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Old 11-20-2015, 06:12 AM
 
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Actually in bombing their mosques, hospitals, shops, homes etc., we are bringing it on ourselves. See Paris if you so doubt.
Why some think that they should be different than we would be is beyond me. If we invade their country and kill them, well too bad, just accept it.
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Old 11-20-2015, 06:16 AM
 
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Actually in bombing their mosques, hospitals, shops, homes etc., we are bringing it on ourselves. See Paris if you so doubt.
If you're an American, you should be ashamed. Sounds like you already are. Don't let the door hit ya on the way out......
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Old 11-20-2015, 06:17 AM
 
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The drone attacks have actually increased under the Obama administration. I wonder why liberals aren't calling him a war criminal or protesting in the streets like they did when Bush/Cheney were in office
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Old 11-20-2015, 06:19 AM
 
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The drone attacks have actually increased under the Obama administration. I wonder why liberals aren't calling him a war criminal or protesting in the streets like they did when Bush/Cheney were in office
Unfortunately for a large majority politics trump principles. People complain about the dangers of religion and there indeed can be but politics are most certainly as dangerous.
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Old 11-20-2015, 06:21 AM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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How would you feel if american soldiers pulled women and children from their homes and shot them in the street? it's essentialy the same as killing them with a drone.
So... why is Obama doing it?
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Old 11-20-2015, 06:23 AM
 
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The drone attacks have actually increased under the Obama administration. I wonder why liberals aren't calling him a war criminal or protesting in the streets like they did when Bush/Cheney were in office
I'm a liberal and the drone program is one of the things I vehemently disagree with the president about. It's ironic that it's one of the few things the right thinks he is doing right.
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Old 11-20-2015, 06:26 AM
 
Location: Upstate NY 🇺🇸
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Whatever allows you to sleep at night. Kids don't harbor "terrorists".

Someone missed the recent Frontline episode about kids' camps in Afghanistan.

Memo: Worry about the terrorists targeting kids and the elderly. It must be the pits to think that your own country does that.

*Sigh*
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Old 11-20-2015, 07:36 AM
 
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Someone missed the recent Frontline episode about kids' camps in Afghanistan.

Memo: Worry about the terrorists targeting kids and the elderly. It must be the pits to think that your own country does that.

*Sigh*
If you think the kill, kill, kill rhetoric coming from many in the U.S. isn't doing the exact same thing to our kids, you are mistaken.

I do not understand what the difference is in who targets kids and elderly. Why is it wrong for one but not the other? How is it our problem to deal with?

Let's say, Syria says, "look at all the kids and young men being killed in Chicago, let's invade and try to stop that", would it be legit? Would we be fine with that?

If not, why should they be O.K. with us doing it?
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Old 11-20-2015, 07:38 AM
 
Location: Miami, FL
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Reminds me that anti-partisan measures historically draw in new recruits for the guerrillas through deaths of innocent family members and acquaintanecs.

Last edited by Felix C; 11-20-2015 at 08:16 AM..
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Old 11-20-2015, 08:15 AM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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If you're an American, you should be ashamed. Sounds like you already are. Don't let the door hit ya on the way out......
Ashamed for speaking the truth? War is a RACKET and it is long past time to leave the Middle East and never return. You cannot teach people not to kill by killing. It is insanity. Our Government and Military Industrial Complex is responsible for the creation of ISIS. We have armed and funded "rebel group" after "rebel group" that later go on to join ISIS or other terrible groups.

What you support is creating more and more terrorists, and will leave our nation broke and devastated.

Maybe it is YOU who should get out.

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