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KharmaTrain

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5. Power Knows No Right Or Wrong...Only Power...

Thu May 31, 2012, 03:04 AM

May 2012

IRC, the leader of Iran did issue a Fatwah against Zahlman Rushdie during the 80s that led him to live underground for the next decade. Then there was the assasination of the Orlando Letelier...Chilean socialist...who was gunned down in Washington in 1976. In their minds these leaders felt justified...as do others who also have killed potential threats in foreign lands...and they can and will continue to do it. Call it "national security" or "herasy" the end justifies the means if you have those means to carry these mission out.

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The President of Iran ordered the killing of an Iranian living in the US. [View all] Bonobo May 2012 OP

Yes. MrSlayer May 2012 #1

Might makes right. I get it. Bonobo May 2012 #2

I don't believe in or support it as a policy. MrSlayer May 2012 #3

Well yes, of course that's the way it is. Bonobo May 2012 #4

Sigh. aquart May 2012 #6

Power Knows No Right Or Wrong...Only Power... KharmaTrain May 2012 #5

The US had a hand in the Letelier assassination. HiPointDem May 2012 #9

They had a hand in the killing of Allende as well malaise May 2012 #11

yes. but the poster was talking about foreign countries assassinating people in the us. but HiPointDem May 2012 #12

This would not be the first time something like this has happened under the Skidmore May 2012 #7

I understand the thrust of your op, but the United States will not abandon its kill lists. Selatius May 2012 #8

And when an entire elementary school full of kids becomes "collateral damage".... DCKit May 2012 #10