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U.S. President Barack Obama is photographed standing in front of the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office of the White House, December 6, 2012.
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January 20, 2009
Vice PresidentJoe Biden
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from Illinois
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January 3, 2005 – November 16, 2008
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Sasha (born 2001)
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Obama’s Expanding Kill List — Paul Craig Roberts  Obama's Expanding Kill List -- Paul Craig Roberts

Prosecutors always expand laws far beyond their intent. Attorneys in civil cases do the same. For example, the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act was passed in order to make it easier for the government to convict members of the Mafia. However, the law, despite its intent, was quickly expanded by prosecutors and attorneys and used in cases against pro-life activists, Catholic bishops, corporations accused of hiring illegal immigrants, and in divorce cases. “Junk bond king” Michael Milken, a person with no ties to organized crime, was threatened with indictment under the RICO Act. Prosecutors have found that the asset freeze provision in the Act is a convenient way to prevent a defendant from being able to pay attorneys and, therefore, makes it easier for prosecutors to coerce innocent defendants into a guilty plea.
We are now witnessing the expansion of Obama’s Kill List. The list began under the Bush regime as a rationale for murdering suspect citizens of countries with which the US was not at war. The Obama regime expanded the scope of the list to include the execution, without due process of law, of US citizens accused, without evidence presented in court, of association with terrorism. The list quickly expanded to include the American teen-age son of a cleric accused of preaching jihad against the West. The son’s “association” with terrorism apparently was his blood relationship to his father.
As Glenn Greenwald recently wrote, the power of government to imprison and to murder its citizens without due process of law is the certain mark of dictatorship. Dictatorship is government unconstrained by law. On February 10 the Wall Street Journal revealed that the Obama dictatorship now intends to expand the Kill List to include those accused of acting against foreign governments. Mokhtar Belmokhtar, an “Algerian militant” accused of planning the January attack on an Algerian natural gas facility, has been chosen as the threat that is being used to expand Obama’s Kill List to include participants in the internal disputes and civil wars of every country.
If the Obama regime is on the side of the government, as in Algeria, it will kill the rebels opposing the government. If the Obama regime is on the side of the rebels, as in Libya, it will kill the government’s leaders. Whether Washington sends a drone to murder Putin and the president of China remains to be seen. But don’t be surprised if Washington has targeted the president of Iran.
The elasticity of the Kill List and its easy expansion makes it certain that Washington will be involved in extra-judicial executions of those “associated with terrorism” over much of the world. Americans themselves should be alarmed, because the term “association with terrorism” is very elastic. Federal prosecutors have interpreted the term to include charitable contributions to Palestinians.
The next time former US Representative Cynthia McKinney gets on an aid ship to Palestine, will Washington give the green light to Israel to kill her as a terrorist agent for her association with aid to Gaza, ruled by the “terrorist organization,” Hamas?
Already a year or two ago, the director of Homeland Security said that the federal police agency’s focus had shifted from terrorists to “domestic extremists,” another elastic and undefined term. A domestic extremist will be all who disagree with Washington. They also are headed for the Kill List.
Where is the government going with this? The most likely outcome is that everyone disliked or distrusted by those who have the power to add to the Kill List will find themselves on the list. The government can expand the Kill List beyond the original intent as easily as the RICO Act was expanded beyond its original intent.
As the Founding Fathers knew and the American people have forgot, no one is safe in a dictatorship.
Clearly, the American public lacks sufficient comprehension to remain a free people. All indications are that the large majority of Americans fear alleged terrorists in distant lands more than they fear their government’s acquisition of dictatorial powers over them–powers that allow government to place itself above the law and to be unaccountable to law. This is despite the fact that 99.999% of all Americans will never, ever, experience any terrorism except that of their own government.
According to a recent poll of registered American voters, 75% approve of Washington’s assassination of foreign citizens abroad based on suspicion that they might be terrorists, despite the fact that the vast majority of the Gitmo detainees, declared by the US government to be the most dangerous men on earth, turned out to be totally innocent. Only 13% of registered voters disapprove of the extra-judicial murders carried out by Washington against foreign citizens, whether based on wrong intelligence, hearsay, or actual deeds. http://www.ahherald.com/newsbrief-mainmenu-2/monmouth-county-news/1...
Registered voters have a different view of the extra-judicial murder of US citizens. In what the rest of the world will see as further evidence of American double-standards, 48% believe it is illegal for Washington to murder US citizens without due process of law. However, 24% agree with the Obama regime that it is permissible for the government to murder its own citizens on accusation alone without trial and conviction of a capital crime. As The Onion put it, “24% of citizens were unequivocally in favor of being obliterated at any point, for any reason, in a massive airstrike.”http://www.theonion.com/articles/american-citizens-split-on-doj-mem...
Are we to be reassured or alarmed that 24% of registered voters believe that the terrorist threat is so great that suspicion alone without evidence, trial, and conviction is sufficient for Washington to terminate US citizens? Should not we be disturbed that a quarter of registered voters, despite overwhelming evidence that Washington’s wars are based on conscious lies–”weapons of mass destruction,” “Al-Qaeda connections”–are still prepared to believe the government’s claim that the person it just murdered was a terrorist? Why are so many Americans willing to believe a proven liar?
If we add up all the costs of the “war on terror,” it is obvious that the costs are many magnitudes greater than the terror threat that the war is alleged to contain. If terrorists were really a threat to Americans, shopping centers and electric substations would be blowing up constantly. Airport security would be a sham, because terrorists would set off the bombs in the crowded lines waiting to clear security. Traffic would be continually tied up from roofing nails dispensed on all main roads in cities across the country for each rush hour. Water supplies would be poisoned. Police stations would be bombed and police officers routinely terminated on the streets. Instead, nothing has happened despite Washington’s killing and displacement of huge numbers of Muslims in seven or eight countries over the past 11 years.
The cost of the “war on terror” is not merely the multi-trillion dollar financial bill documented by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes. The cost of Washington’s wars is the main reason for the large national debt, the threat of which politicians are using to destroy the social safety net. This is a huge cost for a pointless war that pleases Israel and enriches the armament companies but does nothing for Americans.
The financial cost is huge, but how important is this cost compared to another cost–the domestic police state supported by a significant percentage of the population and a majority in Congress and the media? Is the war on terror worth the evisceration of the US Constitution? A war that costs us the Constitution means our total defeat.
The cost in human life has been enormous. Millions of Muslims have been killed, wounded, orphaned, and displaced, and entire countries have been destroyed as socio-political entities. Washington locked Iraq in sectarian murder. Libya has no government, just warring factions, and now Syria is in the process of being disintegrated. The prospects for people’s lives in these countries have been ruined for years to come.
The cost in American lives has also been high. More than 400,000 American lives have been adversely affected by 11 years of pointless war. The deaths of 6,656 US troops, the 50,000 wounded, the 1,700 life-changing limb amputations, and the suicides http://www.globalresearch.ca/record-numbers-of-us-military-and-vete...are just the tip of the iceberg. Since the Bush-Obama wars began, 129,731 US troops have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. And now we learn from a new Congressional Research Service report that more than a quarter million of US troops have experienced Traumatic Brain Injury. Based on current diagnostic capability, three-fourths of the cases are classified as mild. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/cost-of-war/
These lost, ruined and impaired lives affect also the lives of many others–spouses, children, parents, siblings, and those disheartened by their government’s pointless wars who have to care for the damaged. There are many Americans who have been collaterally damaged by Washington’s pointless wars.
Will Americans wake up in time? I wish I could answer, “yes,” but I regret that Americans are an insouciant people. They are unaware. Americans are more concerned with sports events, sales, and which celebrities are sleeping together than they are with their liberty. Washington can create a police state, because there are insufficient citizens with the intelligence, education, and awareness to stop Washington.
Congress has accepted the police state and has given up too much of its power to the executive branch and is too beholden to the special interests that benefit from the police state to do anything about it. Congress is even content for the CIA or the Pentagon, perhaps both, to murder by robot innocent people on the Benthamite presumption that at some future time they might commit a terrorist act. Some US Senators want a cloak of legality for the murders and suggest a secret court to rubber-stamp Obama’s Kill List. CIA nominee director John Brennan reportedly objected to a secret court on the grounds that not all drone murders are retaliation; some victims are murdered for what some executive branch official thinks they might do at some future time, and without evidence the court would have nothing objective to go by. http://news.antiwar.com/2013/02/10/lawmakers-push-plans-to-advance-...
The federal judiciary has proven to be almost as impotent. Federal judges did not ask federal prosecutors why, in violation of the whistleblower protection laws, they were prosecuting National Security Agency senior executive Thomas Drake for blowing the whistle on the NSA’s illegal spying on US citizens instead of the officials who broke the law and committed felonies. Judges did not ask why CIA agent John Kiriakou was prosecuted for blowing the whistle on the torture program instead of those who committed crimes by authorizing and committing torture.http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33894.htm
The innocent and the truth-tellers were prosecuted. The criminals and the liars were not. The federal judges went along with the Justice (sic) Department’s prosecutions of those who obeyed the law and did their duty and non-prosecution of criminals who clearly without any doubt violated the law, trampled upon the US Constitution, and committed felonies.
In a police state it is always the innocent who are the most heavily punished. In his history, The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn explains that in the prison camps, the Soviet equivalent to Guantanamo and the CIA’s secret torture prisons, common criminals such as murderers, rapists, and robbers had a privileged position compared to the political prisoners who mistakenly thought that the Soviet Constitution meant something. It will be the same in Amerika.
The destruction of truth and the law in the US is the legacy of 9/11. Both conservatives and the left-wing have bought into the government’s preposterous story that a few Saudi Arabians, unsupported by any government or intelligence agency, outwitted every institution of the National Security State and inflicted the most humiliating blow against a superpower in human history. They buy into this story despite unequivocal evidence that WTC building 7 came down at free fall speed, an event that can only occur as a result of controlled demolition.
But evidence and expert testimony no longer have authority in the US, which now has its own form of Lysenkoism.
Lysenko was a quack Soviet scientist, a charlatan who successfully persecuted Soviet geneticists for “setting themselves against Marxism” by not having a Marxist theory of genetics. Soviet geneticists were arrested and executed for being “against the people.” Even the world famous Soviet geneticist, Nikolai Vavilov, was arrested and died in prison.
Americans don’t know any more about physics and structural architecture and engineering than the Soviet population and Stalin knew about genetics. Today “Lysenkoism” is used as a metaphor to denote the corruption of science in behalf of a social, political, or ideological purpose.
Lysenko used lies to gain power, just as Ponzi scheme operators use lies to gain wealth. Power is an Aphrodisiac, and everyone in Washington wants it. All indications are that they have it.
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About Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following.

