Dave Zirin: Sorry Obama, you can't have Muhammad Ali

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Message to Obama: You Can't Have Muhammad Ali

By Dave Zirin

On November 19th, President Barack Obama wrote a stirring tribute in USA Today to the most famous draft resister in US history, Muhammad Ali. On Tuesday, Obama spoke at West Point, calling for an increase of 30,000 troops into Afghanistan, with a speech that recalled the worst shadings of George W. Bush's "war on terror."

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[Ali said] "Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No, I'm not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over.”

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Barack Obama can have the fawning media, the adoring generals, the RNC, and the liberal apologists on his side.

But he can't have the Champ. Remove that poster from your wall Mr. President. Your Ali privileges have been revoked.

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