Thug Government: Have You Heard Of Obama's Little Covert War In Yemen?

Posted by Brian

President Obama, whom, along with nearly every other Democrat in both the House and the Senate, railed against President Bush for entering into a war with Iraq, has now committed military resources in two more countries. The first obviously, is Libya. Now, the New York Times is reporting that the U.S. is using drones in Yemen to conduct air strikes.
How about the cost of these wars? Wasn't that one of the battle cries of the left during the Bush year? How about getting Congressional approval?  Funny, I don't recall any announcement from this Administration about committing any assets for military actions in Yemen.  I do remember the leftists, both in and out of Congress, repeating the mantra that Bush didn't "declare war", even though he had gotten Congressional approval and funding prior to operations beginning.  Yet we don't hear a word from the leftists about Obama not declaring war either in Libya, or in Yemen. 
The Obama Administration is acting completely rogue.  Congress should cut off any funding to military actions which are not directly related to either Afghanistan or Iraq.  His promise of limited action (days or weeks) is now running into months.  He has not even talked to the American public about Yemen.  No plan. No justification. Nothing.  John F. Kennedy had a little covert military action at one time, which mushroomed into the Vietnam War.  Obama now has a ill-defined war in Libya, and some kind of covert war going on in Yemen?  For what.  We the American people want to know.
This is the same Obama who railed against President Bush for 6 years, attacking the Bush policies with speeches like this one that he read off his teleprompter in 2002 to a bunch of anti-war socialists in Chicago:

That’s what I’m opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

Now let me be clear – I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity.
He’s a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.
But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles...

And in the same speech:
I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the middle east, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of Al Qaeda.

Mr. Obama, where is your clear rationale?  Where is the imminent and direct threat to the United States? And, when did you plan on telling the American people?


U.S. Is Intensifying a Secret Campaign of Yemen Airstrikes

By MARK MAZZETTI
Published: June 8, 2011

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials.
READ MORE HERE--->  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/world/middleeast/09intel.html?_r=1&hp