Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Murderous Obama Jokes About Civilian Killing Weapons

Humor, or one's approach to it, is often revealing of a person's general nature.

At last Saturday's White House Correspondents Dinner -- an annual event in which public servants get a chance to freeload with celebrities -- Dad Basher-in-Chief Barack Obama revealed his well-hidden, bloodthirsty nature.

Speaking to guests  from a podium bearing the Presidential Seal, Obama jokingly told the Jonas Brothers that he would hunt them down and kill them with his Predator drones.

The joke might be funny if Obama hadn't actually killed anybody with his drones, but the fact is, he has.  Lots of people.  Including innocent women and children.

According to some estimates, Obama's drone attacks may have killed upwards of 400 civilians-- perhaps as many as 1000 -- in Afghanistan and Pakistan since the time he took office.  The Washington based New American Foundation reports that a full one-third of all deaths resulting from drone strikes in the war torn region are civilian deaths.

It was well-reported back in October 2009 that Obama -- even knowing that his drone war was killing an unprecedented numbers of civilians -- gave an executive order to step up drone attacks.  On just his third day in office, Obama authorized two drone attacks which killed three children.  One for each day as President, a body count which would impress Hannibal Lecter.

Obama's drone joke comes at an especially bad time, right on the heels of a botched bombing attempt of New York's Times Square.  The suspect in that case, Pakistani-born Faisal Shahzad,  admits to having planted the bomb because he was upset over the high civilian death toll caused by Obama's drones.

Shahzad is not alone in his outrage in Pak-Afghan region, according to many news outlets, and Obama's little joke is certain to throw more fuel on the fire, endangering lives of servicemen abroad and Americans at home.

Like any serial killer on the loose, Obama is a danger to us all.  Not only when he's inciting acts of vengeance in the Middle East but also when he spreading hate domestically by singling out groups like non-custodial parents for abuse.

To read more about Obama's joke at the White House Correspondents Dinner, and the fallout, go to: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Obama-Finds-Predator-Drones-Hilarious-1171

Monday, January 25, 2010

Obama: From Dadbasher to Babykiller

Afghan and Pakistani men who are taking time out to be a dad, as those public service ads by President Obama go, are finding that hard to do as their parenting time is increasingly being cut in half by a missile through the roof from a U.S. drone strikes.

The number of unmanned drone strikes has been up since Barack Obama took office and the toll on innocents has reached an all time high. In 2009 alone, more than 700 civilians (perhaps 1000, according to some estimates) have been killed, including many women and children.

At the same time, Obama is asking for a record chest of war funding to sustain the violence, this after criticizing his predecessor for his war spending.

All this is taking place without much a squeak from the left; no massive outcry from journalists Maureen O'Dowd or others who railed against the Bush regime; no major outbursts from Roger Moore or Danny Glover, or any other cultural figures who've used their social/cultural positions in the past to condemn never-ending war in the Middle East.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama remains unapologetic about the people he's been killing. And while the public has been made to comfortably overlook what's going on -- the same way our media has made sure to cover up rights abuses against divorced dads and NCPs -- the danger to our servicemen increases.

One has to wonder whether or not Bin Laden could do a better job of recruiting than Obama's murderous drone strikes, which not only besmirch our military's honor but also fuel the thirst for vengeance of those caught up in the slaughter. The number of servicemen killed in Afghanistan hovers around 961 and will unfortunately rise the longer we stay in the region. And let's not forget that American losses too represent numerous American families which will also have their dad time reduced ... permanently.

Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_attacks_in_Pakistan#2009

http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9216-analysis-in-afpak-drone-war-us-routinely-commits-war-crimes-a-terrorist-acts.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carne-ross/us-drone-strikes-and-civi_b_203968.html

http://news.antiwar.com/2010/01/13/us-drone-fired-missile-into-a-crowd-of-suspects-killing-13-afghans/

http://www.tnr.com/article/the-drone-wa