21 Days After Obama's Inauguration: Where's The Change?

The Democratic Obama Regime’s War Machine apparently continues to make war on people in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a recent U.S. Air Force press release noted:

“Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations Feb. 8, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.

“In Afghanistan, Navy F/A-18E Super Hornets dropped a guided bomb unit-38 on an anti-Afghan firing position and provided shows of force to suppress enemy activity during a ground engagement near Garmser. The Super Hornets provided air support to coalition patrols in the area who had been receiving rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire.

“Near Lashkar Gah, a coalition aircraft employed a GBU-12 and a strafing pass, striking enemy snipers concealed in a building. The snipers had been firing at coalition soldiers when the aircraft's weapons halted their attack.

“In the vicinity of Musa Qala, a Navy F/A-18C Hornet used a GBU-12 and a GBU-38 to strike enemy gunmen engaging coalition patrols during an active firefight. The coalition ground force commander called in air support after the enemy opened fire with RPGs and assault weapons from positions in buildings and nearby rolling terrain.
An Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II executed pre-planned strikes with GBU-38s on enemy targets in the vicinity of Morghab, supporting coalition operations.

“In the area near Balocan, a coalition aircraft and a Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet performed shows of force and expended flares to deter enemy attacks during two separate engagements. Enemy personnel ceased firing immediately upon the jets' arrival, hastily retreating to avoid being targeted.

“A-10s flew shows of force in the vicinity of Ghazni and Moqor to deter enemy activity against coalition convoys transiting the areas. The convoys reached their destinations safely under aerial escort.

“A coalition aircraft executed a show of force and expended flares over Gereshk after anti-Afghan gunmen intentionally mixed with a civilian crowd before opening fire at a dismounted coalition patrol. In light of the apparent attempt to bait coalition soldiers into “inflicting civilian casualties, the coalition patrol commander requested the aircraft fly a show of force as a non-lethal deterrent.

“In the Monari region, an F-15E flying convoy support performed a show of force along the convoy route to deter a potential enemy attack. The convoy was able to proceed to its final objective without interference.

“On-scene joint terminal attack controllers assigned to coalition units verified the success of these missions.

“In total, 74 close-air-support missions were flown in support of the ISAF and Afghan security forces, reconstruction activities and route patrols.

Thirteen Air Force intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft flew missions as part of operations in Afghanistan. Additionally, two coalition aircraft performed tactical reconnaissance.

“In Iraq, coalition aircraft flew 37 close-air-support missions for Operation Iraqi Freedom. These missions integrated and synchronized with coalition ground forces, protected key infrastructure, provided overwatch for reconstruction activities and helped to deter and disrupt hostile activities.

“Twenty-five Air Force and Navy ISR aircraft flew missions as part of operations in Iraq. Additionally, three Air Force and coalition aircraft performed tactical reconnaissance.

“Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft and C-17 Globemaster IIIs provided intra-theater heavy airlift, helping to sustain operations throughout Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa.

“Approximately 140 airlift sorties were flown, more than 475 tons of cargo was delivered and about 3,075 passengers were transported.

“Coalition C-130 crews flew as part of operations in Afghanistan or Iraq.

“On Feb. 7, Air Force tanker crews flew 50 sorties and off-loaded approximately 3.3 million pounds of fuel to 305 receiving aircraft.”

And the official unemployment rate for African-American male workers still exceeds 14 percent--21 days after Obama’s inauguration.

66 Days After Obama's Election: Where's The Change?

Democratic President-Elect Barack Obama promised to bring “change” and “prosperity” to the United States and “peace to the Middle East” during his 2008 presidential campaign.

Yet since Obama’s election in November 2008, the official jobless rate for African-American male workers in the United States has increased from 12.1 percent to 13.4 percent, the official jobless rate for all U.S. workers has increased to 7.2 percent and over 524,000 more U.S. workers have lost their jobs—despite the U.S. Congress being under the control of the Democratic Party.

And in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Iraq are still being occupied by the Pentagon’s war machine at the same time that the U.S. government-armed Israeli war machine of the Zionist movement wages a brutal war against Palestinian civilians in Gaza—66 days after Obama’s election.

27 Days After Obama's Election: Where's The Change?

During the 2008 U.S. presidential election campaign, the Obama campaign and its Big Media promoters promised people in the United States that an Obama Administration would bring "change" and an end to U.S. military intervention in Iraq.

Yet 27 days after Obama's election, the same wife of former President Clinton who both supported the Clinton Administration's military attacks on Iraq and Serbia and policy of deadly economic sanctions on Iraq during the 1990s and voted in 2002 to authorize the Bush II Administration to launch its attack on Iraq, Hillary Clinton, is now the Obama Administration's U.S. Secretary of State-Designate. And the Obama Administration's U.S. Secretary of Defense-Designate, former CIA Director Robert Gates, is the same person who succeeded Donald Rumsfeld as the Bush II Administration's Secretary of Defense a few years ago.

In addition, a former employee of Henry Kissinger's influence-peddling firm and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Timothy Geithner, is the Obama Administration's U.S. Treasury Secretary-Designate, while the former Clinton Administration Treasury Secretary who helped draft the late 1990s banking deregulation law that led to the 21st-century U.S. banking system sub-prime mortgage crisis, former Harvard University President Larry Summers, is now a top Obama Administration economics adviser.

Not surprisingly, the U.S. military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and mass layoffs of U.S. workers continues and no amnesty for U.S. political prisoners like Leonard Peltier and Mumbia Abu-Jamal has yet been given--27 days after Obama's election.

Election Day 2008: Where's The Change?

On Election Day 2008, U.S. troops still occupy Iraq and Afghanistan. And the television studios of the U.S. Establishment's Media Monopoly are still not democratically-controlled by the U.S. anti-war, anti-corporate, anti-racist, anti-classist and anti-imperialist Movement community in the United States. In addition, U.S. political prisoners like Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal have still not been given amnesty by the Militaristic U.S. Establishment on Election Day 2008.