2017, Exit War Criminal Obama, Enter War Criminal Trump
Here's a fact - Obama is a war criminal. He has committed war crimes as President of the United States of America. As Commander in Chief (CINC) of America's military and supervisor of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), he is responsible for crimes against humanity according to international law, according to any law. He is responsible for the deaths of innocent men, women and children, thousands of children. It's called murder in real life, premeditated, first degree murder.
There is no doubt whatsoever. Anyone who argues otherwise is either flat out lying or flat out delusional. We simply have to stop excusing the wars and imperialist actions taken by our government as directed by the President, Congress and others and start saying what they really are, crimes just like any others that must be prosecuted. We also have to stop excusing those who support such actions.
Here's another fact - the Democratic party and the vast majority of democratic party members are morally bankrupt.
"Throughout President Barack Obama's sixth full year in office, an average of 79% of Democrats have approved of the job he was doing."
http://www.gallup.com/poll/181490/obama-approval-ratings-historically-po...
Those are gallop poll figures, most other recent polls have his approval rating among democrats in the 80's.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approv...
Let's round it out to 80% for the sake of discussion. Four out of five democrats approve of a war criminal's job performance. That's a vast majority. These are people who are stating that they approve of Obama's job performance even though he is responsible for the murder of innocent human beings.
Some might say they're approving of Obama's overall job performance but they don't approve of his murdering innocent women and children. That's not unlike saying Jeffrey Dahmer is a good guy but you don't approve of his serial killing. But that's what you'll hear from most of the "approvers". They might be against the wars but they honestly can't connect Obama to war crimes, to murder. They can with George W. Bush though, ya they can.
When is killing children ever something to be balanced out against other actions?
It's no different on the other side of the aisle. George W. Bush received a 70-80% approval rating from Republicans in his last two years on the job. Of course, Bush is every bit a war criminal that Obama is due to his involvement in illegal wars and imperialist actions during his presidency. Donald Trump will become a war criminal as soon as he's sworn into office by virtue of his role as CINC and supervisor of the CIA while illegal wars and other imperialist actions and operations are taking place. You can bet republicans will largely approve of his job performance anyway. Tribal politics does that to people, along with massive propaganda and the unwillingness to face reality.
There's no better evidence that both major political parties and most of their members help perpetuate the American War Machine. Where else can you see such large scale approval for crimes against humanity? Maybe if it wasn't for democrats and republicans we could actually end the wars and U.S. imperialism. Without their approval, how would their leaders justify it?
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I am still seeing people write that Obama has
ended two wars and hasn't started any new ones, even though the Afghanistan war is going on its 16th year, troops are back in Iraq, Libya was destroyed our government, Ukraine is being run by neo Nazis and Syria is being destroyed by the various Al Qaida groups that this country has armed and funded.
I have seen people defending Obamas's use of drones in 8 countries because they say that they keep our troops from being injured or killed.
It doesn't matter how many times I ask them what gives him the right to drop bombs that kill innocent civilians, they are okay with the use of drones.
And as others have pointed out, when Trump continues to use them we will see people saying that he's a war criminal like Bush was.
Excellent article on The Cowards Wars
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/01/the-cowards-wars/
The Nuremberg trials said that it's a war crime to invade countries that haven't threatened other countries, but our government say that they need to do this because they have to protect the people who are being attacked by their government.
Obama and Hillary lied to us about Gaddafi using his military to put down the people who were protesting against him and he was arresting journalists.
How is that any different from what happened during the OWS or the BLM protests?
At the DAPL protests, the governor of ND hired the mercenary company called Tiger Swan which used attack dogs to bite the peaceful protesters. How that can be legal in this country is unfathomable, yet many Americans approved of their actions. That should have been considered assault and battery.
I think that was a test to see how Americans would respond to that.
Whenever there is a terrorist attack in our country or in foreign ones, the American people wonder why it happened. They think that the people of the United States had just been minding their business and out of the blue our country was attacked for no reason.
