© Kevin Lamarque / ReutersLiar par excellence Barack Obama
On Tuesday, Obama defended his legacy of fighting Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, recounting history as far back as the 2003 invasion of Iraq under President George W. Bush to his own administration's operations.
Claiming credit for the US withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan while acknowledging the challenges of fighting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), he argued that things are better off today than eight years ago, he said President-elect Donald Trump will inherit a "sustainable" counterterrorism strategy.
Comment: What an utter insult to the intelligence and good intentions of the military personnel Obama addressed. Not only is the US counterterrorism strategy NOT "sustainable," not only has it cost the lives of many innocents, but it threatens the stability of the countries it's operating in, and has, in general, exacerbated violence throughout the world. Who does Obama think he's fooling??
On Monday, the White House released a 61-page report describing the extent of counterterrorism operations around the world, based on the October 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) congressional resolution.
"We are and must remain the strongest fighting force the world has ever known," Obama said Tuesday in a speech that thanked the US military as well as intelligence, homeland security and diplomatic officers for keeping the US safe.
The 44th US president outlined his own foreign policy before the rise of IS, saying the "focus on Al-Qaeda, the most dangerous threat to the us at the time, paid dividends," calling the terrorist group "a shadow of its former self."
Comment: Thanks only perhaps to the efforts of Russia, Syria, and Iran. Remember this?:
Russia rejects Kerry's offer to protect al-Qaeda - Syrian army on the offensive after ceasefire fails
"I don't want to paint too rosy a picture," Obama clarified. "The situation in Afghanistan is still tough."
Comment: And Iraq, and Syria, and Yemen, and Libya - all thanks to the Obama administration and its masters in the deep state.
Obama and his ilk are consummate, professional, shameless, psychopathic liars.
"War has been a part of life in Afghanistan for over 30 years," the president added.
Obama dismissed critics who believe the US troop pullout from Iraq in 2011 led directly to the rise of IS. He said keeping US troops there, under a weakened status of forces agreement with the Iraqi government, "could not have reversed the forces" that led to the rise of IS.
Comment: Another bald-faced lie. Of course it didn't help that the US, through its proxy buddies in the middle east; Saudi Arabia, Israel, Qatar, helped their little head-chopping monstrosity along with all manner of support.
Crediting the US-led coalition of 70 countries battling IS, Obama said, "today, the results are clear," claiming that IS has lost more than half its territory and faces a dwindling recruitment effort as local populations turn against the terrorist network and insurgency.
Obama cited military and coalition operations in Libya, Mali, Somalia and Yemen as successes.
Comment: Goodness, it would take pages and pages of fact-listing to point out how big the lies are here. Suffice it to say that Obama puts Goebbels to shame!
"To say that we've made progress is not to say the job is done," Obama said. "In some form, this violent extremism will be with us for years to come."
Comment: That's certainly his hope! How could the terror industry possibly hope to accrue more power and money unless the threat of terrorism isn't continuously fed in all manner, shape and form??
Challenges noted by Obama included corruption in foreign governments and "a changing climate [which] is increasing competition for food and water," which drew applause.
Comment: Corruption in foreign governments?! Good god! The only thing incorrect about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s statement, "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world" being the US government is that America has gotten 100 times more violent since King was alive.
Another hot button political issue Obama mentioned was gun control, as he explained that the primary threat faced inside the US is now lone-wolf "deranged killers" who self-radicalize under the radar of counter-terrorism programs and have easy access "to buy a very powerful weapon."
Obama stressed the importance of "the confidence that right makes might, not the other way around" as an American value that will serve the country's security goals.
Comment: Not sure whether to laugh or puke at this last one.
"The fact is people in nations do not make good decisions when they are driven by fear," Obama said before segueing to the matter of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, saying it was "time to shut down" the controversial military prison in Cuba.
Comment: We heard this eight years ago, Barry! And you're still bringing it up as though you had any honorable intentions regarding the hell that's been created in Guantanamo!?
Obama claimed military leaders' support for his view that Gitmo be closed, which he promised to do when first campaigning for the presidency in 2008. He blamed "the politics of fear" in Congress for the failure to do so during his two terms.
"We're wasting hundreds of millions of dollars," Obama said of the facility that now detains 59 prisoners, down from over 250 when Obama entered the White House.
Comment: How about the trillions of dollars that has gone into the war industry - or are missing from the Pentagon (and various other institutions) - that could have made the US into a decent place to live for so many??
"That's not strength," he said, adding, "I will do all I can to remove this blot on our national honor."
Comment: You'll do nothing of the sort, Barry. You'll continue to play golf and subvert US society and world stability in whatever ways your elite cronies and masters suggest are the most profitable. You are a con man's con man, and that's how you'll be remembered in the history books that count on facts to tell the story of this time and place.
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