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sad sally

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2. These continued attacks in Pakistan, plus the other five countries the US is waging drone war on,
Thu May 10, 2012, 06:22 PM
May 2012

not only creates more terrorists and hatred toward us, it undermines the credibility of the governments of
of those countries.

The CIA has no intention of stopping drone attacks in Pakistan, obviously done at the request of the President, even if means murdering innocent people and assassinating "bad" people without any legal justification.

The scary thing is that so many Americans simply accept and shrug off any outrage that drone attacks murder children and other noncombatants. "Too bad," is the sentiment, "the innocents who were murdered shouldn't live where they do, besides those people are different than us, they hate America, they've always been at war with someone, so too bad they had to die."

The administration is carrying out secret, taxpayer funded attacks, killing an unknown number and refusing to confirm or deny the extent of damage done by their "signature strikes" in countries we are not at war with.

If this level of violence were being committed under a Bush administration there would be outrage; under an Obama administration there is acceptance. sad...

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