Brought to you by Bush:
Brought to you by Obama:
Hm, I’m having a hard time telling these two administrations apart. Why is that?
Here’s another Obama baby:
More war crimes, courtesy of your HERO, Barack Obama. These ones are nice and DEAD, yeah, baby! You score extra points for the dead children!
But heaven forbid we should be against anything Obama does or says, Heaven knows we shouldn’t be “anti-corporatist” when these kinds of crimes are being done on behalf of American corporations and nobody else.
No, Obama’s likeable! He’s charming! He couldn’t possibly mean anything bad! And heck, he doesn’t have any real power at all because of those nasty fuckers in the Congress! Joe Lieberman is FAR FAR more powerful than Obama! You’re an idiot if you don’t know that.
I told you to cancel my account. You might want to do that.
Or there’s gonna be more of this crap that I’m wiping your nose in.
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(The Independent) May 10, 2009 – I met Obaidullah Sidiqi, a local businessman, at a picnic lunch in a well-watered orchard, full of mulberry and apple trees and honeysuckle, which he owns not far from the airport road. An attractive aspect of Afghanistan never mentioned in war reporting is the Afghan love of flowers. Even in front-line positions soldiers dig small trenches, fill them with water and plant geraniums.
Mr Sidiqi, after 16 years in construction, part of it for the Save the Children Fund and partly on his own account, explained that business in Herat faces unique difficulties. For instance, last year he had contracts under way which he could only visit in disguise. One was for the construction of a school in Shindand district in the south of Herat province, a Pashtun area where the Taliban are strong.
120 CIVILIAN DEATHS IN BALA BALUK
I had gone to Herat because last Monday US aircraft had attacked several villages in the Bala Baluk district of Farah province, which is immediately to the south of Herat. The local governor and surviving villagers said that more than 120 civilians had been killed. The US military denied that anything like that number had died and, if they had, it was the Taliban who had done it by hurling grenades into houses.
I did not meet survivors but I did talk to a reliable witness, a radio reporter called Farooq Faizy, who had gone to Bala Baluk soon after the attack happened. He said that police and soldiers nearby were frightened of the Taliban and told him it was too dangerous to go on, but he spoke to some village elders, telling them: “Talk to us and we will tell the world.” He says he was none too sure who was in control of the three villages – Gerani, Gangabad and Khoujaha – that had been hit and he was careful about what he said. But he did take some 70 or 80 photographs and they bore out the villagers’ story: there were craters everywhere; the villages had been plastered with bombs; bodies had been torn to shreds by the blasts; there were mass graves; there were no signs of damage from bullets, rockets or grenades.
I suspected that the US military’s claim that the Taliban had run through the village hurling grenades, supposedly because they had not been paid their cut of profits from the opium poppy crop, was just a delaying tactic. Usually the US military delays admission of guilt until a story has gone cold and the media is no longer interested. “First say ‘no story’,” runs an old PR adage, “and then say ‘old story’.” By the end of the week the US was admitting that the grenade-throwing Taliban story was “thinly sourced”.
From My Lai to Bala Baluk
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
And everything Obama does is GREAT.
The owner of this site said so!
We should support him.
Just like we should have supported George Bush if he’d had a (D) after his name.
That’s our job, right? To be “Company Men”.