Antiwar.com & Foreign Policy In Focus September 23,
2008 By Emily Schwartz Greco, Stephen Zunes
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s choice of Joseph Biden as his running mate has drawn sharp criticism from many Democrats as a result of the Delaware senator’s support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq, his flagrantly false claims about the alleged Iraqi threat, and the abuse of his position as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to suppress antiwar testimony before Congress prior to the invasion.
https://original.antiwar.com/zunes/2008/09/25/bidens-foreign-policy-experience
Month: September 2008
U.S. Intervention in Bolivia
Huffington Post Oct 23, 2008, |Updated May 25, 2011 by Stephen Zunes
The alleged support by the United States of wealthy landowners, business leaders, and their organizations tied to the violent uprising in eastern Bolivia has led U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg’s expulsion from La Paz and the South American government’s demands that the United States stop backing the illegitimate rebellion. Goldberg had met with some of these right-wing oppositionist leaders just a week before the most recent outbreak of violence against the democratically elected government of Evo Morales, who won a recall referendum in August with over 67% of the popular vote.
http://huffingtonpost.com/stephen-zunes/us-intervention-in-bolivi_b_127528.html
Assessing the Republican Party Platform
Foreign Policy In Focus: September 11, 2008 by Stephen Zunes
Among the more frightening aspects of the platform is its unconstitutional assertion that the president has sole prerogative to make decisions on matters of war, rejecting any role for Congressional “interference” in foreign policy matters. This appears to be a pre-emptive assertion by the Republican Party that, in the event of a John McCain win in November, they would reject any attempt by the likely Democratic-controlled Congress to impose any checks and balances to prevent a possible war on Iran or other dangerous executive initiatives.
https://democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103×383763
The 2008 Democratic Party Platform and the Middle East
Antiwar.com & Foreign Policy In Focus September 23,
2008 By Emily Schwartz Greco, Stephen Zunes
Theexcitement over the nomination of Barack Obama as the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party has been tempered by some key foreign policy planks in the 2008 platform, particularly those relating to the greater Middle East region. These positions appear to run counter to Obama’s pledge early in the primary race to end the mindset that led to the Iraq War. At the same time, substantial improvements in some foreign policy planks of the 2004 platform indicate at least modest successes by progressive Democratic activists.
https://original.antiwar.com/zunes/2008/09/25/bidens-foreign-policy-experience