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<font><b>Our Killer President<br>
</b></font><font>
<br>
<b>By Arthur Silber</b><br>
<br>
<b>January 10 2013 "</b></font><b><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/"><font>Information
Clearing House</font></a></b><font>"
- The killer
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/obama-fires-back-at-gop-appeasement-charge-ask-osama-bin-laden/">
said</a>:</font></p>
<blockquote><p align="left"><b>
<font>“Ask Osama
bin Laden and the 22 out of 30 top al-Qaeda
leaders who’ve been taken off the field whether
I engage in appeasement,” the president fired
back at an impromptu news conference at the
White House.<br>
<br>
“Or whoever’s left out there,” he added. “Ask
them about that.”</font></b></p>
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<font>Watch the
video. It's instructive, particularly Obama's
expression when he adds, "Or whoever's left out
there." He speaks of murder, yet the words are
breezy and casual: this is a murderer so used to
killing that he talks of his past and future victims
interchangeably, and in terms of approximation. Just
"whoever's left out there." He wants to be sure you
know he'll order all of them killed in time. His
face is expressionless, the eyes dead. This is a man
without a soul in any healthy, positive sense. He
murders -- and he's proud of it.<br>
<br>
More than a
<a href="http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2007/09/lets-make-it-about-you-can-we-stop.html">
million innocent Iraqis were murdered</a> as the
result of the United States' criminal war of
aggression on that country. Obama has heralded
America's "success" in Iraq as "<a href="http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2010/07/we-are-not-special-and-there-is-no.html">an
extraordinary achievement</a>."<br>
<br>
The continuing murders in Pakistan and Afghanistan
are so numerous and so regular that they barely
merit notice for more than a few days, at least as
far as the United States government and most
Americans are concerned. Over the recent
Thanksgiving weekend, the United States government
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/world/asia/pakistan-says-nato-helicopters-kill-dozens-of-soldiers.html?_r=1&hp">
murdered at least 25 Pakistanis</a>. (NATO and the
U.S. government are indistinguishable in any matter
of importance, in any matter of murders of this
kind.) Pakistan is deeply
<img src="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1170/images/i_have_a_drone_by_opgraffiti-d5pthzp.jpg" width="300" height="384">angry and unhappy. The
United States government and Obama are concerned
only to the extent that Pakistan's unhappiness might
interfere with the U.S.'s intention to dominate and
control that part of the world. The U.S. government
and Obama aren't particularly upset about the
murders, but about the strategic problem that might
result from the murders.<br>
<br>
On the same weekend: "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/world/asia/six-afghan-children-are-killed-in-nato-airstrike.html%3Cbr%20/%253E">Six
children were among seven civilians killed</a> in a
NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan, Afghan
officials said Thursday." The story has already
fallen into the well of forgetfulness. It must be
the case that incidents like this occur at least
once a day given the number of military operations
ordered by the Murderer-in-Chief and carried out by
those who follow his orders. Perhaps only one
innocent person is killed. "Only" one. Perhaps we
should ask "whoever's left out there" what that one
loss signifies.<br>
<br>
Earlier in November, there was
<a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29644.htm">
this story</a>:</font></p>
<blockquote><p align="left"><b>
<font>Last
Friday, I met a boy, just before he was
assassinated by the CIA. Tariq Aziz was 16, a
quiet young man from North Waziristan, who, like
most teenagers, enjoyed soccer. Seventy-two
hours later, a Hellfire missile is believed to
have killed him as he was travelling in a car to
meet his aunt in Miran Shah, to take her home
after her wedding. Killed with him was his
12-year-old cousin, Waheed Khan.<br>
<br>
Over 2,300 people in Pakistan have been killed
by such missiles carried by drone aircraft such
as the Predator and the Reaper, and launched by
remote control from Langley, Virginia. Tariq and
Waheed brought the known total of children
killed in this way to 175, according to
statistics maintained by the organisation I work
for, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.<br>
<br>
...<br>
<br>
Unless the CIA can prove that Tariq Aziz posed
an imminent threat (as the White House's legal
advice stipulates a targeted killing must in
order for an attack to be carried out), or that
he was a key planner in a war against the US or
Pakistan, the killing of this 16 year old was
murder, and any jury should convict the CIA
accordingly.</font></b></p>
</blockquote><p align="left">
<font>These are only