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Bush Convicted of War Crimes in Absentia



Kuala Lumpur — It’s official; George W Bush is a war criminal.
In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were yesterday (Fri) found guilty of war crimes.
Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia.
The trial held in Kuala Lumpur heard harrowing witness accounts from victims of torture who suffered at the hands of US soldiers and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.
They included testimony from British man Moazzam Begg, an ex-Guantanamo detainee and Iraqi woman Jameelah Abbas Hameedi who was tortured in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison.
At the end of the week-long hearing, the five-panel tribunal unanimously delivered guilty verdicts against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their key legal advisors who were all convicted as war criminals for torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.
Full transcripts of the charges, witness statements and other relevant material will now be sent to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council.
The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission is also asking that the names of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Yoo, Bybee, Addington and Haynes be entered and included in the Commission’s Register of War Criminals for public record.
The tribunal is the initiative of Malaysia’s retired Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who staunchly opposed the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
He sat through the entire hearing as it took personal statements and testimonies of three witnesses namely Abbas Abid, Moazzam Begg and Jameelah Hameedi. The tribunal also heard two other Statutory Declarations of Iraqi citizen Ali Shalal and Rahul Ahmed, another British citizen.
After the guilty verdict reached by five senior judges was delivered, Mahathir Mohamad said: “Powerful countries are getting away with murder.”
War crimes expert and lawyer Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law in America, was part of the prosecution team.
After the case he said: “This is the first conviction of these people anywhere in the world.”
While the hearing is regarded by some as being purely symbolic, human rights activist Boyle said he was hopeful that Bush and Co could soon find themselves facing similar trials elsewhere in the world.
“We tried three times to get Bush in Canada but were thwarted by the Canadian Government, then we scared Bush out of going to Switzerland. The Spanish attempt failed because of the government there and the same happened in Germany.”
Boyle then referenced the Nuremberg Charter which was used as the format for the tribunal when asked about the credibility of the initiative in Malaysia. He quoted: “Leaders, organizers, instigators and accomplices participating in the formulation or execution of a common plan or conspiracy to commit war crimes are responsible for all acts performed by any person in execution of such a plan.”
The US is subject to customary international law and to the Principles of the Nuremberg Charter said Boyle who also believes the week-long trial was “almost certainly” being monitored closely by both Pentagon and White House officials.
Professor Gurdial Singh Nijar, who headed the prosecution said: “The tribunal was very careful to adhere scrupulously to the regulations drawn up by the Nuremberg courts and the International Criminal Courts”.
He added that he was optimistic the tribunal would be followed up elsewhere in the world where “countries have a duty to try war criminals” and he cited the case of the former Chilean dictator Augustine Pinochet who was arrested in Britain to be extradited to Spain on charges of war crimes.
“Pinochet was only eight years out of his presidency when that happened.”
The Pinochet case was the first time that several European judges applied the principle of universal jurisdiction, declaring themselves competent to judge crimes committed by former heads of state, despite local amnesty laws.
Throughout the week the tribunal was packed with legal experts and law students as witnesses gave testimony and then cross examination by the defence led by lawyer Jason Kay Kit Leon.
 The court heard how
  • Abbas Abid, a 48-year-old engineer from Fallujah in Iraq had his fingernails removed by pliers.
  • Ali Shalal was attached with bare electrical wires and electrocuted and hung from a wall.
  • Moazzam Begg was beaten, hooded and put in solitary confinement.
  • Jameelah was stripped and humiliated, and was used as a human shield whilst being transported by helicopter.
The witnesses also detailed how they have residual injuries till today.
Moazzam Begg, now working as a director for the London-based human rights group Cageprisoners said he was delighted with the verdict, but added: “When people talk about Nuremberg you have to remember those tried were all prosecuted after the war.
“Right now Guantanamo is still open, people are still being held there and are still being tortured there.”
In response to questions about the difference between the Bush and Obama Administrations, he added: “If President Bush was the President of extra-judicial torture then US President Barak Obama is the President of extra judicial killing through drone strikes. Our work has only just begun.”
The prosecution case rested on proving how the decision-makers at the highest level President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld, aided and abetted by the lawyers and the other commanders and CIA officials – all acted in concert. Torture was systematically applied and became an accepted norm.
According to the prosecution, the testimony of all the witnesses exposed a sustained perpetration of brutal, barbaric, cruel and dehumanising course of conduct against them.
These acts of crimes were applied cumulatively to inflict the worst possible pain and suffering, said lawyers.
The president of the tribunal Tan Sri Dato Lamin bin Haji Mohd Yunus Lamin, found that the prosecution had established beyond a “reasonable doubt that the accused persons, former President George Bush and his co-conspirators engaged in a web of instructions, memos, directives, legal advice and action that established a common plan and purpose, joint enterprise and/or conspiracy to commit the crimes of Torture and War Crimes, including and not limited to a common plan and purpose to commit the following crimes in relation to the “War on Terror” and the wars launched by the U.S. and others in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
President Lamin told a packed courtroom: “As a tribunal of conscience, the Tribunal is fully aware that its verdict is merely declaratory in nature. The tribunal has no power of enforcement, no power to impose any custodial sentence on any one or more of the 8 convicted persons. What we can do, under Article 31 of Chapter VI of Part 2 of the Charter is to recommend to the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission to submit this finding of conviction by the Tribunal, together with a record of these proceedings, to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council.
“The Tribunal also recommends to the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission that the names of all the 8 convicted persons be entered and included in the Commission’s Register of War Criminals and be publicised accordingly.
“The Tribunal recommends to the War Crimes Commission to give the widest international publicity to this conviction and grant of reparations, as these are universal crimes for which there is a responsibility upon nations to institute prosecutions if any of these Accused persons may enter their jurisdictions”.
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  1. Bush’s list of crimes is very long, but I don’t what’s worse: all that he did or supporting it to this day.

  2. This article is just terribly written. It represents itself as a journalistic report and as such it should hold itself up to some standard.
    To write in one of your opening paragraphs “tried in absentia in Malaysia” and not make clear that this wasn’t in any court of law is terrible reporting.
    The KLWCC is not recognized by any Malaysian court. This was a symbolic trial with no real legal implications for any of the accused.
    Ridley only uses the word “symbolic” in her 13th paragraph and prefaces it with the words “regarded by some”. That’s just shoddy journalism.
    As a Malaysian and a KLite who works in media, I just cannot believe how badly this article was written.
    I in no way shape or form side with the accused but come on, are the victories so small that “British journalist Yvonne Ridley (who) is the European President of the International Muslim Women’s Union as well as being a patron of Cageprisoners” has to do such a terrible job in representing the facts?
    You do not bury or distort the lead. You most certainly do not imply that an entire country has tried and convicted, in absentia, a former President of the United States. You need to note when a trial is a symbolic one and when it did not take place in any court of law.


