Obama the war president -- War: Where 69 of Each Tax Dollar Goes

[unhappycamper]

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Obama the war president -- War: Where 69 of Each Tax Dollar Goes
By Dave Lindorff
OpEdNews Op Eds 2/6/2015 at 17:41:15

The Nobel Peace Laureate President Barack Obama, the guy who once campaigned claiming one US war -- the one against Iraq -- was a "bad" one, and the other -- against Afghanistan -- was a "good" one, turns out to be a man who, once anointed commander-in-chief, can't seem to find a war he doesn't consider to be a "good" idea.

Obama turned out, on taking office, to have a hard time saying good-bye to the occupation of Iraq, only leaving when he was forced out by an Iraqi government that refused to continue giving US forces legal immunity for killing Iraqi civilians. In Afghanistan, he decided to copy the same "surge" -- a massive increase in targeted assassinations and violence -- that he had once condemned in Iraq. Then he stepped up drone-launched rocket attacks and bombings in seven other countries.

More recently he has begun an air war against Syria (okay, he says it's against the so-called Islamic State, but the whole world, with the exception of a lot of ill-informed US citizens, knows it's ultimately against the Syrian government), and now his Secretary of Defense (sic) Ashton Carter and his Secretary of State John Kerry are pushing for sending heavy arms and, inevitably, US "advisors" to Ukraine to escalate US involvement in the civil war there. What makes that latest war particularly dangerous is that all the while, Peace Laureate Obama makes it clear that the "enemy" is Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian military.

Never mind that it is the US that originally orchestrated and encouraged the fascist coup that overthrew the elected government of Ukraine, setting in motion a huge pogrom against ethnic Russians in the east of that country and provoking the current armed conflict, and never mind that Russian concern about the Ukraine stems from a decades long history of the US pushing NATO ever closer to Russia's western border, with Ukraine kind of the last straw.

[marym625]

1. K&R!

[newblewtoo]

2. Move along

nothing to see here. These are not the drones you are looking for.

I always hoped we would cure cancer and war in my lifetime. Not so much anymore. My disappointment in Obama is as real as my support was. Now I find myself truly wishing I had not deserted Hillary here in NH but then life is full of regrets.

[Demeter]

3. If it's any consolation, Hillary would be worse

as we are no doubt going to find out in a couple of years.