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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (55500)	6/6/2009 9:13:38 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 149317

so you don't know why Obama is defying the UN and escalating death squads in Iraq? it's "too complicated"? Why don't we use that same reasoning for that asshole Bush then? we just didn't understand what Bush was doing, right? he was the president so we have to assume he knew best, right? It must be so since Obama is continuing and expanding so many of Bush's brutal policies. Even the UN says it's so. I'm sure those dying and being tortured for no good reason in Iraq will be very satisfied with the explanation that their lives are being destroyed but we can't tell them why, because it's "too complicated". And here I was under the impression Obama was the great orator. You'd think he could explain something as complicated as why torture and death squads are necessary in Iraq. I guess I'm just too simple koan. If someone tortured my family or shot them dead for no reason other than they were the "wrong" religious sect or wrong political party or for no reason at all except to terrorize the populace, I would think they were evil people with a seared conscience. Somehow you extrapolate this type of behavior is "good" and is part of a bigger picture. yet you can't explain why.