And we know how many people wanted revenge for the attack.
During both the attacks in France the terrorists said that it was payback for France's military's actions in the Middle East and because their military had killed their families and friends.
And they then think that our military should kill the terrorists and their families.
How is that different than what 'happened' on 9/11?
During many of the terrorist attacks, the people who committed them had been under investigation and being watched yet somehow they were able to carry out their attacks.
The person in Germany had been under investigation, as were the underwear bomber whose father actually called our government and warned them about him.
The Boston bombers were had also been under investigation, but were able to carry out the bombings and then we saw a trial run on how Americans would react to martial law. Not well in my opinion.
And after every attack, country's governments tell us that we have to sacrifice our civil rights so that they can keep us safe.
The second attack in France happened after the government put emergency orders in effect. Oops, looks like those measures didn't have any effect.
This video shows the hypocrisy of both Hillary and Obamas's reason for why Gaddafi needed to be removed from office.
but wait there's more...
like Yemen and Somalia.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
The MICC is everywhere including the South China Sea.
As long as you keep the serfs dumbed down with no real education, fool them with religious BS, and scream propaganda 24/7, these malignant greedy so-called "humans" will succeed. Rec'd!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
Excellent comment snoopydawg,
I very rarely go to the democratic party sites any more, like Daily Kos, but it doesn't surprise me that many are still defending Obama's wars. Properly propagandized people.
Hell, I saw Obama has his highest approval rating in general, at 57%, now. It's enough to drive an antiwar person nuts.
Not me though, can't get to me, can't get to me, can't get to me.
Agree, excellent comment to an excellent essay.
Thanks, both~!
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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Meanwhile we had "peaceful" protesters in Kiev supported and
encouraged by Obama's Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt.
War crimes only happen when the other "side" is in power
then they pardon each other.
You can add bombing Hospitals to the list. MSF Kunduz and allies Saudi Arabia for example doing the same in Yemen.
Assisting regime change in Honduras.
Dirty tricks in Central and South America.
However, as you will have it rammed down your throat, everyone else is worse because they are not exceptional.
So True
For the party of the 1%, of the massively wealthy, democrats and republicans are morally bankrupt. All that money, and yet that can never buy things such as a conscience.
It is truly a tragedy what our government does, and even worse the people who cheer it on.
The mental inability of Americans to visualize the shoe
being on the other foot is amazing. Yet our crimes provoke retaliation which in turn provokes our reciprocating retaliations.
Shades of the Hatfields and McCoys. That feud started because a couple of drunks messed up a wedding party and continued for generations. How logical is that? How logical is it that many people still think the old Cold War was continuing, when actually petulant Obama rekindled dormant animosities.
They hate our freedoms. Really? Who is "they"? (Rhetorical question here at c99).
They is a moving target, a shadow in a dark room.
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excellent essay, Al. Thank you. /eom
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
War crimes, crimes against humanity, mass murder
and let's never forget that Obama went further down the rabbit hole than any of his predecessors. Killing American citizens, and in at least one case, a teenage child of one his previous murder victims.
But Obama is just upholding the grand tradition of war crimes and murder handed down to him by both Bushes, Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, Johnson and so many others.
Dear Dems: You lost the WH, Senate, House, dozens of governors, state level SOS and AG and about 1,000 state legislative seats. Maybe...you're doing something wrong.
Obama not only put Cheney's "death squads" on steroids
he fucking NORMALIZED it. These assassination squads, consisting of an 'off-the-record' military force, are now a permanent part of American Executive Powers. (I wonder how Trump is going to use them.)
Remember Seymour Hersh, before the DKos Demo-rats threw him under the bus?:
I read the link, shudder
If you had any doubt about the villainy of the Executive branch, read this link. Here is one chilling observation by Seymour Hersh at the end:
And that says it all as why we got Trumpenstein versus Medusa.