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The Obama Lie

So, we must be over a month into the Barak Obama presidency. A lot of hope and a lot of optimism, right?

Last night I watched Obama sign into law his new ‘stimulus’ package to revive the US economy. Heady stuff – but I won’t go into that right now. Instead I am thinking about a different matter: a short news bulletin on Friday last which reported that a drone aircraft had dropped two missiles in a remote area of Afghanistan. It seems that the missiles, according to reports carried by CNN and others, killed at leat twenty people.

By all accounts the targets of the attack were members of the Taliban AND it was claimed that two such ‘target’ Taliban members were actually killed in the attack. Well, I’m still okay at my mathematics, so that leaves how many? Let’s see now, two from twenty leaves eighteen – that’s right 18 – doesn’t it? That is, eighteen others, who were never targets, were also killed in the attack. I have got that right, haven’t I? Please get back to me if I did the calculation incorrect.

So, eighteen people murdered in cold blood, by two bombs dropped from pilot-less aircraft. Is this the new era so? The Obama era that was supposed to make such a difference. And this is not to even get into the rights or wrongs of the state assassination of two suspected Taliban members. You know old adage: who gives anyone the right to be judge, jury and executioner?

No, for the moment, I am just going to focus on the eighteen people that were killed. Were they women, men, children? Does anyone know? Does Barak Obama know? Or more to the point, did he know about this attack and about the possible collateral damage? Well, what do you think? Did Barak say it was okay to kill 18 people/ civilians as part of the operation to get the two Taliban activists. And when you think about it, given that there is a strong chance that he did know, then what does it say about this new era? I ask you?