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To see why it might be important to sign this petitioin, read the previous post Is Obama Fulfilling the Neocon Dream of Mass Regime Change in Muslim World? and view the referenced video.

The upshot of that previous post is that the decision to go to war has probably already been made and it is probably unstoppable, but that is no reason for not trying.

The Democracy Now article Glenn Greenwald: Is Obama Fulfilling the Neocon Dream of Mass Regime Change in Muslim World? introduces the video with the following:

Political blogger Glenn Greenwald recently wrote about retired General Wesley Clark’s recollection of an officer telling him in the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks that the then U.S. Secretary of Defense had issued a memo outlining a plan for regime change within five years in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. We play an excerpt of Clark’s comments and ask Greenwald to respond.

So, if you are wondering why President Obama’s foreign policy is so bellicose, I have no explanation. The video in the above article at least shows you what the policy seems to be. Who actually is in control in this administration and how did they come to have such control? Did we know we were voting for these people to have control, whoever they are?