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Ian62

(604 posts)
17. John Pilger on Barack Obama and the CIA
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:15 AM
Dec 2012


There is no doubt that PNAC's neocon agenda has continued unabated under Obama.

The neocon agenda, PNAC published in 1997, called for regime change in 6 countries by force. Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, Lebanon & Jordan.

Iraq was done under GW Bush.

Libya was done by Obama (installing an Islamic Extremist government in the process.)

Syria in progress (the rebels in the Free Syrian Army also contain a high proportion of Islamic Extremists). The rebels are being openly armed by Saudi Arabia. Libyan weapons including shoulder held ground to air missile launchers have found their way into Syria.

Aggression against Iran continues.

Lebanon and Jordan are being destabilised by events in Syria, so PNAC's agenda in those countries is being progressed as well.

Is it the intention of US Foreign Policy to replace all secular Middle East regimes with Islamic Extremist ones?

If it is not the intention, it is the effective result and these people are not idiots.

Look at what has happened in Egypt and Libya.

The second theme to the neocon agenda is to reduce civil liberties and increase surveillance on American citizens.
This agenda too continues to be expanded under Barack Obama.

Barack Obama extended the Patriot Act and signed NDAA.
NDAA repeals Posse Comitatus allowing the military to operate on the streets of US cities.
NDAA expands the "battlefield" to include the United States.
NDAA codifies the indefinite detention provisions already made available in the Patriot Act.

The surveillance state has dramatically ramped up under Obama. All US emails are being collected. Along with a sizeable proportion of mobile phone convo's, internet searches and Facebook / twitter activity. These measures are primarily designed to provide ammunition to discredit or actually charge anyone who dissents against the government in the future. They are NOT anti terrorism measures. The DHS has now started spying on public buses.
Barack Obama is already the most active and authoritarian President ever, in cracking down and harassing any whistle blowers who speak up about the US governments activities.

The whole thing is an incredible waste of taxpayer money apart from the civil liberties issues.
The enabler in chief says don't look back. aandegoons Dec 2012 #1
Who is that? BainsBane Dec 2012 #5
... Fumesucker Dec 2012 #9
quick on the draw aren't you? BainsBane Dec 2012 #10
Justice delayed is justice denied Fumesucker Dec 2012 #11
Du rec. Nt xchrom Dec 2012 #2
Just another day in the Evil Empire. n/t Egalitarian Thug Dec 2012 #3
Are we going to prosecute the sick SOBs who did this in our names? I am pretty sure even peacebird Dec 2012 #4
What the FUCK! srichardson Dec 2012 #6
sheesh Genghis_Sean Dec 2012 #7
Let's do nothing about this war crime. Selatius Dec 2012 #8
The President is the most powerful man on the planet. But he wouldnt have rhett o rick Dec 2012 #12
Sometimes honor demands you fight even when you can't win. hootinholler Dec 2012 #16
I agree. At some point we will be forced to do that or become slaves. nm rhett o rick Dec 2012 #23
"An injustice anywhere... ReRe Dec 2012 #13
Oh Yeah... ReRe Dec 2012 #14
No one will ever pay for it Marrah_G Dec 2012 #15
John Pilger on Barack Obama and the CIA Ian62 Dec 2012 #17
Your post is not getting any response. I'd like to see what others have ChisolmTrailDem Dec 2012 #19
OK I will do that Ian62 Dec 2012 #20
Obama can't go after the war criminals who brought us this present crop of torturers madokie Dec 2012 #18
we need to be more careful who we sodomize Enrique Dec 2012 #21
No doubt it was "good faith" sodomy. Solly Mack Dec 2012 #22
Sodomizing them over there so we don't have to sodomize them here. eppur_se_muova Dec 2012 #24
European court of human rights in France I take it. Festivito Dec 2012 #25
K&R DeSwiss Dec 2012 #26
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