Glenn Greenwald, who was a cheerleader for war in the run up to the invasion of Iraq, can't seem to stop himself from making ignorant accusations against our President, who by the way vigorously opposed the Iraq war. In his most recent post Greenwald makes an outlandish charge:
Beyond that, Obama has used drones to kill Muslim children and innocent adults by the hundreds.
You could make the argument that the Obama has used predator drones too much and too carelessly in attacking suspected terrorists, which has resulted in the deaths of innocent men, women, and children. I'm not here to argue with that position. What Greenwald has done is take it a step further. The way that sentence is written it necessarily implies Obama intentionally kills Muslim children.
Now maybe you could say it was poorly written and that is not what was meant. And if it was anybody else I would believe you. However, based on Greenwald's previous writings on the President, he has been very quick to demonizing him. Greenwald deliberately wrote that sentence to get the maximum amount of outrage from his readers.
Greenwald has done and said a lot of shitty things, but I can't think of anything more outrageous - excluding his support for the Iraq war - than implying that Obama intentionally kills Muslim children. If the editors at Salon have any sort of decency they would demand that Greenwald apologize to his readers and to Obama for such an offensive and outrageous remark.
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