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John Brennan and the U.S. people:

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White House Defends Drones Despite Civilian Deaths

'Sometimes You Have to Take Life to Save Lives'

by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com

It’s no real secret that the Obama Administration’s ever escalating drone war has killed a massive lot of innocent people, but White House counterterrorism advisor John Brennan was surprisingly glib today when pressed on the matter in an interview with ABC’s “This Week.

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population,” Brennan insisted, though he did not mention that the drone strikes have been carried out almost exclusively in nations with which the United States is not at war: Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

Brennan went on to defend the killings, saying “sometimes you have to take life to save lives.” He provided no examples of how the killing of nearly 2,000 people, virtually all of them unidentified, had “saved lives.”

Indeed the only thing that the drone strikes have conclusively done is ruin the US relationship with Pakistan, whose parliament has conditioned a return to normal relations on the US ending such attacks.

 

 

 

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Glenn Greenwald examined the degeneration of the liberals and democrats and their excuses, class apologist , Empire arguments  for Obama as a Warrior President, who clearly is a class/empire tyrant, and a war criminal, NOT PROSECUTED.   Just as the Bush crimes, only worse, his drone, state- terrorist, murderous policies promote endless wars of aggressions around  the whole world and is justified by class deformed language.  His mis labeled terminology calling all victims, mostly civilians, infants, toddlers women, old men, as "militants," by a lying, fascist Pentagon, is  in the same mindless way that those opposing militarism, wars of aggression, fascist post colonialism were also mislabeled as "communists", "terrorists", "Al Quaida", to justify  Empire building, Fascist, corporate markets.   Now a permanent drone policy has led to a PERMANENT WAR, global Fascism, endless War crimes and Obama, democrats, all complicit as Fascist tyrants, fascist, class politicians.


Celebrating our “Warrior President”


The Democratic case for Obama's foreign policy greatness is most significant for what it blissfully ignores


http://www.salon.com/2012/04/29/celebrating_our_warrior_president/singleton/


excerpt:


"Peter Bergen, the Director of National Security Studies at the Democratic-Party-supportive New America Foundation, has a long Op-Ed in The New York Times today glorifying President Obama as a valiant and steadfast “warrior President”; it begins this way:



THE president who won the Nobel Peace Prize less than nine months after his inauguration has turned out to be one of the most militarily aggressive American leaders in decades.


Just ponder that: not only the Democratic Party, but also its progressive faction, is wildly enamored of “one of the most militarily aggressive American leaders in decades.” That’s quite revealing on multiple levels. Bergen does note that irony: he recalls that Obama used his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech to defend the justifications for war and points out: “if those on the left were listening, they didn’t seem to care.” He adds that “the left, which had loudly condemned George W. Bush for waterboarding and due process violations at Guantánamo, was relatively quiet when the Obama administration, acting as judge and executioner, ordered more than 250 drone strikes in Pakistan since 2009, during which at least 1,400 lives were lost.”..."


 


Warrior Presidents, along with their sycophantic cheerleaders, class shills, empire thugs, media whores have reproduced a deformed political class, deformed by class hierarchies linked to the Patriarchal class mechanism, which produces class ideologies, class parties, class/empire politicians who have to use, nay hide, their corrupt, criminal, parasitical policies with class myths, "free markets" and invert Freedom into Fascism, itself a reflection that inverson, substitution, falsely conflated arguments, false social claims, is a class outcome, inverted totalitarian outcome, that is produced by class deforming functions of class hierarchies.   They cannot create INDEPENDENT, INDIVISBLE, social arguments, social claims, social principles, hence oppose all social theorists who expose them as FRAUDS, BETRAYERS, CORRUPT CLASS WHORES AND CRIMINAL, FASCIST ELITES now tied to a global class/totalitarian MATRIX:


Dog-training the press corps


Journalists who heap the most lavish praise on the White House are rewarded with the most valuable treats


http://www.salon.com/2012/04/30/dog_training_the_press_corps/singleton/


excerpt:


