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Charlie Hebdo invited blowback, and it got it.

Revenge for perpetual war motivated terrorists.

Terrorists claim they were motivated by Abu Gharib. More blowback.

The lives of journalists aren't more important than anybody else.

This attacked benefited our rulers, warmongers and the war profiteers. It will also benefit terrorist leaders. The losers are all the people.

Hypocrisy of the march in France.

"The big French free-speech march was led by such “world leaders” as Hollande, Cameron, Merkel, and Netanyahu, all of whom enthusiastically jail people for thought crimes expressed in speech or print."

Only governments can attack free speech. More on our rulers' hypocrisy. More free speech hypocrisy.

More hypocrisy.

"It was only natural that "world leaders" would place themselves at the head of the Paris "unity" demonstration held to express outrage at the vicious Charlie Hebdo murders. Daniel Wickham, a student at the London School of Economics, compiled a list of the enemies of free speech who elbowed their way to the head of the march. Most hypocritical of all are the French themselves, who have laws against "hate speech" which are only selectively enforced and which have been used against the editors of Charlie Hebdo in the past. This cognitive dissonance was eloquently expressed by one Frenchman who carried a sign saying: "I’m marching but I’m conscious of the confusion and hypocrisy of the situation.""

No kidding.

"That politicians would steal the spotlight and turn the sincere outrage of millions into an opportunity for self-advertisement is hardly surprising. Sincerity has its uses, however, and these will become apparent in the days and weeks to come. Those marchers will soon be cheering their soldiers as they go marching off to war, with "Je suis Charlie" inscribed on their banners.
The target? Syria, where "links" have been found between the Paris attacks and the self-proclaimed "Caliphate"of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi."

ISIS is in every report. Obama will host his anti-terror summit in a month, as if it was pre-planned. That probably means the war on Syria will be expanded. Probably boots on the ground.

"The Islamic State has been trying to provoke a major military response from the Western powers for months now, executing American journalists and aid workers and posting videos of the executions on the Internet, but so far the US has reacted with caution. So they resorted to attacking the West on its own soil, and now the chorus of voices calling for an all-out invasion of Syria will become deafening, drowning out all reason."

ISIS wants a bigger war on Syria to help them take power.

"There’s something more than a little counterintuitive about McCain’s call for a no-fly zone: after all, ISIS doesn’t have an air force, while the most effective counterweight to them – the Syrian government – does indeed. If McCain’s concern is ISIS, then why go after Bashar al-Assad? And as for arming the Syrian Free Army: those arms are more than likely to show up in the hands of ISIS."

This stinks of pre-planning.

More hypocrisy.

"Tweets Glenn Greenwald:

In 2009, Charlie Hedbo fired a writer for a joke they said as anti-semitic – then he was charged with a hate crime."

Crazy.

Obama and company slammed for not showing up in Paris to exploit the tragedy.

Hamburg paper firebombed for reprinting Charlie Hebdo cartoons critical of Mohammad.