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Obama's Legacy
- Thread starter Neil_V
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When Obama promised to clean up Iraq, did you wait a whole 4 days to start pointing out his broken promises, or did you start on inauguration day?
I must have missed something. How did Obama start a popular uprising in Syria against a dictatorial leader? Also how did he manage to get Putin to invade the Ukraine? Can you also tell me if he caused the recent Italian earthquake? What about getting ride of cherry coke? Obama? Did he assassinate David Bowie too?
Wow. Everything is just black and white isn't it. Literally.
Here's a primer, from the NYT. Its paywalled so Im linking you to a cached version. Its a small glimpse but should be eye-opening regardless.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160413103722/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/world/15aid.html?
The US had a strong hand in the Arab Spring movement which lead to armed conflicts in Yemen, Libya, and Syria. Furthermore, if it wasn't for continued funding and training of those rebels, the movements would've been crushed quite handily; instead they devolved into full blown civil wars with hundreds of thousands (millions?) of lives lost. On Obama's watch. Through and through.
A very similar thing happened in the Ukraine. The US sent $billions (USAID) to Ukraine over the years leading up to the ousting of their democratically elected government. Almost immediately after their government decided not to purse energy relationships with EU and instead focus on fostering a relationship with the Russians, a miracle coup organized itself and violently overthrew the government. Don't even mention the untold billions spent there by Soros NGOs and the IMF.
The US was heavily involved. You can't dispute it. There were damning audio recordings between ambassadors, there was Obama himself (on camera) confirming to CNN that they "brokered the transfer of power", and here's a handy photo of McCain popping smiles and shaking hands with protesters http://media.washtimes.com.s3.amazonaws.com/media/image/2013/12/15/ukraine-protestsjpeg-047e5.jpg
And if you needed icing on your US propaganda-cake, look up a company called Burisma and see if you catch a familiar last name on their board of directors, appointed a mere 3 weeks after Yanukovich was ousted.
As a Canadian I fully appreciate and recognize the importance of our neighbours remaining the world's economic and military superpower and I'm all for it - military industrial complex and everything bad that comes with it, bring it on. I'm a fan. But I'm not interested in their bull**** propaganda.
That makes a good story but you missed Egypt out....Mubarak was a friend of the US, he helped buffer Israel and keep the radicals at bay. So is Egypt the odd man out? Obama went on a rampage against a number of other Middle Eastern countries but Egypt just kicked off on its own? I don't believe Obama was the driving force behind any of this, afterwards there was probably a lot of decisions made on which side to back though. I don't believe the US is innocent by any means, but it's disingenuous to blame it all on one man.
When I said Obama 'started' it I was replying to the other dude stating that it was just something he inherited from Bush, which is a cop-out. I didn't mean that Obama literally started those conflicts, he just made them much, much worse. Ultimately it all took place on his watch.
taken a metric **** ton of selfies
Went on 10 vacations, apparently. I'd have to fact-check that one, but off the top of my head... Bahamas, Tofino, Whistler, St Kitts, Fogo Island, Japan.... **** they may be right.
1 year, 10 vacations. Holy ****.
There's always this: "Trump is taking power under decidedly different times than President Obama did. The U.S. unemployment rate is sitting near a nine-year low and the economy has added jobs for a record 75 straight months."
Explains the inauguration turn out... people at work
...thanks to Obama :|
haha... maybe.
reality, I think something like 4% of DC voted for him, and he also lost Maryland and Virginia by a fair margin. How far will most people honestly travel for something like that?
-D-
Banned
Dude, that's funny on so many levels.
Are you for real? The bankers are his boss. Why didn't Bush take action on the bankers since they did what they did on his watch?
NO WAY!!!! haha
Reagan to Obama, at the least, has just been continuity of the same government... What will Trump ultimately be who knows, but it's why I couldn't support Clinton. She had all the Neo-Cons who called the shots for Bush endorse her, along with all the major banks and arms manufacturers. I've said all this before, do keep up.
Went to all those places collecting bribes for his administration. That's how it is.
redridernl
Well-known member
If you're referring to Trump, you are mistaken. He used some of his own money along with money from his "charity" and donations.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-self-fund_us_57fd4556e4b00c1fb2b023e0
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/donald-trump-campaign-donations-report
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