{"id":14798,"date":"2010-10-31T14:12:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T20:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14798"},"modified":"2010-10-31T14:12:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T20:12:59","slug":"st-pete-for-peace-among-other-things-since-taking-office-obama-has","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14798","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete for Peace: Among other things, since taking office Obama has…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among other things, since taking office Obama has:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Secretly deployed US special forces to 75 countries<\/a>
\n– Promoted offshore drilling, saying it is “not risky”<\/a>
\n– Continued Bush’s rendition program<\/a>
\n– Started a military offensive in Yemen<\/a>
\n– Escalated the war in Afghanistan<\/a>
\n– Did a TV commercial promoting “clean coal”<\/a>
\n– Increased drone attacks in Pakistan<\/a>
\n– Put missiles and troops near the Russian border<\/a>
\n– Sent ships and missiles to the waters near Iran<\/a>
\n– Increased arms sales<\/a> to Persian Gulf nations
\n– Continued the occupation of Iraq<\/a>, in spite of saying otherwise
\n– Signed agreement for 7 military bases in Colombia<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s a partial history of Obama’s dealings – listed (roughly) chronologically, most recent first:<\/p>\n

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Among other things, since taking office Obama has: – Secretly deployed US special forces to 75 countries – Promoted offshore drilling, saying it is “not risky” – Continued Bush’s rendition program – Started a military offensive in Yemen – Escalated … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3QG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14800,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14798\/revisions\/14800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}