There is no doubt that US President Barak
Obama is a war criminal as are his military and intelligence officials and most
of the House and Senate.
Obama is
the first president to keep the US at war for the entirety of his eight-year
regime. During 2016 alone the US dropped 26,171 bombs on wedding parties,
funerals, kid’s soccer games, hospitals, schools, people in their homes and
walking their streets, and farmers tilling their fields in seven countries:
Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan.
What does the administration have to show
for eight years of illegal military interventions in seven countries, none of
which comprised a danger to the US and against none of which the US has
declared war? Terrorism was created by US invasions, no wars have been won, and
the Middle East has been consumed in chaos and destruction. Worldwide hatred of
the United States has risen to a record high. The US is now the most despised
country on earth.
The only purposes of these crimes are to
enrich the armaments industry and to advance the insane neoconservative
ideology of US world hegemony. A tiny handful of despicable people have been
able to destroy the reputation of the United States and murder millions of
peoples, sending waves of war refugees to the US and Europe.
We call these “wars,” but they are not.
They are invasions, largely from the air, but in Afghanistan and Iraq from
troops on the ground. The invasions by air and land are entirely based on
blatant, transparent lies. The “justifications” for the invasions have changed
a dozen times.
The questions are: If Trump becomes
president, will Washington’s massive crimes against humanity continue? If so,
will the rest of the world continue to tolerate Washington’s extraordinary
evil?
Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the
US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been
reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition
of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored
with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how americans lost the
protection of law, has been released by Random House. Visit his website.
