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Obama Wants Allies To Go After WikiLeaks
krou writes "Coming on the back of human rights groups criticizing WikiLeaks, American officials are saying that the Obama administration is pressuring allies such as Australia, Britain, and Germany to open criminal investigations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and to try limit his ability to travel. 'It's not just our troops that are put in jeopardy by this leaking. It's UK troops, it's German troops, it's Australian troops — all of the NATO troops and foreign forces working together in Afghanistan,' said one American diplomatic official, who added that other governments should 'review whether the actions of WikiLeaks could constitute crimes under their own national-security laws.'"
It is really sad. I want to like Obama,
Why? He's a scumbag politician. Politicians are meant to be reviled, limited, and controlled.
Frankly, I'd be delighted if he and his family came down with Dengue Fever. And yes, I'd say the same about any politician.
Only sheep "like" the people who seek to control their lives.
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The Americans kills, period. Please don't give credit to an evil group of people.
FTFY
this is definitely what the poor stupid reds should do. Just like the civilized blues. No wonder you posted Anon. No need to put out your identity to this stupidity.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
You're basically saying "because we couldn't get the public to agree with us, even using our best tape, it follows that the public is a bunch of idiots who'd rather follow baseball".
Newsflash: The fact that people don't agree with you doesn't make them stupid or lazy. It can, and often does, mean that the other side has a lot more merit than you think and that you haven't made your case as well as you think. The "Collateral Murder" video is not proof that your side is correct, and the fact that people don't take it as proof doesn't mean that there's something wrong with them.
This seems to be a favorite belief on the left: nobody can legitimately disagree with them. If you're not convinced by the left's overwhelming evidence, you have to be dumb, lazy, in someone's pay, willfully blind, anything except someone who disagrees for legitimate reasons. Perhaps they do, and the evidence just isn't as overwhelming as you think.
Well, since you ask, here's some off the top of my head - there are lots more...: Obama vs Bush:
Have you heard Obama without a teleprompter?
Has not prematurely announced 'mission accomplished' when the mission is barely started.
Everyone knows the mission accomplished sign was for that aircraft carrier that had finished it's job in the invasion and was on the way home
Actually seems to give a shit about health-care for other-than-the-rich.
The health care bill was a bailout for big union bosses who are driving their unions into the ground. A clear majority didn't want the reform that was passed and want it repealed.
Obama vs Cheny:
Is this accident really the best thing you have against Cheney?
Doesn't, to my knowledge, keep a man-sized safe in his office. Always been curious about the 'man-sized' thing...
Really? This is going to be your argument?
Doesn't support the indefinite holding of suspects without charge in internment camps. One measure of a society is how you treat undesirables, and Guantanamo bay is an indelible stain on the Bush/Cheney years.
When you say ''undesirables'' you mean enemy combatants who can be detained at the Presidents discretion. Well Obama wanted to expand those rules to US citizens who plot against terrorists (see Time Square bomber). That's right, cry a river for terrorists fighting against our troops, but US citizens being denied their constitutional rights...not notable I guess.
Simon.
You arguments are weak and I'm sure if you saw Obama on TV and there was a typo with a R instead of a D next to his name you would start attacking him before you figured out it's just a typo.
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