    • Justice is justice without an official justice system. You don’t need an official justice system and court to find anyone guilty.
    • Chris Glowacki on June 2, 2012 at 9:44 am

      Hmmm… Media misrepresenting the facts? What an odd occurence, hope it doesn’t happen too often
  3. Judson Witham on May 20, 2012 at 3:22 am

    The actions of the United States to investigate and hunt down the Bastards that attacked NYC and Washington, DC and that were responsible for the many deaths on that horrid day was Fully and Absolutely supported by me. Then I saw the Invasion of Iraq and then the invasion of Afghanistan. Iraq and Afghanistan DID NOT as Nations have anything to do with 9/11. Bush’s preemptive war doctrine is called Naked Aggression and the tens of thousands of dead and 100s of thousands casualties that will live with their pain and scars for life. In the Cowboy Guns Ship reactionary zeal that Dubbya exhibited as they say in Texas He Crapped in his Hat. My Father was a US Navy Fighter Pilot in WW II and my Family has it’s fair share of Naval, Marine, Air Force and Combat Veterans. I am a Minister and I know this, The Court that tried this case reached the correct decision. How do I know, had any Country attacked the USA because outlaws or terrorists NOT under direct orders from our leaders that had done similar acts of Terror would have had no right to bomb any of our Cities and certainly not invaded the USA. I love my Country BUT I am not willing to lie for anyone that would refer to Shock and Awe in the bombing of any Nation that had NO WMD and was NOT responsible for 9/11. Murder is Murder and Unjust War is Unjust War. As a Man I need NO FORMAL training to be a Juror at a Murder Trial and as a Man I do NOT need anyone telling me I must Ignore the facts. The facts are very simple, Iraq’s people DID NOT ATTACK US either did Afghanistan’s People. Bush and Cheney are Guilty as this Court Has Found. In the Bible David with a sling and a stone vanquished a Giant Monster and David was Justified. The Court in this case as far as the facts reveal was Justified. Powell Knows as does Stormin Norman … There were NO WMD’s ask Wesley Clark see what He Says. God Saw the entire thing fellas and so did the rest of this World. The USA needs to remember God Does Not Bless Murders of innocent people NO MATTER WHAT Blindness they suffer from. I suggest a full and complete re-investigation by INDEPENDENT Examiners of the 9/11 Terror. If God is ever again to Bless The USA … The TRUTH will be the reason why. Two Wrongs have never made a single right and what Bush and Cheney and Company did was NOT the Right Thing.


    • I’d like to point out that no one has ever presented any better proof about the WTC and Pentagon attacks other than what would be good enough for a bad spy sitcom. So as for the “bastards” who did it we are left in a fog. We are to believe what Fox News says but it might be all a different story which we might learn many years from now after some documents will be declassified or probably rather never. Knowing a bit about the long history of US lies and propaganda I’m inclined to take any official statement with very long tweezers and rubber gloves.
    • Andrew Ross on June 1, 2012 at 7:17 am

      Have you ever watched loose change? The documentary covering 9/11 has enough evidence to make it clear to any educated individual that the story reported by the media was fabricated. 9/11 was most likely an inside job. Applying basic sciences such as chemistry and physics to the scenario eliminates almost entirely what they were reporting to be true. 9/11 was an inside job.

      Reference:  http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/05/12/bush-convicted-of-wa...
  4. Ehtesham Ali on May 26, 2012 at 8:13 am

    US bad relations with many countries & nations doesn’t mean that its people don’t want good relations with other countries but its the government policies which have caused a dis-rest in the world.

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George H. W. Bush
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War Crimes Conspiracy:Bush Sr. Killed More Than Jr  (continued)
    by JB CAMPBELL
War Crimes Conspiracy:Bush Sr. Killed More Than Jr

I had written something called "Executive Action," a chapter of my new book, and had sent it out to subscribers who wanted to get the thing hot off the presses.

The CIA assassin, Bo Gritz, got a hold of it and passed it to his colleagues in the FBI, who passed it along to the Secret Service. In the piece I went over Bush's role in the assassination of Jack Kennedy, just to show his CIA pedigree, and also his treachery against his Central American and Mesopotamian victims.

I wrote that this country-club commando had an extremely sinister side: He was a client of the Nebraska child-sex procurer Larry King, according to John DeCamp and Ted Gunderson, and he was the assassin known as "Icepick," according to Admiral Gunther Russbacher of the Office of Naval Intelligence and CIA, who was in a position to know.

The Secret Service didn't care for my attitude and the three amigos who came to my house said they would kill me if I were seen anywhere near their boss. I had been classified as a terrorist by the Secret Service and FBI during the summer of 1990. I was probably lucky to survive the visit. The SS doesn't operate under the same rules of engagement as do the regular police. They are truly licensed to kill, at their discretion. No questions asked. They just said they'd kill me if they saw me near Bush.

Bush sent Russbacher to prison around 1990 to keep him from talking about the October Surprise of 1980, in which Bush made a deal with the Iranian ayatollahs to hold on to their American hostages for a few extra months so that Jimmy Carter couldn't free them in time for the November election.

That was the birth of the Iran-Contra scandal in which Israel was given billions of dollars of military spare parts which they sold to the Iranians and gave some of their profits to Oliver North, who then set up the Mena, Arkansas operation to trade AK-47s for cocaine with the CIA mercenaries we knew as the Contras.

The Contras were "against" the people Jimmy Carter installed in Nicaragua the year before - the Sandinistas. Bill Clinton, then governor of Arkansas, ran "the Enterprise" for North and Bush until he got too greedy and it was shut down and temporarily run out of Guadalajara by North's agent, Terry Reed, who described the dirty details in his astonishing book, Compromised.

Oliver North, using his CIA name ("John Cathey") and Bill Clinton flooded American cities with cocaine, which Gary Webb tried to describe in his series in the San Jose Mercury News before he was murdered.

Russbacher approached me from federal prison around 1992. His boss, a higher-ranking admiral, gave him my book, The New American Man - A Call to Arms, which called for the violent overthrow of the US government. (I couldn't think of any other way to do it and I still can't.) They thought I might be useful as part of their Faction 2 group to take over from the Rockefeller/Bush gang they called Faction 1. They released certain sensitive information through my column in the National Educator newspaper.

Russbacher revealed to me that he was the pilot of a business jet who flew Bush and a dozen politicians of both parties to Paris in October, 1980 to meet with the Iranians to make the deal. And he flew Bush alone back to Washington DC in an SR-71 Blackbird at supersonic speeds that gave Bush the ability to deny that such a trip had ever occurred, with the help of corrupt, lying Secret Service agents faking his schedule that day. The hostages were held until his and Reagan's inauguration ceremony, as agreed in Paris.

After he became the acting president following the near-death of Reagan, Bush started helping Saddam's Iraq against the Iranians, which resulted in millions of deaths on both sides. This was a world-class war crime by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their Zionist managers.

No one in America knew that we were supplying the Iraqis against the Iranians until the USS Stark was attacked by Iraq in May, 1987 and thirty-seven US sailors killed. George Schultz assured us that it was a mistake because we were in fact supplying Iraq in its war against Iran. Fourteen months later, the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian airliner and slaughtered two hundred ninety Iranian passengers. This was a notable war crime. What made it more notable was the aftermathS

In 1990, after an official enquiry, the captain of the Vincennes was awarded by President George H. W. Bush the Legion of Merit for "exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of an outstanding service." Al Capone couldn't have put it better!

One of Bush's first independent actions as president was his 1989 invasion of Panama and the kidnapping and silencing of his cocaine stooge, Manuel Noriega. This is where we saw the secret mass graves of approximately six thousand Panamanian civilians, dug by US army bulldozers and shown on CBS's 60 Minutes one Sunday evening in 1990. The next week, CBS apologized for showing that and said it never really happened.

This was a major war crime and cover-up by the Zionist media/ government combination.

I think it was around this time that the US press lost its guts in the realization that the Bush gang was a bunch of stone killers.

Right after Desert Storm, Bush nearly got killed by the Israelis. He always gave Israel about 99% of what it wanted, including 10 billion dollars in "loan guarantees" for allowing America to wipe out its Iraqi enemy in 1991.

But when Bush and Baker told Israel to back off on the "settlements," and threatened to delay the loan guarantees, the Mossad decided to assassinate Bush, according to Victor Ostrovsky, who wrote about the plot in his second book, "The Other Side of Deception."

Ostrovsky himself warned the Secret Service that Bush would be killed in Spain at the G-8 conference. They believed him, since Ostrovsky was a career Mossad officer. The loan guarantees, obviously, were given to Israel after that.

Bush was a conflicted guy whose voice was a combination of John Wayne and Liberace. Russbacher told me that the bisexual Bush started out after Yale as an assassin for the CIA, and liked to use an icepick on his victims.

Russbacher was also an assassin for the ONI and CIA and the son of a founder of CIA, and was thus in a position to know his colleagues and their resumes.

Bush came from the Yale sex and power club known as the Brotherhood of Death, or Skull & Bones. His penchant for killing became apparent to us all in 1991, less than a year after he bragged on television about the New World Order (on September 11, 1990). His version of it began with the illegal invasion of Iraq and the subsequent mass murders of over a million souls on behalf of the Zionist entity and his own powerbase, Big Oil. Bush was himself a one-third partner in Pennzoil and as that an owner of Getty Oil and Texaco.

As I wrote in Jewish Rule, our criminal invasion and occupation of Iraq is for the purpose of keeping Iraqi oil in the ground, and out of the gas tanks of consumers, where it would lower the price of fuel due to its fabulous abundance. Proven Iraqi reserves place it in the Top Five, along with Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela and Gulf States.

That's the admitted Top Five. There are other Top Fives that are kept secret and include the Beaufort Sea, Colorado, MacKenzie River and the Falkland Islands. Fact is, there's just too much oil and something has to be done to keep it in the ground.

The first place to do that is Iraq. To add to Big Oil's problems, a Florida man has recently patented a device that alters water molecules slightly for use as a clean and virtually free replacement for gasoline as fuel. He has prudently withdrawn his brilliant invention from the market for a few years.

