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Written by Chris Edwards   
Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:37

Ralph Nader on election night, pointing to the TV monitor showing Obama, declared: "This is all show business." After seeing Obama celebrate his first 100 days at the White House Correspondents' Dinner with a comedy stand up routine of in-jokes written for him by his Zionist aides, it has to be said that Nader hit the nail on the head. Like Blair, Obama ia a very good actor.

While Obama laughs at his "own" jokes, the Guardian reports that the US chief in Afghanistan, General McKiernan is being replaced by General McChrystal, a counterinsurgency thug with a record of mistreatment of detainees. McKiernan is accused of being too "conventional". The report says:

"McChrystal, who has been in ­overall charge of special forces in Iraq, was responsible for the army's Delta Force and led operations in Iraq aimed at targeting particular individuals, such as the one that resulted in the killing of the al-Qaida leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in 2006."

So, Obama is sending in the psychopathic death-squads that are US special forces to try and assassinate the leaders of the resistance. Instead of getting out of the country and allowing Afghanistan, a sovereign nation, to settle its own affairs, he plans to "re-boot" the war, resort to "unconventional" warfare and initiate a new level of bestiality. Some liberal! Obama is in reality a chickenhawk desk-warrior. Afghanistan will be his Vietnam and Pakistan his Cambodia.

Meanwhile  a humanitarian  disaster is unfolding in Pakistan as Obama's government orders and bankrolls the Pakistan army to launch a civil war against its own people. 1.3 million--and counting--displaced, homeless people are the result--a catastrophic humanitarian disaster. Not bad going for the first 100 days of an "anti-war" presidency.

Update. See this article in today's Independent: Rumsfeld's renegade unit blamed for Afghan deaths

US policy makes things worse in Pakistan


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