Sunday 19 October 2014

Why Is Nobody Screaming At Obama?

Although nobody at the Nobel Committee will admit to it, when they handed the Prize for outstanding contributions in peace to Obama in 2009 it was much more to do with him not being George W Bush than anything which he contributed to peace.
Now that he has spent the last five years either bombing or threatening to bomb assorted countries around the World, the Committee would be justified in asking for their award back but they won't because for some reason Obama is still not seen as bad as his predecessor.
The same people who marched and waved banners decrying Bush for his actions in Afghanistan and Iraq seem less keen to berate the current American President for waging the kind of wars they should instinctively oppose.   
If this was George W. Bush launching these wars the streets would be flooded with screaming pacifists but as Obama is not a right wing evangelist, the anti-war crowd are not so quick to jump on a president who is supposedly on the same side even if he turned out to be just as quick to use the military as the man he replaced.
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism have just reported that the 400 drone strikes in Pakistan, a country that America is not even at war with, has killed 2,379 people of which 2,084 were not even combatants and the news didn't even make a splash.
Imagine if that kind of news came out when Bush was stomping around the globe, he was dodging shoes thrown at his head for less.     
The innocent people who die in wars are just as dead and homes are just as destroyed regardless if the Commander in Chief is a well spoken black man in a suit or a retarded cowboy in a stetson but those who screamed so loudly at the last President, seem to have lost there voice with this one.

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