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In reply to the discussion: Cheney backs Obama on drones [View all]Sunlei
(22,651 posts)55. terrorists are usually men, not monks. They have woman and children, families.
Their Leadership are usually educated for years and cowards, they won't strap the bomb to themselves. When we take out a Leader that group may never recover.
And it does the community good, one less Leader forcing someone to strap on a bomb.
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...is a shit statement. About the only people speaking out are on the left.
Comrade Grumpy
Feb 2013
#11
Yeah, but jihadist terrorists have a particular tactic they developped for decades.
Amonester
Feb 2013
#47
Nothing in those articles is counter to anything I've said, nor do they verify what you have said
Ash_F
Feb 2013
#86
good thing the sun gives free energy and after the plants use the free energy it's there for humans.
Sunlei
Feb 2013
#56
I back Obama on drone use too. But Cheneny also wants troops on the ground right?
Sunlei
Feb 2013
#17
"I bet the countries that give the USA permission to root out the terrorists like the drones better"
Mutatis Mutandis
Feb 2013
#21
I know war is a terrible thing it is hell. I hate what Bush started, he made the USA a FAT target!
Sunlei
Feb 2013
#23
Both of bin Laden's fatwas against the USA where written well before that POS Bush became POTUS
Mutatis Mutandis
Feb 2013
#28
end the empiric wars, use fair trade, not guns, nationalise the Fed, break up the too-big-to-fail
Mutatis Mutandis
Feb 2013
#33
after shock and awe when bush beat his chest on that ship, mann did that make them hate the usa more
Sunlei
Feb 2013
#52
by "most countries" do you mean most of the people there? or their supreme leader?
Gentle-man
Feb 2013
#36
In many of those countries 90% or more can't read or write, so their Leaders control thebit of media
Sunlei
Feb 2013
#53
Thanks for explaining that in your mind, a country is the same as its leader
Gentle-man
Feb 2013
#63
why do you deflect from cheney the war criminal loves the killer drones, so Obama must be a bad man
Sunlei
Feb 2013
#64
Cheney and Obama see eye-2-eye on illegal "extra-judicial" killings by "Leader of the Free World"
panzerfaust
Feb 2013
#62