Anyway, the subject is War Crimes, which are the most serious of all crimes as they include murder, rape, torture, kidnapping and general aggression and lying. The murder is mass murder and this cannot be overemphasized. Our government employees are mass murderers and they do it in our name.

Some Americans still justify the nuclear bombing of Japanese civilians by citing the brutal behavior of their soldiers, sailors and airmen, all of which was uncontrollable by the civilians. Many Americans still insist that collective punishment in the form of evaporation for most and agonizing slow death for some was proper. But because the women and children and old men of Hiroshima and Nagasaki didn't disarm the Japanese army, they deserved to be incinerated.

I disagree. I believe that only the guilty should be punished. And the punishment should fit the crime. But by the prevailing standard in this country, we are all due for collective punishment for sponsoring and supporting our warlords of Washington.

George W. Bush is a certified war criminal. He's a chip off the old block. When I say "Bush," of course I refer to the whole organized crime syndicate under - and over - him.

Every single person in the Bush Administration is subject to prosecution for war crimes and this is demonstrated by the actions of the sinister little character known as Alberto R. Gonzales, our 80th Attorney General, when he warned Bush of their exposure and then went to GOP lawmakers seeking an exemption from the War Crimes Act of 1996. Gonzales is a Harvard Law School graduate and he knows how to read a statute. It is easy to see why he is worried:

"The War Crimes Act of 1996 was passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by President Clinton. The law defines a war crime as a violation or grave breach of any of the Geneva Conventions. The law applies if either the victim or the perpetrator is a national of the United States or a member of the US armed forces. The penalty may be life imprisonment or death. The death penalty is only invoked if the conduct resulted in the death of one or more victims." (Wikipedia)
 
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Gonzales is the one who advised Bush to ignore the Geneva Conventions with regard to kidnap, torture and murder of Moslems. He's the one who called those protections "quaint." He recommended the building and staffing and use of offshore torture centers in Cuba, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan and throughout Europe. They're all modeled on the Israeli torture centers.

Alberto Gonzales represents a dangerous specimen of humanity - the highly educated professional who sells his skills to rich and greedy murderers such as George W. Bush, Richard Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.

Now, this might not affect the Bush crime syndicate as long as he remains in office, but it could. These Bush hoodlums are all subject to the death penalty, according to the War Crimes Act of 1996, because their conduct has resulted in the deaths of thousands and thousands of victims. They waged aggressive war, something so heinous that our own government made it a hanging offense right when they declared it illegal.

And our government hanged a bunch of people who hadn't known about the law, because it wasn't against the law when they went to war (to defend themselves from us). We call that an ex post facto law, and at the time of the kangaroo court in Nuremberg, such a law was illegal for the US to enforce. But that was then and this is now. Now, everyone knows that if you wage aggressive war you can be hanged as a war criminal.

That's why we've got Saddam in that kangaroo courthouse in Baghdad - for waging aggressive war against the Kurds. It's the most serious crime with hanging as the expected punishment. Knowing well how the Germans were abused at Nuremberg, Saddam has asked to be shot rather than hanged.

Gonzales knew all this and he warned Bush that taking the US to war in Iraq under false pretenses was going to be judged as a war crime and that they all could be arrested, tried and hanged as war criminals. And he went to the Republican Party leadership and begged for some kind of exemption for them all. Maybe he got it, but I don't know how.

But let's say he got it. Let's say that Senator Bill Frist and Senator Pat Roberts and the GOP warlords somehow stymie a special prosecutor that the Democrats might appoint if the elections go sour. Or that the Democrats lose their nerve and let the war criminals off, since most of them voted for the war crimes to take place, although they now claim ignorance. The question is, what are we going to do about it? Let the politicians handle it?

Keep on voting?

I say no. No more voting.

No more Elephant and Donkey puppet shows. See where voting has got us?

Voting has got us into the slaughterhouse.

Next stop: the poorhouse. Voting is for cowards. Voting is weak people hiring strong people to boss them around and steal their money and make all their decisions for them.

Voting is for cowardly fools who will not take responsibility for their own lives. And that's ignoring the subject of vote fraud and our rigged elections. Even if the vote was honest, and it's not, it's still a cowardly practice.

How do we regain our honor and dignity now that we know that we are led by sadistic war criminals who have ordered the torture, rape and murder of thousands upon thousands of harmless and friendly people?

War criminals whose only hope to escape the hangman is more corruption by lawmakers and police and prosecutors and judges, most of whom are corrupt Freemasons?

Voting is the trademark of Democracy, right? So, what is Democracy? I'll tell you.

Democracy is what we could call Jewish rules of conduct. Last month I wrote something called Jewish Rule. It was a warning of the horrors involved in allowing Jews to rule a society, as they ruled Russia after 1917, all of East Europe after 1945 and Palestine since 1948. By Jewish Rule I referred to Communism and Zionism.

Democracy, however, is a transition stage from liberty to Communism in which Jews make the rules of society by controlling the currency and credit and virtually all media of communication, thereby keeping public criticism within bounds acceptable to Jewish censors, and they censor everything.

Practically every special interest group in America has a Jew in it who tries to control the group's actions and policies. No group is exempt, not even the Toy Train Collectors' Association, for example, or the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association or your homeowners' association.

Certainly no group devoted to anything remotely connected with politics does not have a Jew in it who gravitates to a position of power very quickly and makes his or her position even more powerful.

Nowadays, all these Jews are Zionists who demand support for Israel, or prohibit criticism of Israel.

Israel is called "the only democracy in the Middle East." This is true, because "democracy" now means Rule by Jews, or at least Jewish rules of conduct. It doesn't mean majority rule, it means minority rule.

Our craven politicians vie for the crucial "Jewish vote," even though it represents only 2% of the population. Notice that in Israel, the Semitic majority does not have a political voice at voting time. The Semitic majority doesn't get to vote in that democracy. They can't even vote in their own Palestinian elections the way they want, as we see in the case of Hamas being voted into power by a landslide in the little sliver of land that is still called Palestine. Israel simply nullified the election and started arresting and murdering the newly-elected representatives. Now, that is pure Democracy!

It has just been revealed that the Bush crime syndicate is behind the invasion of Lebanon by the inept Israeli killers and that the invasion has been in the works for over two years as a run-up to an invasion by joint US/Israeli aggressors against Iran and Syria. Bush's neo-con geniuses figured it would be another cakewalk, as they figured the invasion of Iraq would be a cakewalk.

As this is written, Israel is begging for some kind of international force to replace its battered killers in south Lebanon. America can't do it, due to its little misadventure in Iraq. How these Zionist planners figure to take over Syria and Iran, even after they nuke them, is beyond this cowboy's imagination.

Have you heard talk radio lately, since the invasion of Lebanon by Israel? It is like something out of a William Pierce novel. All the hosts I've heard in the past month, Jew and Gentile alike, are united in their snarling support of Israel's "right to defend itself." They are also united in their desire that Syria and Iran be attacked with nuclear weapons.

In other words, they are all war criminals. We hanged a man at Nuremberg named Julius Streicher because he had a tabloid in the early days of the NS period that was critical of Jews.

He was no more a part of the Hitler government that Sean Hannity is of the Bush government, but he was hanged in the most sadistic fashion by a Jewish hangman. It is something that I have warned Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh about, because they have exhorted Americans and the American government to wage aggressive war against the enemies of Israel on behalf of Israel and as such they are subject to arrest, prosecution and hanging as war criminals.

They've done far worse than Julius Streicher ever did. All Streicher did was tell the truth about Jews, and print political caricatures of them. Hannity, Doyle, Coulter, Limbaugh, the Savage Wiener, O'Reilly and the rest are paid liars who owe their stinking careers to the Zionists at Fox, Clear Channel and the Anti-Defamation League.

Their favorite new buzz-word is "Islamo-fascist," which Bush copped from the Savage Wiener.

Now, "fascist" is a real word with an actual definition. But that's not how Jews and their useful idiots use it.

For example, thirty years ago, Clint Eastwood's script-reader, a Jewess named Sonia Chernus, told me that my first screenplay was "fascist." It was about my anti-terror work in Rhodesia which by its nature was anti-Communist. Jews hate anti-Communists because to them it is the same as anti-Jewish.

So, while the average Birch anti-Communist didn't know it, the Jews knew that he was anti-Jewish and their dirty word for that is "fascist." It is the next step up from "anti-Semitic," which can lose you your job. "Fascist" can get your house burned, depending how active you are, and "amalek" can get you arrested and killed. This is because the Amalek not only didn't like Jews, they didn't like the Jewish god.

I personally want to see them all hanged. I want to be the hangman of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and all the Zionist liars on radio and television who have helped to get so many people killed. The damage they have done is really beyond calculation. I realize that there a lots of guys such as myself, but I want to be the first to put it on the record.

The other night the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, gave a masterful interview to CBS Television. The next day and ever since, the Zionist gasbags have been united in their condemnation not only of Ahmadinejad but of Mike Wallace, the old Zionist who interviewed him, mainly because Wallace was half-way polite, in his own obnoxious way. "Answer the question!" [about the president's demand that Israel disappear] Ahmadinejad finally asked him, "Are you the representative of the Zionist regime? Or a journalist?" Wallace answered, "I am a journalist. I am a journalist."

Sure.

