New Evidence That Team Obama Misled Us About the Drone War

The Atlantic ^ | April 10, 2013 | Conor Friedersdorf

[lbryce]

The Obama Administration is deliberately misleading Americans about the drone war it is waging in Pakistan.

Can anyone read the McClatchy Newspapers summary of top-secret intelligence reports and continue to deny it? Set aside the morality and effectiveness of the CIA's targeted-killing program. Isn't it important for Congress and the people to know the truth about the War on Terrorism? Many Americans remain furious that the Bush Administration gave Iraq War speeches that elided inconvenient truths and implied facts that turned out to be fictions. Is the objection merely that the Iraq War turned out badly? Or is misleading Congress and the public itself problematic, especially when the subject is as serious as killing people in foreign countries?

To justify frequent drone strikes that regularly kill innocent people, risk serving as a terrorist recruiting tool, and terrorize whole communities understandably averse to drones buzzing above their homes, Obama Administration officials give the impression that al-Qaeda terrorists are the main targets. As it turns out, they haven't just helped hide the fact that the Bush Administration kicked off America's drone campaign in Pakistan by killing someone at the request of Pakistan's government -- as Jonathan S. Landay explains, Obama officials have misled us about their own behavior. "Contrary to assurances it has deployed U.S. drones only against known senior leaders of al Qaida and allied groups, the Obama administration has targeted and killed hundreds of suspected lower-level Afghan, Pakistani and unidentified 'other' militants in scores of strikes in Pakistan's rugged tribal area, classified U.S. intelligence reports show," he reports.

[lbryce]

Obama rules under his own Divine Right of Dictators, whereby no earthly authority has dominion over his judgement, the manner in which he rules, answerable to no one but himself. Understanding this particular premise under which he leads helps resolve the many contradictions, crimes perceived as such committed in that they are neither contradictions nor crimes, simply the power under which he rules invested in him by the Divine Right of Dictators.

[NoLibZone]

Obama targets US Citizens for assassination.

He and Biden must be arrested taken to GITMO for aggressive interrogation to learn who they work for.

[Boogieman]

“Is the objection merely that the Iraq War turned out badly?”

No, the objection is that it was started by a Republican.

[Conserev1]

No way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[onedoug]

If it were most any other President, I would say, “Kill islamists till the cows come home.” But I think he’s trying to tailor islamism more in line with his own obamist philosophy...whatever the hell that is.

[Graewoulf]

Impeachment File on B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro.

[justa-hairyape]

He and Biden must be arrested taken to GITMO for aggressive interrogation to learn who they work for.

We already know who they work for, but we should still interrogate the traitors anyway. They could be working for more then one person.