petersheik: peterwknox: rachelfershleiser: barackobama:
Clear eyes, full hearts.
I want to make out with Barack Obama’s social media director.
Yup.
Strategically cropped photo of the President playing catch with a Predator drone.
Obama drops back to pass. Fakes left. Fakes left. Fakes left. Fakes left. Fakes left. Fakes left. Fakes left. Fakes left. Fakes left. (joke originally by @homework_liker on Twitter. I think).
And all you “Oooh the Obama social media!” people make me wanna fucking vomit.
Every American President pulls this sort of fucked up shit when it comes to international policy. Every supporter of any given American President will tell you “Oh he’s got access to information that we can’t understand, oh he’s actually playing strategy, oh he’s actually so wise.” Despite this claim of access to information and Nth Dimensional Chess, every American President manages to make the world more unstable and a worse place via actions like this. Also, the evidence always overwhelmingly supports the idea that actions like this have fuck-all to do with “intelligence” and everything to do with protecting American power and hegemony at the cost of foreign lives and livelihood.
If the President says that something should be or IS a Right but still seems to believe that States should have the power to take away those Rights and Equality, then that is a step backwards, not an “evolution”
FOUR MORE YEARS, AND FOUR MORE AFTER THAT, I PLEDGE MY UNDYING FEALTY TO OUR FEUDAL LORDS and etc.
addendum: Yes, I know loyalty day has been around for some time now. that wasn’t my point. Though, why complain? Obama just doin as Heads of State do, right? (i.e. THE PROBLEM IS BIGGER THAN HIM)
CIA seeks new authority to expand Yemen drone campaign »
So what sort of asshole do you have to be to think this is a good idea?
The CIA is seeking authority to expand its covert drone campaign in Yemen by launching strikes against terrorism suspects even when it does not know the identities of those who could be killed, U.S. officials said.
Securing permission to use these “signature strikes” would allow the agency to hit targets based solely on intelligence indicating patterns of suspicious behavior, such as imagery showing militants gathering at known al-Qaeda compounds or unloading explosives.
Let’s see here….
- OH HEY, did you forget that aside from still occupying Iraq (it’s still occupying if/when we use mercenaries instead of the Army), waging war in Afghanistan, and drone bombing Pakistan, Obama’s been pretty fond of bombing Yemen? But whatever, I guess, one mostly-Muslim country is as good to bomb as the next…
- So rather than have solid intelligence on who it’s bombing, which often has results that are horrible enough in themselves, the CIA wants more authority to just say “OH FUCK IT, BOMBS AWAY”
- In case you’re wondering what sort of bad things might happen, specifically in Yemen, CLICK HERE FOR A VIDEO WITH INTERVIEWS OF SOME OF THE SURVIVING VICTIMS OF OBAMA’S FIRST (KNOWN) AUTHORIZED CIA DRONE BOMBING IN YEMEN WHEREIN 41 CIVILIANS (21 children, 14 women) WERE MURDERED
- In re: that bombing of Al Majala one of the main reasons we know it was the US that carried it out was wikileaks cables which revealed a meeting between Ali Abdullah Saleh and Patreaeus where it was agreed U.S. involvement would be concealed. Originally the Yemeni gov’t tried to take responsibility for the attack
- In the same way Barack Obama is a fucking war criminal, the CIA is a bunch of fucking terrorists.
- Despite all this my grandma still thinks Barack Obama is a Muslim… he’s just “very good at hiding it” …….
Judge Sang-Hyun Song, President of the International Criminal Court, being a typical shitheel for the organization which, as John Glaser points out, has rejected the Palestinian bid to investigate Israel’s repeated and unchallenged war crimes.
And of course the big elephant in the room as far “war crimes” and “impunity” is the biggest, baddest war monster of them all, America:
- “CIA Committed ‘War Crimes’ Bush Official Says
- “But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”
Nixon: The only place where you and I disagree … is with regard to the bombing. You’re so goddamned concerned about civilians and I don’t give a damn. I don’t care.
Kissinger: I’m concerned about the civilians because I don’t want the world to be mobilized against you as a butcher.
Nixon wasn’t even indicted before he was pardoned, and that wasn’t even for War Crimes. Kissinger meanwhile still freely walks about, collects money for talking to people about things where his opinion is apparently, somehow valued…
Gov’t Information Brochures: Hello! You’ve been targeted for a United States drone assassination!
Considering the “Did You Know…” in particular, how is this “war” ever supposed to fucking end? Do the President or Congress even have the power to do so?
