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Obama
The War Criminal Butcher of Women and Children
By Paul Craig
Roberts
January 11,
2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- There is no doubt that US President Barak Obama is a
war criminal as are his military and intelligence
officials and most of the House and Senate.
Obama is
the first president to keep the US at war for the
entirety of his eight-year regime. During 2016 alone the
US dropped 26,171 bombs on wedding parties, funerals,
kid’s soccer games, hospitals, schools, people in their
homes and walking their streets, and farmers tilling
their fields in seven countries: Iraq, Syria,
Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan.
http://blogs.cfr.org/zenko/2017/01/05/bombs-dropped-in-2016/
What does the
administration have to show for eight years of illegal
military interventions in seven countries, none of which
comprised a danger to the US and against none of which
the US has declared war? Terrorism was created by US
invasions, no wars have been won, and the Middle East
has been consumed in chaos and destruction. Worldwide
hatred of the United States has risen to a record high.
The US is now the most despised country on earth.
The only
purposes of these crimes is to enrich the armaments
industry and to advance the insane neoconservative
ideology of US world hegemony. A tiny handful of
despicable people have been able to destroy the
reputation of the United States and murder millions of
peoples, sending waves of war refugees to the US and
Europe.
We call these
“wars,” but they are not. They are invasions, largely
from the air, but in Afghanistan and Iraq from troops on
the ground. The invasions by air and land are entirely
based on blatant, transparent lies. The “justifications”
for the invasions have changed a dozen times.
The questions
are: If Trump becomes president, will Washington’s
massive crimes against humanity continue? If so, will
the rest of the world continue to tolerate Washington’s
extraordinary evil?
Dr. Paul Craig
Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall
Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week,
Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He
has had many university appointments. His internet
columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts'
latest books are
The Failure of
Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the
West,
How America Was
Lost,
and
The
Neoconservative Threat to World Order.
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