Book Alleges Obama Told Aides About Drone Strikes: I’m ‘Really Good At Killing People’

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obama1A new book on the 2012 presidential campaign claims that President Barack Obama told aides that he is “really good at killing people.”

According to Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, the authors of Double Down: Game Change 2012, Obama made the comment while discussing drone strikes last year. CNN’s Peter Hamby noted the anecdote in his review of the book for the Washington Post.

While the White House has not commented on the president’s alleged remarks, senior Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer on Sunday dismissed other reports from the book, including that campaign officials weighed replacing Vice President Joe Biden with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the Democratic ticket.

“The president is always frustrated about leaks,” Pfeiffer said on ABC’s “This Week.” “I haven’t talked to him about this book. I haven’t read it. He hasn’t read it. But he hates leaks.”

Obama, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, has overseen the expansion of the CIA’s targeted killing program, which the Bureau of Investigative Journalism estimates has killed between 2,528 and 3,648 individuals in Pakistan since 2004. That organization also estimates that between 416 and 948 of those killed in drone strikes were civilians — an estimate disputed by the Obama administration.

Read more at Huffington Post.

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8 COMMENTS

  1. Don’t forget how O’bama is cutting food stamps. He is trying to starve us to death. There is not a night my children don’t cry themselves to sleep hungry for food we do not have.

  2. So there were civilians killed in the drone strikes. What happened to the self rightious UN and Ban to the fact that innocent civillians were killed. Only if israel strikes, and only if ” poor palestanians” are killed, does the UN have a judgement to make?

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