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62. Ah yes, I see. So sad...

Reply to L0oniX (Reply #61)

Mon Dec 2, 2013, 11:44 AM

Dec 2013

To be arguing over this atrocity as if the party lines make a difference here. Yes.

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Anger Over US Drone Program In Pakistan Prompts Activists To Reveal Secret Identity Of Spy [View all] Purveyor Nov 2013 OP

Mr President, NYtoBush-Drop Dead Nov 2013 #1

A marginal nutcase party wants its terrorists unfettered activity cosmicone Nov 2013 #2

"A marginal nutcase party." Here's what Wikipedia says: Comrade Grumpy Nov 2013 #3

hahahahahaha cosmicone Nov 2013 #6

Ha ha yourself. Just because you don't like them doesn't make them marginal or nutcases. Comrade Grumpy Nov 2013 #9

Pakistani military supported Imran Khan cosmicone Nov 2013 #11

Sounds like... JackRiddler Dec 2013 #64

The US should not support any part of Pakistan cosmicone Dec 2013 #65

I bet you play MyNameGoesHere Nov 2013 #5

I don't have to operate a drone or fight myself cosmicone Nov 2013 #7

Oh, you're funny. Brought the Taliban to their knees, have we? Comrade Grumpy Nov 2013 #8

A few dozen more drone strikes and Taliban will be crawling ... n/t cosmicone Nov 2013 #12

...into Kabul. As the Americans leave. Comrade Grumpy Nov 2013 #20

I seriously doubt it. cosmicone Nov 2013 #22

Is this the Wolfowitz parody? JackRiddler Dec 2013 #63

Or Sarah Palin - same word salad nonsense. closeupready Dec 2013 #67

The Esquire article about the murder of Abdulrahman al Awlaki by drone Ace Acme Nov 2013 #10

Do you give any thought to all of the innocents killed in these drone strikes? nt polly7 Nov 2013 #14

Ideologues don't care about real people--only about their idealized imaginary friends. nt Ace Acme Nov 2013 #15

What innocents? cosmicone Nov 2013 #18

You need to broaden the scope of your reading material a bit, when it comes to these drones, imho. polly7 Nov 2013 #25

Would it be any better cosmicone Nov 2013 #26

Have you read up on the concept of polly7 Nov 2013 #29

Give it up... Celefin Nov 2013 #33

Your previous post was "What innocents?" Ash_F Nov 2013 #35

False dichotomies get you nowhere, except in the courtroom of your own mind Ace Acme Nov 2013 #44

He's killing grandmothers and children. Get a clue. nt Ace Acme Nov 2013 #43

Exactly, they're ALL "suspected militants", hughee99 Nov 2013 #54

They're brown, Muslim, and foreign. JoeyT Nov 2013 #19

That's true. polly7 Nov 2013 #38

This is it, basically. JackRiddler Dec 2013 #57

One may wonder if that same sentiment applies to the thousands of civilians who are too LanternWaste Dec 2013 #58

"marginal nutcase" + "Drone all of them" = unbelievable irony ... Nihil Nov 2013 #37

Yours is the marginal nutcase view. JackRiddler Nov 2013 #52

It is war. It is not criminal prosecution. cosmicone Dec 2013 #55

"It is war" is a nonsense statement. JackRiddler Dec 2013 #56

This would be the second time our top spook there got outed. Comrade Grumpy Nov 2013 #4

Pakistan should be flying drones here to take out tea party members. L0oniX Nov 2013 #13

It's not Tea Partiers droning civilians. It's the Commander in Chief. Ace Acme Nov 2013 #16

Drones don't care who is running this country. L0oniX Nov 2013 #17

Drones love Obama. He's their man in Washington. Ace Acme Nov 2013 #21

Drones love terrorists cosmicone Nov 2013 #23

But since the USA defines as a "militant" any military-aged man who happens to find himself killed Ace Acme Nov 2013 #24

I have more faith in the intellect and wisdom cosmicone Nov 2013 #27

You didn't say honesty, morality, integrity Ace Acme Nov 2013 #28

Good christ Bonobo Nov 2013 #36

Ad hominem attacks cosmicone Nov 2013 #39

A succinct and accurate criticism of someone's style and ideas is not an ad hominem fallacy. Ace Acme Nov 2013 #40

"Wrong" is highly subjective cosmicone Nov 2013 #41

It's not a fallacious attack. It's an aggressive criticism. Ace Acme Nov 2013 #42

:::::::::: yawn ::::::::::::::: n/t cosmicone Nov 2013 #45

Right, you really can't defend yourself. Thanks for making that clear. nt Ace Acme Nov 2013 #46

Sometimes it is useless to teach logic cosmicone Nov 2013 #48

Your credentials as an expert in logic are . . . Ace Acme Nov 2013 #49

Want some cheese with that? n/t cosmicone Nov 2013 #51

That's very stale cheese, left over from Bushbots circa 2005. nt Ace Acme Nov 2013 #53

And you know what, sometimes things are what they sound like. closeupready Dec 2013 #66

You love "terrorists," apparently. JackRiddler Dec 2013 #59

You can believe that if Bush were to have had a 3rd term drone use would have expanded. L0oniX Nov 2013 #31

Bush didn't need a third term. Obama expanded all his neofascistic programs Ace Acme Nov 2013 #32

He probably wouldn't have needed to. Celefin Nov 2013 #34

Oh hooray! Bush would have done it too! JackRiddler Dec 2013 #60

Did you even read what I was responding too? Context is everything. L0oniX Dec 2013 #61

Ah yes, I see. So sad... JackRiddler Dec 2013 #62

If Pakistan flew Sudden Death Robots around the US, we'd be OK with it. MannyGoldstein Nov 2013 #30

they droned a man on a motorcycle, he's on a public street w/ civies all over! Sunlei Nov 2013 #47

I once asked a neocon why we needed 700 military bases overseas. Ace Acme Nov 2013 #50

Feinstein and Rogers wonder why terrorism threat to US is Increasing (n/t) knic Dec 2013 #68