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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-17-09 07:06 PM
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6. This is a bunch of bullshit.
In Afghanistan, his agents routinely extinguish wedding parties, farmers and construction workers with weapons such as the innovative Hellfire missile, which sucks the air out of your lungs.

Well, I guess you could call a conventional missile developed in the 1980s "innovative." If you were a fucking idiot.


Within weeks of his inauguration, Obama started a new war in Pakistan, causing more than a million people to flee their homes.

Except that wait, no, he didn't. That's bullshit.

In colluding with the only nuclear-armed power in the Middle East, he bribed the Palestinian Authority to suppress a UN judgment that Israel had committed crimes against humanity in its assault on Gaza – crimes made possible with US weapons whose shipment Obama secretly approved before his inauguration.

OK, now you're just stone cold makin' shit up.

During the recent G20 meeting in Pittsburgh, hosted by Obama, militarised police attacked peaceful protesters with something called the Long-Range Acoustic Device, not seen before on US streets.

It's a big, really irritating loudspeaker.

Mounted in the turret of a small tank

If by "tank" you mean "van." Hell, I make this mistake all the time.

The Nobel Peace Prize-winner’s latest war is largely secret. On 15 July, Washington finalised a deal with Colombia that gives the US seven giant military bases. “The idea,” reported the Associated Press, “is to make Colombia a regional hub for Pentagon operations... nearly half the continent can be covered by a C-17 without refuelling”, which “helps achieve the regional engagement strategy”.

Um, perhaps he needs some assistance in differentiating between "establishing a base" and "starting a war."

Guided by US military satellites, Colombian paramilitaries now infiltrate Venezuela with the goal of overthrowing the democratic government of Hugo Chávez

Y'know, this is just getting stupid. Pilger is an asshole who just makes shit up to support his baseless contentions.

Obama, the smooth operator from Chicago via Harvard, was enlisted to restore what he calls “leadership” throughout the world. The Nobel Prize committee’s decision is the kind of cloying reverse racism that has beatified the man for no reason other than he is a member of a minority and attractive to liberal sensibilities

Seriously, fuck you John Pilger.
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