obama. So no, it wasn't the president. It was a figment of my dream imagination.

Under 10 USC Sec 654? You know, in celebration and acknowledgement of all those swell LGBT contributions he touted?

I sure hope so.. because in my dream he didn't, and Arabic linguists like Dan Choi were dismissed from the army, leaving people who speak Arabic like I speak Farsi to translate important National Security Intercepts... and I'm lucky to translate 1 word in 20 successfully from Farsi to English... hell, I don't even know the word for "lettuce".

Come to think of it, maybe your "firm authorities" that Obama "is just another Bush" are wrong... maybe he's redefining"fuckup" in his own personal way? Dreams can be funny that way...

it was one of those "did he really say that?" moments

and the fact is that at times, the Obama administration has continued Bush and/or Republican policies in various areas.

And when the administration does, it gets criticism from the blogoshere, which is often well deserved. Further,if the administration and the DINO's in the Senate sell out on enough issues, the base will do what they've done before and STAY HOME, leaving Democrats to blame Nader- or someone or something else, rather than their own sorry selves.

It still seems breathtaking.

Of course, I do not know to what extent entrenched political interest will screw things up. But, it is quite clear from where I am sitting in the Middle East - he is opening hearts and minds.

Let us hope progressives stand strong enough behind this great, great man in a way that will get him the strength to stand up to reactionary and racist forces and to carry out the agenda for just and lasting peace in the Middle East.