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In reply to the discussion: It's Just Shocking What the Drone War Cheerleaders Are Willing to Say Out Loud [View all]Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)79. At least we have a hope he will be transparent about it...
...compared to the living Mummy Cheney who thought such queries were "none of our business".
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xchrom
Feb 2013
OP
"And so many are trying to change the linguistic foundation of the discourse
redgreenandblue
Feb 2013
#6
Well, seeing how with each drone strike, it has already been proven that we generate more terrorists
RC
Feb 2013
#17
Then explain "Shock and Awe" in the middle of the night, in retaliation for 9/11, in a country that
RC
Feb 2013
#37
Is that how you measure a terrorist? By how many innocent people are killed?
A Simple Game
Feb 2013
#20
They are better than the old method of firing lots of cruise missiles at terrorists
FarCenter
Feb 2013
#44
There'd be agreement about this if some anti-drone program leaders werent also PRO assault weapons
patrice
Feb 2013
#46
It's a hypothesis founded on the fact that the NRA is promoting armed overthrow of US government
patrice
Feb 2013
#51
Have you read S. 2205 sponsored by Sen. Moran in the 112th Congress & in the Senate Foreign
patrice
Feb 2013
#53
"I don't speculate..." = PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY, a highly MARKETABLE commodity that produced 9/11.
patrice
Feb 2013
#69
***IF*** the problem is DEAD BODIES, how many DEAD BODIES are YOU willing to pay for being wrong?
patrice
Feb 2013
#60
All the nonsense about "this is more humane than sending the troops in or carpet bombing"
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
#58
We have a loud contingent of the "Bring it on", "Smoke 'em out" wing of the party here.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2013
#68
We've been sold the idea of "necessary war." And if you believe in this, drones make sense.
mikeytherat
Feb 2013
#70
That's partly because the Democratic Party is full of republicans. Where else would they
rhett o rick
Feb 2013
#74
Lack of precautionary measures and indiscriminate use of force seem to this puppy to have been
indepat
Feb 2013
#84
"Dead" is now sanitized into "enhanced unconsciousness" by the Drone cheerleaders.
blkmusclmachine
Feb 2013
#94
This whole drone operation is done at the quest of our Industrial Military Complex...
busterbrown
Feb 2013
#101