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Bluebear
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:28 PM Original message |
Obama orders cruise missile strikes on Yemen |
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wtmusic
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
1. Great, another war criminal president. |
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jonnyblitz
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:33 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I believe this is why he never intended on holding the Bush |
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kayakjohnny
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Put on your gear, mate.... |
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wtmusic
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:00 PM Response to Reply #7 |
42. Not worried. |
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Chan790
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Sat Dec-19-09 09:40 AM Response to Reply #42 |
102. Only against foreign heads of state and their representatives... |
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Chan790
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Sat Dec-19-09 09:37 AM Response to Reply #1 |
101. What precisely is a war crime about this? |
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ima_sinnic
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Sat Dec-19-09 10:09 AM Response to Reply #101 |
111. "a filthy peacenik"? what are you, a 1967 holdover? |
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Chan790
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Sat Dec-19-09 10:22 AM Response to Reply #111 |
113. Yay! |
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moodforaday
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Sat Dec-19-09 10:39 AM Response to Reply #101 |
115. Ah, so when a government asks another government |
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wtmusic
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Sat Dec-19-09 05:00 PM Response to Reply #101 |
123. You have no idea what you're talking about. |
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Obamanaut
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Sat Dec-19-09 09:44 AM Response to Reply #1 |
105. It was an outing into the fresh air, an opportunity to interact socially |
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rug
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
2. "many of the dead were innnocent civilians." |
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Zodiak
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:40 PM Response to Reply #2 |
21. In fairness, right now it is "fog of war" |
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timeforpeace
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:12 PM Response to Reply #21 |
49. Are you suggesting this is a "wag the dog" scenario to deflect from the HCR fight or to appear |
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Zodiak
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:55 PM Response to Reply #49 |
66. Not at all....that's too much logical leaping for me |
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virgogal
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
4. Doesn't mention casualties. |
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stevedeshazer
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
5. Uh-oh. |
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ProSense
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
6. Wow. Dis-information sure spreads fast. |
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Bluebear
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:35 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Wow. You say ABC is lying about this? Or the administration officials? |
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rug
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:37 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. She'd rather ignore that the Yeneni government AND the U.S. attacked. |
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Bluebear
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:38 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. I see. Meanwhile, back to sexay sexay Barack in a swimsuit. |
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timeforpeace
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:14 PM Response to Reply #14 |
50. And if anyone would know about the use of disinformation... |
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cali
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:37 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. yeah, we all know airstrikes NEVER kill civilians. n/t |
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Enrique
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:38 PM Response to Reply #6 |
17. what's the disinformation? n/t |
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ProSense
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:40 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. The strike were by Yemen, not U.S. forces. |
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Bluebear
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:41 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. ***the U.S. military launched cruise missiles***....the Yemenis did ground raids. |
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ProSense
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:45 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. The media is always looking for gullible suckers |
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Bluebear
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:47 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. "the so-called left" hahahaha. Also: "I can only wonder about the of the disinformation" ??? |
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rug
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:49 PM Response to Reply #28 |
36. Gullible. I bet if I told you it wasn't in the dictionary you'd look it up. |
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ProSense
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:11 PM Response to Reply #36 |
48. If bogus makes you feel better, eat it up. |
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rug
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:15 PM Response to Reply #48 |
51. Like msnbc? |
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Bluebear
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:56 PM Response to Reply #51 |
67. :crickets: |
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WyldRogue
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Fri Dec-18-09 10:06 PM Response to Reply #67 |
81. I find it odd... |
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dflprincess
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Sat Dec-19-09 12:14 AM Response to Reply #81 |
93. Perhaps she finally got dizzy from all that spinning n/t |
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cherokeeprogressive
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Sat Dec-19-09 12:04 AM Response to Reply #48 |
91. During Charlie Gibson's LAST broadcast at ABC, he made it clear that the order |
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Enrique
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:36 PM Response to Reply #20 |
61. is that the way the media works? |
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Luminous Animal
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:19 PM Response to Reply #6 |
53. There's that number 30, again. |
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mddem9850
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
9. more war. fantastic |
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Bluebear
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:36 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. PS welcome to DU |
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ixion
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
10. thanks a pantload, Obama |
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cowcommander
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:36 PM Response to Original message |
12. Anyone who believed Obama was going to be anti-war should look at the money trail |
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HiFructosePronSyrup
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:37 PM Response to Original message |
