{"id":24956,"date":"2015-02-07T18:31:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T23:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24956"},"modified":"2015-02-07T18:31:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T23:31:42","slug":"i-hadnt-really-considered-this-angle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24956","title":{"rendered":"I Hadn’t Really Considered This Angle"},"content":{"rendered":"

PJ Media<\/a> posted a story today that I think ads an interesting dimension to President Obama’s<\/a> remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast<\/a>. As you remember, the President reminded us that we should get up on our ‘high horse’ about what the Islamic terrorists<\/a> are doing because some of the history of Christianity is not so pure–the Crusades, Spanish Inquisition<\/a>, support of slavery, etc. First of all, the Crusades were a response to Muslim aggression, and the Christians were the ones who fought slavery.<\/p>\n

As far as the Spanish Inquisition, PJ Media says it better than I can:<\/p>\n

But perhaps it is Obama who should avoid getting on his high horse, since according to recently published statistics, Obama\u2019s drone campaign has killed more people during the six years of his presidency than were killed the 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…At least 2,464 people have now been killed by US drone strikes outside the country\u2019s declared war zones since President Barack Obama\u2019s inauguration six years ago, the Bureau\u2019s latest monthly report reveals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of the total\u00a0killed since Obama took his oath of office\u00a0on January 20 2009, at least 314 have been civilians, while the number of confirmed strikes under his administration now stands at 456.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Research by the Bureau (Bureau of Investigative Journalism) also shows there have now been nearly nine times more strikes under Obama in Pakistan<\/a>, Yemen and Somalia than there were under his predecessor, George W Bush<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And the covert Obama strikes, the first of which hit Pakistan just three days after his inauguration<\/a>, have killed\u00a0almost six\u00a0times more people and twice as many civilians than\u00a0those ordered in the Bush years, the data shows.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The figures have been compiled as part of the Bureau\u2019s monthly report into covert US drone attacks, which are\u00a0run in two separate missions \u2013 one by the CIA<\/a> and one for the Pentagon by its secretive special forces outfit, Joint Special Operations Command<\/a> (JSOC).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The research centers on countries outside the US\u2019s<\/a> declared war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘Nuff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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