Obama and his obsession with missiles

[pockybot]

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/07/10344925-harmless-missile-fire-in-white-house

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Barack Obama hosted a White House science fair Feb. 7, featuring projects designed by more than 100 students from across the country. The projects included a robot that helps senior citizens connect with their families via Skype, and a portable disaster relief shelter that could be used to house people who have been displaced from their homes.

During his visit to the fair, Obama helped 14-year-old Joey Hudy fire off the Extreme Marshmallow Cannon, one of the Phoenix student's inventions.

"The Secret Service is going to be mad at me about this," Obama joked. Afterward, he told his audience that shooting a marshmallow through the air gun was "very exciting."

Reminds me of when Obama made jokes about firing drone missiles at the Jonas brothers. I wonder if Barry gets this giddy when when he murders all those Pakistani, Yemeni, Afghan and Somali villagers with hellfire drone missiles?



It would be har har, if Obama wasnt killing people left and right with these things. Most of them civilians
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/05/u_s_drones_targeting_rescuers_and_mourners/singleton/

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What made that sentence so amazing was that it basically amounts to a report that the U.S. first kills people with drones, then fires on the rescuers and others who arrive at the scene where the new corpses and injured victims lie.

In a just-released, richly documented report, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, on behalf of the Sunday Times, documents that this is exactly what the U.S. is doing — and worse:

The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals, an investigation by the Bureau for the Sunday Times has revealed.

The findings are published just days after President Obama claimed that the drone campaign in Pakistan was a “targeted, focused effort” that “has not caused a huge number of civilian casualties”. . . .

A three month investigation including eye witness reports has found evidence that at least 50 civilians were killed in follow-up strikes when they had gone to help victims. More than 20 civilians have also been attacked in deliberate strikes on funerals and mourners. The tactics have been condemned by leading legal experts.

[Disa Uniflora]

My god you're annoying. It's bad enough that you waste our time with irritating but relevant s**t, now you're wasting it over a ******** marshmallow cannon? I'm reporting this ******** spam, Pocky, which I've never done with any of your posts previously because even the worst of them didn't descend this deep into the asinine.

[pockybot]

Disa Uniflora

My god you're annoying. It's bad enough that you waste our time with irritating but relevant s**t, now you're wasting it over a ******** marshmallow cannon? I'm reporting this ******** spam, Pocky, which I've never done with any of your posts previously because even the worst of them didn't descend this deep into the asinine.

Didn't mean to insult your savior Oh-Bomb-uh. Go ahead, report as spam. Because you know, a zillion "OMG, liberal vs conservative" threads aren't spam either.

Liberals got so mad when Bush made jokes about how he lied about WMD's, but they don't notice when Obama laughs about the same offenses.

[METALFumasu]

Seriously pocky, quit being a condescending a** for once.

Marshmellow cannon is kickass though.

And can someone give that photographer a medal for this picture? Obama's expression is just epic.

[pockybot]

METALFumasu

Seriously pocky, quit being a condescending a** for once.

Marshmellow cannon is kickass though.

And can someone give that photographer a medal for this picture? Obama's expression is just epic.

I don't get why the left attacked Bush for every damn thing, yet it's hands off Barrykins.

Obama is OBSESSED with drone missiles, way more than Bush was. Literally one of his first orders as President in jan 2009 was initiating endless missile attacks in Pakistan. And the guy has the gall to always make jokes about drones. If we can't talk about Obama's love and addiction of drone missiles(which he uses all the freaking time, killing countless Pakistanis) that's kind of odd

[Disa Uniflora]

pockybot

Disa Uniflora

My god you're annoying. It's bad enough that you waste our time with irritating but relevant s**t, now you're wasting it over a ******** marshmallow cannon? I'm reporting this ******** spam, Pocky, which I've never done with any of your posts previously because even the worst of them didn't descend this deep into the asinine.

Didn't mean to insult your savior Oh-Bomb-uh. Go ahead, report as spam. Because you know, a zillion "OMG, liberal vs conservative" threads aren't spam either.

Liberals got so mad when Bush made jokes about how he lied about WMD's, but they don't notice when Obama laughs about the same offenses.

I hate Obama, Pocky. I've been against the War in Afghanistan since the beginning, I've been against the War in Iraq since the beginning, I'm against the murder of civilians and utterly reject collateral damage as an excuse for it to continue. I think his healthcare reform was an utter debacle and his government has done nothing to seriously reform the financial sector in the fallout of the recession. I'm unimpressed by his views on gay rights. On the whole he's just as shitty as all your leaders tend to be, and I -personally- have such great venom for your government and, by extension, your country that your tiny little brain can't even comprehend the breadth of it.

