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Obama's Nobel is a 'Current Event'?
got desperation rightists?
got desperation rightists?
Nobel chief admits Obama Peace Prize was a mistake
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Centerleftfl
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I love that MILLION number, don't you? It is posted here often. Maybe the same poster. I wasn't paying attention to 'who'. AND YET, NOT ONE CHARGE ever made against ANY member of the Obama administration during the 8 years for any form of public corruption. With a REPUBLICAN HOUSE and SENATE and how many investigations into Hillary, Benghazi, IRS. They couldn't FIND SOMETHING--ANYTHING in 8 years? NOT ONE CHARGE was ever made?
They either SUCK,really SUCK at investigating their political 'enemies' or they couldn't FIND ANYTHING because there was no there there.
Centerleftfl
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TRUST ME, he knew so early on in his administration that Nobel Peace prize was going to be an albatross around his neck. I knew it. My Democratic friends knew it. Frankly, if he wasn't conducting EXTENSIONS OF BUSH WARS, you guy would have made a hellllluva lot bigger deal about it!
Didn't they give one to Arafat, too?
Yeah, but he was working with Israel at the time. Sort of... Obama literally had been sworn in days before this decision was made. There literally was nothing to pin this accomplishment to.
Libya was his own baby, heavily influenced by Hillary
Exactly. Guess how many people were killed by bombs, drones, and missiles during B. Hussein Obama's Reign of Error?
On January 23, 2009, just three days into his presidency, President Obama authorized his first kinetic military action: two drone strikes, three hours apart, in Waziristan, Pakistan, that killed as many as twenty civilians. Two terms and 540 strikes later, Obama left the White House after having vastly expanding and normalizing the use of armed drones and close air support operations in non-battlefield settings—namely Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia.
The 542 drone strikes that Obama authorized killed an estimated 3,797 people, including 324 civilians.
https://www.cfr.org/blog/obamas-final-drone-strike-data
The 542 drone strikes that Obama authorized killed an estimated 3,797 people, including 324 civilians.
https://www.cfr.org/blog/obamas-final-drone-strike-data
THE WARLORD O-BOMB-YA
Some would probably be astounded to realize that the president who was painted by liberal pundits as a reluctant warrior was actually a hawk.
He left office having been at war longer than any president in US history. He was also the only president to serve two complete terms with the nation at war.
Looking back at Obama’s legacy, the Council on Foreign Relation’s Micah Zenko added up the defense department’s data on airstrikes and made a startling revelation: in 2016 alone, the Obama administration dropped at least 26,171 bombs. This means that every day that year, the US military blasted combatants or civilians overseas with 72 bombs; that’s three bombs every hour, 24 hours a day.
While most of these air attacks were in Syria and Iraq, US bombs also rained down on people in Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. That’s seven majority-Muslim countries.
One bombing technique that Obama championed was drone strikes. As drone-warrior-in-chief, he spread the use of drones outside the declared battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, mainly to Pakistan and Yemen. Obama authorized over 10 times more drone strikes than George W Bush, and automatically painted all males of military age in these regions as combatants, making them fair game for remote controlled killing.
Obama claimed that his overseas military adventures were legal under the 2001 and 2003 authorizations for the use of military force passed by Congress to go after al-Qaida. But his wars had little or nothing to do with those who attacked the United States on September 11, 2001.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/america-dropped-26171-bombs-2016-obama-legacy
A translator at a Capitol Hill hearing on the U.S. drone program was moved nearly to tears during the testimony of Pakistani primary school teacher Rafiq Rehman. Rehman and his family — whose story was revealed to the world by Amnesty International — traveled to Washington from Pakistan’s northern Waziristan region.
The teacher’s mother was killed in a U.S. drone strike and his two children were injured.
The family’s congressional appearance was held in the Rayburn Building on Capitol Hill and was sponsored in by the Brave New Foundation, a global nonprofit social justice foundation. Brave New Films released the documentary film “Unmanned: America’s Drone War,” which details the Rehman family’s losses.
