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Obama started the conflagration in Yemen. He overthrew their leader of over 20 years. He then bombed Yemen to the stone ages. In addition he armed the Saudi and

Obama started the conflagration in Yemen. He overthrew their leader of over 20 years. He then bombed Yemen to the stone ages. In addition he armed the Saudi and other proxies with weapons to wreak havoc and genocide in Yemen. The Yemen story is like Obama’s grim reaper legacy in Libya (he even help create slave markets there), Sudan, Somalia, Africa and elsewhere. The overthrow of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh by Obama which was the first step to destroy Yemen: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/world/middleeast/04yemen.html https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/world/middleeast/04yemen....

ur-whale 5y ago
> Obama started the conflagration in Yemen. He overthrew their leader of over 20 years. He then bombed Yemen to the stone ages. We're talking the same Obama who got a Nobel peace prize, right?
- 1cvmask 5y ago
  The same Nobel peace prize that Kissinger got: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_of_Henry_Kissinger https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_of_Henry_Kissinger The same Kissinger that the Clintons embraced: https://www.vox.com/world/2016/2/12/10979304/clinton-sanders-kissinger https://www.vox.com/world/2016/2/12/10979304/clinton-sanders... Kissinger continued to violate the signed truce after being awarded the Nobel. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1973/summary/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1973/summary/
- Omnitaus 5y ago
  Obama has the distinction of being the only Nobel peace prize recipient to authorize bombing another recipient [0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/nobel-peace-prize-what-barack-obama-s-role-kunduz-bombing-means-world-s-most-conflicted-prize-a6689126.html?amp https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/nobel-p...
  - 1cvmask 5y ago
    This part is great from the article: Obama is commander-in-chief of the US military and therefore ultimately responsible for the AC-130 gunship that repeatedly bombed and strafed a field hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, a week ago. Weirdly, the aircraft was almost certainly using a 40mm cannon made by Bofors, a company that was once owned by Alfred Nobel, the founder of the peace prize. Two dozen people were killed, including three children. Among the adults were the staff and patients of the charity that runs the hospital, Médecins Sans Frontières. Doctors Without Borders, as it is also known, was given the Nobel in 1999 for its “pioneering humanitarian work on several continents”. So a Nobel Peace Prize-winning President is being condemned for sending a gunship to kill the staff of a Nobel Peace Prize-winning charity using weapons made by the company that the founder of the Nobel Peace Prize used to own.
reissbaker 5y ago
It seems a bit disingenuous to claim Obama overthrew Saleh. The Obama administration originally supported Saleh, until massive protests made that support untenable — at which point they withdrew support. That's not exactly an Obama-initiated coup.

ur-whale 5y ago

> Obama started the conflagration in Yemen. He overthrew their leader of over 20 years. He then bombed Yemen to the stone ages. We're talking the same Obama who got a Nobel peace prize, right?

1cvmask 5y ago
The same Nobel peace prize that Kissinger got: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_of_Henry_Kissinger https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_of_Henry_Kissinger The same Kissinger that the Clintons embraced: https://www.vox.com/world/2016/2/12/10979304/clinton-sanders-kissinger https://www.vox.com/world/2016/2/12/10979304/clinton-sanders... Kissinger continued to violate the signed truce after being awarded the Nobel. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1973/summary/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1973/summary/
Omnitaus 5y ago
Obama has the distinction of being the only Nobel peace prize recipient to authorize bombing another recipient [0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/nobel-peace-prize-what-barack-obama-s-role-kunduz-bombing-means-world-s-most-conflicted-prize-a6689126.html?amp https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/nobel-p...
- 1cvmask 5y ago
  This part is great from the article: Obama is commander-in-chief of the US military and therefore ultimately responsible for the AC-130 gunship that repeatedly bombed and strafed a field hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, a week ago. Weirdly, the aircraft was almost certainly using a 40mm cannon made by Bofors, a company that was once owned by Alfred Nobel, the founder of the peace prize. Two dozen people were killed, including three children. Among the adults were the staff and patients of the charity that runs the hospital, Médecins Sans Frontières. Doctors Without Borders, as it is also known, was given the Nobel in 1999 for its “pioneering humanitarian work on several continents”. So a Nobel Peace Prize-winning President is being condemned for sending a gunship to kill the staff of a Nobel Peace Prize-winning charity using weapons made by the company that the founder of the Nobel Peace Prize used to own.

reissbaker 5y ago

It seems a bit disingenuous to claim Obama overthrew Saleh. The Obama administration originally supported Saleh, until massive protests made that support untenable — at which point they withdrew support. That's not exactly an Obama-initiated coup.