In 2010, President Obama sent his counterterrorism advisor, John Brennan, to Yemen to meet with then President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
     In a Gulf News article from September 20, 2010, we read that Brennan "discussed...bilateral cooperation against the continuing threat of Al Qaeda in Yemen."
     Brennan delivered to Saleh a letter written by Obama, a friendly communication reading like a travel brochure composed by a former hippy:
   
     "We are also committed to helping Yemen achieve a future that builds upon the extraordinary talents of its people and the richness of its history.  Yemen possesses a deeply rooted culture, and is widely admired around the world for its ancient traditions, beautiful countryside, and hospitable people.  I am convinced that the people of Yemen can do more than overcome the threats that they face--they can build a future of greater peace and opportunity for their children."
     Five years later, 2,355 Yemeni civilians (Obama's "hospitable" and extraordinarily talented people) have been killed in a war led by Saudi Arabia, supported by the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, Senegal, Sudan, Somalia, Pakistan, and the United States.  The last country named, led by its current president, supported Ali Abdullah Saleh, who lost power in 2012 and now supports the Houthi rebels warring against the righteous coalition led by oil billionaires, using military hardware purchased mainly from the United States to slaughter Yemeni civilians and belligerents.
     When Saleh, a man in his seventies, left Yemen initially in January 2012, he went to New York for medical treatment, then on to Ethiopia for a day, then to Yemen.  Yemenis protested his return.  Like other democracy-seeking citizens during the Arab Spring, many of them were murdered by Saleh's government forces at the same time the Assad regime was murdering Syrian protestors.
     In 2013, according to the Wikipedia article on him, Saleh "opened a museum documenting his 33 years in power...One of the museum's central display cases exhibits a pair of burnt trousers that Saleh was wearing at the time of his assassination attempt in June 2011."
     In the Wikipedia article, the reader can see pictures of Saleh meeting with George W. Bush and also shaking hands with Dick Cheney.  The War on Terror makes familiar bedfellows.
     Saleh, like the United States during the Carter-Reagan-first Bush years, was an ally of Saddam Hussein, and also supported the latter's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
     Are politicians whores?  Will they fuck anyone as long as the money's right?  Is Obama, in his dealings with Saleh, one of these whores?
     "I am convinced," Obama wrote in his letter handed to Saleh in 2010 by John Brennan, current Director of the CIA, "that the people of Yemen can do more than overcome the threats that they face--they can build a future of greater peace and opportunity for their children."
     Hard to do, when a coalition of oil rich nations supported by the United States, led by the same man who wrote the above letter, is bombing those "hospitable" people, with his tacit approval.
   
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