Obama’s Ludicrous ‘Barrel Bomb’ Theme
Exclusive: In addressing the United Nations, President Obama singled out for condemnation Syria’s President Assad and his alleged use of “barrel bombs,” but Obama was silent on his own use of far more powerful ordnance or the civilian tolls from Saudi/Israeli attacks with highly lethal U.S. bombs, writes Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
The U.S. government has dropped hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs on Iraq alone in the last dozen years – and even hailed the start of the bombing campaign in 2003 as “shock and awe” – but now has coyly and repeatedly decried the Syrian government’s supposed use of crude “barrel bombs.”
This hyper-hypocritical propaganda theme was given voice in President Barack Obama’s Sept. 28 speech to the United Nations General Assembly when he denounced anyone who doesn’t favor “regime change” in Syria as advocating “support [for] tyrants like Bashar al-Assad, who drops barrel bombs to massacre innocent children.”
At
the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, President George W.
Bush ordered the U.S. military to conduct a devastating aerial assault
on Baghdad, known as “shock and awe.”
the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, President George W.
Bush ordered the U.S. military to conduct a devastating aerial assault
on Baghdad, known as “shock and awe.”