“Congressman Grayson,” said Rehman via a translator, “As a teacher, my job is to educate. But how do I teach something like this?”
“How do I explain what I myself do not understand?” he continued. “How can I in good faith reassure the children that the drone will not come back and kill them, too? If I do not understand why it killed my mother and injured my children…”
It was there that the translator broke off and took a hasty swallow of water as she choked up. Rehman spoke again.
“My mother is not the first innocent victim of U.S. drones,” relayed the translator, “Numerous families in our community and in the surrounding area have lost loved ones — including women and children — in these strikes.”
In October of 2012, Rehman’s mother and two children were picking okra in a community garden when the grandmother was shot down by missiles from a U.S. predator drone.
Both children were also injured and have since suffered from nightmares, panic attacks and anxiety that drones will come back and kill them.
The Brave New Foundation, Amnesty International and other rights groups banded together to demand an end to the drone program and to the thick blanket of secrecy surrounding it.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/30/translator-at-drone-strike-hearing-moved-nearly-to-tears-by-survivor-testimony/
I don't believe JPP liberals care about children since they didn't tell Obama to stop droning them, AFAIK
"kinetic military action"..that's what they called it to avoid War Powers (although Congress didn't give a damn)
Why did O-BOMB-YA kill children and get a Peace Prize?
Wasn't he going to "heal the planet"?
Ben Emerson, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, called upon the U.S. to be more transparent about the number of civilians that Obamas drone-fired missiles have killed in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57608647/time-to-bring-drone-strikes-out-of-the-shadows/
Wasn't he going to "heal the planet"?
Ben Emerson, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, called upon the U.S. to be more transparent about the number of civilians that Obamas drone-fired missiles have killed in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57608647/time-to-bring-drone-strikes-out-of-the-shadows/
Bob Dylan basically did that.
Nomad
Every trumper is a N4T.
Why did O-BOMB-YA kill children and get a Peace Prize?
Obama actually SAVED the lives of countless children and other civilians by killing thousands of terrorists who would have either killed not only those children and civilians anyway, but thousands more as well, or else forced them to become terrorists themselves.
It's obvious as hell how lowlife right-wing fucktards like you only drag up the unavoidable civilian deaths that happened while Obama was protecting America, because you're trying to cover Bush's ass for committing the biggest and most bone headed blunder in the history of American foreign policy by invading iraq after failing to protect America on 9/11.
What a sad bunch of lying losers you right-wing fucktards are.
Wasn't he going to "heal the planet"?
Ben Emerson, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, called upon the U.S. to be more transparent about the number of civilians that Obamas drone-fired missiles have killed in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57608647/time-to-bring-drone-strikes-out-of-the-shadows/
Obama actually SAVED the lives of countless children and other civilians by killing thousands of terrorists who would have either killed not only those children and civilians anyway, but thousands more as well, or else forced them to become terrorists themselves.
It's obvious as hell how lowlife right-wing fucktards like you only drag up the unavoidable civilian deaths that happened while Obama was protecting America, because you're trying to cover Bush's ass for committing the biggest and most bone headed blunder in the history of American foreign policy by invading iraq after failing to protect America on 9/11.
What a sad bunch of lying losers you right-wing fucktards are.
Text Drivers are Killers
Joe Biden - "Time to put Trump in the bullseye."
Obama gave millions of illegals a card saying they can live and work here even though the law says they can't. He was thus guilty of millions of counts of obstruction of justice and also section 1324 title 8 violations (encouraging illegals to live here). Absolutely unprecedented corruption. THINK
Text Drivers are Killers
Joe Biden - "Time to put Trump in the bullseye."
Hitler, stalin, and Mao said the same thing.
still going on..CIA still runs them I think
He had to kill civilians to save them, eh? O-BOMB-YA is a war criminal and that makes you so mad.