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U.S. to Sell Bahrain $53 Million in Military Equipment Following Brutal Crackdown
The Obama administration has announced plans to sell $53 million worth of military equipment to Bahrain just months after the Gulf state brutally cracked down on Shiite protesters. The proposed sale includes bunker buster missiles, armored vehicles and wire-guided missiles. Maria McFarland of Human Rights Watch criticized the arms deal. McFarland said, "This is exactly the wrong move after Bahrain brutally suppressed protests and is carrying out a relentless campaign of retribution against its critics."
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Show AllSo....in an ealier thread someone asked the question: "What is the real reason your average voter 'loves' Obama?" I would repeat that question here, right now, at the top of the page. You all have eyes, and a central nervous system, you know what is being told to you, right out in the open, through this medium. So, read the headline, and once again, why is this guy considered a "hero", a "triumph", "better-than-Bush" and "Nobel-Prize winning man beloved by blacks and whites alike"? I think he is a pys-ops contruct myself, but I'm a little paranoid....
Will Obama's Bunker Buster "missiles" reach Dimona?
that makes sense as it was the Iranians whipping up the Shi'a in Bahrain.
Iran is due some payback from several other Arab states as well.
"that makes sense as it was the Iranians whipping up the Shi'a in Bahrain. Iran is due some payback from several other Arab states as well."
That is an interesting statement. We go to the other side of the world, stir up trouble, support both sides of the argument, then come in as "peace keepers" and kill both sides (if they have oil or pipeline routes we need). Yet, if another country, say, Iran, supports a struggle or a party that doesn't agree with our hegemony, they are terrorists and must be destroyed.
If we were invaded and conquered by a powerful nation or coalition of nations, wouldn't Canada and Mexico try to support us? Would that make them terrorists? Would our "Freedom Fighters" be "terrorists" or "insurgents"?
Note: That is an hypothetical question. Actually, I imagine the world would heave a great sigh of relief if we got taken out.
And the US will pay for Bahrain's military to get additional field training in Israel already skilled at murdering Palestinian Arabs.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/09/27-3 = http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/09/27-0
The first tag is this article. The second is the fifth article down on the 'News' column.
'Round and 'round it goes, where the bloodshed stops, nobody... Oh. Wait. IT DOESN'T!
I have visions of a very near future where the US, having lost its hegemony in the world and the psychopaths who run this insane asylum (Wall Street and MIC), turn inwards on itself and unleash the violence they've bestowed on others for hundreds of years upon its own citizens. Although the reality will be grim and I may not live to see it, it will be quite the show. And well deserved! Do not do unto others as you would not want others to do unto you. Amen!
Unless you have terminal cancer right now, you'll probably live to see it.
We're seeing it right now. Most just refuse to believe it.
The face of Obama. Hey, O-bots: here's your politics.
"Nothing personal, just business." The Godfather.
You've misquoted this several times today at least.
The quote is from Abe Vigoda as he is being taken to be killed, "Tell Mike it was only business, I always liked him. "
That's illegal: http://compliancecampaign.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/proposed-arms-sales-to-bahrain-would-violate-international-domestic-law/
Ok I think we are all dancing around something which should be screamed out loud...OBAMA IS SETTING UP ALL OF THESE PEOPLE TO BE KILLED!!!! DO YOU HEAR ME!!??!? OBAMA IS SETTING UP ALL OF THESE PEOPLE TO BE MURDERED!!! JUST LIKE THE FIRST BUSH WITH THOSE SHIITES IN IRAQ AT THE END OF GULF WAR 1, REMEMBER?!? "Go ahead, Arab spring..." Obama says, eyes glittering, "go ahead and protest, I'll just send a bunch of horrible things to one side of the argument, naturally expecting them to play fair..." And then what? Then what, you murderous butcher of little brown babies?! Then What?? We lob a bunch of missiles and stuff at the people to rescue them? WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?! I can't type anymore, I'm crying too hard...
Washington will do anything to prevent democracy in Bahrain. Democracy there would mean empowerment of the poor Shiite majority, which would (in Washington's mind) mean increased Iranian influence there.
Washington, D.C. is a worldwide enemy of democracy, like every imperialist "Great Power" before it.
So the 'Arab Spring' is now a 'Bahrain Autumn'. How can we celebrate one and ignore the other?
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget, whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety; consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink." -- George Orwell, 1984