And we wonder why they are causing problems…. David
Begin forwarded message: > From: America Conservative 2 Conservative <[email protected]> > Subject: Obama threatened Nigeria in 2013 with sanctions if they came down > too hard on Boko Haram > Date: May 16, 2014 at 8:07:46 AM CDT > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > > Remember when Barack Hussein Obama threatened Nigeria in 2013 with sanctions > if they came down too hard on Boko Haram? > by BareNakedIslam > URL:http://wp.me/p276zM-14ea > Soon after John Kerry took over as Secretary of State, the U.S. Ambassador to > Nigeria, Terence P. McCulley, accused the Nigerian government of butchery > during a confrontation with Boko Haram terrorists in Baga, and in May 2013 > threatened to withdraw U.S. military aid from the West African nation. > > Canada Free Press Boko Haram militants attacked a Nigerian military outpost > in April 2013 outside Baga, killing one soldier. Following the three-day > battle human rights activists, including the George Soros-funded and liberal > aligned Human Rights Watch, which is not exactly known for its impartiality > when it comes to reporting on Islamic issues, claimed the Nigerian military > wantonly slaughtered 183 civilians and burned down over 2,000 homes and > businesses. > No wonder the Nigerian government was initially reluctant to accept U.S. > assistance with finding the more than 200 Christian girls kidnapped by Boko > Haram last month. Emboldening Nigeria’s Islamic terrorist enemies and having > been already accused by the Obama administration of crimes against humanity > for fighting militants who were responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths > since 2010, they likely felt that Obama’s belated support was more a product > of diplomatic CYA than actually caring about the fate of kidnapped Nigerian > children. > The Nigerian government denied the claims saying the death toll and > destruction had been vastly overstated by its enemies, and in fact 30 Boko > Haram terrorists, 6 civilians and one soldier, had died in the fighting. > Reports from the Baga clinic, which treated193 people following the battle, > but only 10 with serious injuries, seemed to back up the Nigerian government > claim that no large-scale massacre had occurred. > BOKO HARAM: Terror, Blood and Death of Christians: http://youtu.be/WyqUZQLc-dA > McCain: Let’s send U.S. Special Forces into Nigeria to rescue the kidnapped > girls > Posted on 13 May, 2014 by sophia > > And if the Nigerian government refuses? Screw ‘em, says Maverick. We’re going > in anyway. > Hashtaggers to the left of me, ultra-hawks to the right. Here I am, stuck in > the middle with you. > “If they knew where they were, I certainly would send in U.S. troops to > rescue them, in a New York minute I would, without permission of the host > country,” McCain told The Daily Beast Tuesday. “I wouldn’t be waiting for > some kind of permission from some guy named Goodluck Jonathan,” he added, > referring to the president of Nigeria... > McCain said that if he were the American president, he would already be doing > several things to respond to the kidnapping of the over 200 girls by the > Nigerian terrorist group that the Obama administration has so far declined to > do. Those measures include prepositioning U.S. special forces to be ready to > enter Nigeria and rescue the girls if the opportunity arose. He said that the > United Nations charter authorized military intervention on behalf of the > girls because their abduction rose to the level of “crimes against > humanity.”... > Crimes against humanity, as defined by the Rome Statute of the International > Criminal Court Explanatory Memorandum, “are particularly odious offenses in > that they constitute a serious attack on human dignity or grave humiliation > or a degradation of human beings.”... > “I would not be involved in the niceties of getting the Nigerian government > to agree, because if we did rescue these people, there would be nothing but > gratitude from the Nigerian government, such as it is,” he said. > So McCain’s now fully embracing the “Uncle Sam, world cop” vision, huh? > Intervention anywhere, with or without the governing regime’s permission, > with or without any compelling U.S. national-security interest at stake, with > no authorization needed beyond the assertion that a crime against humanity is > taking place. (Somewhere right now, Putin’s conferring with his inner circle > about “crimes against humanity” being committed against ethnic Russians in > Kiev.) I’m tempted to ask whether he’d at least require the president to get > an AUMF from Congress, but we all know the answer — of course not. That would > only impede the mission. In a sense, all he’s doing here is extending the > drone philosophy a few