The point is that our government is apparently planning to wage nuclear warfare against Iran and possibly Syria while Bush is still president. The Zionists know that the Democrats may win next time and that they won't be as easy to manipulate.

The Zionists are desperate to seize the entire Middle East NOW. They blew their best chance in 1967 when they failed to sink the USS Liberty and blame it on the Egyptians. That one would have worked because many people admired Israel then. This current one is a messy failure that no one is buying because Israel has been revealed as a tiny nation of liars, psychopaths and pirates. They may never have the opportunity again in their lifetimes to steal the entire Middle East and call it Eretz Israel. So they're going for it now. They want to control all the oil.

So we must make it clear to the war criminals that we shall punish them. We must punish them or we are not men. All those who have committed war crimes in our name must be punished in ways that match their crimes.


This is the only way that America can be saved. There must be public executions of all the men and women who took us to war based on lies, who ordered the slaughter and torture and kidnap of totally innocent people who offered not the slightest threat to our precious American way of life.

The sadists of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay must be punished for crimes against humanity.

The bomber pilots must be punished, the infantrymen who destroyed homes and slaughtered the people, the ones who launched the cruise missiles from ships at sea.

All of them.

Our government already established at Nuremberg that "just following orders" is no excuse when it comes to war crimes and crimes against humanity, which are one and the same thing.

These people must all be hanged, which is the accepted and traditional American punishment for capital crimes and especially for war crimes.

They have already committed the crimes that call for their hanging, so they feel they have nothing to lose by nuking Iran and Syria for their Israeli masters. How the nuking of Iran and Syria would be good for the Jews is another question that we can't examine here because of its mind-numbing insanity.

We are up against a combination of cunning, greed and insanity that is hard to describe, let alone argue with. It can only be exterminated, as we do with dangerous or filthy insects and vermin in our homes. And when we're dealing with rats and cockroaches, we don't take any of them prisoner.

If we don't hang our war criminals then we are subject to collective punishment by our victims down the road. This is obvious, because that's what we have done to everyone else. We must show the rest of the world that we are responsible for our leaders' crimes. We must take total responsibility for the direction of this country before our war criminals destroy the Middle East and probably Europe.

This is the only way we can avoid being destroyed ourselves by those who must do something in self-defense. The Iranians know that Bush and Olmert are contemplating their nuclear annihilation. They therefore are justified right now to attack us anyway they can. That is the law of survival and everyone is entitled to defend himself. Everyone has the right to survive, except aggressors. Aggressors deserve to die. Traitors must die because their treachery puts all countrymen in deadly danger. It is the law of survival.

As this is written, while we have thousands of soldiers defending South Korea's border, thousands more defending Israel's borders, Bush has smeared the defenders of the Mexican border as "vigilantes." Bush really hates those guys. They've shown what a rat-fink he is, especially when he gave their locations to the Mexican government so the wetbacks could be diverted around the Minutemen. Remember that?

That has to qualify as a text-book example of Treason, for Mexico is waging war against us, sending illegal invaders day and night, with the aid and support of George W. Bush.

The question is probably being asked: How can our war criminals be punished if we get yet another sell-out special prosecutor such as Ken Starr or this useless Fitzgerald, who talked so tough about Karl Rove and then faded? That's the point of this essay, which is that war criminals must be hanged. It doesn't matter anymore if the government won't protect us from war criminals. We'll do it ourselves, since we pay the bills.

War criminals may be above the law of the American Bar Association but they are not above the law of frontier justice, the dreaded law of the vigilante or the law of our survival.

To survive as Americans, to demonstrate our responsibility to the rest of the world and to take charge of this shipwreck before it sinks into the murky depths, we must take the law into our own hands. All war criminals must be captured, tried in a manner that reveals the true nature of their crimes and hanged by the neck until they are dead. From this time forward, there is an open season on war criminals. If we don't do this then it shows the world that we endorse the war criminals. And payback will be a bitch because these guys have made some very bad karma for us.

The reasons for this should be obvious. However, these same war criminals are the ones who have designed the North American Union, scheduled to take effect in 2010.

This will be a martial law style of dictatorship over us, run by the ubiquitous criminals of the Council on Foreign Relations, located at 58 E. 68th Street in Manhattan in the building known as Harold Pratt House. This building is the de facto seat of government of the United States, soon to be known as the Central District of the North American Union.

This building, for symbolic reasons, should be reduced to ashes and rubble at our earliest possible convenience. It houses the world's most dreadful war criminals who have been and are now responsible for the untimely and terror-filled deaths of millions of people around the world since 1914.

Their little private ministry of war wasn't officially formed until 1921, but the same war criminals seized power in Wilson's administration and started World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution. The CFR was just their method to guarantee continuity and control of the staffing of the State Department and the White House under all presidents after Wilson, most of whom were also CFR members.

The Council on Foreign Relations is the Rothschild central control of our country and it reportedly has a membership that is 70% Jewish, which is pretty good for a group that has only 2% of our population.

The various agencies of the gangster state of Israel must be similarly disposed of. No more Jewish rules of conduct, and no Jewish Rule under the North American Union.

Do we want to be the laughingstock of the world? I should say, do we want to continue to be the laughingstock of the world? To be big, tough Americans who let a bunch of creepy Jews run us like cattle? Right now, they're the cowboys and we're the cows. They make us commit war crimes against their enemies. They make us as hated as they are because the two governments are in lock-step.

The issue now is War Crimes. Some of us require a just cause to take the law into our own hands (where it truly belongs). That just cause is War Crimes, whether or not we need a just cause. War Crimes give us the power we need to seize control of our lives.

We can never be real men until we accept total responsibility for our government's crimes. Our government cannot be changed or turned into a positive force - it can only be dismantled and outlawed and prohibited from ever forming again. Government can only destroy us, never help us.

Study the Masonic US Constitution and try to find any way that the American government was designed to do something good. It was only designed to keep the powerful men in power. It took the Bill of Rights to protect us from the Constitution.

Most people don't understand this basic fact, that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are in mortal opposition. And now the Bill of Rights is technically dead, thanks to Bush's so-called PATRIOT Act, which has been declared "Constitutional" by the Gang of Nine, by the simple fact that it has not been declared "un-Constitutional."

Almost all crimes committed by the government have been declared "Constitutional" by the Supreme Court.

Where is the "check and balance" on the Masonic Supreme Court, if it should, say, appoint a demented war criminal as the President of the United States, even though he didn't get enough votes? Because that's exactly what happened six years ago.

This government must be dismantled and the war criminals removed from society before they kill us all.

This essay may have shocked some readers. It is high-time to face reality and the reality is that the US government is the main enemy of mankind. Its little puppet state, Israel, is the American "force projection" against the oil-producing countries of the Middle East.

Whether America controls Israel or vice-versa doesn't matter. What matters is that the combination of the American government and Israel is the malignant tumor that will kill this world if it is not taken apart and crushed, piece by piece.

