GOP Rep: Are We 'Prepared To Kill A 10-Year-Old' To Defeat ISIL?

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

By TRACY WALSH Published FEBRUARY 10, 2015, 1:58 PM EST

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) said on Tuesday that the U.S. military should look to the movie "American Sniper" in going after terrorist groups like the Islamic State, suggesting American policy is far too concerned with preventing child and civilian casualties.

"It's like in 'American Sniper,'" Gosar said in an interview with the Arizona Republic. "Are you prepared to kill a 10-year-old carrying an improvised explosive device?"

Gosar — whose district includes the hometown of a 26-year-old aid worker who was confirmed Tuesday to have recently died in Islamic State custody — argued that the U.S. rules of engagement are weighted too heavily toward protecting civilians.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/paul-gosar-american-sniper-children

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[atreides1]

1. How is it?

Americans are able to elect people who would have been avid supporters of the "Final Solution"?

[Thor_MN]

2. Sounds like Gosar is living up to his Ghostbusters namesake.

He and his ilk are willing to kill toddlers to feed the military corporations with tax dollars.

[cstanleytech]

15. Just for the record a 10 year isnt a toddler.

Otherwise I agree with you.

[Thor_MN]

16. Sorry, I mixed the villains of Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II

The villain in Ghostbusters is Gozer and and the villain in II seeks to sacrifice a toddler...

Although I don't have to go far to imagine the GOP would be OK with killing the odd Muslim toddler or two, they only care(slightly) about the preborn.

[Enrique]

3. the power of propaganda

Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper should be proud.

edit: but Bradley Cooper doesn't want this

“My hope is that if someone is having a political conversation about whether we should or should not have been in Iraq, whether the war is worth fighting, whether we won, whether we didn’t, why are we still there, all those [issues], that really—I hope—is not one that they would use this movie as a tool for,”

what about it being used to argue for killing children?

[KansDem]

4. Rep. Paul Gosar on the issues...

ABORTION

Protect the unborn; life begins at conception. (Nov 2010)
Voted YES on banning federal health coverage that includes abortion. (May 2011)
Opposes prohibiting human embryonic stem cell research. (Aug 2010)
Prohibit federal funding for abortion. (May 2011)
Prohibit federal funding to groups like Planned Parenthood. (Jan 2011)
No family planning assistance that includes abortion. (Jan 2013)

http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Paul_Gosar.htm

Life is sacred for the fetus, but once they're born, we can blow them to smithereens!


Paul Gosar is a Hard-Core Conservative.

[Orrex]

5. It's preposterous to suggest that we err on the side of protecting civilians

Our drone strikes alone kill civilians in far greater numbers than we kill "enemy combatants," and let's not forget the unbridled white phosphorus carnage of Fallujah.

What country does Gosar think he's talking about?

[Enrique]

7. that's where journalism is supposed to come in

that AZ republic link is blocked here at work for whatever reason, I wanted to see if the article makes your point, which they should but usually don't.

[Orrex]

8. Good point.

I can't see all of the article here at work either, due to some weird screen popup, but I searched for "drone" and "Fallujah" (admittedly a very limited search) and didn't get any hits.


Journalism. I have a dim recollection of that.

[KamaAina]

6. Any number of 10-year-olds in Iraq could not be reached for comment.

Because we were 'prepared to kill them' to defeat Saddam.

[Iliyah]

9. Re-framed "YES, the GOP Party are ready to kill 10 year olds"

[Historic NY]

10. We are pro-life until we are pro-death...

WTF is worng with these morons.

[bemildred]

11. That seems unlikely to work, doesn't it? nt

[Enrique]

12. what about 13-year-olds?

this story is from today:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/10/drones-dream-yemeni-teenager-mohammed-tuaiman-death-cia-strike

A 13-year-old boy killed in Yemen last month by a CIA drone strike had told the Guardian just months earlier that he lived in constant fear of the “death machines” in the sky that had already killed his father and brother.

“I see them every day and we are scared of them,” said Mohammed Tuaiman, speaking from al-Zur village in Marib province, where he died two weeks ago.

“A lot of the kids in this area wake up from sleeping because of nightmares from them and some now have mental problems. They turned our area into hell and continuous horror, day and night, we even dream of them in our sleep.”

Much of Mohammed’s life was spent living in fear of drone strikes. In 2011 an unmanned combat drone killed his father and teenage brother as they were out herding the family’s camels.

The drone that would kill Mohammed struck on 26 January in Hareeb, about an hour from his home. The drone hit the car carrying the teenager, his brother-in-law Abdullah Khalid al-Zindani and a third man.

(...)

[Kelvin Mace]

13. Welll, give Gosar a rifle

and parachute him in. Tell him to give us a call when he is done.

[muntrv]

14. Draft Gosar into the army and drop him in Iraq. He can answer that himself.