Obama Has Blood on His Hands.
Below is a nation-by-nation list of offenses President Obama has committed against the lives of both foreigners and American citizens. In some cases, blood has already been shed, in others the threat is considered as real as the intended action. The policy of LaRouchePAC is not to wait for more bodies to line the streets, not to wait for the outbreak of another war, but to remove Obama immediately. It is not the intention of LaRouchePAC to conclude that Obama is a “bad president” or a leader with poor policy. Barack Obama is worse than Adolf Hitler. Obama is criminally insane and qualifies for removal from office for mental incompetence under Sec. 4 of the 25th Amendment. Obama has gloated over the dead bodies of his most recent victims with pride. He is a bloody exhibitionist. Increasingly in each of his actions President Obama is proving worse than Adolf Hitler and worse than the Roman Emperor Nero; that aspect of his character was known and diagnosed as early as April 2009.
After the assassination of Col. Gaddaffi, a new era of American foreign policy was inaugurated under Obama. Vice President Biden enunciated the Obama Doctrine most clearly on October 20th, saying, “This is more the prescription for how to deal with the world as we go forward than it has in the past."
Obama has stated this as the policy and the future role of the United States. For anyone who fails to act appropriately given the flagrancy of his threats to human life, the blood is on your hands, as well.
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ASIA/MIDDLE EAST
Iraq:
Afghanistan:
• Obama played the voyeur during the assassination of Osama bin Laden. When Osama bin Laden's compound was being raided in Pakistan on May 1, President Obama was watching it, live-stream. In a special room in the Washington area, Obama watched the raid via video taken from helmet cameras. When Bin Laden was killed by a gunshot to the head, Obama's reported reaction was, "We got him."
Pakistan:
• Rate of drone attacks over the years of the Obama Presidency: There were 35 drone strikes were executed in 2008, 53 in 2009, and 117 in 2010. Pakistan agencies say that over 2,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the five years up to June 2011, including 938 in 2010 alone under Obama.
• Legal specialists have pointed out that part of the reason for the acceleration of drone strikes in Pakistan are due to the change in U.S. policy in late 2008. Before that time, the CIA received permission from the Pakistani government to launch strikes. In the summer of 2008, that changed and the Bush administration “ordered stepped-up Predator drone strikes on al Qaeda leaders and specific camps,” and specified that Pakistani officials going forward should receive only “‘concurrent notification’…meaning they learned of a strike as it was underway or, just to be sure, a few minutes after.”
According to Robert Chesney, "The further acceleration in 2010 appears to stem at least in part from a meeting in October 2009 during which President Obama granted a CIA request both for more drones and for permission to extend drone operations into areas of Pakistan’s FATA that previously had been off limits or at least discouraged."
Iran:
• On October 12th a very sloppy plot to kill Saudi Ambassador in Washington, Adel Al-Jubeir, is exposed and blamed on members of the Iranian QUDs. The assassination attempt is immediately linked directly to the Iranian government of Ahmadinijad. In an address from the White House, Obama says that Iran will be punished for their behavior and claims "there are individuals in the Iranian government who were aware of this plot." On October 18th, much to Obama's embarrassment, Tehran pointed its finger at the terrorist group Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) as being at the center of what Washington had charged was an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington.
• On October 20th, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld responded to the death of Gaddafi with a Tweet warning the leaders of Syria and Iran that they could be the next to face regime change. Rumsfeld Tweeted: “al-Assad & Ahmadinejad best heed this morning's news on Gaddafi. Their people may decide they should be next.”
Syria:
• October 24: According to the State Department spokesman, the United States has pulled Syrian ambassador Robert Ford out of the country after "credible threats against his personal safety." The U.S. is now blaming Bashar Assad's governments for the threats to Ford.
