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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 11:03 AM Original message |
" I knew people died because of what I did, but I needed the money" |
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no limit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
1. Well this confession was forced out of him. Not sure if it's very reliable |
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Turbineguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
2. He could have |
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dogday (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 11:52 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Or the Insurance companies for that matter |
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superduperfarleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 12:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. Or the military. n/t |
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Llewlladdwr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 03:31 PM Response to Reply #10 |
26. Yeah, all us military types are just mad dog killers. NT |
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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 08:30 AM Response to Reply #26 |
44. What is the "Spirit of the Bayonet" |
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The Damned (284 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 12:43 AM Response to Reply #2 |
33. BANG! |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
4. I'm sure that confessions made at gunpoint are valid |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 12:04 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. OTOH, if you know they're going to kill you anyway, why lie? nt |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 12:07 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Because there are ways to die and some are a lot more painful than others |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 12:13 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. OK, there is that, but do you think the Taliban would really push a |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 12:23 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Imposing the death sentence for entire families based on the judgment of a paid kid |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 12:47 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Hello? He was told to mark legitimate targets. The drones attacked |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 03:30 PM Response to Reply #12 |
25. Stupid, or war crime? FYI collective punishment on civilians = war crime. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 12:42 AM Response to Reply #25 |
32. It is NOT collective punishment if they thought it was a LEGITIMATE TARGET. |
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MUAD_DIB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 01:21 PM Response to Reply #7 |
17. I don't see what the Taliban would gain by it.... |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 02:26 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. Of course they gain by the execution, and the public terror it causes, to |
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MUAD_DIB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 03:58 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. You should have stopped after... |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 12:32 AM Response to Reply #29 |
31. Are you being deliberately stupid? |
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axollot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 11:21 AM Response to Reply #17 |
53. Exactly. Plus why would the Taliban care if it wasn't hurting them too? |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 02:12 PM Response to Reply #7 |
22. I'm addressing that US forcers are paying people to run around marking targets |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 12:51 AM Response to Reply #22 |
34. I absolutely agree, it is a very bad idea - particularly when a similar |
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JoeyT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 05:19 AM Response to Reply #6 |
39. Which would be a lot easier to act morally superior about |
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MUAD_DIB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 01:18 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. Or if you though they might let you live, or they tortured you, then you'd |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 02:33 PM Response to Reply #14 |
24. Then for propaganda purposes they have him put ALL the blame on the US - |
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MUAD_DIB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 03:52 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. There's no such thing as bad propaganda. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 01:02 AM Response to Reply #28 |
37. Bullshit. Think it through. Civilian X over there is incensed that the |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 10:38 AM Response to Reply #5 |
51. well didn't we just go through about a million posts on how accurate |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 10:35 AM Response to Reply #4 |
50. sshhhh people want to believe. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
8. Our humanitarian CIA would never resort to such things. Just look at their record...oh, wait. |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 01:21 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. No one seems to notice or care that it is the CIA doing the killing |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 02:08 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Tom Clancy has his followers on DU. |
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miscsoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
11. if he did actually put the devices in innocent peoples homes for cash |
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AnArmyVeteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
13. Did he come from Wall Street? They do anything to make money too. |
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jtrockville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 02:06 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. My first thought when I read the OP title: ENRON |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
15. Kicked and recommended. |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 04:01 PM Response to Reply #15 |
30. You are welcome, Joe. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
20. "Nobody could've predicted..." |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
21. Except for that's not how the targeting works, it's a good story. nt |
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druidity33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 05:51 AM Response to Reply #21 |
41. how DOES it work then? nt. |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 07:35 AM Response to Reply #41 |
42. Depends on the munition |
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druidity33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 07:58 AM Response to Reply #42 |
43. but why not? |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 08:42 AM Response to Reply #43 |
45. Well, yes, we could drop grenades from Predators. |
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druidity33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 10:26 AM Response to Reply #45 |
47. just because |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 10:57 AM Response to Reply #47 |
52. First off |
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geardaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-29-10 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
27. The title sounds like an episode of * on Taxicab Confessions. n/t |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 12:52 AM Response to Original message |
35. Not surprising. This is what intelligence agencies do. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 12:52 AM Response to Original message |
36. " I knew people died because of what I did, but I needed the money" |
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Incitatus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 01:04 AM Response to Original message |
38. Just like the same shit that happened with Abu Ghraib |
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KG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 05:43 AM Response to Original message |
40. unlike those bloodthirsty taliban, americans are justified in killing innocent civilians |
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Nuclear Unicorn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
46. To Those Equating Acts of War to Wall Street: Enough |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
48. Random murders. |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
49. What's the big deal? These aren't real people we're talking about; they're |
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Larry Ogg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 11:44 AM Response to Original message |
54. If you knew what the genesis of evil was, who would you blame? |
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tblue37 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-30-10 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
55. Many of the prisoners held in Gitmo are innocent people who were denounced or turned over to |
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