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Crickets <
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> It was what he was thinking when he said it, or what I was thinking
> when I heard it.
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> Bush disappeared and tortured those the US disliked, while the Obama
> administration simply "murders them"
>
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/14/chomsky_on_obama/singleton/
> By Glenn Greenwald
>
> Appearing on Democracy Now this morning, Noam Chomsky said the
> following:
>
> If the Bush administration didn’t like somebody, they’d kidnap them
> and send them to torture chambers.
>
> If the Obama administration decides they don’t like somebody, they
> murder them.
>
> Though a bit oversimpified — the Bush administration killed plenty of
> people, while the Obama administration makes use of kidnapping and
> torture chambers albeit by proxy; also, as this tweeter noted: it’s
> “unfair to say the Obama administration kills those it doesn’t like,
> since they claim power to kill people without even knowing who they
> are” – this concise comparison just about about sums it up. But it’s
> important to note that President Obama has progressivism in his heart
> and that makes all the difference in the world.
>
> Regarding the Obama administration’s constant killing of Muslims in
> numerous countries, Chomsky said that “it’s almost as if they’re
> consciously trying to increase the threat” (last week, a former CIA
> counter-terrorism chief warned that Obama’s drone strikes in Yemen
> risk converting Yemeni domestic militants into “dedicated enemies of
> the west“). What’s most remarkable, Chomsky said, is how little debate
> is stirred by these constant acts of lawless violence compared to the
> controversy created by the less lethal Bush policies (though see the
> prior paragraph for why that is: “President Obama has progressivism in
> his heart and that makes all the difference in the world”).
>
> In related news, the administration of President Obama — whom Andrew
> Sullivan has repeatedly credited with “presiding over” the Arab Spring
> — announced on Friday that the U.S. would resume arms sales to the
> regime in Bahrain, a move that “has incensed opposition activists in
> the tiny Gulf kingdom who see the deal as a signal that the US
> supports Bahrain’s repression of opposition protests.” Moreover, “the
> resumption comes despite Bahrain doing little to sufficiently address”
> systematic human rights abuses against democratic protesters. But as
> Sullivan put it in his latest in a long line of Newsweek love letters
> to the Commander-in-Chief, Obama succeeded last week “the way he
> always does: leading from behind and playing the long game.” Given
> that, I’m sure there is some good explanation for how these arms sales
> to the regime in Bahrain proves he’s more supportive than ever of the
> Arab Spring and democracy, just as his failed effort to keep troops in
> Iraq meant He Ended The Iraq War, his unprecedented war on
> whistleblowers demonstrates his commitment to open government,
> increased anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world shows he nobly
> restored America’s standing in the world, and his relentless
> civilian-killing drone assaults prove the merit of his Nobel Peace
> Prize. It’s all about the long game.
The election stealing cocksucker and his nigger army from
Chicago are out to steal another one. Bring your guns to the
voting booth.