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patrice

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29. Why can't I get anyone to tell me HOW MANY DEAD BODIES is too high a price to pay for being WRONG?
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 10:00 PM
Feb 2013

Greenwald and the midwives of Atlas Shrugged are saying, "It won't happen" even though they don't have near enough of the right kinds of information upon which to predicate that ABSOLUTE 100% prediction.

And the rest of us are supposed to pretend, because Greenwald et al say so, that there is no risk.

How many dead bodies is too high a price to pay for being wrong?

Then if something does happen, a HIGHLY MARKETABLE COMMODITY known as Plausible Deniability, will be used to sell the people even further down the river.

And, just like with Sandy Hook and largely from the very same crowd, we'll be told to just get over it.

So the putative reason to oppose drone programs, "Innocent people die" doesn't matter if Greenwald et al are wrong about the risks. It only matters if the elected representation of the people of this country make that decision.

All while Greenwald and other "citizens of the archipelagos" impeded any attempts to address U.N. reform, so they are enabling the abuses perpetrated by the IMF, which evoke terrorism in the first place.

Although there are authentic peace advocates, this Ron/Rand Paul variety of phony peace advocates also stand in the way of the regulation of fast-and-furious assault weapons markets all over the world.

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Title: ProSense Feb 2013 #1
some Obama fans don't like Glenn Greenwald Enrique Feb 2013 #2
Breaking: Greenwald doesn't like Obama or his supporters. ProSense Feb 2013 #5
Or, it's OK if MyPresident does it MotherPetrie Feb 2013 #3
Exactly right. We who accept all done by a president are the hypocrites. madfloridian Feb 2013 #13
Flipside of the same rotten coin whatchamacallit Feb 2013 #4
Except that Greenwald ignores the difference between the geek tragedy Feb 2013 #6
Bush and his defenders constantly used the AUMF as their justification Enrique Feb 2013 #7
No, they actually cited the "inherent authority of the President" as geek tragedy Feb 2013 #9
The good ol' days are not all dead and gone kenny blankenship Feb 2013 #8
Flashback. More Greenwald writing about Bush in 2006... SidDithers Feb 2013 #10
He was saying it was hard to accept betrayal by one's president. madfloridian Feb 2013 #12
... Enrique Feb 2013 #17
amazing isn't it? arely staircase Feb 2013 #19
Poor Glenn CitizenPatriot Feb 2013 #22
Good find! nt Fantastic Anarchist Feb 2013 #11
From the preface of Greenwald's 2006 book about the Patriot Act. madfloridian Feb 2013 #14
Wonder if Greenwald considers ProSense Feb 2013 #15
Copyright is copyright. Four paragraphs is fair use, not more. nt msanthrope Feb 2013 #21
Well, then, let's look at it this way. I have the book open in front of me... madfloridian Feb 2013 #23
That would no longer be fair use, and would violate the TOS ---- msanthrope Feb 2013 #24
So report me, misanthrope. madfloridian Feb 2013 #25
Tell on you? Aw...hells no! I want you to expand upon your msanthrope Feb 2013 #26
Oh my. bvar22 Feb 2013 #16
"...the president was entitled to have his national security judgment deferred to.. arely staircase Feb 2013 #18
Glenn Greenwald, being racist in 2005.... msanthrope Feb 2013 #20
"The parade of evils caused by illegal immigration is widely known" ProSense Feb 2013 #28
That would get him banned off of DU, but this is an acceptable source? msanthrope Feb 2013 #31
Please don't upset the Greenwald cheerleaders Summer Hathaway Feb 2013 #30
The cheerleaders dismiss, but the rest of DU doesn't. Glenn is a Ron Paul acolyte, msanthrope Feb 2013 #33
Classic ad hominem argument Jim Lane Feb 2013 #34
A racist's viewpoints on this President need not be considered. What Greenwald msanthrope Feb 2013 #36
Try clicking the link pottedplant Jun 2016 #37
That was no apology. True, it may have been before he learned to hide it better. nt msanthrope Jun 2016 #39
Ok so his marriage is a sham as well pottedplant Jun 2016 #41
+ 1,000,000,000,000 eom MohRokTah Jun 2016 #40
Cancel. gulliver Feb 2013 #27
Why can't I get anyone to tell me HOW MANY DEAD BODIES is too high a price to pay for being WRONG? patrice Feb 2013 #29
Please cite Glenn Greenwald pottedplant Jun 2016 #38
now WE give OBAMA a pass upi402 Feb 2013 #32
Observing that there is risk is not slamming. Pretending there isn't risk is slamming patrice Feb 2013 #35
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