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Obama’s change: From kidnapping and torture to assassination (w/ Video)

Monday, January 2, 2012



Obama’s change: From kidnapping and torture to assassination

The promise to scrap his predecessor’s hardliner war-on-terror policies, which helped Barack Obama win presidential election, is apparently off the table. The political reality is that the current administration is doing quite the opposite thing.

Long before he became US president or the winner of a Noble Peace Prize, Barack Obama was a constitutional law professor. During his election campaign he vowed to reverse the abuses and policies of his predecessor George W. Bush..... MORE

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URL: http://rt.com/news/obama-torture-change-killing-103/

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Jesusa Bernardo said...

ang nangyari dito sa pagkakapanalo ni obama ay naloko ang mga nagpa.estups na kano...then again, it's really in the bald eagle system. at tama ang assessment that the change that happened was a shift from kidnapping to outright killings (pero hindi po totoo yung kay bin laden na matagal nang dead at ni hindi napakita ang katawan, utang na loob).

“There is a shift between Bush’s policies and the Obama’s on this. Bush’s policy was to kidnap people, take them to Guantanamo or Bagram or some other torture chamber and try to extract some information from them. Obama’s policy is just to kill them. They’re killing them all over the world. And the Bin Laden assassination was a case point,” he told RT.

"Another was the drone killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born cleric. President Obama described the man as “the leader of external operations for Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.”"

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