"He’s a Killer"

 

"Peace prize? He’s a killer."

 

Thus spoke a young Pashtun man to an Al Jazeera English reporter on December 10, 2009 – the day that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize.

 

"Obama," the man added, "has only brought war to our country." 

 

The man spoke from the village of Armal, where a crowd of 100 gathered around the bodies of 12 people, one family from a single home.  The 12 were killed, witnesses reported, by U.S. Special Forces during a late night raid.

 

"Why are they giving Obama a peace medal?" another village resident asked. "He claims to want to bring security to us but he brings only death. Death to him"

 

Al Jazeera went to the Afghan village of Bola Boluk, where a U.S. bombing butchered dozens of civilians last spring.  "He doesn’t deserve the award," a young woman said. "He bombed us and left us with nothing, not even a home"[1]

 

Obama blasted her village last May.  In the first week of that month, the president’s air-strikes killed more than 140 civilians in Bola Boluk, located in western Afghanistan ‘s Farah Province . Ninety-three of the dead villagers torn apart by U.S. explosives were children. Just 22 were males 18 years or older. As the New York Times reported:  

 

"In a phone call played on a loudspeaker on Wednesday to outraged members of the Afghan Parliament," The New York Times reported, "the governor of Farah Province …said that as many as 130 civilians had been killed." According to one Afghan legislator and eyewitness, "the villagers bought two tractor trailers full of pieces of human bodies to his office to prove the casualties that had occurred. Everyone at the governor’s cried, watching that shocking scene."[2]

 

The response of Obama’s Pentagon to this horrific incident – one among many such mass U.S. aerial killings in Afghanistan since October 2001 – was to absurdly blame the civilian deaths on "Taliban grenades."  While

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