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In reply to the discussion: President Obama is the Best President in My Lifetime. [View all]Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)of drones, and a whopping 83% agree with targeted strikes of bad American actors abroad. Does anyone want to kill people? No, especially innocents. I understand your conflict re: the use of drones, but if it limits our military's exposure to attacks and loss of life, I'm all for it, with rigid oversight. I don't want any one person to be the sole arbitor of someone's guilt, but Congress gave that power, and they're the only ones who can take it away.
All that being said, I don't think the histrionics we're witnessing here do anything to further the debate, or change anyone's mind. That election I spoke of, you know the one where the Jill/Roseanne/Gary/Rocky Horror Show could barely garner 2% of the vote COMBINED? They were written off as nutjobs, and quite rightly so. What we're seeing is just a continuation of that lost battle, and a whole bunch of sour grapes.
I mean, didn't we know about the drone program on election day? Didn't we already know about the "kill list"? The answer is, of course, YES. And we gave this president a resounding & uncontested victory over his opponents.
Haters gonna hate! It's one of the primary symptoms of ODS.