Obama Bombs Yemen Hours After Winning Reelection

[sailingaway]

 

[FrancisMarion]

Thanks for posting those articles, read all of them.

The article about Hadi in Yemen, makes you wonder. He says he approves every strike and is considered an counter-"terrorism" ally. This would leave me to believe that he is probably a necessary part of the chain of intelligence. It is not absurd, in my mind, that he could very well be using the drones to quash not terrorists, but dissidents or any others who oppose him. Lesson here, step out of line, and well you get the picture.

In 2011, the military acknowledged that as part of that operation a drone strike was launched against two suspected leaders of al-Shabaab, an alleged al-Qaeda affiliate based in Somalia

This is just super scary folks. I do not trust when sects and factions are described as AQ. Furthermore, when the party in question is a suspected, alleged affiliate and is still killed with no iota of judicial process it makes me question what kind of Dark Age we are slipping into.

 

[Pericles]

Is everyone surprised?



Is anyone surprised..?

That didn't take long.

 

[awake]

Second term: watch the the inner psycho emerge. He has nothing left to loose.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Is everyone surprised?



Is anyone surprised..?

nope

That didn't take long.

nope

Second term: watch the the inner psycho emerge. He has nothing left to loose.

yep

 

[Sola_Fide]

Hope and change baby

 

[paulbot24]

Hopefully Biden will slip and tell us when Obama is eating a power-up and "evolving" into something even more sinister.

 

[RickyJ]

One CIA faction fighting the another CIA faction. There had to be some pay back over the Benghazi affair.

 

[JohnM]

Yemen's President Embraces US Drones

http://www.voanews.com/content/yemens-president-embraces-us-drones/1538305.html


In his public enthusiasm for the U.S. military strikes, Hadi has taken responsibility for some of the more than 35 aerial assassination missions carried out by Predator and Reaper drones.

I think what is interesting is that Voice of America, which is an agency of the Federal Government, unashamedly and openly refers to drone attacks as assassination missions.

And yet almost nobody in the USA (or in liberal, progressive Europe for that matter) is concerned that assassination is openly being used as an instrument of government policy.

Not very long ago, every liberal and every progressive and everyone who had any concern for the rule of law would have been completely horrified.

Or am I wrong?

 

[twomp]

Hope and change baby

 

[GunnyFreedom]

I think what is interesting is that Voice of America, which is an agency of the Federal Government, unashamedly and openly refers to drone attacks as assassination missions.

And yet almost nobody in the USA (or in liberal, progressive Europe for that matter) is concerned that assassination is openly being used as an instrument of government policy.

Not very long ago, every liberal and every progressive and everyone who had any concern for the rule of law would have been completely horrified.

Or am I wrong?

not wrong. Orwellian. Swap paradigms on a dime. Eastasia. Eurasia. Eastasia. blargh.

 

[brandon]

Sounds like they only killed known terrorists and it was with cooperation of the government. Does that make it a little better?

 

[Travlyr]

Sounds like they only killed known terrorists and it was with cooperation of the government. Does that make it a little better?

No. Killing people is not a proper role of government. Government's job is to protect the life of their citizens.

 

[JohnM]

Sounds like they only killed known terrorists and it was with cooperation of the government. Does that make it a little better?

I'm not sure if you are being ironic. I'm hoping that you are.

But just in case you are not . . . it makes it sound better. But it doesn't make it any better.

What is a "known terrorist"? Someone who has committed murder? Someone who has assassinated someone? Someone who has committed another offense? Someone who has co-operated with someone who has committed an offense? Someone who sympathizes with people who have committed offenses?

And how are they known? Have they been convicted in a court of law, or does everyone just "know" that they are guilty?

And as for the cooperation of the Yemeni government . . . . Ahhh - you are being ironic, aren't you?

 

[papitosabe]

I don't even want to know what he has in store with his Executive Order pen between December 25th and January 1st this year.

He'll do something on Dec 21st, when all the channels cover all they hype and history about the Mayans and the end of the world. Thats when he'll sign HR658, imo.

 

[juleswin]

Sounds like they only killed known terrorists and it was with cooperation of the government. Does that make it a little better?

Probably some nobody fighting for freedom, a local patriot who wants nothing more than drive out the invaders and live in freedom. Wasn't George Washington considered a terrorist (whatever term they used back them) by the British? So I guess it would have been ok to drone bomb his ass back them and it would be ok. God know how many innocent British children he made fatherless.