J Bruce Campbell's email: jb_campbell@yahoo.com

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Lyndon B. Johnson
36th President of the United States
In office
November 22, 1963 – January 20, 1969
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Hubert Humphrey (1965–1969)
Preceded byJohn F. Kennedy
Succeeded byRichard Nixon
37th Vice President of the United States
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January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963
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Preceded byRichard Nixon
Succeeded byHubert Humphrey
Senate Majority Leader
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January 3, 1955 – January 3, 1961
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Mike Mansfield
Preceded byWilliam F. Knowland
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January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1955
DeputyEarle Clements
Preceded byStyles Bridges
Succeeded byWilliam F. Knowland
Senate Majority Whip
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LeaderErnest McFarland
Preceded byFrancis J. Myers
Succeeded byLeverett Saltonstall
United States Senator
from Texas
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January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1961
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Succeeded byWilliam A. Blakley
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Texas's 10th district
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April 10, 1937 – January 3, 1949
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Succeeded byHomer Thornberry
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BornLyndon Baines Johnson
August 27, 1908
Stonewall, Texas, U.S.
DiedJanuary 22, 1973 (aged 64)
Stonewall, Texas, U.S.
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Stonewall, Texas
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Spouse(s)Lady Bird Taylor
ChildrenLynda
Luci
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39th President of the United States
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Vice PresidentWalter Mondale
Preceded byGerald Ford
Succeeded byRonald Reagan
76th Governor of Georgia
In office
January 12, 1971 – January 14, 1975
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Known as the AUMF and considered the piece of legislation most responsible for the ongoing and seemingly endless use of military force abroad, new reporting by the Washington Post examines how even government insiders supportive of the ongoing military operations say the law is being "stretched to its legal limits." Motivated by those concerns—and perhaps due to the mounting public and congressional opposition to Obama's use of predator drones and claims of executive authority—the administration is now debating how to "turn counterterrorism policies adopted as emergency measures after the 2001 attacks into more permanent procedures" that can sustain its desire to continue the military "campaign against al-Qaeda and its affiliates" and, as the Post vaguely reports, "other current and future threats." Despite the passage of time and an increasingly war-weary public, however, the 'War on Terror' endures precisely because of the open-ended nature of the hastily written law. As the Post explains: [The [AUMF] placed no geographic limits on that power but did not envision a drawn-out conflict that would eventually encompass groups with no ties to the Sept. 11 strikes. Instead, it authorized the president to take action “against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks.” The authorization makes no mention of “associated forces,” a term that emerged only in subsequent interpretations of the text. But even that elastic phrase has become increasingly difficult to employ.] According to the Post: [The authorization law has already been expanded by federal courts beyond its original scope to apply to “associated forces” of al-Qaeda. But officials said legal advisers at the White House, the State Department, the Pentagon and intelligence agencies are now weighing whether the law can be stretched to cover what one former official called “associates of associates.” The debate has been driven by the emergence of groups in North Africa and the Middle East that may embrace aspects of al-Qaeda’s agenda but have no meaningful ties to its crumbling leadership base in Pakistan. Among them are the al-Nusra Front in Syria and Ansar al-Sharia, which was linked to the September attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. They could be exposed to drone strikes and kill-or-capture missions involving U.S. troops.] And, as Glenn Greenwald wrote recently: [The polices adopted by the Obama administration just over the last couple of years leave no doubt that they are accelerating, not winding down, the war apparatus that has been relentlessly strengthened over the last decade. In the name of the War on Terror, the current president has diluted decades-old Miranda warnings; codified a new scheme of indefinite detention on US soil; plotted to relocate Guantanamo to Illinois; increased secrecy, repression and release-restrictions at the camp; minted a new theory of presidential assassination powers even for US citizens; renewed the Bush/Cheney warrantless eavesdropping framework for another five years, as well as the Patriot Act, without a single reform; and just signed into law all new restrictions on the release of indefinitely held detainees. Does that sound to you like a government anticipating the end of the War on Terror any time soon? Or does it sound like one working feverishly to make their terrorism-justified powers of detention, surveillance, killing and secrecy permanent? About all of this, the ACLU's Executive Director, Anthony Romero, provided the answer on Thursday: "President Obama has utterly failed the first test of his second term, even before inauguration day. His signature means indefinite detention without charge or trial, as well as the illegal military commissions, will be extended."] Put in the context of a new US drone base being built in the west African nation of Niger and a recent declaration by US Attorney General Holder that the president could, in theory, target US citizens suspected of terrorist activity for extrajudicial killing, the US faces a scenario in which "permanent" policies would dramatically alter long-held understandings of civil liberties, international law and constitutional authority." http://tinyurl.com/ambdtnr "1899, Philippines: Through the Treaty of Paris (1898), Spain gives control of the Philippines to the United States for $20 million. The Filipino-American War begins shortly after. Known in U.S. history books as the "Philippine Insurrection", it was America's first true overseas war, lasting from 1898 to 1902. In those 3 years, as many as 70,000 Americans die, along with close to 2 million Filipinos. 1914, Mexico: Mexican officials detain several drunken U.S. Marines from the U.S.S. Dolphin, which is docked in the port of Tampico, Mexico, after they accidentally enter a restricted area. The Mexican government quickly releases them, and issues an apology. Regardless of the regret expressed by Mexican President Victor Huerta, U.S. Admiral Henry T. Mayo demands that Mexican troops salute an American flag as a sign of contrition. President Huerta refuses the salute; three days later, President Wilson orders American warships to Tampico Bay. Wilson insists that his anger is not directed at the Mexican people, but at Huerta, "and those who adhere to him" because he refused to salute the American flag as an official apology. By the end of 1914, U.S. Marines had seized Tampico, forced an apology from Huerta, and demanded his resignation from power. Tampico, Mexico was considered the world's largest oil port in 1901. Some of the richest oil fields were discovered within a 100-mile radius of the port between 1914-1918. 1914, Europe: United States claims to be neutral as Germany, France, and Britain engage in conflict; however, U.S. banks and weapons manufacturers continue selling to France and Britain, leading to the German sinking of the ship, Lusitania, and eventual U.S. entry to World War 1. 1945, Japan: The United States becomes the first country to use atomic weapons in warfare, killing thousands of Japanese civilians in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Concluded the United States Strategic Bombing Survey of 1946, "air supremacy over Japan could have exerted sufficient pressure to bring about unconditional surrender and obviate the need for invasion. Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that ... Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated." 1950, Korea: Without the approval of Congress, President Harry Truman sends troops to fight in Korea, asserting an inherent right to do so as Commander-in-Chief. The Korean War ends three years later, leaving behind 33,600 American casualties, 16,000 UN-allied, 415,000 South Korean, 520,000 North Korean, and an estimated 900,000 Chinese. 1953, Iran: British intelligence agencies join with the C.I.A. to overthrow the Iranian government out of fears it will nationalize oil production. 1954, Guatemala: Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, the democratically-elected President of Guatemala, issues land reforms which threaten the interests of U.S.-based United Fruit Company. C.I.A. Director Allen Dules, along with his brother, both have stakes in the company. It heavily lobbies the U.S. government to take action. Shortly after, the C.I.A. begins training rebels, and sets up a radio station across the border led by fake rebels to instigate a revolution. Eventually, the Guatemalan President is sent into exile. 1961, Iraq: Abdel Karim Kassem, leader of Iraq, threatens western oil interests, causing the U.S. and Britain to begin arming Kurdish rebels in the country. In 1963, Kassem is forced out of power, put on trial, and eventually shot to death. By 1968, Saddam Hussein takes power in the country, backed by the C.I.A. 1964, Vietnam: The USS Maddox is gathering intelligence off the coast of North Vietnam when a group of North Vietnamese torpedo boats approach the ship. The Maddox opens fire, the North Vietnamese respond with torpedoes, but they are eventually driven away. The exchange prompts the US government and news media to report that North Vietnamese torpedo boats launched an "unprovoked attack" against the Maddox while it was on a "routine patrol". Two days later, Captain John J. Herrick of the USS Maddox sees two "mysterious dots" on his radar screen, determines they are torpedo boats, and sends an emergency cable to headquarters in Honolulu reporting that the ship is under attack. Shortly after, Herrick sends another cable: "Freak weather effects on radar and over eager sonar men ... No actual visual sightings by Maddox. Suggest complete evaluation before any further action taken." Less than an hour later, Herrick sends a third cable, saying he is now uncertain of what had happened; however, by this time, President Johnson is already announcing a major military escalation in Vietnam. By the end of the Vietnam War, millions of Vietnamese civilians have perished, along with more than 50,000 U.S. soldiers. 1970, Cambodia: President Richard Nixon announces that U.S. troops are invading Cambodia, the country west of Vietnam through which the North Vietnamese are allegedly supplying their troops. For more than a year prior to the announcement, the U.S. had been conducting bombing raids in the country. 1982, Iraq: U.S. backs Iraq against Iran, supplying Saddam Hussein with intelligence, diplomatic aid, and chemical weapons (which would later be used to massacre innocent people). 1990, Iraq: In August, U.S. fighter jets, aircraft carriers, battleships, and half a million American troops are deployed to Saudi Arabia to defend against a possible attack from Iraq. Between its own oil fields, and those of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, western governments allegedly fear Iraq could gain control over the majority of the world's oil reserves. Dick Cheney secures the U.S.-Saudi occupation agreement, ensuring there will be no set withdrawal date from Saudi Arabia, thereby allowing U.S. forces to remain. In 1989, it was revealed in a leaked memo that C.I.A. officials were collaborating with Kuwaiti officials in an effort to take advantage of the "deteriorating" economic situation in Iraq. Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein eventually annexes Kuwait, triggering the first Iraq War. Kuwait had been part of the Ottoman Empire province of Basra, and included much of modern-day Iraq. Up until that point, Iraq had not recognized Kuwait's sovereignty, and the border between Iraq and Kuwait had never been clearly defined. The US ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, claims that when she gave Iraq indications that the US would not oppose an invasion of Kuwait, she did not expect Iraq to take "all of Kuwait". 1999, Yugoslavia: U.S.-NATO bombs drop over the country allegedly to prevent a "massacre", though this claim is challenged. More than 2,000 civilians are killed. There are indications that basic infrastructure is deliberately targeted during this campaign. For example, a statement by Lt. Gen. Michael Short, US Air Force, quoted in the Washington Post, May 1999, reads: "If you wake up in the morning and you have no power to your house and no gas to your stove and the bridge you take to work is down and will be lying in the Danube for the next 20 years, I think you begin to ask, ‘Hey, Slobo, what’s this all about? How much more of this do we have to withstand?’ And at some point, you make the transition from applauding Serb machismo against the world to thinking what your country is going to look like if this continues."" http://tinyurl.com/76tquaz October 7, 2001: The United States begins bombing Afghanistan. Estimates suggest that nearly 8,000 civilians will be slaughtered by U.S. attacks during the first year of the invasion (for some perspective, that's a casualty rate which is three times higher than the 9/11 attacks [3,000 deaths] in less than a year's time). October 26, 2001: The Patriot Act is signed by George W. Bush, laying the foundation for "a domestic intelligence-gathering system of unprecedented scale and technological prowess", according to The Washington Post. Warned the United States Commission on Civil Rights, the Patriot Act "risks establishing a new generation of racial profiling in which a person’s ethnicity or national origin significantly increases his or her chance of being scrutinized by local law enforcement or detained at an airport". March 19, 2003: 250,000 U.S. forces augmented by 45,000 British troops and small contingents from Poland, Australia, and Denmark begin attacking Iraq. The invasion ultimately results in 3,000 U.S. military deaths, and, according to Wikileaks, more than 50,000 Iraqi civilian deaths. October 2007: U.S. General Wesley Clark gives a speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco in which he denounces what he calls "a policy coup" engineered by neocons. Clark says that after 9/11 he was told about a Pentagon plan to attack not only Iraq, but also Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran, over the course of five years. February 2009: President Barack Obama, in his first major military decision, authorizes the Pentagon to send an extra 17,000 troops to Afghanistan. This "surge" is supported by Bush-era neocons Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan, and Dan Senor. December 17, 2009: U.S. cruise missiles are fired at what officials in Washington claim are al-Qaeda training camps in Yemen, killing over 60 civilians, 28 of them children. February 2010: Obama accelerates the Bush-era aerial drone program. An exposé in the New York Times reveals that the Obama Administration considers "all military-age males [killed] in a strike zone" to be "combatants ... unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent." Summer 2010: The Obama Administration launches a wave of cyber attacks against Iranian nuclear facilities, attacks which are by the Pentagon's own definition an act of warfare. August 2010: A U.S. drone in Pakistan kills 20 people, "with at least four women and three children among the slain". At least 13 other civilians are also reported wounded, including a number of other children. March 2011: The U.S. participates in the bombing of Libya to overthrow Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, slaughtering dozens of civilians in the process. May 2011: Just hours before the announcement that Osama Bin Laden had been killed in Pakistan, Saif al-Arab, 29, and three of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's grandchildren, all reported to be under 12, are butchered by NATO/U.S. bombs in Libya. October 2011: Two U.S. citizens are executed without trial by U.S. drones in Yemen: one is Anwar al-Awlaki, allegedly linked with al-Qaeda; the other U.S. citizen is Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, the 16-year-old son of Anwar. Also in October: Obama will deploy U.S. forces to oil-rich Uganda. On August 30, 2012, Obama deploys U.S. Marines to Guatemala to "help fight the drug war". September 14, 2012: Obama announces the deployment of U.S. troops to both Libya and Yemen. September 25, 2012: According to the New York Times, a unit of U.S. Army Special Operations soldiers are deployed to Iraq and more U.S. soldiers may soon be on their way. October 9, 2012: The U.S. sends a "task force" of more than 150 "planners and other specialists" to Jordan. http://tinyurl.com/8far9qm
    ‎"Few things better illustrate the utter meaninglessness of the word Terrorism than applying it to a citizen of an invaded country for fighting back against the invading army and aiming at purely military targets. To the extent the word means anything operationally, it is: he who effectively opposes the will of the U.S. and its allies.

