It's hate. Period.

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410. I, for one, am glad to see mention of international law, especially if it also relates to

wide-open private assault weapons markets all over the world, developed by U.S. gun manufacturers and protected by their corporate personhood in Congress - which weapons are, of course, the source of much suffering and death and political instability for which indigenous leaders in said countries invoke treaties with the U.S. creating at least the latent possibility of drone programs, e.g. Mali.

A related example: How do you suppose someone like Saddam Hussein established his creds as a killer well enough for the CIA to take notice and later have Rumsfeld hang a star on his ass? Afterall, SH could not have expected to be thought of as a native Iraqi leader if the guns he supplied to the Bathists early on had come directly from Uncle Sam. What does international law have to say about that kind of situation? Not much.

I'm glad, nonetheless, to see mention of international law here anyway, even though I'd bet you have some pretty strange "bedfellows" amongst the anti-drone activists around you, many of whom, from the Randite part of that spectrum, also HATE the World Court and the U.N. and LOVE wide-open private, make that SECRET, assault weapons markets all over the world.