'The Machines Did The Killing': Obama Awkwardly Defends Drone Kill List In New Memoir
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2020 Nov 24, 11:44am 1,324 views 10 comments
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richwicks
2020 Nov 24, 11:51am
richwicks
2020 Nov 24, 11:51am
WillPowers says
Well, everybody I knew that opposed the Iraq war in 2004 did, apparently. There may be some primitive need of most people to "chose a side" when prevented with a false dichotomy. Every single "liberal" I knew in 2004 was perfectly happy with Barack Obama and I know only of a few "conservatives" that, looking back, can admit the Bush administration lied about the weapons of mass destruction program.
At least the "conservatives" are making progress. At this point in time, they are the least brainwashed people of this nation.
WHO can FORGET THAT?
Well, everybody I knew that opposed the Iraq war in 2004 did, apparently. There may be some primitive need of most people to "chose a side" when prevented with a false dichotomy. Every single "liberal" I knew in 2004 was perfectly happy with Barack Obama and I know only of a few "conservatives" that, looking back, can admit the Bush administration lied about the weapons of mass destruction program.
At least the "conservatives" are making progress. At this point in time, they are the least brainwashed people of this nation.
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Ceffer
2020 Nov 24, 12:44pm
Ceffer
2020 Nov 24, 12:44pm
You mean that somebody is actually reading Obama's POS ghostwritten toilet paper? They still think he can swing Manchurian talk show host teleprompter charm? Maybe a few Oscars, Golden Globes, and another Nobel Peace Prize will do the trick. Oh, and don't forget the Pulitzer.
Doesn't look like Obama's holding it together very well for more than a few token appearances. Guess intelligence threatened to release his gay pornos if he doesn't get back to work.
Doesn't look like Obama's holding it together very well for more than a few token appearances. Guess intelligence threatened to release his gay pornos if he doesn't get back to work.
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HeadSet
2020 Nov 24, 8:23pm
HeadSet
2020 Nov 24, 8:23pm
Doesn't look like Obama's holding it together very well for more than a few token appearances. Guess intelligence threatened to release his gay pornos if he doesn't get back to work.
I am not so sure it is not Obama that is pulling the strings. After all, it is his close deep state buddies that did the Russia hoax, and someone big had to coordinate the vote fraud. Why else did Obama stay in DC?
I am not so sure it is not Obama that is pulling the strings. After all, it is his close deep state buddies that did the Russia hoax, and someone big had to coordinate the vote fraud. Why else did Obama stay in DC?
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Onvacation
2023 Jun 17, 7:16pm
Onvacation
2023 Jun 17, 7:16pm
HeadSet says
I seriously doubt it's that simple. Obama was part of the political theatre, NOT the rulers; whoever they are.
I am not so sure it is not Obama that is pulling the strings.
I seriously doubt it's that simple. Obama was part of the political theatre, NOT the rulers; whoever they are.
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richwicks
2023 Jun 17, 7:44pm
richwicks
2023 Jun 17, 7:44pm
HeadSet says
Obama is an intelligence asset, he's not a man. He's a creation.
He was ordered to do the Russia hoax, he didn't create it.
Doesn't look like Obama's holding it together very well for more than a few token appearances. Guess intelligence threatened to release his gay pornos if he doesn't get back to work.
I am not so sure it is not Obama that is pulling the strings. After all, it is his close deep state buddies that did the Russia hoax, and someone big had to coordinate the vote fraud. Why else did Obama stay in DC?
Obama is an intelligence asset, he's not a man. He's a creation.
He was ordered to do the Russia hoax, he didn't create it.
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richwicks
2023 Jun 17, 7:44pm
richwicks
2023 Jun 17, 7:44pm
Onvacation says
It's the Federal Reserve, the intelligence agencies are under them, and under them are our "elected" "leaders".
HeadSet says
I am not so sure it is not Obama that is pulling the strings.
I seriously doubt it's that simple. Obama was part of the political theatre, NOT the rulers; whoever they are.
It's the Federal Reserve, the intelligence agencies are under them, and under them are our "elected" "leaders".
"There were ten times more air strikes in the covert war on terror during President Barack Obama’s presidency than under his predecessor, George W. Bush," one prior human rights study found.
"Obama embraced the US drone program, overseeing more strikes in his first year than Bush carried out during his entire presidency. A total of 563 strikes, largely by drones, targeted Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen during Obama’s two terms, compared to 57 strikes under Bush," the study said.
This infamously included not only the killing of Yemeni-American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki due to his suspected al-Qaeda links, but also his son, 16-year-old US citizen and Colorado native Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki, by a drone airstrike ordered by Obama on October 14, 2011. The boy was not even suspected of a crime upon his death while he had been casually eating dinner with this friends at a cafe in Yemen.
The Obama administration later claimed the teen's death was "collateral damage" and despite lawsuits related to the CIA operation, no US official has ever been held accountable for literally assassinating two US citizens without trial or so much as filing official charges.
In his new 768-page memoir out this month, A Promised Land, there's scant mention of the massively expanded secret drone 'targeted killing' program under his watch, however, when it does receive brief attention, it's merely in passing but is still filled with cringeworthy level of self-justification and rationalization:
"...the machinery I commanded, more often had me killing them instead," he wrote.
FOR the WHOLE quote SEE: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/machines-did-killing-obama-awkwardly-rationalizes-record-drone-strikes
The ARTICLE continues:
Under Obama estimates of the number of victims that were a result of the White House's secretive "Kill List" often range from 300 to over 500 civilians killed, including over 60 children.
But that's just a snapshot of a few years out his total two terms, and the true numbers remain classified.
The New York Times would report in 2012 that Obama began to designate "all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent."
Obama adviser Robert Gibbs previously said when asked point blank about the ordered killing of a 16-year old American citizen: He should've "had a more responsible father."
And let's not forget, this is the man awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, and who is still heralded by Liberals as the most enlightened leader this country has ever had.
WHO can FORGET THAT?