15. I haven't so outraged since he order those poor pirates to be shot. |
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grantcart
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:56 PM Response to Reply #15 |
68. lol perfect pitch |
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stray cat
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:38 PM Response to Original message |
18. If you wanted a pacifist you were a fool to vote for Obama |
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:45 PM Response to Reply #18 |
29. Deleted message |
ohheckyeah
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:56 PM Response to Reply #29 |
40. Maybe, just maybe, |
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timeforpeace
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:09 PM Response to Reply #29 |
47. I don't know. Maybe McCain has it in for Yemen too. We dodged a bullet there! |
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Jamastiene
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:50 PM Response to Reply #18 |
37. You said: "He also never said he wanted a public option" Yes hell he did. |
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earth mom
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:59 PM Response to Reply #18 |
41. That's NO fucking excuse for what Obama's doing now. Obama was slickly sold as the hope & change |
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Bluenorthwest
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Fri Dec-18-09 09:32 PM Original message |
He said he opposed mandated purchase of private insurance |
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upi402
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:39 PM Response to Original message |
19. Jon Stewart bit: India to preemptively attack US due to terrorist caught there |
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Zodiak
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:41 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. That was a great segment n/t |
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Jamastiene
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:40 PM Response to Original message |
22. Every time a US president lobs another missle, another demon gets their horns. |
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ShortnFiery
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:49 PM Response to Reply #22 |
35. Not only endless wars but irrevocable BLOWBACK. |
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Bluebear
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:02 PM Response to Reply #35 |
43. 'If there's collateral damage, so be it.' - USA! USA! What we have become :( |
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treestar
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:41 PM Response to Original message |
23. So you're saying an Al Qaeda training camp should just be left alone? |
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Bluebear
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:42 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Yes, that's exactly what I "said" when I posted the story verbatim. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:47 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. So then you support this mission? |
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Tierra_y_Libertad
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:21 PM Response to Reply #31 |
54. When do we get the "Mission Accomplised" banner? |
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goldcanyonaz
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Sat Dec-19-09 09:45 AM Response to Reply #54 |
106. Late October 2012. |
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ShortnFiery
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:44 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Yes, we build them up so we can knock them down. We're ALL-POWERFUL! |
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glitch
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:46 PM Response to Reply #23 |
30. Because there are no actions between air strikes and doing nothing. |
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Posteritatis
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:33 PM Response to Reply #30 |
59. None that'd be acceptable around here, anyway. (nt) |
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earth mom
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:08 PM Response to Reply #23 |
45. There are about 400 Al Quada left, but 100K U.S. troops deployed to kill them. |
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moodforaday
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Sat Dec-19-09 10:56 AM Response to Reply #23 |
116. And you know it was an "Al Qaeda training camp" how? |
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femrap
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
33. Right now the Saudis |
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JCMach1
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Sat Dec-19-09 01:12 AM Response to Reply #33 |
97. Houthis are NOT Al Quaeda... they are a Shiite resistance group... one of many fighting the dictator |
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femrap
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Sat Dec-19-09 11:53 AM Response to Reply #97 |
117. I know. nt |
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WT Fuheck
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:48 PM Response to Original message |
34. dude's got a war hardon |
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amborin
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:51 PM Response to Original message |
38. we'll have to put ground troops there; also Somalia, Frankfurt, etc..... |
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Jamastiene
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Fri Dec-18-09 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
39. There is ALWAYS enough money for war. n/t |
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timo
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:07 PM Response to Original message |
44. so weird |
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G_j
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:09 PM Response to Original message |
46. this sort of thing really is against international law, |
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Tierra_y_Libertad
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:16 PM Response to Original message |
52. Did he put on a cowboy hat and smirk when giving the "smoke 'em out" orders? |
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phasma ex machina
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Fri Dec-18-09 10:33 PM Response to Reply #52 |
84. Cynics say America got genuine change by virtue of the cowboy hat itself becoming unfashionable. nt |
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TheWatcher
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Fri Dec-18-09 10:45 PM Response to Reply #84 |
86. If only our War Machine would follw suit. |
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FrenchieCat
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:24 PM Response to Original message |
55. It appears that the US was working in cooperation with the Yemen government, no? |
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cornermouse
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
56. Iraq asks Iran to withdraw troops from oil field |
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IndianaGreen
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:28 PM Response to Original message |
57. If Bush does it, it is bad. If Obama does it, it is good. Civilians will die no matter who is Prez |
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
58. Perhaps you all would rather wait for an attack |
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IndianaGreen
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:34 PM Response to Reply #58 |
60. Our government is lying to us. This is a civil war in which we are backing the Saudi side |
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doc03
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:41 PM Response to Reply #60 |
63. Didn't the attack on the USS Cole originate from Yemen? |
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IndianaGreen
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:45 PM Response to Reply #63 |
