Pentagon official: Anti-war MLK would support Iraq, Afghanistan wars

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Thursday, Jan 13, 2011 17:56 ET
War Room
Obama official: MLK would love our wars!
By Justin Elliott



http://www.salon.com/books/martin_luther_king_jr/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/01/13/obama_official_mlk_supports_our_wars

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, 2011 – If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, would he understand why the United States is at war?

Jeh C. Johnson, the Defense Department’s general counsel, posed that question at today’s Pentagon commemoration of King’s legacy.

In the final year of his life, King became an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, Johnson told a packed auditorium. However, he added, today’s wars are not out of line with the iconic Nobel Peace Prize winner’s teachings.

“I believe that if Dr. King were alive today, he would recognize that we live in a complicated world, and that our nation's military should not and cannot lay down its arms and leave the American people vulnerable to terrorist attack,” he said.

[sakabatou]

1. Where's my clue-by-four?

[H2O Man]

2. Sad.

Sadly wrong, too.

[Solly Mack]

3. I'm not feeling it.

[Puregonzo1188]

4. Does he know anything other about Dr. King? Other than he had a dream?

[Angry Dragon]

5. Spin

There is reincarnation
The dead speaking from the grave ........

[tsuki]

6. Dream-fucking-on. nt

[villager]

7. "And instead of poor people's marches on Washington, he'd have rich people's marches...

...maybe even a putsch. And we wouldn't have had to kill him!"

[frylock]

8. life was so simple in the sixties..

what a fucking idiot.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

11. YES! Those straightforward, carefree, uncomplicated sixties. That Dr. King was one lucky guy.

[frylock]

13. word

[gratuitous]

9. Your belief is WRONG, Mr. Johnson

You have the opportunity to change it to one that is correct, though.

[Arctic Dave]

10. What a fucking idiot.

Talk about a blatant attempt to co-op a peace movement icon.

[jwirr]

12. I do not believe he would have.