Don DeBar: US Engaged in Largest War Effort Since WWII !
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- All wars are based on deception! – Sun Tzu, The Art of War!
- Don DeBar: US Engaged in Largest War Effort Since WWII !
by http://www.presstv.com/
A new symbolic vote in the US House sought to portray lawmakers as anti-war while the United States is leading the largest global war effort since World War II, a political commentator says.
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The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on Friday that would bar President Barack Obama from deploying combat troops to Iraq without approval from Congress.
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The nonbinding measure was approved by a 370-40 vote after Republican and Democratic members of the House said they should have control over authorizing military force.
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“It’s an interesting sideshow that took place in the House of Representatives yesterday,” Don DeBar, an anti-war activist and radio host in New York, said in a phone interview with Press TV on Saturday.
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“The context – well, the two most useful aspects of the context – are one, the extent of the war actually being conducted by the United States right now, where this resolution in the House was intended to symbolically chill the Obama administration from reintroducing ground troops into Iraq,” DeBar said.
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“If you look at a map of Western Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa, say from the Democratic Republic of Congo up, the United States and/or its allies are engaged in war right now in one fashion or another from the Democratic Republic of Congo up through the Sudans; Libya; a military government that they backed in Egypt; going all the way out to the west coast of Africa, where they’re still fighting in Cote D’Ivoire, for example, and in Mali, with the French and everything; going across, there’s the war in Syria, there’s the war in Ukraine, going up that way, there’s the war in Iraq, in which the United States is still very much involved,” he explained.
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“So the geographic extent of war the United States is conducting, without Iraq, is similar to – it’s actually larger than – the European theater of World War II, in which the United States was involved, in terms of geography,” DeBar noted.
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“There’s a huge context to this meaningless vote, other than symbolic vote, in the House that has intended to mask what’s really going on in front of the American electorate and make a majority of the people in the House look like they are against more war – because the public is – while the largest war since World War II is being conducted right before our very eyes,” the anti-war activist concluded.