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June 10, 2012
“Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will.”
on the extrajudicial murder of people all over the world is presented as something completely uncontroversial. Indeed, the main thrust of the story is not the fact that human beings -- including many women, children and men who have no connection whatsoever to "terrorism," alleged or otherwise -- are being regularly killed by the United States government; no, the main focus is how this program illustrates Barack Obama's "evolving" style of leadership during the course of his presidency. That's what's really important. The murders -- the eviscerated bodies, the children with their skulls bashed in, the pregnant women burned alive in their own homes -- are just background. Unimportant. Non-controversial.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 10, 2012 7:00 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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"It is, I confess, beyond all my imagining that a national leader so deeply immersed in murdering people would trumpet his atrocity so openly, so gleefully -- and so deliberately, sending his top aides out to collude in a major story in the nation's leading newspaper, to ensure maximum exposure of his killing spree."
Behold, I am become Media, destroyer of truths.
Posted by: sherlock at June 10, 2012 10:11 PM
But did he show you his Nobel Peace Prize? I'll tell you who got stiffed, not Dubyah... Idi Amin, where's his prize?
Posted by: Casca at June 10, 2012 10:30 PM
The Manipulators of Perception aren't so good at it anymore.
Posted by: Jewel at June 10, 2012 10:48 PM
Obama, Biden and Holder- look like the 'Nairobi Trio' when asked anything of importance.
Posted by: Peccable at June 11, 2012 3:37 AM
On Jan 22, 2013, the first articles will appear in the NYTimes accusing President Romney of war crimes and demanding that an investigation be opened up by the Hague.
Posted by: Fat Man at June 11, 2012 8:10 AM
Killing enemies is the task of the military. When a civilian like Obama engages in this activity, it is murder.
Posted by: Gloria at June 11, 2012 11:59 AM