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Old 06-30-2011, 05:37 PM
 
Location: Northern CA
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The airstrike makes Somalia at least the sixth country where the United States is using drone aircraft to conduct lethal attacks, joining Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq and Yemen. And it comes as the CIA is expected to begin flying armed drones over Yemen in its hunt for al-Qaeda operatives.
U.S. drone targets two leaders of Somali group allied with al-Qaeda - The Washington Post
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Old 06-30-2011, 05:39 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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"Let me be clear..."

"...not a war!"

Love,
Barack H. Obama
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Old 06-30-2011, 05:39 PM
 
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6 countries being bombed, 3 without Congressional authorization from the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
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Old 06-30-2011, 05:40 PM
 
Location: Eastern NC
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Good, its about time we had a President who was willing to go where ever was needed to go after terrorist without invading countries that had nothing to do with terrorism.
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Old 06-30-2011, 05:40 PM
 
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It's a good thing they gave him the peace prize, or else he might've started a dozen wars.
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Old 06-30-2011, 05:41 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Good, its about time we had a President who was willing to go where ever was needed to go after terrorist without invading countries that had nothing to do with terrorism.
Mr. Cheney, how's your heart doing? Isn't it bedtime for you yet?
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Old 06-30-2011, 05:42 PM
 
Location: Eastern NC
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Why are repubs so against going after terrorists now when they were so gungho about it during the Bush years?
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Old 06-30-2011, 05:42 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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I'm okay with using drones for precise targets, i.e. specific individuals.

[better than full-on invasions just to get one guy]
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Old 06-30-2011, 05:43 PM
 
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Hit em where they run to. We ran em all outta Iraq and Afghan to the horn to become "pirates" now keep the boot on their throats. This is nothing along the lines of the kinetic activity in Libya. We don't even know who these "rebels" are were supporting there to this day.
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Old 06-30-2011, 05:43 PM
 
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Why are repubs so against going after terrorists now when they were so gungho about it during the Bush years?
Mr. Cheney, don't think of it as losing a neo-con in the WH. Think of it as gaining a neo-prog.

(twist on losing daughter, gaining son wedding speech)
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