What, then, of the possibility that the inbound and outbound bullet-holes might have been produced by just a single Su-27? That scenario has been proposed, but it fails to account for the event, and here is why: The very moment when that gunman poured his hale of bullets into the pilot and thereby pulverized and blew open that huge gaping hole where the pilot was sitting, the plane's pressurized air would have immediately rushed out that hole. It might have broken into pieces within seconds. As Haisenko said, due to the air-pressure-shock to the plane, "The largely intact fragments of the rear sections broke in mid air at the weaker points of contstruction [sp]," thereby producing "the widely scattered field of debris."
I shall close with what I think is the most important fact of all:
No matter whom the trigger-pullers at the bottom of any power-and-authority hierarchy are who actually did this (gunmen or else missilemen), and regardless of whether they even did it intentionally at all, or else entirely by mistake, a far deeper and indisputable reality is that "Obama Definitely Caused the Malaysian Airliner to Be Downed." That's true in the same sense that Adolf Hitler definitely caused the Holocaust to happen: It wouldn't have happened but for him and the decisions and choices that that person at the very top of the power-structure made, which were merely being carried out by his subordinates. He is the one person who should be held accountable the most of all. Obama intends the ethnic-cleansing campaign that is occurring in southeastern Ukraine to get rid of the people who live in the areas that overwhelmingly elected as Ukraine's President in 2010 the man whom Obama's February 2014 coup in Ukraine overthrew. Without that ethnic-cleansing campaign and the consequent need of the residents there to shoot down the Government's planes, even the Obama-team's explanation -- that the aircraft-downing was a case of the residents there firing upon what they thought to be a Government bomber -- wouldn't have existed at all, because there wouldn't then have been the ethnic-cleansing campaign for them to be protecting themselves from. So: even if the downing of that airliner hadn't been done intentionally by the Ukrainian Government as a "false flag event" to blame the victims in order to get the EU to go along with stiffened sanctions against Russia for helping the rebels, those sanctions would still be an outrage: morally, practically, and also violations of international law: aggression that's based on lies. The fact that this was a false-flag event by Obama's people only makes it, and the current U.S. President, an outrage squared: an outrage upon an outrage.
There need to be EU sanctions now against the United States -- my own country -- or else the EU itself is as rotten as the U.S. has become. Instead, the EU has joined Obama's sanctions against Russia. America under Clinton, Bush, and Obama, has performed fine for its aristocracy (which control them all), but abominably for everyone else. Is that the kind of model the EU wishes to copy? If so, it should end, because the EU's leadership then seeks to go the way of the U.S., aristocratically controlled, against the public, a model that's shameful -- scandalous, in fact: something not to be perpetrated against anyone, neither the victims in Obama's MH-17 downing, nor the victims in his ongoing ethnic-cleansing campaign against the residents in Ukraine's southeast. Obama's crimes are much bigger than just the downing of that single airliner.
There is a subordinate fact that extends from this central fact of Obama's clear guilt -- his guilt that would apply regardless of whether some Buk missile system had been fired by rebels to protect themselves and their families from being bombed by planes of the Kiev government: Even if that were the case, the rebels' measure in that matter was purely defensive. Contrast that with the situation that has been described here: The situation that has been described here is that the Kiev government intentionally brought this airliner down. That's not an innocent error; it is instead an enormous intentional war crime, planned as such. If the rebels made a tragic error, by falling for a trap in which the Kiev government had escorted the Malaysian airliner into the war-zone hoping that the rebels would make such an error, then who is the actual guilty party? Is it Obama and the Kiev regime that he installed in order to do this ethnic cleansing so that Ukraine in the future will have only anti-Russian Presidents? Or is it the victims of that ethnic cleansing?
No matter how one looks at this, the guilt is clear and damning against Barack Obama: first, by his installing this ethnic-cleansing regime into power in Ukraine; and then, by his continued support of those bloody psychopaths whom he had empowered there.
No matter what, Barack Obama has massive innocent blood on his hands. And the victims of the MH-17 disaster are only a relatively small part of that much bigger picture.
Thus far, the penalties have fallen on Russia and Vladimir Putin, not on the Ukrainian Government and Barack Obama.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They're Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST'S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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