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Some of the thousands of wounded and dead children.
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Obama supports Israel's attack on Gaza.
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America is isolated, despised and alone as a result of its “special relationship” with the Jewish state, remaining silent as women and children are hacked to pieces of flesh and bone by Israel certainly does not make things better.
Those hoping in the “change” promised by the new president while on the campaign trail should think twice before investing themselves in such business. Remember the words of Barack Hussein Obama to AIPAC in June 2008 when he had the following to say–
“Our alliance is based on shared interests and shared values. Those who threaten Israel threaten us. And I will bring to the White House an unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security. That starts with ensuring Israel’s qualitative military advantage. I will ensure that Israel can defend itself from any threat — from Gaza to Tehran. As president, I will implement a Memorandum of Understanding that provides $30 billion in assistance to Israel over the next decade — investments to Israel’s security that will not be tied to any other nation. We must approve the foreign aid request for 2009. We should export military equipment to our ally Israel under the same guidelines as NATO. And I will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself in the United Nations and around the world.”
In other words, the only difference between former president George W. Bush and the current president Barack Hussein Obama with regards to American foreign policy in the Middle East is that one is named George W. Bush and the other is named Barack Hussein Obama.
- Latest news: Pres. Obama will not change the policy of Police and C.I.A. arresting people without charge, holding them incommunicado in secret locations and sending them to prisons or military stockades in other countries, where they might be tortured. Seems we have Bush's policies continuing and an uncle Tom president.
- Last week.Barack Obama gave the go-ahead for his first military action , missile strikes against suspected militants in Pakistan which killed at least 18 people.
Four days after assuming the presidency, he was consulted by US commanders before they launched the two attacks. Although Obama has abandoned many of the "war on terror" policies of George Bush while he was president, he is not retreating from the hunt for Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders.
The US believes they are hiding in the tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan, and made 30 strikes last year in which more than 200 people were killed. In the election, Obama hinted at increased operations in Pakistan, saying he thought Bush had made a mistake in switching to Iraq before completing the job against al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The US marine corp commander said yesterday that his 22,000 troops should be redeployed from Iraq to Afghanistan. Gen James Conway said "the time is right" to leave Iraq now the war had become largely nation-building rather than the pitched fighting in which the corps excelled; he wanted the marines in Afghanistan, especially in the south where insurgents, and the Taliban and al-Qaida, benefit from both a nearby safe haven in Pakistan and a booming trade in narcotics.
Obama has warned that he is prepared to bomb inside Pakistan if he gets relevant intelligence about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. He had also said he would act against militants along the border if the Pakistan government failed to.
The US missiles were fired by unmanned Predator drones, which hang in the sky gathering intelligence through surveillance and, when commanded and directed by remote control, to launch attacks.
The strikes will help Obama portray himself as a leader who, though ready to shift the balance of American power towards diplomacy, is not afraid of military action.
The first attack yesterday was on the village of Zharki, in Waziristan; three missiles destroyed two houses and killed 10 people. One villager told Reuters of phonethat of nine bodies pulled from the rubble of one house, six were its owner and his relatives; Reuters added that intelligence officials said some foreign militants were also killed. A second attack hours later also in Warizistan killed eight people.
The Pakistan government publicly expressed hope that the arrival of Obama would see a halt to such strikes, which stir up hostility from Pakistanis towards the government; in private, the government may be more relaxed about such attacks.
There is a lot of nervousness in the new administration about the fragility of Pakistan, particularly as it has nuclear weapons, but it also sees Afghanistan and Pakistan as being linked. In the face of a Taliban resurgence, there is despair in Washington over the leadership of the Afghan leader, Hamid Karzai, and there will not be much disappointment if he is replaced in elections later this year.
Judging Obama on ghost prisons, Guantánamo and air strikes
- The Guardian, Monday 26 January 2009
- Article history
Your report (Obama shuts network of CIA ghost prisons, 23 January) is a clear vindication to the many NGO activists, concerned citizens and parliamentarians who investigated and warned that the CIA operated "ghost prisons" on European soil, as well as rendition flights.
The European parliament's committee of inquiry into CIA rendition, of which I was a member, uncovered evidence of British and European citizens being abducted on European soil, transported through European airports and then subjected to so-called "enhanced interrogation" techniques (torture) in third countries, sometimes with the knowledge of member state governments. During our investigations, US representatives would neither confirm nor deny the existence of these sites or inhuman methods. This act by President Obama shows we were right to act on behalf of European citizens, and gives us the first authoritative admission from the US government that these objectionable prison camps did in fact exist.
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In suggesting that the US policy of closing Guantánamo is risky for the new president (Former Guantánamo inmate is al-Qaida chief, 24 January) you draw a very odd conclusion. If 12% of prisoners released under the full rigours of the system of internment and the previous administration's legal policies have "returned to the battlefield" then the system was clearly ineffective (quite apart from other considerations such as its morality, legality and cost). The argument for closing the facility is strengthened, not weakened, by this news. Leon Tanner Stratford-upon-Avon
Last Friday Barack Obama ordered missile strikes against houses in Pakistan which killed at least 18 people (President orders air strikes on villages in tribal area, 24 January). A hero has quietly become some kind of monster, with blood on his hands. Almost certainly there will have been civilians among the dead.
Perhaps it goes with the territory. No one can be president these days without murdering civilians. But it is rather extraordinary how widely it is accepted that the United States of America has a right to kill civilians in this way in foreign countries. Some foreign countries, one should add. Presumably there would not be the same level of acceptance if the houses had been in Portugal, or Wales.Search Results
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