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81. You think getting out of Afghanistan

Reply to treestar (Reply #76)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 08:09 PM

Feb 2013

is going to stop the drones?

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It's Just Shocking What the Drone War Cheerleaders Are Willing to Say Out Loud [View all] xchrom Feb 2013 OP

k/r......The attempts to justify and rationalize this are sad to watch. marmar Feb 2013 #1

+1 xchrom Feb 2013 #2

sad and horrifying indeed. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #3

"It's essentially a helicopter!" Earth_First Feb 2013 #4

Domestic? Gore1FL Feb 2013 #89

K&R (n/t) bread_and_roses Feb 2013 #5

"And so many are trying to change the linguistic foundation of the discourse redgreenandblue Feb 2013 #6

Do the whiners John2 Feb 2013 #7

Yes, we know. Hissyspit Feb 2013 #9

Plus these kids are not American kids. truedelphi Feb 2013 #109

Wow...a perfect example of what the OP is about...thanks. zeemike Feb 2013 #11

As I've said before, I also see nobody volunteering to catch these killers. DaveJ Feb 2013 #12

Wow, you make some pretty serious accusations there pal, MadHound Feb 2013 #24

That makes no sense whatsoever. DaveJ Feb 2013 #27

Then let me spell it out for you like I would a two year old, MadHound Feb 2013 #28

you might want to take a good look around your gastrointestinal system.. frylock Feb 2013 #98

Seems to me, the killers are the "troops". Arctic Dave Feb 2013 #31

Post removed Post removed Feb 2013 #35

Let me get you a tissue and a fainting couch. Arctic Dave Feb 2013 #38

So anonymous, risk free slaughter of our little brown brothers pscot Feb 2013 #49

Pre-killers. morningfog Feb 2013 #64

You offer a false choice Martin Eden Feb 2013 #85

Given that I do not have access to all the intelligence DaveJ Feb 2013 #86

Drone=Epic fail nvme Feb 2013 #96

same thing the bush fanbois said.. frylock Feb 2013 #99

What is "necessary" is 1/4 of the crux of my issue with drones Martin Eden Feb 2013 #112

Wow, two right-wing talking points. Hissyspit Feb 2013 #114

False dichotomies. Hissyspit Feb 2013 #118

You can make this shit up. GeorgeGist Feb 2013 #88

The alternative isn't just to send people in to catch the criminals. JDPriestly Feb 2013 #91

1. We don't necessarily know they are killers. Hissyspit Feb 2013 #113

Oh, pathetic. "After 9/11"... sibelian Feb 2013 #116

Don't you love how we're not good liberals Hissyspit Feb 2013 #119

Well, seeing how with each drone strike, it has already been proven that we generate more terrorists RC Feb 2013 #17

A "rise in al-Qaida recruits" doesn't necessarily mean more terrorists DaveJ Feb 2013 #25

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

WE'll see how happy you are with this stance... 99Forever Feb 2013 #21

he'll be whistling dixie out of his fucking butthole frylock Feb 2013 #100

We've changed the war, were are not fighting religious extremist any more, bahrbearian Feb 2013 #23

And is it our job to police the world? glowing Feb 2013 #29

+1 daleanime Feb 2013 #41

"over 200 children" PDittie Feb 2013 #33

What a great patriot you are! Chef Eric Feb 2013 #36

Your continuing the wrong war.... daleanime Feb 2013 #39

THEY STARTED IT! bobclark86 Feb 2013 #40

+1 graham4anything Feb 2013 #50

Yet another post that wouldn't have existed before 2009 nt Dreamer Tatum Feb 2013 #56

What war are you talking about? sabrina 1 Feb 2013 #67

+infinity daleanime Feb 2013 #72

Exactly correct. Thank you. JEB Feb 2013 #95

Whiner ... GeorgeGist Feb 2013 #87

that whooshing sound you hear? it ain't one of your precious drones. frylock Feb 2013 #97

