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2013-07-03 India-Pakistan

17 (supposedly) Killed in North Wazoo Drone Strike

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Posted by Glenmore 2013-07-03 08:23|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I remember when USA condemned targeted assassinations.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-07-03 08:54|| 2013-07-03 08:54|| Front Page Top

#2 That was back when the inmates weren't in charge of the asylum.

Posted by Pappy 2013-07-03 10:50|| 2013-07-03 10:50|| Front Page Top

#3 More, please. Bring it on.

Posted by Lex 2013-07-03 10:54|| 2013-07-03 10:54|| Front Page Top

#4 No, Chomsk-, I mean Glenmore, we didn't "miss the target and kill 17 innocent women and children."

From those running- dog lackeys of US imperialism at the Times of India:

"Most of those killed were fighters for the Haqqani network, according to three Taliban commanders and security officials...."

Posted by Lex 2013-07-03 11:01|| 2013-07-03 11:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Lex, I was just reporting the news as it will be reported later. Maybe it won't be women and children, but goats and fluffy bunnies; that's always how it ends up reported, so I just cut out the intermediate step.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-07-03 11:17|| 2013-07-03 11:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Faire un oeuf, G.

Posted by Lex 2013-07-03 12:16|| 2013-07-03 12:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Lex, I'm curious, since I confess I have been reading RB for years and may have missed your prior visits that you made mention of some time back. You seem to have made it a mission to offer an alternative to many of the voices here I have come to respect and enjoy on an array of topics. Perhaps some CV, anonymous of course, to suggest your experential basis for some of your assertions? Sarcasm and innuendo have power when based on knowledge and experience, but seem shrill and shallow when clueless. I'm sure a number of us would like to know, since you seem to enjoy extensive oratory....

Posted by NoMoreBS 2013-07-03 12:25|| 2013-07-03 12:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Nat sec'y liberal. Tech industry.

Pro-socialized medicine, anti-illegal immigration/swamping our low-end labor market with an imported underclass, pro-war on terror ruthlessly prosecuted in the shadows and from the skies. Pro-strong gov't, both at home to protect the weak and abroad, to protect liberal democracy from the likes of the ChiComs and Norks, the Islamists, Putin, the shitty little Latin American caudillos etc.

Me, I don't understand the paranoid hatred of a president who is ruthlessly taking the W oT to the Islamists. Never thought I'd see national security types imitating Chomsky and Mikey Moore. Weird. Also troubling.

Posted by Lex 2013-07-03 12:42|| 2013-07-03 12:42|| Front Page Top

#9 The problem is simply that Obama LIES, anything and everything is suspect, we don't know where his lies end, Soo anything he says is a lie until proven otherwise.

Now how can you believe what he says, Or can you.

I CAN'T.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-07-03 13:56|| 2013-07-03 13:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Lex, have you any insight into the spot price of AK-47s in Peshawar?

Posted by Shipman 2013-07-03 14:18|| 2013-07-03 14:18|| Front Page Top

#11 Why does the Pak army never try to invade North Waziristan the way they did in South Waziristan?

Too many Pak army/ISI assets there?

Posted by Paul D 2013-07-03 15:12|| 2013-07-03 15:12|| Front Page Top

#12 Me, I don't understand the paranoid hatred of a president who is ruthlessly taking the W oT to the Islamists. Never thought I'd see national security types imitating Chomsky and Mikey Moore. Weird. Also troubling.

No, not following you around, just making the rounds. My dislike for the man, well that random appearance on the football game was obnoxious, but the pooch on Greensburg. See, I watched that thing form and my department was the first on scene. Yeah, so what, he just read the prompter and someone didn't care to get the number right, whatever. Now it took then Governor Sebilius three days to even acknowledge the disaster, and when she did it was a totally scripted party line, and I can get into that if you want - shorthand she blamed Bush for having the KANG overseas and when that unit returned she skipped it for a rainy parade in Lawrence. But the KANG was there within hours - the then Adjutant General of the KANG supposedly grabbed his gear and left the second he heard about it. She flat out lied.

Sebilius made her career in Kansas as the Insurance Commissioner. She also tried to funnel money around Congress by executive order. With the defeat of HillaryCare! and control of Congress by the Democrats it was pretty easy to deduce that some sort of major push on health insurance was going to happen. When Sebilius was put on Team Obama as HHS, plus the shitpot of czars - and yes I had disagreements about Bush's czar - I knew what kind of people were being put in charge.

No, what I really dislike was the total flip by my peers who spent 8 years Bush-whacking me were now high-fiving things Obama was doing x2 what Bush did. After his typical racist Kansan deal, suddenly me peers found my discussion racist, so I could see where this was going.

Drone theory is ok in my book, hopefully we are hitting the bad guys. I didn't like his breakfast kill list, mostly because he has made it clear his values and mine are very different. I didn't like waking up to find cruise missiles landing in Libya with a president which had to be shamed into making a comment about it, breaking up his va-cay. I don't like his Attorney General threatening my state. As for the paranoids I know, I don't like that they are saying, "Told ya so." as the NYTs reports that yes, they are scanning our mail.

*fun fact about Sebilius: she was the keynote speaker at the Greensburg graduation. Their mascot used to be The Rangers. Her crescendo was "Rangers lead the way!" with a fist pump. So ridiculous the news who had been breathless reporting this event failed to mention that she was even there.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-07-03 18:19|| 2013-07-03 18:19|| Front Page Top

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