a few of the stories we know about, and only from a
very brief period of time. Countless other murders
take place all over the world, and we can only
gather the dim outlines of what is occurring. This
is not to mention numerous lesser acts of cruelty
and violence, many of which will alter lives in
searing ways, for all the desolate years to follow.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2011/08/not-suicidally-depressed-yet-try-this.html">
Consider</a>:</font></p>
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<font>Somewhere
on this planet an American commando is carrying
out a mission. Now, say that 70 times and you're
done... for the day. Without the knowledge of
the American public, a secret force within the
U.S. military is undertaking operations in a
majority of the world's countries.<br>
<br>
...<br>
<br>
Last year, Karen DeYoung and Greg Jaffe of the
Washington Post reported that U.S. Special
Operations forces were deployed in 75 countries,
up from 60 at the end of the Bush presidency. By
the end of this year, U.S. Special Operations
Command [SOCOM] spokesman Colonel Tim Nye told
me, that number will likely reach 120. "We do a
lot of traveling -- a lot more than Afghanistan
or Iraq," he said recently. This global presence
-- in about 60% of the world's nations and far
larger than previously acknowledged -- provides
striking new evidence of a rising clandestine
Pentagon power elite waging a secret war in all
corners of the world.<br>
<br>
...<br>
<br>
In 120 countries across the globe, troops from
Special Operations Command carry out their
secret war of high-profile assassinations,
low-level targeted killings, capture/kidnap
operations, kick-down-the-door night raids,
joint operations with foreign forces, and
training missions with indigenous partners as
part of a shadowy conflict unknown to most
Americans. Once "special" for being small, lean,
outsider outfits, today they are special for
their power, access, influence, and aura.</font></b></p>
</blockquote><p align="left">
<font>No minimally
decent human being would choose to have anything
whatsoever to do with a government which
systematically engages in acts of this kind. This is
true of anyone who is part of the national governing
apparatus, or wishes to be. It is most especially
true of anyone who wishes to become president. Even
if a person declares his or her absolute commitment
to ending all of this, it is impossible for one
person to do it. The massive bureaucracy of death
which carries out these acts was erected over
decades; all such bureaucratic monstrosities take on
lives of their own. It will not be dismantled by a
single individual overnight, or even in a matter of
months or probably years. That means the murders
will go on. <br>
<br>
It may be that at some point this machinery of death
will be brought down comparatively quickly. If that
happens, it will not be the result of one person's
actions, but of calamitous events on a momentous
scale: widening war, catastrophic natural disasters,
widespread financial collapse, and/or massive social
unrest and violence. In the meantime, a reverence
for life demands that we see the Death State <i>
exactly for what it is</i> -- and walk away to the
fullest extent we can.<br>
<br>
That is not the course Barack Obama chose. He wanted
to be, he now is the Murderer-in-Chief. He is <i>
proud</i> of his achievement.<br>
<br>
Thus, the words I wrote over five years ago continue
to hold a relevance and meaning that fill me with
the deepest despair. I desperately wish that I had
never had cause to compose this passage, and that I
did not feel compelled
<a href="http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2006/10/missing-moral-center-murdering.html">
to repeat it now</a>:</font></p>
<blockquote><p align="left"><b>
<font>If you
have ever wondered how a serial murderer -- a
murderer who is sane and fully aware of the acts
he has committed -- can remain steadfastly
convinced of his own moral superiority and show
not even the slightest glimmer of remorse, you
should not wonder any longer.<br>
<br>
The United States government is such a murderer.
It conducts its murders in full view of the
entire world. It even boasts of them. Our
government, and all our leading commentators,
still maintain that the end justifies the means
-- and that even the slaughter of hundreds of
thousands of innocents is of no moral
consequence, provided a sufficient number of
people can delude themselves into believing the
final result is a "success."<br>
<br>
...<br>
<br>
We can appeal all we want to "American
exceptionalism," but any "exceptionalism" that
remains ours is that of a mass murderer without
a soul, and without a conscience. ... It is
useless to appeal to any "American" sense of
morality: we have none. It does not matter how
immense the pile of corpses grows: we will not
surrender or even question our delusion that we
are right, and that nothing we do can be
profoundly, unforgivably wrong.</font></b></p>
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