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Photo is of an Iraqi child, whose parents were both killed while in their own car.  There were six children in the car, only one was hurt.  The parents had their heads blown off by US troops when the car got close to their foot patrol at dusk in January 2005.  The US has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocents in response to the attacks on 9/11/01.


Written by John Pilger:
Last July, American historian William Blum published his "updated summary of the record of US foreign policy." Since the Second World War, the US has:

1. Attempted to overthrow more than 50 governments, most of them democratically-elected.   

2. Attempted to suppress a populist or national movement in 20 countries.

3. Grossly interfered in democratic elections in at least 30 countries.

4. Dropped bombs on the people of more than 30 countries.

           5. Attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders.

In total, the United States has carried out one or more of these actions in 69 countries.  The "enemy" changes in name – from communism to Islamism — but mostly it is the rise of democracy independent of western power or a society occupying strategically useful territory, deemed expendable, like the Chagos Islands.
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One of his first actions as president was to order a wave of Predator drone attacks on Pakistan that killed 74 people. He has since killed thousands, mostly civilians; drones fire Hellfire missiles that suck the air out of the lungs of children and leave body parts festooned across scrubland. 
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On 5 January, in an extraordinary speech at the Pentagon, Obama said the military would not only be ready to "secure territory and populations" overseas but to fight in the "homeland" and provide "support to the civil authorities." In other words, US troops will be deployed on the streets of American cities when the inevitable civil unrest takes hold.