Tag Barack Obama

Obama perpetuates “wiped off the earth” lie

Barack Obama:

Under­stand­ably, Israel is very con­cerned when the pres­id­ent of a coun­try, a large coun­try near them, states that they should be wiped off the face of the earth.

Which is simply a lie. Is it any won­der Amer­ic­ans are so brain­washed?

Actually Obama, America did seek war in Afghanistan

Obama accept­ing his Nobel prize:

… per­haps the most pro­found issue sur­round­ing my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am the Commander-in-Chief of a nation in the midst of two wars. One of these wars is wind­ing down. The other is a con­flict that Amer­ica did not seek …

Except that Amer­ica did seek armed con­flict with Afgh­anistan.

In Octo­ber of 2001 the Taliban pub­licly offered to hand Osama bin Laden over to a third coun­try, provided the U.S. hal­ted the illegal bomb­ing of Afgh­anistan and pro­duced the neces­sary evid­ence about involve­ment of bin Laden or any of his asso­ci­ates in the 11 Septem­ber attacks. Bush rejec­ted this, put­ting an end to any pos­sib­il­ity of a poten­tially peace­ful, legal res­ol­u­tion to the events of 11 Septem­ber 2001, and opened up the way for the inva­sion and occu­pa­tion of Afgh­anistan, Iraq and the threat of inva­sion of Iran, along with the mil­lions who have lost their lives or had them des­troyed as a result.

U.S. finally comes in from the cold

U.S. finally comes in from the cold, so to speak:

Clin­ton addressed the com­plaints of devel­op­ing coun­tries such as India and China that Amer­ica and the EU, by demand­ing bind­ing emis­sions cuts, want to saddle them with the bur­den of cli­mate change; they argue they did not cause the prob­lem and must pri­or­it­ise growth. She said the US recog­nised indus­tri­al­ised coun­tries bore a respons­ib­il­ity: “Some coun­tries like mine are respons­ible for past emis­sions.” She wanted China and India to grow their eco­nom­ies: “We want people to have a higher stand­ard of living.”

Obama had broken with eight years of denial under George Bush, Clin­ton said. “The United States is fully engaged and ready to lead and determ­ined to make up for lost time both at home and abroad … the US is no longer absent without leave.”

Bet­ter late than never.