65. but this is a civil war between Shia rebels and the Wahhabi governments in Yemen |
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Major Hogwash
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Fri Dec-18-09 09:32 PM Response to Reply #65 |
72. We've become mercenaries for the oil sheiks of the Middle East. |
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JCMach1
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Sat Dec-19-09 01:13 AM Response to Reply #65 |
98. not government, DICTATORSHIP... That's what we are supporting here |
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moodforaday
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Sat Dec-19-09 10:06 AM Response to Reply #63 |
110. Don't want it to happen again? |
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Myhrejl
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:39 PM Response to Reply #58 |
62. LOL |
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Lorien
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Sat Dec-19-09 12:17 AM Response to Reply #62 |
94. There is no "organization". Stop buying the propaganda |
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OhioChick
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Fri Dec-18-09 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
64. WTF??? n/t |
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Major Hogwash
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Fri Dec-18-09 09:01 PM Response to Original message |
69. Does the President have the Constitutional right to launch missiles on ANY country? |
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Poll_Blind
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Fri Dec-18-09 09:22 PM Response to Reply #69 |
70. For quite a while now there's been a sort of attack on the checks and balances and... |
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Major Hogwash
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Fri Dec-18-09 09:36 PM Response to Reply #70 |
76. Yeah, we write the checks, and they keep the balance. |
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McCamy Taylor
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Fri Dec-18-09 09:23 PM Response to Original message |
71. Cambodia anyone? |
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bvar22
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Fri Dec-18-09 09:33 PM Response to Original message |
73. Woo-Hoo. |
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Myhrejl
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Fri Dec-18-09 09:35 PM Response to Reply #73 |
75. If you think it's about "killing brown people" |
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bvar22
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Fri Dec-18-09 11:08 PM Response to Reply #75 |
89. No. |
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Usrename
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Sat Dec-19-09 09:26 AM Response to Reply #75 |
100. It certainly isn't about killing white people, that would be wrong. |
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Poll_Blind
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Fri Dec-18-09 09:35 PM Response to Original message |
74. With the state of our intel, shades of the Al Shifa Pharmaceutical Plant debacle could... |
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Myhrejl
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Fri Dec-18-09 09:43 PM Response to Reply #74 |
77. just wiki-ed |
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Poll_Blind
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Fri Dec-18-09 09:50 PM Response to Reply #77 |
80. I don't know what the wiki says but we were given intel by "another country" that there... |
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ProSense
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Fri Dec-18-09 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
78. The evolution of spin. The story is already changing |
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WyldRogue
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Fri Dec-18-09 10:28 PM Response to Reply #78 |
83. Changed indeed... |
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cherokeeprogressive
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Sat Dec-19-09 12:06 AM Response to Reply #78 |
92. So you're saying that the US military makes moves based on nothing more than the "request" of other |
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Sat Dec-19-09 09:44 AM Response to Reply #78 |
104. US forces obey no other commander than the president. |
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Fri Dec-18-09 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
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Fri Dec-18-09 10:06 PM Response to Original message |
82. How very, very hopeful and changealicious! n/t |
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TheWatcher
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Fri Dec-18-09 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
85. But He's OUR War President!!!!!!!11111 |
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Myhrejl
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Fri Dec-18-09 10:49 PM Response to Reply #85 |
88. Come on |
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Bluebear
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Fri Dec-18-09 11:49 PM Response to Reply #88 |
90. Gee, welcome to DU! |
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Lorien
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Sat Dec-19-09 12:19 AM Response to Reply #88 |
95. The Right said the exact thing about their "war President". |
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Usrename
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Sat Dec-19-09 09:50 AM Response to Reply #88 |
108. Of course it was unjustified. These people were never convicted. |
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MilesColtrane
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Sat Dec-19-09 10:25 AM Response to Reply #108 |
114. "When a president asserts that a person is a terrorist, is that... |
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Fri Dec-18-09 10:46 PM Response to Original message |
87. Now he can get another peace prize! Oh goodie!!!!! |
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JCMach1
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Sat Dec-19-09 01:10 AM Response to Original message |
96. We won't know until years later that this was coordinated to help out the Al Saleh dicatatorship |
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Sat Dec-19-09 02:57 AM Response to Original message |
99. They were preparing to attack which part of our nation? |
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SIMPLYB1980
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Sat Dec-19-09 09:42 AM Response to Original message |
103. Good some cooperation. |
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rug
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Sat Dec-19-09 09:47 AM Response to Reply #103 |
107. Why should the parents of the 28 dead children be upset? |
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SIMPLYB1980
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Sat Dec-19-09 10:04 AM Response to Reply #107 |
109. Meh. |
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ima_sinnic
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Sat Dec-19-09 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
112. oh boy!! THE ECONOMY IS SAVED!!!!1!!1 |
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Sat Dec-19-09 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
118. Oh. My. God. |
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BurtWorm
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Sat Dec-19-09 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
119. That oughta keep us distracted. |
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Sat Dec-19-09 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
120. Wow! Four wars at once - going for a post Vietnam era record? |
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Sat Dec-19-09 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
121. woopsie mo wo. |
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Betty Karlson
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Sat Dec-19-09 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
122. God help us! |
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