Trump asked CIA official why drone strike didnt also kill targets family

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: The Hill

President Trump reportedly asked an official at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) why they didn’t kill a terrorist target's family during a drone strike.

The Washington Post reported Thursday after watching a recorded video of a Syrian drone strike where officials waited until the target was outside of his family’s home, Trump asked, “Why did you wait?”

The agency’s head of drone operations explained to an “unimpressed” Trump there are techniques to limit the number of civilian casualties.

Trump called for the CIA to start arming its drone in Syria and reportedly asked for it to be started in days.

Trump said on the 2015 campaign trail that he would “take out” the families of terrorists.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/381925-trump-asked-cia-official-why-drone-strike-didnt-also-kill-targets

[lapfog_1]

1. War Crime

Asshole... killing the family only creates more terrorists!

[Botany]

2. He wants to kill women and children who are not connected to the acts of terror?

I wonder how Trump's evangelical supporters are good with that?

He is one sick sick man.

[njhoneybadger]

4. I'm sure they will revert to the Old Testament to draw parallels.

I don't think Evangelicals are Christians.They are a collective who share a hatred of
various groups of people.

[bitterross]

6. His base will love it. They have no concept of humanity.

His base will be quite happy with this.

I can hear them now very happily supporting him: "Get 'em all Donnie. Kill them terrorist babies and mommies so they don't grow up to be terrorists or drop more of 'em outta their terrorist (insert plural c-word here)." That is the way they all think. Just like 45 thinks. That's why they love him. He IS them when it comes right down to it.

On Edit: The sad thing is that until we stop this madness that we perpetrate in the Middle East their twisted logic is correct. Because we are creating more and more terrorists every day with our actions. This will just add to it.

[Cicada]

7. What Trump proposes is murder in every nation

It is also a war crime to kill on purpose without military reason innocents. Military personnel would refuse Trump’s orders, in my opinion. They know it is murder and a war crime and that following orders would be no excuse.

[Shipwack]

14. I truly wish I could agree with you...

“Military personnel would refuse Trump’s orders, in my opinion.“

A few military personnel -might- refuse (assuming they knew of the intended targets). If they refused to follow orders they would be easily replaced. There are enough people in the military* willing to do shameful things that the search wouldn’t take too long.

The people who end up carrying out these war crimes will do it without fear of consequences. How many involved with Bush the Lesser’s rendition/torture program paid any price? There was one low-level enlisted man, I think, that served time, out of the hundreds of people involved in that abomination.


*not disparaging our military in general; I’m a retired vet.

[Cicada]

23. I guess you're right.

[brooklynite]

9. Samuel 15...

Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”

[maddiemom]

16. OK with them, as long as no abortion is going on.

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. This is what happens...

When you don't prosecute war crimes.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

5. There is a scene in the film, KING ARTHUR......

After a Briton village is ransacked by invading Saxons, men, women, and children are killed. The Saxon leader tells his men to even kill the children...His reply is this....
"Never leave alive anyone strong enough to weild a sword."

That ideology does not work today.

[Javaman]

8. the orange asshole would have made a perfect medieval tyrant or...

a nazi...oh wait.

[Moostache]

10. I renew my plea to the universe once more...

"Oh please life giving Gaia, find it in the interests of all life to extinguish one Donald J. Trump via an exploding aorta, amen."

[hueymahl]

13. And take Pence with him

Pence in charge makes me shudder.

[niyad]

21. sadly, the whole line of succession is crap

[CrispyQ]

11. He's mean. Always has been.

And as Mueller & November draw closer, President Shithole will strike out more often & with more cruelty.

[marble falls]

12. There's murder in that ass's heart. When they lock him up I hope they lock up his entire family....

with him including the adolescent ones.

[Ilsa]

20. There are adults in his family who are still emotionally adolescents. nt

[Grins]

15. Bone spurs are a horrible disease.... N/M

[dalton99a]

17. 'Take out their families'

https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02/politics/donald-trump-terrorists-families/index.html
Donald Trump on terrorists: 'Take out their families'
By Tom LoBianco, CNN
Updated 12:19 PM ET, Thu December 3, 2015

[Blue_Tires]

18. But Greenwald said he was an anti-interventionist?

[dembotoz]

19. Perhaps he feels family just as guilty as he is

[niyad]

22. some are saying that his claim to be able to commit murder on 5th Ave meant he already had.