Sadly, the small percentage of Democrats who did speak up had little influence. I do not identify myself as a Democrat.
I agree with you. The Obama Administration laughed at them and called them "the professional left" and said that they should be "drug tested."
Simply put, Obama's act as a progressive was just an act.
So much for that Nobel Peace Prize! How anti-war Obama has become Lord High Executioner
They call them the ‘Terror Tuesday’ meetings. Held in the Situation Room in the bowels of the White House, they are chaired by President Barack Obama and include up to two dozen intelligence and counter-terrorism officials.
Their purpose is to consider which of America’s enemies should be placed on the White House’s ‘kill list’.
After viewing what officials jocularly call ‘baseball cards’, which contain terror suspects’ biographies, the pros and cons of their continued existence on earth are debated.
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Barrage: President Obama has authorised five times as many drone strikes as his predecessor
Drones strikes were first used by the Americans in 2004, but President George W. Bush was sparing with them. In five years, he authorised only 44 attacks. By the time Obama was into his third year in office, though, he had signed off on more than five times that number.
Suddenly Obama is being depicted as a steely-eyed purveyor of death. This image was reinforced by an exhaustive 6,000-word article in the New York Times, quoting senior White House officials.
The piece was clearly authorised by the White House in the hope of increasing his re-election chances.
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Perhaps most disturbing, the Obama administration addressed the issue of civilian casualties by classifying all military-age males in a strike zone as ‘terrorists’ unless, as the New York Times put it, ‘there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent’.
The problem is that in its enthusiasm to emphasise Obama’s machismo by ordering so many killer drone attacks, the White House may have gone too far. Indeed, there is growing widespread criticism of Obama’s actions across the U.S.
Satirist Stephen Colbert has mercilessly lampooned Obama’s tactics. ‘It’s brilliant!’ he said with heavy irony.
‘He doesn’t have to worry about habeas corpus, because after a drone strike, sometimes you can’t even find the corpus.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ow-anti-war-Obama-Lord-High-Executioner.html#
Most disturbing to me is that Obama has daughters who he thinks are made of gold.
So much love for HIS daughters .. yet how easily he pulls the trigger to kill the daughters of others whose lives were every bit as precious as his own.