Whiner = sibelian Feb 2013 #115

Spot on Puzzledtraveller Feb 2013 #8

Well said. K&R G_j Feb 2013 #10

It's the Bush-Cheney Boiled Frog Effect. n/t Pryderi Feb 2013 #13

K&R. I've seen the "Why do you hate the troops?" argument used here bullwinkle428 Feb 2013 #14

And now it seems that same Freepturd thinking is accepted here as rational opinion. RC Feb 2013 #19

secretdronekilllistunderground frylock Feb 2013 #102

For several different topics... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2013 #45

word up frylock Feb 2013 #103

A Kinder, Gentler Death Machine n2doc Feb 2013 #15

I think it is simply because it is Obama doing it. The Link Feb 2013 #16

An appropriate Richard Nixon quote 90-percent Feb 2013 #18

What fuck is a "Humane Weapon" Heather MC Feb 2013 #22

they're not drone murder cheerleaders Doctor_J Feb 2013 #26

Fixed it for ya. RC Feb 2013 #43

i'll be front and center reminding every one of those shitlumps.. frylock Feb 2013 #104

When you blow people up, the survivors tend to get annoyed. Jackpine Radical Feb 2013 #30

Posts like this... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2013 #47

Flattery will get you Jackpine Radical Feb 2013 #73

Ha ha... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2013 #93

Good Post! n/t JimDandy Feb 2013 #77

Someone _ON DU_ told me I needed to get over my a2liberal Feb 2013 #32

Sir, it truly is shocking MNBrewer Feb 2013 #34

yep, those things have been obvious from the beginning stupidicus Feb 2013 #42

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

And do you actually have any proof of that contention? MadHound Feb 2013 #48

It's a hypothesis founded on the fact that the NRA is promoting armed overthrow of US government patrice Feb 2013 #51

A hypothesis, OK, everybody is entitled to have one, MadHound Feb 2013 #54

Have you read S. 2205 sponsored by Sen. Moran in the 112th Congress & in the Senate Foreign patrice Feb 2013 #53

And it says nothing about drones, pro or con. MadHound Feb 2013 #57

What might the attitude toward drones be in this crowd, link: patrice Feb 2013 #55

I don't know, and I always find it pointless to speculate on such things, MadHound Feb 2013 #59

You don't speculate = you PRETEND THAT THE RISKS ARE 0. point, set, & match. patrice Feb 2013 #61

and, btw, FOUR fingers!!!! patrice Feb 2013 #63

Whoops, and there you go, MadHound Feb 2013 #66

OK then, I'll be going now. MadHound Feb 2013 #65

"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

Well, that was a grand, nonsensical rant, MadHound Feb 2013 #62

You seem to be getting more and more whatchamacallit Feb 2013 #52

All the nonsense about "this is more humane than sending the troops in or carpet bombing" Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2013 #58

I entirely agree! JimDandy Feb 2013 #80

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

I find it stunning... Oilwellian Feb 2013 #71

That's partly because the Democratic Party is full of republicans. Where else would they rhett o rick Feb 2013 #74

That will happen only when a constitutional convention theaocp Feb 2013 #75

fucking-a frylock Feb 2013 #105

I'm pretty sure that in the event of another terrorist attack treestar Feb 2013 #76

You think getting out of Afghanistan theaocp Feb 2013 #81

Message auto-removed dodgecharger Feb 2013 #78

At least we have a hope he will be transparent about it... Cooley Hurd Feb 2013 #79

Message auto-removed dodgecharger Feb 2013 #82

Actually, drone use has been out there long before he became President. Cooley Hurd Feb 2013 #83

Lack of precautionary measures and indiscriminate use of force seem to this puppy to have been indepat Feb 2013 #84

+1000 blackspade Feb 2013 #90

Honest American families are in the crosshairs of drones..... lib2DaBone Feb 2013 #92

"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

Very well said...... K/R lib2DaBone Feb 2013 #107

^^^^this^^^^ Amonester Feb 2013 #108

Drone Cheerleaders ReRe Feb 2013 #106

K&R DeSwiss Feb 2013 #110

1984 is no longer fiction Theyletmeeatcake2 Feb 2013 #111

kick woo me with science Feb 2013 #117