Michael Kelley
Timesunion.com
Sat, 02 Nov 2013 22:44 CDT


This will not go over well for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner.

According to the new book Double Down, in which journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann chronicle the 2012 presidential election, President Barack Obama told his aides that he's "really good at killing people" while discussing drone strikes.

Peter Hamby of The Washington Post noted the moment in his review of the book.

The reported claim by the commander-in-chief is as indisputable as it is grim.

Obama oversaw the 2009 surge in Afghanistan, 145 Predator drone strikes in NATO's 2011 Libya operations, the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and drone strikes that killed the Pakistani Taliban leader and a senior member of the Somali-based militant group al-Shabab this week.

His administration also expanded the drone war: There have been 326 drone strikes in Pakistan, 93 in Yemen, and several in Somalia under Obama, compared to a total of 52 under George Bush.

In 2011 two of those strikes killed American-born al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki and his American-born, 16-year-old son within two weeks.

Under Obama U.S. drone operators began practicing "signature strikes," a tactic in which targets are chosen based on patterns of suspicious behavior and the identities of those to be killed aren't necessarily known. (The administration counts all "military-age males" in a strike zone as combatants.)

Furthermore, the disturbing trend of the "double tap" - bombing the same place in quick succession and often hitting first responders - has become common practice.

Obama has also embraced the expansion of capture/kill missions by Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) after it developed into the primary counterterrorism tool of the Bush administration.

One JSOC operator told investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, author of Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield, that global operations under Obama became "harder, faster, quicker - with the full support of the White House."

Scahill, who also made a Dirty Wars documentary, told NBC News that Obama will "go down in history as the president who legitimized and systematized a process by which the United States asserts the right to conduct assassination operations around the world."

Needless to say, a lot of innocent people have been killed along with combatants.

So although President Obama has proven to be "really good at killing people," the demonstration has not necessarily been noble.

He's also good at killing America.

Is it true that his Presidential Library is going to be in Kenya?

He has many, usually found on construction site and are either blue or green.

either Kenya or the middle east... maybe after Israel is gone, thanks to barry, they might put it there, like a tribute... same as the mosque on the world trade center site, muslims like to sport their trophies...

There you have it!



http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/3/1/2/7/2/0/1/Obama-Presidential-Library-91365394649.jpeg

is that barry's lover?

Obama never killed anyone. That would mean he would have to put on a uniform and go put himself in harms way, which he has NEVER done in his life because he is a coward.

He sat behind his desk and ordered people killed then brags about it like a true Psychopath does.

Hitler used to brag like this also.

Isn't that the shack Barry was born in?