Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm says NATO is a peace group

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm says NATO is a peace group:

Rahm says NATO is a peace group

by Mike Klonsky

Studs Terkel

Yesterday was Studs Terkel's 100th birthday. I'm certain if Studs were alive to day he would get a chuckle listening to this mayor's bombast as much as did listening to the last one's. I don't know what could possibly top Rahm's latest description of NATO, the world's largest war machine ever on the face of the earth, as an an organization working for peace.

You see, according to the mayor, the reason he brought the NATO summit to Chicago is so the WINDY city could be the historic scene of the Chicago Accords -- the agreement to put an end to war --as we know it.

The Sun-Times' Fran Spielman writes:

As the NATO summit draws near, Emanuel has become increasingly defensive about an event that many Chicagoans view as a giant headache... But after the U.S. Secret Service disclosed plans to close three major expressways, lakefront museums and countless roads to protect