"This weekend, the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner was held, and it is — as Gawker‘s Hamilton Nolan explained in the best analysis ever of that event — the purest expression of the total blending of political power, media subservience, and vapid celebrity in one toxic, repulsive, and destructive package. It’s imperial rot — the Versailles virus — in its most virulent form. Of course, Stephen Colbert, in the best political speech of the last decade, used his appearance at that banquet in 2006 to clearly set forth the rules by which they function:



But, listen, let’s review the rules. Here’s how it works. The President makes decisions. He’s the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put ‘em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration? You know, fiction!


None of that has changed. When I first began writing about politics, I mistakenly thought that the bias of the Bush-worshipping establishment media was a pro-GOP bias. It isn’t (and it’s obviously not a “liberal bias”). That’s not how they function. They aren’t nearly so substantive as to be driven by any sort of belief or ideology or anything like that. Their religion is the worship of political power and authority (or, as Jay Rosen says, their religion is the Church of the Savvy). Royal court courtiers have long competed with one another to curry favor with the King and his minions in exchange for official favor, and this is just that dynamic. Political power is what can give them their treats — their “exclusive” interviews and getting tapped on their grateful heads to get secret documents and invited to White House functions and being allowed into the sacred Situation Room – so it’s what they revere and serve...."


NOTE, WORSHIP OF POLITICAL POWER IS CLASS POWER, THROUGHOUT OUR MILLENIUMS OF CLASS HISTORY, CLASS-PATRIARCHY, AND IT INCLUDES ALL CLASS FORMS, LINKED TO CLASS HIERARCHIES, WHICH DEFORM HUMAN NATURE, AND POLITICIANS INTO CLASS THUGS, WAR CRIMINALS, TOTALITARIANS AND FASCISTS.


Glenn Greewald concludes that corporate, mainstream, class/empire whoring journalists cannot be INDEPENDENT, INDIVISIBLE, with this statement:


"There are many words for this behavior. “Adversarial,” “independent,” and “watchdog” are, manifestly, not among them...."


 


THE REASON FOR THIS IS THAT ALL SOCIAL FORCES, ALL SOCIAL ELEMENTS, SOCIAL PRINCIPLES, CAN ONLY BE TEMPORARY, DEPENDENT, CORRUPTED, SUBORDINATED, WITHIN CLASS HIERARCHIES AS SOCIAL REFORM, THAT CAN BE DISMANTLED, UNDERMINED AT EVERY TURN.   ONLY THE COMPLETE REJECTION, DISMANTLING OF ALL CLASS PARTIES WITH THEIR CLASS POLITICANS, CLASS ELITES AND THEIR FASCIST, TOTALITARIAN POLICIES REQUIRES AN INDEPENDENT SOCIAL AGENCY, INDEPENDENT, INDIVISIBLE SOCIAL MIDDLE CLASS THAT PROMOTES SOCIAL LABOR, SOCIAL WEALTH, HUMAN RIGHTS AS THE INCLUSIVE, SOCIAL PRINCIPLE, NOT THE CLASS PATRIOTISM, THAT OVERTURNED, BETRAYED THE ENLIGHTENMENT, AND ITS SOCIAL GOAL FOR SOCIAL PATRIOTISM.


The world HATES fascism, totalitarianism, Empire, corrupt, criminal class politicians and their betraying class parties. THEY HATE US NOT FOR OUR FREEDOM, BUT FOR OUR FASCISM,TOTALITARIANISM, EMPIRE, WAR CRIMES WHICH PRODUCED 9/11 IN THE FIRST PLACE, AS BLOWBACK, COUNTER TERRORISM TO GLOBAL FASCISM. 


 


Prosecute all class tyrants, totalitarians, war criminals, fascists and their complicit corrupting, co opting agents within the U.N. that has become a tool for Western Fascism.


 


 

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