Tragic Terrorist Attack in Boston

The data - which excludes 1993 - shows how there are actually fewer attacks now than in the 1970s.

killing U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other embassy officials.

In March 2011 Stevens was appointed the official U.S. liaison to the al-Qaeda-linked Libyan opposition that provided weapons to Syrian rebels. Writer and intelligence expert, Clare Lopez points out, “Stevens was tasked with helping to coordinate U.S. assistance to the rebels, whose top military commander, Abdelhakim Belhadj, was the leader of the Al Qaeda affiliate, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG).“ Stevens was authorized by both the U.S. Department of State and the Obama administration to aid and abet individuals and groups that were, at a minimum, allied ideologically with our enemy, Al Qaeda.

So are Obama and Clinton on the side of America or on the side of our enemies?

http://www.examiner.com/article/was-stevens-murdered-to-coverup-u-s-gun-running-from-libya-to-alqaeda-syria

April 15, Boston, Mass.: multiple bombs explode near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Two bombs go off around 2:50 in the afternoon as runners finish the race. At least three people are killed. One is an eight year old boy. More than 170 people are injured.

Killing children is the all-American way

Finian Cunningham


Madeleine Albright, the American ambassador the United Nations, was asked on nationwide television in 1996 if the death of half a million Iraqi children from US war and sanctions on that country was a price worth paying. Albright replied: “This is a very hard choice, but the price - we think is worth it.”


That was before the so-called Second Persian Gulf War that began in 2003 with American air force “shock and awe”, followed by nearly nine years of illegal military occupation - an occupation that included the use of nuclear munitions and white phosphorus on the civilian populations in Fallujah and elsewhere, and involved countless massacres of families and children by US helicopter gunships and troopers.

Since Albright’s infamous admission, the death toll of Iraqi children from American military crimes can be safely assumed to run into multiples of what she candidly thought was a price worth paying more than 16 years ago.

Earlier this week when President Barack Obama was offering condolences to the families of the 20 children shot dead in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, he said: “Whatever portion of sadness that can share with you to ease your heavy load, we will gladly bear it. Newtown, you are not alone.”

Indeed, Newtown is not alone. Children are slaughtered every week by Americans all over the world on the watch of Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama and his White House predecessors.

One study by James Lucas in 2007 put the death toll of civilians from American wars and sponsored conflicts in 37 countries since the Second World War at up to 30 million lives. The proportion of that figure corresponding to child deaths is not known but if the casualty rate of Iraq is anything to go by we can estimate that the number of children killed by American militarism and covert wars since WWII is easily in the order of 20 million - that is, a million times the carnage last week in Connecticut.

The countries where these American-inflicted deaths occurred include: Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Angola, Congo, Afghanistan, Pakistan, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. They also include Iran during the American-backed Iraq war of 1980-88. Every continent on Earth has felt the American hand of death.

But note the figure of 20 million child deaths from American militarism is bound to be a serious underestimate of the actual total. In the last five years, the world has seen an escalation of child mortality from the carcinogenic legacy of depleted uranium and suspected use of other nuclear weapons in Iraq. The above figures do not include the latest killings from American assassination drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and other suspected war theatres, such as Mali in West Africa. Nor do the figures include overt and covert American military action in Libya last year and currently in Syria - nor the ongoing imposition of crippling sanctions against Iran where an untold number of sick children are dying from lack of medicines due to Washington’s import blockade.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/12/20/279222/killing-children-is-the-allamerican-way/

Bush's presidency consisted of two wars, one of which was illegal,

Not because he has to be "balanced," but because I would expect that the Afghan and Iraqi wars affected him in this way, the Afghan surge and drone attacks would too.

There's enough corpses and coffins for a political cartoonist to lay at the entry to the Obama Presidential Library.

There's enough corpses and coffins for a political cartoonist to lay at the entry to the Obama Presidential Library.

If that's true, then, sadly, it says more about the UK then George W Bush.

No it's because Bush was the worst president in living memory, if not ever.

... and his 'Yo Blair,' remark showed how much contempt he had for the British people.

izzythepush wrote:

No it's because Bush was the worst president in living memory, if not ever.

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... and his 'Yo Blair,' remark showed how much contempt he had for the British people.

Two quotes that show very clearly you don't know what the hell you're talking about.