• On October 4, both China and Russia vetoed the UNSC resolution for sanctions against Syria. Obama's ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, fought viciously for sanctions against Bashar al-Assad's government, which has been accused of violent crack-down on anti-government protesters. Both China and Russia vetoed the resolution, as a number of Russian officials pointed to the policy direction among western members of the Security Council for regime change, citing the NATO war in Libya as a case in point. After the veto, Susan Rice responded with outrage at both the Russians and Chinese, and reportedly stormed out of the session. Walk-outs at the UN general assembly are fairly common, but in the security council they are very rare.
France, Great Britain, and the United States made it clear that they would pursue measures against Syria as soon as it was feasible. Rice has already established herself as an advocate of so-called "humanitarian intervention" (a.k.a. regime change), and her raw litany against the Russians during the council meeting provoked some members of the UN to reflect that they had never in recent memory seen the U.S. so hostile to the Russians.
AFRICA
Libya:
• March 17: The United National Security Council authorizes a no-fly zone over Libya and prohibits military action in order to “protect civilians” against Gaddafi’s army.
• April 30 - A NATO missile attack on a house in Tripoli kills Gaddafi's youngest son and three grandchildren, according to the Libyan government.
• June: By late June, Obama is accused by a number of Congressmen of violating the War Powers Resolution, and conducting an illegal war in Libya. Senator John Kerry defends Obama’s right to wage the war, and defends the legal justification of White House Legal Counsel Harold Koh that the use of unmanned drones does not constitute the type of aggression envisioned in the War Powers Resolution. Sen. John McCain similarly defends the legal opinion, despite his friendly, personal meetings with Col. Gaddafi only months earlier.
• October 12: Muammar Gaddafi’s son Mutassim was captured. According to footage from cell-phone cameras, he was allowed a last smoke before being killed on October 20 by rebels in Sirte.
• October 20: According to unnamed U.S. officials, a Predator drone fired on Gadaffi's convoy as it was fleeing his hometown of Sirte. According to accounts, a number of vehicles in the convoy were damaged or destroyed. Video footage shows Gadaffi is captured alive, but he is armed. Reports indicate he was disarmed and shot in the head. National Transitional Council figures say he was not killed intentionally.
After his death, Gaddafi's blood-stained body is paraded through the streets and is now, apparently, being kept in a commercial meat locker where it is being viewed by hundreds of onlookers.
Uganda:
• On October 14th Obama announced to Congress that he would deploy 100 U.S. troops into Uganda to intervene against the Lord's Resistance Army and to capture the group's leader Joseph Kony. The troops began arriving on the ground on October 12th with the intention to establish a troop presence in South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Yemen:
• See United States for the killings of al-Awlaki, Samir Khan, and 16 year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki.
Somalia:
As Obama tightens his military grip on much of the African continent, Somalia has become the sixth country where the U.S. has used drones to conduct attacks. As a result, scores of Somali civilians have been killed by U.S. drone attacks.
• On June 23, the first "assassination" drone was launched in Somalia, targeting members of the Somali militant group al-Shabaab. Reportedly, the drone strike killed at least one person.
• October 19: A U.S. drone attack struck Musa Haji district in Lower Juba region and left 18 civilians dead and 37 more injured. Later that day, several missiles were fired into the outskirts of Kismayo, capital of the Lower Joba Region, killing at least 46 people and injuring many more.
• October 20: A U.S. drone carried out attacks near the Taabto and Bilis Qooqani districts in southern Somalia, leaving 26 dead and 31 injured.
EUROPE
Russia:
• September: Breakdown of missile-defense talks.
• October 5: China and Russia oppose U.N. sanctions against Syria, arguing it is another attempt at regime change, like what took place in Libya. (See Syria.)
• October 21: The refusal by Obama to deliver written assurance to Russia that the ABM shields in Eastern Europe would not be used against the Russians is really heating up to Cold War levels. (This is the context for the offer of SDE.) Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov said that Russia will give an appropriate military response if its demands are not taken into account, but said such a scenario would be unfortunate because we would "miss an opportunity to move beyond the Cold War."
• October 12: Confrontations over supposed Iranian attempted assassination of Saudi ambassador.
• Following the death of Muamar Gaddafi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called into question the legality of the killing under international law. He also called for an international probe to investigate the death, guaranteeing that Russia would be "certain that such an investigation will be conducted."
