Glenn Greenwald announces that President Obama has cruise-cluster-bombed yet another country, this time Yemen, and (I think) nominates him for a second undeserved Nobel Peace prize. :
Amnesty International, June 7, 2010:
Amnesty International has released images of a US-manufactured cruise missile that carried cluster munitions, apparently taken following an attack on an alleged al-Qa’ida training camp in Yemen that killed 41 local residents, including 14 women and 21 children.
The 17 December 2009 attack on the community of al-Ma’jalah in the Abyan area in the south of Yemen killed 55 people including 14 alleged members of al-Qa’ida.
My bet on the “al-Qa’ida” members killed? See below.
Ordinary everyday Muslims have a weird habit of becoming post-humus members of “al-Qa’ida.” It justifies the slaughter of innocent people.
But let’s be real for a moment here: Our wars are not controlled or even affected in any way by electoral politics. The course of events in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now Yemen, would not be different had John McCain won the election. Obama is a figurehead.
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