BILL BLUM: Libya and The Holy Triumvirate
And by the way, for the 10th time, Gaddafi did not carry out the bombing of PanAm Flight 103 in 1988.1 Please enlighten your favorite progressive writers on this.
Is anyone keeping count?
I am. Libya makes six.
Six countries that Barack H. Obama has waged war against in his 26 months in office. (To anyone who disputes that dropping bombs on a populated land is act of war, I would ask what they think of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.)
Is there anyone left who still thinks that Barack Obama is some kind of improvement over George W. Bush?
Washington Post, May 27, 2010) Picture George W. having said this, and the later reaction.
2 Imagine if Bush had implied this — that the Arab protesters in Egypt against a man receiving billions in US aid including the means to repress and torture them, should “naturally” be aligned with the United States and — God help us — Israel.
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Ah yes, of course, Manning is being tortured for his own good. Someone please remind me — Did Georgieboy ever stoop to using that particular absurdity to excuse prisoner hell at Guantanamo?
The answer to the question is No. The president is not bothered by these things.
How do I know? Because Barack Obama is not bothered by anything as long as he can exult in being the president of the United States, eat his hamburgers, and play his basketball. Let me repeat once again what I first wrote in May 2009:
Indeed, if John McCain had won the 2008 election, and then done everything that Obama has done in exactly the same way, liberals would be raging about such awful policies.
Dear Lord, please save us from the Holy Republican Empire
Rep. Steve King of Iowa compared Democrats to Pontius Pilate, the ancient Roman official who sentenced Jesus to be crucified.4
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So, in a futile attempt to enlighten the likes of these esteemed Republican members of Congress, I feel obliged to point out the following:
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The Bad Guys
National Public Radio. I used to send letters to the Post pointing out how Forero was distorting the facts each time he wrote about Hugo Chávez, errors of omission compounded with errors of commission. None were printed, so I began to send my missives directly to Forero. He once actually replied saying that he (sort of) agreed with me on the point I had raised and implied that he would try to avoid similar errors in the future. I actually detected some improvement after that for a short period, then it was back to usual. During the current unrest in Libya he wrote: “Chavez said it ‘was a great lie’ that Gaddafi’s forces had attacked civilians.” 7
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Al Jazeera in America
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Japan devastated by an earthquake and tsunami. America devastated by the profit motive.
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Notes
- killinghope.org/bblum6/panam.htm ↩
- March 4, 2011, Democratic Party function, Miami, FL, CQ Transcriptions ↩
- Los Angeles Times, March 11, 2011 ↩
- Jim DeMint’s Theory Of Relativity: ‘The Bigger Government Gets, The Smaller God Gets’“, Think Progress, March 15, 2011↩
- Fox News Sunday, December 19, 2010 ↩
- Washington Post, September 19, 2001 ↩
- Washington Post, March 7, 2011 ↩
- UPI Reporte LatAm, March 4, 2011 (email me for the text) ↩
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- Former EPA chief: Nuke crisis ‘a very good lesson’“, Politico, March 14, 2011 ↩
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William Blum is the author of:
- Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War 2
- West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir
- Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire
Portions of the books can be read, and signed copies purchased, at www.killinghope.org
Previous Anti-Empire Reports can be read at this website.