Bush’s eight years he averaged 24 bombs dropped per day, which is 8,750 per year. The Pentagon’s numbers show that during George W. However, we now know that Donald Trump’s administration puts all previous presidents to shame. The reunions are mainly just him and Henry Kissinger wearing little hand-drawn name tags and munching on deviled eggs.
That puts Obama in a very elite group of Nobel Peace Prize winners who have killed that many innocent civilians. You have to admit that’s impressively horrific. He out-bombed Bush by 30,000 bombs and 2 countries.” DeGraw again: “ dropped 100,000 bombs in seven countries. Really, Pentagon? You got a two on the test? You get five points just for spelling your name right.īut those 70,000 bombs dropped by Bush-it was child’s play. As David DeGraw put it, “According to the C.I.A.’s own documents, the people on the ‘kill list,’ who were targeted for ‘death-by-drone,’ accounted for only 2% of the deaths caused by the drone strikes.” He’s like the Steve McQueen of aerial death.”Īnd let’s take a moment to wipe away the idea that our “advanced weaponry” hits only the bad guys. And even when the media did mention it, the underlying sentiment was, “Yeah, but look at how suave Obama is while he’s OK’ing endless destruction. You could count on one hand the number of mainstream media reports on the Pentagon’s daily bombing campaigns under Obama. There was basically a media blackout while Obama was president. And if we’d listened to “The Matrix,” we wouldn’t have allowed the vast majority of humans to get lost in a virtual reality of spectacle and vapid nonsense while the oceans die in a swamp of plastic waste. … But you know, who’s counting?) If we listened to “The Terminator,” we wouldn’t have allowed the existence of drone warfare. If we’d listened to “1984,” we wouldn’t have allowed the existence of the National Security Agency. (Humans are very bad at taking the advice of sci-fi dystopias.
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It’s also the morally reprehensible targeting of people for pre-crime, which is what we’re doing and what the Tom Cruise movie “Minority Report” warned us about. It’s not just the fact that bombing outside of a war zone is a horrific violation of international law and global norms. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported that under President Barack Obama there were “563 strikes, largely by drones, that targeted Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. We were so cute and naive back then, like a kitten when it’s first waking up in the morning. Whichever president follows Bush will be a normal adult person (with a functional brain stem of some sort) and will therefore stop this madness.” We’re bombing in countries outside of war zones? Is it possible that’s a slippery slope ending in us just bombing all the goddamn time? (Awkward pause.) … Nah. There was a lot of talk that went something like, “Wait a second. was neither at war with nor had ongoing conflicts with. But of that outrageous number, only 57 of those bombs really upset the international community.īecause there were 57 strikes in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen-countries the U.S. Bush’s military dropped 70,000 bombs on five countries. But I didn’t get into the number of bombs that ridiculous amount of money buys us. A few weeks ago, I wrote about the $21 trillion (that’s not a typo) that has gone unaccounted for at the Pentagon. Instead, we live in a world where the Pentagon is completely and utterly out of control. Hell no! You’ve made the common mistake of confusing our world with some sort of rational, cogent world in which our military-industrial complex is under control, the music industry is based on merit and talent, Legos have gently rounded edges (so when you step on them barefoot, it doesn’t feel like an armor-piercing bullet just shot straight up your sphincter), and humans are dealing with climate change like adults rather than burying our heads in the sand while trying to convince ourselves that the sand around our heads isn’t getting really, really hot. So that should mean zero bombs are being dropped, right? And that’s odd, because we’re technically at war with-let me think-zero countries. The United States military drops an explosive with a strength you can hardly comprehend once every 12 minutes. While we sleep and eat and make love and shield our eyes on a sunny day, someone’s home, family, life and body are being blown into a thousand pieces in our names. While you argue with the 17-year-old at the movie theater who gave you a small popcorn when you paid for a large, someone is being obliterated in your name. While you get your gelato at the hip place where they put those cute little mint leaves on the side, someone is being bombed in your name. We live in a state of perpetual war, and we never feel it. By Lee Camp, originally published on TruthDig
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