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A man James Petras called a "notorious psychopath," McChrystal served as a hired gun, an assassin, a man known for committing war crime atrocities as head of the Pentagon's infamous Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Established in 1980, it used special ops teams as a virtual executive office assassination wing engaged in extrajudicial killings, systemic torture, bombing of civilian communities, and various search and destroy missions.
Its war crimes are legendary, McChrytal a known expert at committing them. It's why he got command authority in Iraq and Afghanistan. His mission wasn't to win hearts and minds. It was to bludgeon both countries into submission, objectives thus far not achieved nor will they under Petraeus, his successor in Afghanistan, a man with more than Generalissimo aims, hoping to parlay his position to high political office, the nation's highest if he succeeds and our loss.
(25) Prisoners Still Brutalized at Gitmo
Though promising to close Guantanamo and end torture, Obama continued it more aggressively though media accounts suppress it, and the fact that victims are entirely innocent, not dangerous terrorists as claimed.
Challenged in late October on the Daily Show about delivering business as usual not change, Obama disingenuously responded:
"When we promised during the campaign 'change you can believe in,' it wasn't change you can believe in 18 months. It was change you can believe in but, you know what, we're going to have to work for it."
Rubbish! Committing high crimes at home and abroad, Obama so far delivered global wars, failure, betrayal, economic ruin for millions, a climate of instability and insecurity, and a burgeoning police state threatening everyone. Whatever lies ahead, his legacy is indelibly written.
A Final Comment
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