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Secret killing program is key in Iraq, Woodward says
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Posted on 09/09/2008 1:09:28 PM PDT by fontoon

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To: fontoon

let’s just hope Leahy is not let in on the secret. If he is it will be above the fold NY Times the next day.


21 posted on 09/09/2008 1:20:45 PM PDT by mrmargaritaville
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To: fontoon
Those "ghosts" that operate Barrett .50 cal sniper rifles and take out terrorists from a mile away don't necessarily advertise themselves.

The special-ops (black-ops?) guys don't wear those jackets with big yellow letters on them like some FBI or ATF raid to identify the good guys from the bad.

UAVs (armed and un-armed) don't fly low and loud! They fly high and silent...and effectively deadly.

Woodward should be on trial for treason. This, in my opinion does not fall under free speech. It's like the warning here on FR: "loose lips sink ships"

22 posted on 09/09/2008 1:22:28 PM PDT by KriegerGeist (Lifetime member of the "Christian-Radical-Right-Wing-Conspirators")
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To: mrmargaritaville

Woodward is trying desperately to discredit the surge and everything else related to the Bush administration.


23 posted on 09/09/2008 1:22:55 PM PDT by aberfoyle
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To: fontoon

Former Lieutenant Bob Woodward USNR, aid to CNO Admiral Thomas H. Moorer in 1969, would of course have been familiar with the Phoenix program in a different counter-insurgency conflict. It’s predictable that he would assume the same tactical means would be employed in the present conflict.

Question is, so what?


24 posted on 09/09/2008 1:23:47 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Illegal Immigration is not about the immigration. Gun control is not about the guns.)
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To: fontoon; dighton; Tijeras_Slim; martin_fierro; aculeus; Rebelbase
The dramatic drop in violence in Iraq is due in large part to a secret program the U.S. military has used to kill terrorists...

The program...must remain secret for now or it would "get people killed," Woodward said Monday...

Impeccable logic from Mr. Woodward.

25 posted on 09/09/2008 1:23:59 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: fontoon
I guess it's not a secret anymore.


26 posted on 09/09/2008 1:24:36 PM PDT by GunRunner (Obama and Palin have one thing in common; they both make me want to vote for John McCain.)
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To: Da Coyote
Remove a reliable source and this guy is just about as intellectual as Jimmy Carter.

ROTFLOL

27 posted on 09/09/2008 1:25:03 PM PDT by saminfl (conservative since 1964)
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To: fontoon

They started it. I don't much care what we are doing in order to finish it.

Our innovation is in response to their innovation. Our innovation involves killing those who need to be killed, but killing as few as possible. Their innovation involves killing as many people as they can without discrimination.

There is no moral equivalence here. None. Zero. Nada.

28 posted on 09/09/2008 1:25:53 PM PDT by gridlock (HIX IN STIX DIG MCCAIN CHICK PICK)
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To: fontoon

Woody is a cancer growing unabated on the tuchus of the Republic.


29 posted on 09/09/2008 1:27:23 PM PDT by Calusa (Bajo como el Dolar. Subo como el Cafe!)
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To: mrmargaritaville

I think you may have just answered my “So what” question. This could be fodder for an October surprise.


30 posted on 09/09/2008 1:27:26 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Illegal Immigration is not about the immigration. Gun control is not about the guns.)
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To: comps4spice

Believe it or not, Woodward is not a leftist. I don’t know what he is, but I don’t think he fits any category at all. He is definitely out there.


31 posted on 09/09/2008 1:28:02 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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32 posted on 09/09/2008 1:28:06 PM PDT by BGHater (Democracy is the road to socialism.)
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The democrats argued that it was because the sunnies and shiites stopped fighting - the surge was a failure.

Now it seems a secret weapon that only kills there “freedom fighters” has been developed.

What will Obama say now.


33 posted on 09/09/2008 1:28:29 PM PDT by edcoil
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And these programs are Top Secret (SCI) so who is the leaker???


34 posted on 09/09/2008 1:28:59 PM PDT by Arkansas Tider (Army EOD)
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To: fontoon

How ‘bout a coupla good ‘ol Marine snipers? Won’t take many to “get some”!


35 posted on 09/09/2008 1:31:45 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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bttt


36 posted on 09/09/2008 1:32:41 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (Obama is the Democrats guy. They bought the ticket, now they must take the ride.)
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To: fontoon
Earth to Bob. Earth to Bob.

Message: Yes they are killing terrorists in Iraq. This is called war and the idea behind war is to kill enough of your enemies soldiers that your enemy quits and stops fighting. That's what we did in Iraq and there is name for the result. It's called victory.

37 posted on 09/09/2008 1:33:41 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: fontoon

If it would get people killed why is Woodward is alive?


38 posted on 09/09/2008 1:33:55 PM PDT by nclaurel (I think therefore I vote Republican.)
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To: Arkansas Tider

...and why is Woodward’s revealation about out secret capabilities any different than some eeevil Bushco operative outing blondsuperspyvixen Valerie Plame?


39 posted on 09/09/2008 1:34:06 PM PDT by AngryJawa (Someday, the USS Sarah Palin will lead the world's most powerful carrier battle group)
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To: Arkansas Tider

I think the secret weapon is 308 caliber.


40 posted on 09/09/2008 1:34:49 PM PDT by refermech
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