2,000 liberal actors accuse Obama of “War Crimes, Worse Than Bush” For Authorizing Assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki

anwar_al-awlakiAccording to the AFP via Weasel Zippers, US actors and so called liberal intellectuals joined a list to be published Friday of nearly 2,000 people accusing Obama of allowing human rights violations and war crimes.

“Crimes are crimes, no matter who does them,” the statement reads over pictures of Obama and his predecessor George W. Bush due to appear in the New York Review of Books.

As much as I dislike Obama, I got his back on this one. I’m also shocked that the left wing nuts aren’t being the usual hypocrites on an issue. Of course, these 2,000 or so liberal actors and “intellects” is just a fraction of the amount we heard whining about Dubya.

The statement, published as a paid advertisement, accuses Obama, who was elected in 2008 with the enthusiastic support of US liberals, of continuing Bush’s controversial approach to human rights in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in domestic security.

It takes aim especially at Obama’s decision — reported by US officials — to authorize the killing of a radical Islamic cleric and US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, who is accused of ties to Al-Qaeda in Yemen.

“In some respects this is worse than Bush,” the statement says. “First, because Obama has claimed the right to assassinate American citizens whom he suspects of ‘terrorism,’ merely on the grounds of his own suspicion or that of the CIA, something Bush never claimed publicly.”

Among the signatories are linguist Noam Chomsky, “L.A. Confidential” actor James Cromwell, actor Mark Ruffalo and prominent Bush-era anti-war protestor Cindy Sheehan. By midday Thursday there were 1,804 signatures.

They also lambast Obama for having refused “to prosecute any members of the Bush regime who are responsible for war crimes, including some who admitted to waterboarding and other forms of torture, thereby making their actions acceptable for him.”

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May 16, 2010 · Filed Under liberals, Terrorism


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  • http://www.middatsdom.com Selena Makeba

    If President Obama has committed crimes as George Bush did, I think he should get the exact same punishment as George Bush received.

    But, oh wait! President Obama doesn’t own any oil wells. He doesn’t have friends who own oil wells in Texas.

    Well, we’ll just have to think of another punishment for President Obama, because allowing him to skyrocket oil prices 6 months before he leaves office to make all his friends rich, won’t work.