Is Obama a Warmonger or a Peacemaker?

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Obama to visit Korean Demilitarized Zone on Sunday

President Barack Obama on Sunday will make his first-ever visit to the most guarded border in the world—the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea—as he kicks off a brief trip to Seoul for a nuclear security summit, the White House announced Tuesday.

Obama's stop at the DMZ will allow him to showcase his "personal investment" in the 28,500 U.S. troops who serve in South Korea as well as America's "personal commitment" to South Korea's security, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters on a conference call.

The National Security Council's senior director for Asia, Danny Russel, noted on the same call that the DMZ stop will come nearly two years to the day of the sinking of the South Korean navy ship Cheonan, which left 46 sailors dead. An international investigation blamed a North Korean torpedo for the incident. North Korea angrily denied the findings.

The joint U.S.-South Korea efforts to get to the bottom of the tragedy were "a special example of the solidarity and the cooperation" between the two allies, said Russel.

And the 160-mile long, 2.5-mile strip of land "is the front line of democracy" on the Korean Peninsula, he added.

Obama will be in South Korea for a summit focused on curbing the spread of nuclear weapons technology. While there, he will meet with leaders from Turkey, South Korea, Russia, Kazakhstan and China. But the visit also comes amid tensions over North Korea's announced plans to launch a long-range rocket in April—a step loudly condemned in Washington and among its allies in the region.

President George W. Bush visited the DMZ in February 2002—just weeks after calling North Korea part of an "axis of evil" with Iran and Saddam Hussein's Iraq—and gave a speech at a train station 200 yards from the fortified border.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-visit-korean-demilitarized-zone-sunday-205343312.html

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Obama Executive Order: Preparation For War With Iran?

EO is designed to combat imminent interruption in oil supplies

Paul Joseph Watson

Infowars.com

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Some analysts fear that the Obama administration’s recently passed executive order represents more than just a power grab and could in fact be part of preparations for a war with Iran.

As we documented earlier this week, the “National Defense Resources Preparedness” executive order, an update to similar EO’s passed under previous presidents, empowers the federal government to seize control of the farming industry, “all forms of energy,” all “water resources”, “all forms of civil transportation”, all health resources, and “all other materials, services, and facilities, including construction materials.”

However, a key addition to the language made by Obama is that all these industries and means of production can be seized “under both emergency and non-emergency conditions”.

This represents an effort to lay the groundwork for the complete nationalization of the U.S. economy.

It could also mean the Obama administration is now on a war footing for an imminent conflict with Iran, according to market analysts.

The order “is either a serious power grip or another sign that inside the deep recesses of the White House, they are preparing for war,” Phil Flynn, an energy analyst at PFGBest, told MarketWatch.

The executive order mandates that departments of the federal government related to defense “be prepared, in the event of a potential threat to the security of the United States, to take actions necessary to ensure the availability of adequate resources and production capability, including services and critical technology for national defense requirements.”

Despite White House spokesman Jay Carney brushing the executive order aside as a “routine piece of business,” New York Times best-selling author Edwin Black writes that its passage signals, “Obama may have quietly placed the United States on a war preparedness footing, perhaps in anticipation of an outbreak of war between Israel, the West, and Iran.”

Pointing out that the executive order is clearly designed to combat an imminent interruption in oil supplies to the United States, Black writes that the move is a precursor to any potential closure of the Strait of Hormuz, “which would obstruct some 40 percent of the world’s seaborne oil, some twenty percent of the global supply, and about 20 percent of America’s daily needs.”

With the US positioning three aircraft carriers along with numerous anti-mine ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the threat to oil markets of any potential attempt by Iran to close the key oil choke point is being tackled head on.

In addition, the recent speculation that emergency oil stocks will be released by the United States and the UK is also seen by many as a precursor to an attack on Iran.

http://www.infowars.com/obama-executive-order-preparation-for-war-with-iran/

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Of course, there may be an outside chance that he is just following advice and being prepared for all foreseeable contingencies!