Obama has committed the nation to “the supreme international crime”: aggressive war

[Karmadillo]

http://chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2118-three-amigos-barack-and-buddies-pledge-the-west-to-open-ended-war-of-aggression.html

Three Amigos: Barack and Buddies Pledge the West to Open-Ended War of Aggression
Written by Chris Floyd
Saturday, 16 April 2011 22:21

Dear Good Concerned Engaged Enlightened Rule-of-Law Liberal Progressives: Is it clear enough for you now? Does he have to spell it out for you, slowly, using short and simple words, and maybe some cartoons to make it clear? Your noble Nobel Peace Laureate – bringer of hope and change, restorer of the rule of law, world-historical paradigm-shifter, etc., etc. – has just publicly (not to mention arbitrarily) committed the nation to “the supreme international crime”: aggressive war.

He has pledged the blood and treasure of the United States to "regime change" in Libya: that is to say, an act of military aggression designed to overthrow the government of a sovereign nation which has not attacked your own country nor posed the slightest threat to it. This is, of course, precisely the same blatantly illegal posture taken by that great monstrous bogey-man of all good concerned engaged enlightened rule-of-law liberal progressives everywhere, George W. Bush, in his invasion of Iraq.

On Friday, Barack Obama scribbled his name at the bottom of a newspaper article written by hired minions of the leaders of Britain and France, pledging to keep killing people in Libya until Moamar Gadafy is driven from power. Nothing short of "regime change" will satisfy these towering colossi of world statesmanship; as the Guardian reports, they utterly reject any calls "for an immediate ceasefire, or a negotiated exit for the Libyan dictator."

Peace? Pah! No, it will be war, war, and more war until these leaders of the great Western democracies get the outcome they demand: the ouster of their clapped-out former client-tyrant, and his replacement by what they hope will be more amenable operators. Or is that too cynical? Surely what these Three Amigos of the Apocalypse are seeking is nothing less -- and nothing other -- than the "freedom of the Libyan people," right?

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[Demeter]

1. And that's probably why he didn't go after the Bush regime

because he wanted to do all of the things they did--to taint the Democratic party as badly as the GOP is defiled.

[Octafish]

10. Chris Floyd absolutely hammered Bush and his cronies...

...for the whole eight years. Example:

War is Golden for the Bush Administration

Gatefold - Doormats Of The World, Unite!

The Secret Sharers - The CIA, the Bush Gang and the Killing of Frank Olson

The guy doesn't like hypocricy or warmongers. In short, he call 'em as he sees 'em -- a real journalist.

[Distant Observer]

12. Thank goodness for some consistency.

[Name removed]

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[aquart]

3. What utter nonsense.

Iraq was a war of aggression. Libya was an engraved invitation. And we went to the party with friends.

And...AND...our parents knew and gave permission.

So take your tattle-taling and stuff it. Everyone in town knew we were going and they even helped us dress.

[SidDithers]

4. pffft...nt

Sid

[MilesColtrane]

5. self deleted

[Karmadillo]

6. Kick

nt

[mfcorey1]

7. Absurd, just absurd!

[dionysus]

8. what a pile of garbage...

unrec

[JoePhilly]

9. Well, if Chris Floyd said it .... yawn.

[Distant Observer]

11. Sadly, Obama is doing elegantly, the same kind of imoral, unjust war that Bush did so stupidly

As Christopher Simpson describes in "Splendid Blond Beast: Money, Law and Genocide in the Twentieth Century," it is the way European Aristocrats like to do things -- legal (based on laws they write), beautiful (based
on propaganda they promulgate).

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x310969

[bvar22]

13. K&R...up to +4

They didn't even bother to update The Marketing.


If you're not FOR the WAR in Libya,
you're WITH The Communists AlQaeda The Terrorists Saddam Qaddafi!!!