PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FIRST ASSIGNMENTS

I. Get the US economy back into working order. The assignments below are related to this primary one.

2. Get us out of Guantanamo. Close it down and sprinkle to ground with salt.

3. Deconstruct the phony war on terror, and to start, perhaps, strike the use the term "terrorist" itself from the lexicon. It serves no useful purpose. Let us define any real enemies more accurately.

4. Get us out of Iraq. Out means out. The word needs no further defnition. It means no US fighters in Iraq, (play no games as some expect by renaming troops as advisers) a stop to the building of those massive air strips, and abandoning the $0.6 billion dollar Bagdhad embassy. Those facilities and structures are of the past. Out of Iraq means out.

5. End the useless, damaging and bloody US drone air-strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan. They are counter-productive.

6. Get out of Afghanistan. It it not a winnable war.

7. Cut the so called "Defense" Department Budget...Make it a real "defense" department and not a "Global Imperialism" department. In bringing it down to size..we can redirect those wasted funds toward an improved domestic economy. Additionally bring the military back under civilian control. Too often we hear generals in the field making strategic pronouncements..those decisions belong in the White House with our elected officials.

7. Face up to the real problem between the Israelis and Palestinians. We can no longer support Israeli aggression and expansion. For the fact is that our uncritical support is counter to our own, as well as Israeli's best interests, and we simply can not afford the monetary or political costs any longer.

To be continued....