Brand neglects to point out Obama's most egregious offense, he extended the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) introduced after the inside job of 9/11 (fitting that it's the same AIPAC / Rothchilds behind both 9/11, proping up and issuing orders to puppet(s) OBiden, and now behind the call for censorship of 1st Amendment protected speech on the net conflating any questioning of official narratives as anti-semitism / Hate Speech), not only did Obama extend the Patriot Act when given the opportunity to let it expire, but with his drafting of the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) he also added the ability to extra-judicially kill any American citizen accused of engaging in "Terrorism" (huge grey area here, does this post count as Terrorism, according to the NDAA, yes it does and I can either be killed or whisked off to a CIA Black Site).
For a comprehensive list of Obama's offenses please visit: https://www.stpete4peace.org/obama-fact-sheet
Among other things, President Barack Obama's administration:
- Dropped bombs in 7 countries (all predominantly Muslim).
- Sent 3,500 U.S. troops and tanks to Russia's doorstep in one of his final decisions as president.
- Ordered ten times more drone strikes than Bush.
- Dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016 alone (an average of 72 bombs every day).
- Put boots on the ground in Syria , despite 16 times saying "no boots on the ground".
- Despite campaign pledges, planned a $1 trillion progam to add more nuclear weapons to the US arsenal in the next 30 years.
- Said, “I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being.”
- Joked about his use of drones - I'm "really good at killing people".
- Deported a record 2 million immigrants.
- Just like Trump, separated immigrant children from their families.
- In his 2021 book, Obama noted, “Young Hispanics asked why my administration was still deporting undocumented workers and separating families at the border,” - while failing to discuss immigration in the context of coups (attempted & successful) he led in Central & South America.
- Signed the Monsanto Protection Act into law.
- Personally oversaw a secret kill list.
- Reingnited the war on Iraq 'saying it's a long-term project'.
- Pushed for war on Syria while siding with al-Qaeda.
- Knowingly funded a designated al-Qaeda affiliate.
- Backed neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
- Supported Israel's wars and occupation of Palestine.
- Deployed Special Ops to 134 countries - compared to 60 under Bush.
- Did a TV commercial promoting "clean coal".
- Drastically escalated the NSA spying program.
- Signed the NDAA into law - making it legal to assassinate Americans w/o charge or trial.
- Gave Bush absolute immunity for everything.
- Pushed for a TPP Trade Pact.
- Started a new war on terror - this one on ISIS.
- Signed more executive memoranda than any other president in history.
- Transferred more than $100 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia, more than any other administration in history.
- Signed an agreement for 7 military bases in Colombia.
- Levelled cripling sanctions on Venezulea calling them an "unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security".
- Opened a military base in Chile.
- Touted nuclear power , even after the disaster in Japan.
- Opened up deepwater oil drilling, even after the BP disaster.
- Mandated the Insider Threat Program which orders federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues.
- Defended body scans and pat-downs at airports.
- Signed the Patriot Act extension into law.
- Launched 20,000 Airstrikes in his first term.
- Continued Bush's rendition program.
- Said the U.S. is the "one indispensable nation" in the world.
- Waged war on Libya without congressional approval.
- Started a covert, drone war in Yemen.
- Escalated the proxy war in Somalia.
- Escalated the CIA drone war in Pakistan.
- Sharply escalated the war in Afghanistan.
- Repealed the Propaganda ban, making it legal to spread government propaganda via news outlets.
- Assassinated 4 US citizens with drone strikes.
