Denying The Truth About Murder and Genocide, Barack Obama Style

NOAM CHOMSKY, distinguished professor of linguistics at M.I.T. since, believe it or not, 1955, and also a well known political activist, contends that every American president since World War Two was a war criminal, should have been impeached, removed from office, tried, and most likely convicted and hanged. Other than that, no complaints. Noam could probably take it back a bit further, say, back to Washington, but hey, Noam likes to keep it positive. Barack Hussein Obama certainly fills the bill. Any time a NATO surveillance satellite photo ops a bearded man in Pakistan with a small arsenal of small arms, the orbiter clicks a quick pic, and the boys back on the ground run a quickie analysis. If the shoe fits, and he's among America's wanted, neither the Christian nor the Islamic God can save his America-hating ass. Big O clicks on "delete", and into Pakistani airspace flies an all American drone, without Pakistani permission. Often, said drone finds its mark. Other times, no dice. But since these terrorist types tend to hang out with hordes of women and children, wives, mistresses, brats, all serving as convenient cover, collateral damage, as we like to cleanly call it, is usually considerable. Does Obama care? If he does, he doesn't show it. Of course, our laconic president shows little. His sister once reported that she had never seen him angry, nor depressed, nor much of anything in the way of inefficient emotion. But B. O> is very careful to avoid calling genocide genocide, whether it be his policy, or that of a favorite ally, say, Turkey. Today marks the one hundredth anniversary of the culmination of the Ottoman Empire's (Turkey's) slaughter of over a million Armenians. They got most of them, but, perhaps regrettably, not Kim Kardashian. (that's a joke). And, of course, to this day, they deny it, the way folks deny high blood pressure, Christians deny evolution, and conservatives deny global warming. Deny, deny, deny. It works! Obama will not use the word "genocide" when referring to the "unfortunate" Armenian mass disappearance during World War One. However, the good news is that the Germans, just yesterday, came right out and called the spade a spade. You can always count on our German friends to come clean. They now even admit that there was a bit of a problem regarding their Jewish community a while back. Well, at least somebody has the integrity and guts to tell the truth. Too bad it aint our American president.