[Peace-discuss] King Obama-Canute & the tide of war

[C. G. Estabrook]

The note below was a comment to a quotation from John Pilger, the 
Australo-British journalist, as follows:

?"If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if 
they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a 
cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do."

On 10/21/10 7:12 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> [People are not fools, and the media accounts of Obama as caught in an AfPak 
> quagmire are seen as nonsense by many Americans.  The following is a post to a 
> thread on Facebook by a woman I don't know.  --CGE]
>
> Isn't just weird how the Obama fanatics claim he is just a puppet, that he has 
> no control over his actions, that some hidden hand is forcing him to drop 
> bombs on babies, that he is a good and decent person who would never keep the 
> wars going if the generals didn't make him, etc. If this were true, why would 
> they support a totally weak and completely manipulated person anyway?
>
> Then there are those who admit he is the one pulling the trigger, but it's 
> okay because of all the good things he is doing for us. Really?
>
> I had someone argue with me last night that it's okay that Obama has murdered 
> 12,000 civilians, as that's far less than Bush murdered. I asked her how many 
> Obama would have to kill before he pissed her off, and she said he has to kill 
> as many as it takes to democratize those countries!! The insanity never ends!
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