Please Read Joseph Heller's Catch-22 on Your Vacation, Mr. President | Common Dreams

Please Read Joseph Heller's Catch-22 on Your Vacation, Mr. President | Common Dreams:

"Barack Obama ran as the anti-war alternative when he was a primary challenger to Hillary Clinton, whose nomination as Democratic presidential candidate in 2008 was widely held to be inevitable. It was his 2 October 2002 speech in Chicago where he declared his opposition to the imminent invasion of Iraq, calling it "a dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics." As a US senator, he pledged to filibuster any bill that granted retroactive immunity to large telecommunication corporations that co-operated with the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping of US citizens. And on his first day in office, you might recall, he vowed to close the military prison at Guantánamo Bay."

You mean politicians don't do what they say to get elected? Shocking!