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In 2010, President Obama directed the CIA to assassinate an American citizen in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, despite the fact that he had never been charged with (let alone convicted of) any crime, and the agency successfully carried out that order a year later with a September, 2011 drone strike. While that assassination created widespread debate – the once-again-beloved ACLU sued Obama to restrain him from the assassination on the ground of due process and then, when that suit was dismissed, sued Obama again after the killing was carried out – another killing carried out shortly thereafter was perhaps even more significant yet generated relatively little attention.
Two weeks after the killing of Awlaki, a separate CIA drone strike in Yemen killed his 16-year-old American-born son, Abdulrahman, along with the boy’s 17-year-old cousin and several other innocent Yemenis. The U.S. eventually claimed that the boy was not their target but merely “collateral damage.” Abdulrahman’s grief-stricken grandfather, Nasser al-Awlaki, urged the Washington Post “to visit a Facebook memorial page for Abdulrahman,” which explained: “Look at his pictures, his friends, and his hobbies His Facebook page shows a typical kid.”
Few events pulled the mask off Obama officials like this one. It highlighted how the Obama administration was ravaging Yemen, one of the world’s poorest countries: just weeks after he won the Nobel Prize, Obama used cluster bombs that killed 35 Yemeni women and children. Even Obama-supporting liberal comedians mocked the Obama DOJ’s arguments for why it had the right to execute Americans with no charges: “Due Process Just Means There’s A Process That You Do,” snarked Stephen Colbert. And a firestorm erupted when former Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs offered a sociopathic justification for killing the Colorado-born teenager, apparently blaming him for his own killing by saying he should have “had a more responsible father.”
No, I'm pretty sure it's our excessive concern for destabilizing regions by overthrowing their governments, arming terrorists in one country then bombing them in the next, and creating 5 new terrorists for every 1 killed because we also kill 15 civilians for every 1 terrorist killed.Our excessive concern for collateral damage is what has extended this war into its 16th year.
Kevin has it right, and Billy has it wrong.
Leave Yemen to the inhabitants.
Unfortunately there's nothing new about the U.S. government killing children in the Middle East.
Learn to write clearly. Kevin has the right of it, and you have no idea. Let's get out of Yemen. Yes, the President and Congress can ban Yeminese non-citizens from entering the US.The attack was planned no ago, not last week. The OP is a blithering idiot that thinks he's smart enough to spew propaganda and not get called on it.
So because the attack was something Obama could have done but didn't it somehow changes the fact that Trump made the call and this little girl was murdered as a result?The attack was planned no ago, not last week. The OP is a blithering idiot that thinks he's smart enough to spew propaganda and not get called on it.
Kevin has it right, and Billy has it wrong.
Leave Yemen to the inhabitants.
And leave the inhabitants in Yemen.
No, because the military doesn't plan operations like you fetching a fresh six pack.So because the attack was something Obama could have done but didn't it somehow changes the fact that Trump made the call and this little girl was murdered as a result?The attack was planned no ago, not last week. The OP is a blithering idiot that thinks he's smart enough to spew propaganda and not get called on it.
So you're a nut job.When mooselimbs stop deliberately killing innocent people I'll give a fuck when someone kills their people.
Not before then.
Trump ordered the raid and the raid led to several civilians dead, including this little girl, which the Military then lied about. I haven't made a comment about how or when the raid was planned, so I'm not sure why you're whining about it.No, because the military doesn't plan operations like you fetching a fresh six pack.So because the attack was something Obama could have done but didn't it somehow changes the fact that Trump made the call and this little girl was murdered as a result?The attack was planned no ago, not last week. The OP is a blithering idiot that thinks he's smart enough to spew propaganda and not get called on it.
Trump OKed the raid since he's CiC. He didn't plan it and lets the military do it's thing. You don't like it but that's really tough shit. It would have continued under Hillary if not moreso. You seem determined to make yourself irrelevant.Trump ordered the raid and the raid led to several civilians dead, including this little girl, which the Military then lied about. I haven't made a comment about how or when the raid was planned, so I'm not sure why you're whining about it.No, because the military doesn't plan operations like you fetching a fresh six pack.So because the attack was something Obama could have done but didn't it somehow changes the fact that Trump made the call and this little girl was murdered as a result?The attack was planned no ago, not last week. The OP is a blithering idiot that thinks he's smart enough to spew propaganda and not get called on it.
Our excessive concern for collateral damage is what has extended this war into its 16th year.
Trump OKed the raid since he's CiC. He didn't plan it and lets the military do it's thing. You don't like it but that's really tough shit. It would have continued under Hillary if not moreso. You seem determined to make yourself irrelevant.Trump ordered the raid and the raid led to several civilians dead, including this little girl, which the Military then lied about. I haven't made a comment about how or when the raid was planned, so I'm not sure why you're whining about it.No, because the military doesn't plan operations like you fetching a fresh six pack.So because the attack was something Obama could have done but didn't it somehow changes the fact that Trump made the call and this little girl was murdered as a result?The attack was planned no ago, not last week. The OP is a blithering idiot that thinks he's smart enough to spew propaganda and not get called on it.
Trump ordered the raid and the raid led to several civilians dead, including this little girl, which the Military then lied about. I haven't made a comment about how or when the raid was planned, so I'm not sure why you're whining about it.No, because the military doesn't plan operations like you fetching a fresh six pack.So because the attack was something Obama could have done but didn't it somehow changes the fact that Trump made the call and this little girl was murdered as a result?The attack was planned no ago, not last week. The OP is a blithering idiot that thinks he's smart enough to spew propaganda and not get called on it.
So you're a nut job.
Trump OKed the raid since he's CiC. He didn't plan it and lets the military do it's thing. You don't like it but that's really tough shit. It would have continued under Hillary if not moreso. You seem determined to make yourself irrelevant.Trump ordered the raid and the raid led to several civilians dead, including this little girl, which the Military then lied about. I haven't made a comment about how or when the raid was planned, so I'm not sure why you're whining about it.No, because the military doesn't plan operations like you fetching a fresh six pack.So because the attack was something Obama could have done but didn't it somehow changes the fact that Trump made the call and this little girl was murdered as a result?The attack was planned no ago, not last week. The OP is a blithering idiot that thinks he's smart enough to spew propaganda and not get called on it.
Funny ain't it, that your vote has no impact on that at all.