But do you know one positive thing about Obama, Pocky? At least he doesn't make a habit of bending down over ED-P and taking a s**t on this forum.

And there's no equivalency whatsoever between making jokes about LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUT WMDs and taking a moment to note the GENUINE AWESOMENESS IN A CANNON THAT FIRES MARSHMALLOWS MADE BY A 14 YEAR OLD. Get a ******** life.

[pockybot]

Disa Uniflora

pockybot

Disa Uniflora

My god you're annoying. It's bad enough that you waste our time with irritating but relevant s**t, now you're wasting it over a ******** marshmallow cannon? I'm reporting this ******** spam, Pocky, which I've never done with any of your posts previously because even the worst of them didn't descend this deep into the asinine.

Didn't mean to insult your savior Oh-Bomb-uh. Go ahead, report as spam. Because you know, a zillion "OMG, liberal vs conservative" threads aren't spam either.

Liberals got so mad when Bush made jokes about how he lied about WMD's, but they don't notice when Obama laughs about the same offenses.

I hate Obama, Pocky. I've been against the War in Afghanistan since the beginning, I've been against the War in Iraq since the beginning, I'm against the murder of civilians and utterly reject collateral damage as an excuse for it to continue. I think his healthcare reform was an utter debacle and his government has done nothing to seriously reform the financial sector in the fallout of the recession. I'm unimpressed by his views on gay rights. On the whole he's just as shitty as all your leaders tend to be, and I -personally- have such great venom for your government and, by extension, your country that your tiny little brain can't even comprehend the breadth of it.

But do you know one positive thing about Obama, Pocky? At least he doesn't make a habit of bending down over ED-P and taking a s**t on this forum.

And there's no equivalency whatsoever between making jokes about LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUT WMDs and taking a moment to note the GENUINE AWESOMENESS IN A CANNON THAT FIRES MARSHMALLOWS MADE BY A 14 YEAR OLD. Get a ******** life.

I edited my post to include exactly what I was talking about. The new Obama/Panetta directive to not just blast Pakistanis to kingdom come...but to kill anybody who comes to their rescue.
A few months ago the CIA even blew up a peaceful anti drone demonstration in Pakistan.
I was going to post the article(it was posted two days ago) but thought that image was all too perfect.

I actually think, given past presidents, he's been pretty good on the gay rights front for all intents of purposes. He's changed his tune since 2008 on that. And the health care thing was so muddled from all sides, I can't fault him on that one either.

Wait, 'your country'? Aw, for some reason I thought you were American.

[Jaydi Blaze]

He's watched one too many eps of mythbusters and wants to see the granddaddy of all booms.

[azulmagia]

> Implying that most middle Americans give a s**t about brown Islamic civilians being killed in drone strikes

[pockybot]

azulmagia

> Implying that most middle Americans give a s**t about brown Islamic civilians being killed in drone strikes

Well official Obama policy states that as long as one low level al Qaeda or Taliban is killed, it's ok if even a hundred civilians die in one strike. Most the time, no militants end up being killed...just villagers. But Bush had a similar policy. In late 2006 he authorized a missile that killed 86 school boys in a Pakistani Madrassas "to get Zawahiri" who wasn't there.

[The Sky Does Not Bow]

Obsession.

With missiles.

Pocky do you even read your own posts?

[N3bu]

It's a ******** marshmallow cannon.

Grow the ******** up.

[pockybot]

The Sky Does Not Bow

Obsession.

With missiles.

Pocky do you even read your own posts?

Yeah it was my (perhaps not so clever) segueway to this new news item

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The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals, an investigation by the Bureau for the Sunday Times has revealed.

The findings are published just days after President Obama claimed that the drone campaign in Pakistan was a “targeted, focused effort” that “has not caused a huge number of civilian casualties”. . . .

A three month investigation including eye witness reports has found evidence that at least 50 civilians were killed in follow-up strikes when they had gone to help victims. More than 20 civilians have also been attacked in deliberate strikes on funerals and mourners. The tactics have been condemned by leading legal experts.

Although the drone attacks were started under the Bush administration in 2004, they have been stepped up enormously under Obama.

There have been 260 attacks by unmanned Predators or Reapers in Pakistan by Obama’s administration – averaging one every four days.

[Anon E. Mouse]

Maybe the President thought that it would be a blast? cheese_whine