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By don mikulecky 3 Recs. Washington's Blog. Bush is correctly regarded as a lying, war-mongering, torturing tyrant. Is Nobel peace prize winner Obama even worse? Many governments, U.S. congressmen and other individuals have demanded that Obama return his Nobel peace prize for bombing Libya without congressional approval. Bush got us into 2 wars to protect our strategic national interests in … er … broccoli. Obama just got us into a third war for the same reason. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq was met with large protests. Similarly, most Americans didn’t want Obama to get involved in Libya.
The Bush administration funded terrorist groups (and see confirming articles here and here). Obama has increased the number of drone attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere. The Brookings Institution noted in 2009: Critics correctly find many problems with this program, most of all the number of civilian casualties the strikes have incurred. And drone strikes are often based on scant evidence in the first place. Army Pfc.
GOP to Young Voters: Don’t Vote « YDA – Young Democrats of America. The Silver Tongue. Image by Kate Holterhoff If you’re waiting for social change to arrive, you don’t need a big court decision or legislative victory to tell you that it’s on the way. Language, especially language used by policy makers, can tell you everything you need to know. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT), the US military’s ban on openly gay and lesbian soldiers, is a good example.
One might well look to the “big” signs. Some of them are good. President Obama has long expressed his wish to end the policy through legislative means and a federal judge in California recently ruled the policy unconstitutional in Log Cabin Republicans v. But, McCain will eventually change his mind and support a repeal. In a 2006 interview with Chris Mathews, McCain said that he would support the repeal of DADT if and when the “leadership of the military” also supported a repeal: We have the most qualified, the bravest and most capable military we‘ve ever had in our history, and so I think that the policy is working. Like this: Democratic Underground. U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time.