    This topic is so vital because this meaningless, definition-free word — Terrorism — drives so many of our political debates and policies. Virtually every debate in which I ever participate quickly and prominently includes defenders of government policy invoking the word as some sort of debate-ending, magical elixir: of course President Obama has to assassinate U.S. citizens without due process: they’re Terrorists; of course we have to stay in Afghanistan: we have to stop The Terrorists; President Obama is not only right to kill people (including civilians) using drones, but is justified in boasting and even joking about it, because they’re Terrorists; of course some people should be held in prison without charges: they’re Terrorists, etc. etc. It’s a word that simultaneously means nothing and justifies everything."

    http://tinyurl.com/75zsobj

    "Though the Authorization for Use of Military Force—a joint resolution passed in the days following the 9/11 attacks—has been repeatedly reauthorized by Congress, officials inside the White House reveal that the Obama administration is having specific conversations about how to both expand the law's authority and make certain aspects of the US "global war on terror" permanent.

    Known as the AUMF and considered the piece of legislation most responsible for the ongoing and seemingly endless use of military force abroad, new reporting by the Washington Post examines how even government insiders supportive of the ongoing military operations say the law is being "stretched to its legal limits."

    Motivated by those concerns—and perhaps due to the mounting public and congressional opposition to Obama's use of predator drones and claims of executive authority—the administration is now debating how to "turn counterterrorism policies adopted as emergency measures after the 2001 attacks into more permanent procedures" that can sustain its desire to continue the military "campaign against al-Qaeda and its affiliates" and, as the Post vaguely reports, "other current and future threats."

    Despite the passage of time and an increasingly war-weary public, however, the 'War on Terror' endures precisely because of the open-ended nature of the hastily written law. As the Post explains:

    [The [AUMF] placed no geographic limits on that power but did not envision a drawn-out conflict that would eventually encompass groups with no ties to the Sept. 11 strikes. Instead, it authorized the president to take action “against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks.”

    The authorization makes no mention of “associated forces,” a term that emerged only in subsequent interpretations of the text. But even that elastic phrase has become increasingly difficult to employ.]

    According to the Post:

    [The authorization law has already been expanded by federal courts beyond its original scope to apply to “associated forces” of al-Qaeda. But officials said legal advisers at the White House, the State Department, the Pentagon and intelligence agencies are now weighing whether the law can be stretched to cover what one former official called “associates of associates.”

    The debate has been driven by the emergence of groups in North Africa and the Middle East that may embrace aspects of al-Qaeda’s agenda but have no meaningful ties to its crumbling leadership base in Pakistan. Among them are the al-Nusra Front in Syria and Ansar al-Sharia, which was linked to the September attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. They could be exposed to drone strikes and kill-or-capture missions involving U.S. troops.]

    And, as Glenn Greenwald wrote recently:

    [The polices adopted by the Obama administration just over the last couple of years leave no doubt that they are accelerating, not winding down, the war apparatus that has been relentlessly strengthened over the last decade. In the name of the War on Terror, the current president has diluted decades-old Miranda warnings; codified a new scheme of indefinite detention on US soil; plotted to relocate Guantanamo to Illinois; increased secrecy, repression and release-restrictions at the camp; minted a new theory of presidential assassination powers even for US citizens; renewed the Bush/Cheney warrantless eavesdropping framework for another five years, as well as the Patriot Act, without a single reform; and just signed into law all new restrictions on the release of indefinitely held detainees.

    Does that sound to you like a government anticipating the end of the War on Terror any time soon? Or does it sound like one working feverishly to make their terrorism-justified powers of detention, surveillance, killing and secrecy permanent? About all of this, the ACLU's Executive Director, Anthony Romero, provided the answer on Thursday: "President Obama has utterly failed the first test of his second term, even before inauguration day. His signature means indefinite detention without charge or trial, as well as the illegal military commissions, will be extended."]

    Put in the context of a new US drone base being built in the west African nation of Niger and a recent declaration by US Attorney General Holder that the president could, in theory, target US citizens suspected of terrorist activity for extrajudicial killing, the US faces a scenario in which "permanent" policies would dramatically alter long-held understandings of civil liberties, international law and constitutional authority."

    http://tinyurl.com/ambdtnr

    "1899, Philippines: Through the Treaty of Paris (1898), Spain gives control of the Philippines to the United States for $20 million. The Filipino-American War begins shortly after. Known in U.S. history books as the "Philippine Insurrection", it was America's first true overseas war, lasting from 1898 to 1902. In those 3 years, as many as 70,000 Americans die, along with close to 2 million Filipinos.

    1914, Mexico: Mexican officials detain several drunken U.S. Marines from the U.S.S. Dolphin, which is docked in the port of Tampico, Mexico, after they accidentally enter a restricted area. The Mexican government quickly releases them, and issues an apology. Regardless of the regret expressed by Mexican President Victor Huerta, U.S. Admiral Henry T. Mayo demands that Mexican troops salute an American flag as a sign of contrition. President Huerta refuses the salute; three days later, President Wilson orders American warships to Tampico Bay. Wilson insists that his anger is not directed at the Mexican people, but at Huerta, "and those who adhere to him" because he refused to salute the American flag as an official apology. By the end of 1914, U.S. Marines had seized Tampico, forced an apology from Huerta, and demanded his resignation from power. Tampico, Mexico was considered the world's largest oil port in 1901. Some of the richest oil fields were discovered within a 100-mile radius of the port between 1914-1918.

    1914, Europe: United States claims to be neutral as Germany, France, and Britain engage in conflict; however, U.S. banks and weapons manufacturers continue selling to France and Britain, leading to the German sinking of the ship, Lusitania, and eventual U.S. entry to World War 1.

    1945, Japan: The United States becomes the first country to use atomic weapons in warfare, killing thousands of Japanese civilians in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Concluded the United States Strategic Bombing Survey of 1946, "air supremacy over Japan could have exerted sufficient pressure to bring about unconditional surrender and obviate the need for invasion. Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that ... Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated."

    1950, Korea: Without the approval of Congress, President Harry Truman sends troops to fight in Korea, asserting an inherent right to do so as Commander-in-Chief. The Korean War ends three years later, leaving behind 33,600 American casualties, 16,000 UN-allied, 415,000 South Korean, 520,000 North Korean, and an estimated 900,000 Chinese.

    1953, Iran: British intelligence agencies join with the C.I.A. to overthrow the Iranian government out of fears it will nationalize oil production.

    1954, Guatemala: Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, the democratically-elected President of Guatemala, issues land reforms which threaten the interests of U.S.-based United Fruit Company. C.I.A. Director Allen Dules, along with his brother, both have stakes in the company. It heavily lobbies the U.S. government to take action. Shortly after, the C.I.A. begins training rebels, and sets up a radio station across the border led by fake rebels to instigate a revolution. Eventually, the Guatemalan President is sent into exile.

