The President: We don't need perpetual war in order to keep the peace
paraphrase from the Inaugural address.
on the same day that a drone killed 3 people in Yemen, a country that we are not at war with. Now US military has been extended into Mali and Somali. Acc to Alternet:
"The U.S. dropped 17,500 bombs during its invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. It conducted 29,200 air strikes during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. U.S. air forces conducted at least another 3,900 air strikes in Iraq over the next eight years, before the Iraqi government finally negotiated the withdrawal of U.S. occupation forces. But that pales next to at least 38,100 U.S. air strikes in Afghanistan since 2002, a country already occupied by U.S. and NATO forces, with a government pledged by its U.S. overlords to bring peace and justice to its people.
The Obama administration is responsible for at least 18,274 air strikes in Afghanistan since 2009, including at least 1,160 by pilotless drones. The U.S. conducted at least 116 air strikes in Iraq in 2009 and about 1,460 of NATO's 7,700 strikes in Libya in 2011. While the U.S. military does not publish figures on "secret" air and drone strikes in other countries, press reports detail a five-fold increase over Bush's second term, with at least 303 strikes in Pakistan, 125 in Yemen and 16 in Somalia. "
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33677.htm
also Jeremy Scahill's new film: Dirty Wars, just premiered at Sundance-
http://britdoc.org/real_films/britdoc-bertha-awards/dirty-wars
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