Re: Wake the fuck up
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:39 pm
Good piece.
That would actually be a point in his favor if it were true.M Club wrote:http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc ... ma/262861/
1.Obama terrorizes innocent Pakistanis on an almost daily basis. The drone war he is waging in North Waziristan isn't "precise" or "surgical" as he would have Americans believe. It kills hundreds of innocents, including children. And for thousands of more innocents who live in the targeted communities, the drone war makes their lives into a nightmare worthy of dystopian novels. People are always afraid. Women cower in their homes. Children are kept out of school. The stress they endure gives them psychiatric disorders. Men are driven crazy by an inability to sleep as drones buzz overhead 24 hours a day, a deadly strike possible at any moment.
Big Three Networks Ignore Univision Fast & Furious Special
Spanish-language network Univision recently aired a shocking exposé of the Obama administration's gun running program -- called Fast & Furious -- a policy that has ended up in the murder of hundreds of Mexican citizens. Despite this blockbuster report on Obama's lethal program and new accusations that 16 teenagers were killed by these weapons, neither ABC, CBS, nor NBC have yet said a word during their own news broadcasts about these developments.
This news blackout is most surprising because the Univision report is so fraught with political repercussions both domestically and in relations between the United States and Mexico. Yet neither of the big three nets seems interested to report on this story.
The most shocking incident of murder and destruction by narco-terrorists using Obama's guns was the attack on a birthday party attended by dozens of teenagers.
On January 30, 2010, a commando of at least 20 hit men parked themselves outside a birthday party of high school and college students in Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez. Near midnight, the assassins, later identified as hired guns for the Mexican cartel La Linea, broke into a one-story house and opened fire on a gathering of nearly 60 teenagers. Outside, lookouts gunned down a screaming neighbor and several students who had managed to escape. Fourteen young men and women were killed, and 12 more were wounded before the hit men finally fled.
"Indirectly, the United States government played a role in the massacre by supplying some of the firearms used by the cartel murderers," Univision concludes.
ABC's refusal to air any of Univision's report is doubly interesting. This is because ABC has actually posted a report on its own website about the Univision exposé. But despite its online coverage, ABC has ignored the Univision special on its own broadcast news programs.
The Univision report is in Spanish, but a subtitled version hit the Web Tuesday.
‘Calls for more security in Benghazi were ignored’
WASHINGTON. — Washington denied “repeated requests” for more security at the consulate in Benghazi, Libya prior to last month’s deadly attack, a top Republican watchdog in Congress said yesterday. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, demanded answers from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about an apparent lack of sufficient protections at the facility.
“Multiple US federal government officials have confirmed to the committee that, prior to the September 11 attack, the US mission in Libya made repeated requests for increased security in Benghazi,” Issa said in a letter to Clinton.
“The mission in Libya, however, was denied these resources in Washington.”
The US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans were killed when the Benghazi consulate came under attack on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
Issa asked what measures, if any, the State Department had taken to boost security at the US mission in Libya following a months-long series of attacks and threats against or near US facilities or personnel.
Issa said his committee was convening a hearing on October 10 “to consider the security situation in Benghazi leading up to the September 11 attack,” and State Department security assessments and decision-making.
The lawmaker said the Benghazi unrest “was the latest in a long line of attacks on Western diplomats and officials in Libya in the months leading up to September 11, 2012.” Precisely who was behind the attack that killed Stevens and members of his staff remains under investigation but Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has come under intense scrutiny, two officials said. — AFP.