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Kill team: Obama war chiefs widen drone death zones
Washington Times ^
| December 3, 2013
| Kristina Wong
Posted on 12/04/2013 7:10:09 AM PST by george76
The Pentagon has loosened its guidelines on avoiding civilian casualties during drone strikes, modifying instructions from requiring military personnel to “ensure” civilians are not targeted to encouraging service members to “avoid targeting” civilians.
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Despite Mr. Obama’s pledge for more transparency on drone strikes, the administration “continues to answer legitimate questions and criticisms by saying, ‘We can’t really talk about this,’”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: civiliancasualties; drone; drones; fascism; wardrones
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posted on
12/04/2013 7:10:10 AM PST
by
george76
To: george76
And yet, soldiers in actual risk of their lives have to wait until fired upon. We’re following the tightly controlled top down strategies that served the Germans so well in World Wars I and II.
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posted on
12/04/2013 7:16:24 AM PST
by
steve8714
(Ted Drewes is proof there is a God...and He wants us to be happy.)
Comment #3 Removed by Moderator
To: TexasCajun
“Where are Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin & Anti-War Poster mom Cindy Sheehan.”
In fairness to those people, they are still out screeching...what is different now is that the president has a D after his name, so the media could give a sh** less about their protests.
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posted on
12/04/2013 7:45:18 AM PST
by
dsrtsage
(One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
To: Nachum
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posted on
12/04/2013 7:47:20 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: george76
Death Bot Barry moves FORWARD!
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posted on
12/04/2013 7:48:09 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: dsrtsage
I've only seen a staged Medea Benjamin outburst one time at some hearing and have never seen Ms Cindy during Obama's presidency?
But you're so right about Obama's MSM Cheerleaders.
To: TexasCajun
What’s with the spelling?
To: Disambiguator
To: TexasCajun
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:03:09 AM PST
by
dsrtsage
(One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:29:27 AM PST
by
Nachum
(Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
To: george76
Obviously emboldened by his Peace Prize.
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:47:39 AM PST
by
ThePatriotsFlag
(...and to the Republic for which it stood.)
To: TexasCajun
The sign she’s holding. “Base” is spelled “bsae.”
To: george76
Obama said he was “really good at killing people”.
To: Disambiguator
The sign she’s holding. “Base” is spelled “bsae.” Whoever made the mistake, she wasn't embarrassed to carry the sign.
To: TexasCajun
Reminds me of this:
To: Disambiguator
Now that's double-bad!
But hey, 'dream' is a 5-letter word. ..it's a tuff one. hehe
To: george76; MestaMachine; Rushmore Rocks; Oorang; sweetiepiezer; txnuke; aragorn; La Lydia; ...
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posted on
12/04/2013 5:18:37 PM PST
by
LucyT
(~ If you're NOT paranoid, you don't know what's going on. ~)
To: LucyT
One can only hope the ROE on American soil are as clement.
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posted on
12/04/2013 5:42:53 PM PST
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: george76
“avoid targeting” civiliansWanna bet the next version will conveniently delete "avoid"?
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posted on
12/04/2013 8:05:45 PM PST
by
bgill
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