    1961, Iraq: Abdel Karim Kassem, leader of Iraq, threatens western oil interests, causing the U.S. and Britain to begin arming Kurdish rebels in the country. In 1963, Kassem is forced out of power, put on trial, and eventually shot to death. By 1968, Saddam Hussein takes power in the country, backed by the C.I.A.

    1964, Vietnam: The USS Maddox is gathering intelligence off the coast of North Vietnam when a group of North Vietnamese torpedo boats approach the ship. The Maddox opens fire, the North Vietnamese respond with torpedoes, but they are eventually driven away. The exchange prompts the US government and news media to report that North Vietnamese torpedo boats launched an "unprovoked attack" against the Maddox while it was on a "routine patrol".

    Two days later, Captain John J. Herrick of the USS Maddox sees two "mysterious dots" on his radar screen, determines they are torpedo boats, and sends an emergency cable to headquarters in Honolulu reporting that the ship is under attack. Shortly after, Herrick sends another cable: "Freak weather effects on radar and over eager sonar men ... No actual visual sightings by Maddox. Suggest complete evaluation before any further action taken." Less than an hour later, Herrick sends a third cable, saying he is now uncertain of what had happened; however, by this time, President Johnson is already announcing a major military escalation in Vietnam.

    By the end of the Vietnam War, millions of Vietnamese civilians have perished, along with more than 50,000 U.S. soldiers.

    1970, Cambodia: President Richard Nixon announces that U.S. troops are invading Cambodia, the country west of Vietnam through which the North Vietnamese are allegedly supplying their troops. For more than a year prior to the announcement, the U.S. had been conducting bombing raids in the country.

    1982, Iraq: U.S. backs Iraq against Iran, supplying Saddam Hussein with intelligence, diplomatic aid, and chemical weapons (which would later be used to massacre innocent people).

    1990, Iraq: In August, U.S. fighter jets, aircraft carriers, battleships, and half a million American troops are deployed to Saudi Arabia to defend against a possible attack from Iraq. Between its own oil fields, and those of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, western governments allegedly fear Iraq could gain control over the majority of the world's oil reserves. Dick Cheney secures the U.S.-Saudi occupation agreement, ensuring there will be no set withdrawal date from Saudi Arabia, thereby allowing U.S. forces to remain.

    In 1989, it was revealed in a leaked memo that C.I.A. officials were collaborating with Kuwaiti officials in an effort to take advantage of the "deteriorating" economic situation in Iraq.

    Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein eventually annexes Kuwait, triggering the first Iraq War.

    Kuwait had been part of the Ottoman Empire province of Basra, and included much of modern-day Iraq. Up until that point, Iraq had not recognized Kuwait's sovereignty, and the border between Iraq and Kuwait had never been clearly defined.

    The US ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, claims that when she gave Iraq indications that the US would not oppose an invasion of Kuwait, she did not expect Iraq to take "all of Kuwait".

    1999, Yugoslavia: U.S.-NATO bombs drop over the country allegedly to prevent a "massacre", though this claim is challenged. More than 2,000 civilians are killed. There are indications that basic infrastructure is deliberately targeted during this campaign. For example, a statement by Lt. Gen. Michael Short, US Air Force, quoted in the Washington Post, May 1999, reads: "If you wake up in the morning and you have no power to your house and no gas to your stove and the bridge you take to work is down and will be lying in the Danube for the next 20 years, I think you begin to ask, ‘Hey, Slobo, what’s this all about? How much more of this do we have to withstand?’ And at some point, you make the transition from applauding Serb machismo against the world to thinking what your country is going to look like if this continues.""

    http://tinyurl.com/76tquaz

    October 7, 2001: The United States begins bombing Afghanistan. Estimates suggest that nearly 8,000 civilians will be slaughtered by U.S. attacks during the first year of the invasion (for some perspective, that's a casualty rate which is three times higher than the 9/11 attacks [3,000 deaths] in less than a year's time).

    October 26, 2001: The Patriot Act is signed by George W. Bush, laying the foundation for "a domestic intelligence-gathering system of unprecedented scale and technological prowess", according to The Washington Post. Warned the United States Commission on Civil Rights, the Patriot Act "risks establishing a new generation of racial profiling in which a person’s ethnicity or national origin significantly increases his or her chance of being scrutinized by local law enforcement or detained at an airport".

    March 19, 2003: 250,000 U.S. forces augmented by 45,000 British troops and small contingents from Poland, Australia, and Denmark begin attacking Iraq. The invasion ultimately results in 3,000 U.S. military deaths, and, according to Wikileaks, more than 50,000 Iraqi civilian deaths.

    October 2007: U.S. General Wesley Clark gives a speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco in which he denounces what he calls "a policy coup" engineered by neocons. Clark says that after 9/11 he was told about a Pentagon plan to attack not only Iraq, but also Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran, over the course of five years.

    February 2009: President Barack Obama, in his first major military decision, authorizes the Pentagon to send an extra 17,000 troops to Afghanistan. This "surge" is supported by Bush-era neocons Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan, and Dan Senor.

    December 17, 2009: U.S. cruise missiles are fired at what officials in Washington claim are al-Qaeda training camps in Yemen, killing over 60 civilians, 28 of them children.

    February 2010: Obama accelerates the Bush-era aerial drone program. An exposé in the New York Times reveals that the Obama Administration considers "all military-age males [killed] in a strike zone" to be "combatants ... unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent."

    Summer 2010: The Obama Administration launches a wave of cyber attacks against Iranian nuclear facilities, attacks which are by the Pentagon's own definition an act of warfare.

    August 2010: A U.S. drone in Pakistan kills 20 people, "with at least four women and three children among the slain". At least 13 other civilians are also reported wounded, including a number of other children.

    March 2011: The U.S. participates in the bombing of Libya to overthrow Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, slaughtering dozens of civilians in the process.

    May 2011: Just hours before the announcement that Osama Bin Laden had been killed in Pakistan, Saif al-Arab, 29, and three of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's grandchildren, all reported to be under 12, are butchered by NATO/U.S. bombs in Libya.

    October 2011: Two U.S. citizens are executed without trial by U.S. drones in Yemen: one is Anwar al-Awlaki, allegedly linked with al-Qaeda; the other U.S. citizen is Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, the 16-year-old son of Anwar.

    Also in October: Obama will deploy U.S. forces to oil-rich Uganda.

    On August 30, 2012, Obama deploys U.S. Marines to Guatemala to "help fight the drug war".

    September 14, 2012: Obama announces the deployment of U.S. troops to both Libya and Yemen.

    September 25, 2012: According to the New York Times, a unit of U.S. Army Special Operations soldiers are deployed to Iraq and more U.S. soldiers may soon be on their way.

    October 9, 2012: The U.S. sends a "task force" of more than 150 "planners and other specialists" to Jordan.

    http://tinyurl.com/8far9qm
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt in 1933
32nd President of the United States
In office
March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945
Vice PresidentJohn N. Garner (1933-1941)
Henry A. Wallace (1941-1945)
Harry S. Truman (1945)
Preceded byHerbert Hoover
Succeeded byHarry S. Truman
44th Governor of New York
In office
January 1, 1929 – December 31, 1932
LieutenantHerbert H. Lehman
Preceded byAl Smith
Succeeded byHerbert H. Lehman
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
In office
March 17, 1913 – August 26, 1920
PresidentWoodrow Wilson
Preceded byBeekman Winthrop
Succeeded byGordon Woodbury
Member of the New York State Senate
for the 26th District
In office
January 1, 1911 – March 17, 1913
Preceded byJohn F. Schlosser
Succeeded byJames E. Towner
Personal details
BornFranklin Delano Roosevelt
January 30, 1882
Hyde Park, New York, U.S.
DiedApril 12, 1945 (aged 63)
Warm Springs, Georgia, U.S.
Resting placeHome of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site
Hyde Park, New York
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse(s)Eleanor Roosevelt
ChildrenAnna
James
Franklin (I)
Elliott
Franklin (II)
John
Alma materHarvard College
Columbia Law School
OccupationCorporate lawyer
ReligionEpiscopal
SignatureCursive signature in ink

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Harry S. Truman
A middle-aged Caucasian male wearing a dark business suit and wireframe glasses is depicted smilingly pensively at the camera in a black-and-white photo.
33rd President of the United States
In office
April 12, 1945 – January 20, 1953
Vice President
Preceded byFranklin D. Roosevelt
Succeeded byDwight D. Eisenhower
34th Vice President of the United States
In office
January 20, 1945 – April 12, 1945
PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt
Preceded byHenry A. Wallace
Succeeded byAlben W. Barkley
United States Senator
from Missouri
In office
January 3, 1935 – January 17, 1945
Preceded byRoscoe Patterson
Succeeded byFrank Briggs
Personal details
BornMay 8, 1884
Lamar, Missouri, U.S.
DiedDecember 26, 1972 (aged 88)
Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Resting placeHarry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum
Independence, Missouri
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse(s)Bess Wallace
ChildrenMargaret
Profession
ReligionSouthern Baptist
SignatureCursive signature in ink

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