steps further: If we can blow up Boko Haram from the > sky with the permission of the Nigerian government, we shouldn’t let the > regime’s cowardice or corruption stop us from blowing them up without > permission. And if we can blow them up without permission, why couldn’t we > blow them up from the ground by sending in U.S. troops with grenades? We did > it to Bin Laden, after all. QED. There’s no limiting principle on this theory > of intervention that I can see except for McCain’s own personal understanding > of what constitutes a “crime against humanity.” Which, I’m gonna go ahead and > guess, is broad. > Serious question: By Maverick’s logic, shouldn’t we send an American army > into Syria? There are lots of crimes against humanity happening there so > there’s no need to wait for a formal UN resolution to act. The only > difference between attacking Assad and attacking Boko Haram is the certainty > of many more U.S. casualties in the former scenario, but if McCain’s willing > to see a few Americans die to free several hundred Nigerian schoolgirls, I’m > not sure why he wouldn’t be willing to see a few thousand die to protect > hundreds of thousands of endangered Syrian Sunnis. While we’re at it, we > might as well send troops into Sudan and Congo too, where there are crimes > against humanity happening every day. Invade everywhere. See now why Rand > Paul has a chance in 2016? > http://hotair.com/archives/2014/05/13/mccain-lets-send-u-s-special-... > > Is Hollywood Outrage over Kidnapping of Nigerian Schoolgirls by Boko Haram > Genuine, or another Trendy Cause? > Posted by Richard Anthony > While I agree that the kidnapping of school girls by the Islamic terror group > Boko Haram is beyond monstrous, I find the "outrage" expressed by Hollywood > liberals too little, too late. Where was Hollywood's "outrage" when > Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were murdered? Why are they > silent on that? While we can all agree that the heinous crime committed > against those children is horrible, why the "selective outrage" now? I'd be > mad as hell at Hillary Clinton for not listing Boko Haram as a terrorist > organization. Why is Hollywood silent while Christian men, women and children > are systematically slaughtered all over Africa by Islamic terror groups? And > where was Hollywood when a British soldier was literally slaughtered as a pig > on a busy London street? Forgive me if I find their selective outrage over > this atrocity genuine. Bill Maher is an example of what I'm talking about. > http://youtu.be/fGjJtBG8hCw > Islam is not a friend of Christianity, Judaism or Buddhism. Islam is the > enemy of our constitutional republic, democracy, free speech and women. While > I may not agree with those that identify themselves as homosexuals, Islam is > also the sworn enemy of homosexuality and they kill sodomites. > So why this supposed "out-cry" now from Hollywood? > Click here and let me show you what "Islam" is all about (WARNING- Extremely > violent content). > http://www.prochan.com/embed?f=7e5_1357589309 > The video link above was a glimpse at the practitioners of the "Religion of > Peace" doing what they do best – beheading those who don't follow the same > religion. A few executions by gunshot to the head are blended with the mix, > but most of it are typical Islamic beheadings. Traditionally, there's a lot > of "Allahu Akbar" being shouted in the compilation, because there's no better > way to celebrate the greatness of your God than by beheading people. > These kind of atrocities happen every single day somewhere in the Islamic > world, those victims in the video are real human beings being put to death in > the most barbaric fashion imaginable. The animals who commit these atrocities > are able to go home after committing them and sit down at their table and eat > their dinner. > So again I ask: "Where the hell is your "outrage" over that Hollywood?" > Hollywood is also silent for the thousands of "Honor killings" perpetrated > upon helpless women all over the Islamic world. So forgive me if I think that > Hollywood's liberals expressing outrage over the kidnapping of school girls, > who more than likely, will be either raped or sold into slavery or perhaps > BOTH is nothing more than another one of their "trendy causes." If someone > like Bill Maher really wanted to impress the world with his "concern" over > the plight of women in Islam, instead of donating a million dollars to the > DNC, like he did for the last presidential election, he would donate that > money to help women who are the victims of the "Religion of Peace." > Here is my personal message to all you Hollywood liberal scumbags - Stick to > doing what you do best: Making believe for a living! 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