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ProudDad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 12:27 PM
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"Barack Obama, who pledged to restore ethical honor to the White House after the Bush years, is now burying himself under an active volcano of lies, mostly but not exclusively concerning the assassination of Osama bin Laden.

"There was scarcely a sentence in the President's Sunday night address, or in the subsequent briefing by John Brennan, his chief counter-terrorism coordinator, that has not been subsequently retracted by CIA director Leon Panetta or the White House press spokesman, Jay Carney, or by various documentary records."

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn05062011.html

"Saturday, April 30 was reserved for the attempted assassination of Colonel Gaddafi, with the dropping of precision-guided bombs on the house of his son Saif, who died along with three grandchildren. Saif, then four, was in the Gaddafi family compound on April 15, 1986 when bombs ordered up by Ronald Reagan were dropped from F-111s, killing his 15-month old sister, adopted by Gaddafi 11 months earlier. Thus have Reagan and Obama shared a target. 'Decapitation' - going for the enemy's top guy - is now standard Nato strategy."

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"But Gaddafi survived. So Obama only had one bloodied feather in his cap when he gave one of the most morally repellent speeches I have ever heard delivered from the White House. Bush at least had the crude brio of a semi-literate jock when he vaunted America's prowess. Obama's "we nailed him" paragraphs of mendacity concluded with Dickensian Heepishness: "Tonight we are once again reminded that America can do whatever we set our mind to. That is the story of our history."

"Alas, the actual story of the "our history" is an unrelenting ability to lie about everything, while simultaneously claiming America's superior moral worth."
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 12:29 PM
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1. Dyspepsia,
thy name is Cockburn.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 12:36 PM
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2. Unrec for yet another anti-Obama, pro-bin Laden/Qaddafi post. n/t
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 12:44 PM
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 12:52 PM
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4. IMHO the only people who could see this as "the assassination"
of OBL would be: members and followers of Al Qaeda.

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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 02:12 PM
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 12:54 PM
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5. A Volcano of Spam.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 01:53 PM
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6. Please tell me this is from The Onion.
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msanthrope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 02:02 PM
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9. More or Less. n/t
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Peacetrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 01:58 PM
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7. Truth is in the eye of the beholder..and you might just want to read this
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 01:59 PM
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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-07-11 02:08 PM
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