Obama is our only hope for peace in Middle East (Obama man of peace, like Lincoln, says reader)

Editor, the Tribune: Ever wonder why so many independent-minded conservatives are choosing Barack Obama over John McCain and Hillary Clinton? Peace.

Obama has opposed the war in Iraq since its start. Clinton supported the war at first but changed her mind for political reasons. McCain has been behind the war all along.

Listening to Obama’s speeches and debates, and researching his positions, reveals a man who will not only bring our troops home but will not start new wars.

McCain jokes about starting new wars when Americans are still dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, billions dollars are being spent on foreign wars at the expense of a "recessed" or "depressed" economy and an overextended military that needs to come home once and for all.

Clinton cannot be trusted. Her husband, Bill, almost started wars in Haiti and Korea until independent peace negotiators averted them. He ordered bombing of Iraq, Afghanistan and the Sudan to get his sex scandals off of the front page.

Obama comes to us as a man of a peace at a critical time in our country’s history - just as another Illinois senator with little national experience came to us 148 years ago. Yes, I am comparing Obama to Abraham Lincoln. He has been compared to a lot of people over the Internet and in campaign rhetoric, but it is Lincoln he most closely resembles. It is our patriotic duty to vote for Obama in November to end America’s involvement in Iraq and other senseless foreign situations.

Not only a product of public schools, but one not interested in the slightest in the historical truth. Here's a succinct summary of Lincoln's suspension of civil liberties during that little fracas (Source: http://www.civil-liberties.com/pages/did_lincoln.htm).

As the Civil War started, in the very beginning of Lincoln's presidential term, a group of "Peace Democrats" proposed a peaceful resolution to the developing Civil War by offering a truce with the South, and forming a constitutional convention to amend the U.S. Constitution to protect States' rights. The proposal was ignored by the Unionists of the North and not taken seriously by the South. However, the Peace Democrats, also called copperheads by their enemies, publicly criticized Lincoln's belief that violating the U.S. Constitution was required to save it as a whole.
With Congress not in session until July, Lincoln assumed all powers not delegated in the Constitution, including the power to suspend habeas corpus. In 1861, Lincoln had already suspended civil law in territories where resistance to the North's military power would be dangerous. In 1862, when copperhead democrats began criticizing Lincoln's violation of the Constitution, Lincoln suspended habeas corpus throughout the nation and had many copperhead democrats arrested under military authority because he felt that the State Courts in the north west would not convict war protesters such as the copperheads. He proclaimed that all persons who discouraged enlistments or engaged in disloyal practices would come under Martial Law.
Among the 13,000 people arrested under martial law was a Maryland Secessionist, John Merryman. Immediately, Hon. Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States issued a writ of habeas corpus commanding the military to bring Merryman before him. The military refused to follow the writ. Justice Taney, in Ex-parte Merryman, then ruled the suspension of habeas corpus unconstitutional because the writ could not be suspended without an Act of Congress. President Lincoln and the military ignored Justice Taney's ruling.
Finally, in 1866, after the war, the Supreme Court officially restored habeas corpus in Ex-parte Milligan, ruling that military trials in areas where the civil courts were capable of functioning were illegal.

Obama and the left's definition of "peace" means that US troops will not be sent anywhere to enforce anything or liberate anyone. We will keep them at home.

That sounds great, but it doesn't fly in a turbulent world. It sounds really great to the Muslim leaders who know that if Obama is elected, no US troops will be sent to interfere as the caliphate is plundered. No more senseless and illegal wars, Mr Imam. You just go ahead there and we will stay right here.

Obama is the one they have been waiting for. Now they can.

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