Anti-War Group Calls Obama a War Criminal

  Do you remember the war protest group “Iraq Veterans Against the War?” They were getting quite a bit of publicity before the elections of 2004 and of 2006 but they haven’t been heard from recently. Until now.

  The IVAW held a protest called “Operation No Change” on the 6th anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. During this rally, while being interviewed, at least one protester called President Obama’s war policy criminal, he even went so far as to claim that President Obama is worse than President Bush was.

In some ways, Obama is worse than Bush,” Kokesh told CNSNews.com. “Bush wasn’t proposing a surge in Afghanistan – and Bush was talking about a quicker time-line for withdrawal than Obama.”

Kokesh also said that he “absolutely” thinks Obama’s war policies are criminal

  He also went on to say this:

What Obama is doing with our foreign policy on a fundamental level is not change. Though we are going to re-label the troops ‘non-combat troops,’ they are still out there, and clearly they are still fighting for American interests.

  That is a statement that I find interesting. The phrase “fighting for American interests” is the statement I am referring to. He admits that we are fighting for American interests in the middle east, if that is true, and it is, than in fact President Obama is not a criminal for continuing Bush’s war policies. He has ruined his whole argument.

  This protester claims that he is not surprised by Obama’s war policies but many people are. People bought into the idea that once Obama became president he would end the war almost immediately. That would have been incredibly reckless and irresponsible. President Obama may be allot of things– incompetent, in over his head, radical, socialist, an anti-constitutionalist, and clueless; but even he isn’t irresponsible enough to have recklessly ended the war without listening to the generals on the ground, especially after the war has been won. Those who voted for Obama because they thought he would bring the troops home immediately were just being naive.

  The war has been won and because of this we will now be able to begin a draw down of troops, this draw down takes time and President Obama is following the timetable that President Bush agreed upon with the Iraqi government.

  Because our troops performed so heroically and because they had a president who never lost faith in them even while members of congress did, we will be able to bring the troops home gloriously in victory instead of with their heads hung in defeat.

  President Obama would be a fool to do otherwise, that is why he is following President Bush’s withdrawal plan.