Lavrov also said, "We have to lean on facts and international laws [the Geneva Conventions]. They say that a captured participant of an armed conflict should be treated in a certain way. And in any case, a prisoner of war should not be killed. ...The images we saw on television show that he was taken prisoner while wounded, and then later, once already a prisoner, his life was taken away." If this is the case, it represents a serious violation of international law, a body of law created in the aftermath of the atrocities of the Nazi-led war of aggression.
NORTH AMERICA
Mexico:
• There are three separate "kill lists" maintained by the Obama Administration: by the NSC, CIA, and JSOC (the DOD's Joint Special Operations Command). The JSOC has a longer kill-list and looser rules than the CIA. According to Dana Priest and William Arkin's research of "Top Secret America", the JSOC has a force of 25,000, an intelligence division of 3,000, and has 5,000 civilian contractors, and 49 firms doing top-secret work for them. Mexico is on the top on the JSOC list of priorities which include targetted killings, with night raids and drones, to go after drug and weapons networks in Mexico. This has been discussed in the White House, Pentagon, and CIA, but supposedly nothing has been approved yet.
United States:
• September 30: Anwar Al-Awlaki, an American-born cleric and al Qaeda leader had been targeted by the Obama administration and put on a secretive CIA "kill list", compiled by a secret panel within Obama's National Security Council and Justice Department. Al-Awlaki was killed by a drone attack along with Samir Khan, another American and Islamic propagandist. Obama took full credit for the assassination in Yemen, which he claimed was a major blow to al-Qaeda, carried out in concert with "Yemen and our other allies."
Appeals by al-Awlaki's father to have his son's name removed from the CIA kill list failed, and al-Awlaki was deprived of due process.
• October 14: The sixteen year old son of U.S.-born militant cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, was among those killed in a trio of drone attacks in southern Yemen on the night of October 14. The teenager, a U.S. citizen born in Denver, Colorado in 1995, was killed along with his 17-year-old Yemeni cousin in a U.S. military strike that left nine people dead in southeastern Yemen.
• On August 2, President Obama signed into law the bill creating the un-Constitutional Super-Congress into law. Now, Sen. John Kerry (MA) and other members of the Super-Congres are leading an effort to cut the budget well past the $1.5 trillion that the law already demanded to be done by Thanksgiving. Reportedly, the committee has changed that figure to $6-7 trillion in cuts over the next decade in entitlements and defense. The cuts in entitlements and cuts in federal funding to states and municipalities will mean the creation of concentration camp conditions for the most vulnerable U.S. citizens.
These cuts also coincide with the policy of the Obama administration to downsize the U.S. military, with the withdrawal of troops, while “upsizing” the use of private military contractors and drone attacks, which Obama's legal counsel, Harold Koh, has already argued does not constitute war or hostilities, as outlined in the War Powers Resolution.
Haiti:
January 2009-today: Following the January 12, 2009 earthquake which killed about a quarter-million people, senior U.S. political figures went to the White House and presented to President Obama an urgent proposal for the U.S. to help Haiti evacuate earthquake survivors out of the demolished Port au Prince to higher ground. There were other proposals, including from Lyndon LaRouche, to deploy the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to evacuate survivors and help rebuild critical infrastructure, water and sanitation systems, and housing, employing Haitian citizens in the effort. An evacuation strategy, similar to the one proposed to Obama, was being worked on by the Préval government in Haiti, a strategy which would have greatly decreased the likelihood of a deadly cholera outbreak in the event that people remained in Port au Prince without adequate access to clean water, sanitation, and housing. At the most senior level, the Obama Administration shot the proposal down. By the end of 2010, reports indicated that over 3,000 Haitians died from cholera.
Moreover, by October 2010 Lyndon LaRouche's EIR reported that of the $1.15 billion in aid that the United States had pledged to Haiti, not a single penny had actually been sent. It is currently unknown how many needless deaths resulted from Obama's purposeful negligence.
