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Splinter Cell (498 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 12:57 AM Original message |
So now you're upset that they killed a known terrorist? Really? |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 01:00 AM Response to Original message |
1. Get ready for a barrage. |
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Kurovski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 02:57 AM Response to Reply #1 |
15. Oh for fuck's sake. |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 03:03 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I support the President. |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 09:06 AM Response to Reply #17 |
74. I support the President, too, but I'm not for giving him unfettered power of life or death. |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 01:56 AM Response to Reply #74 |
82. There are fetters. Via congress. |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 12:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
47. we have laws against assassination. I have supported them all |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 02:03 AM Response to Reply #47 |
83. Destroying a military target is not assassination. |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 01:01 AM Response to Original message |
2. Rule of Law? |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 11:07 AM Response to Reply #2 |
43. We have been openly targeting civilians for death for hundreds of years. |
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Vattel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 09:43 PM Response to Reply #43 |
80. Obviously we can kill those who pose an immediate threat |
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Webster Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 01:18 AM Response to Original message |
3. Very upset. |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 01:18 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I'm sure Seal Team Six is grateful for his decision. |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 03:01 AM Response to Reply #3 |
16. Ibrahim Al-Asiri, Bomb-Maker Linked to 2009 Christmas Day Plot, Likely Killed in Yemen Drone Strike |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 04:44 AM Response to Reply #16 |
20. That makes this operation a 'twofer", which makes it doubly good. |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 04:56 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Apparently it was a 'THREEfer' |
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truth2power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 07:29 AM Response to Reply #3 |
29. Yes, they could have arrested him and brought himto trial. That tells me |
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msanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 01:11 PM Response to Reply #29 |
53. Really? You gonna go arrest Al-Qaeda's bomb maker in the hills of Yemen? |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-03-11 11:06 AM Response to Reply #3 |
65. How would you arrest him? |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 02:07 AM Response to Reply #3 |
84. "they should have arrested him" |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 01:19 AM Response to Original message |
5. Poor widdle al qweda big mean obama go and be mean doesn't ask permission bad nt |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 12:47 PM Response to Reply #5 |
48. okay. if you mockingly support this assassination, you will have to |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 12:55 PM Response to Reply #48 |
52. I call Bullshit on whining over killing a legitimate military target |
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Mr Deltoid (694 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 03:25 PM Response to Reply #52 |
55. You talk like a 4 year old.... |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 01:32 AM Response to Original message |
6. Deleted message |
ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 01:43 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Dude...how'd that massive invasion work out? |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 02:07 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. These were terrorist attacks against Isreal not against the US.... |
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think4yourself (422 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 04:12 AM Response to Reply #6 |
19. Wrong. |
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Eric J in MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 01:35 AM Response to Original message |
7. The precedent of the US government killing Americans |
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Mr Deltoid (694 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 01:37 AM Response to Original message |
8. I have never fallen for that 'Terrorists!!' fear crap |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 02:28 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. If you have not fallen for the Terrorists fear crap, what is you rationalization |
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Douglas Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 01:53 AM Response to Original message |
10. What is important is that President Obama has now established a new precedent . So when we have a |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 02:31 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Just think, all those missed opportunities of past presidents - |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 04:02 AM Response to Reply #13 |
18. Jane Fonda? Lol. |
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grattsl (12 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 10:49 AM Response to Reply #18 |
42. I don't think it's a stretch. I think it's the point. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 04:32 PM Response to Reply #42 |
57. How's about Ruby Ridge? |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:20 AM Response to Reply #57 |
87. Were you there? |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-03-11 09:44 AM Response to Reply #18 |
64. There are tens of thousands who hate her to this day, thinking she |
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GreenStormCloud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 09:03 PM Response to Reply #18 |
77. Not while she was in North Vietnam and on that anti-aircraft gun. |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 05:13 PM Response to Reply #10 |
60. Like Democrats. |
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Kurovski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 02:51 AM Response to Original message |
14. You couldn't just fitz and fizzle on any one of the dozens of other threads |
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nxylas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 04:44 AM Response to Original message |
21. This is how it begins |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 05:01 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. All THREE were terrorists, and all in the same location when the drone attacked. |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 08:16 AM Response to Reply #23 |
30. Time to start dropping bombs on Idaho? |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:19 AM Response to Reply #30 |
86. Butler's dead, he died in 2004. |
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GeorgeGist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 08:21 PM Response to Reply #23 |
62. Please cut the crap. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 05:03 AM Response to Reply #21 |
24. You're asking for it now! |
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jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 06:05 AM Response to Original message |
25. L...L...L... Leave Al-Qaeda Alone!1!!111! |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 11:08 PM Response to Reply #25 |
63. LOL |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-03-11 01:07 PM Response to Reply #25 |
66. leave the strawman alone |
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Douglas Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 06:53 AM Response to Original message |
26. EXACTLY!!! If people criticize the government the terrorist have already won!! |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 12:49 PM Response to Reply #26 |
49. if you don't criticize the government we lose. remember that when |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 07:08 AM Response to Original message |
27. This attitude is what turns off many independents and moderates. |
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pmorlan1 (763 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 09:53 AM Response to Reply #27 |
36. Ignorant |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 10:16 AM Response to Reply #36 |
41. I rest my case. |
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lamp_shade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 07:09 AM Response to Original message |
28. Relentless (yet meaningless) pissing and moaning. Ignore them. n/t |
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Vinnie From Indy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
31. Obama did much more than kill a "terrorist" |
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COLGATE4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 08:53 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. And to think that we regularly criticize the Rethuglicans because |
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a simple pattern (426 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 09:16 AM Response to Reply #32 |
33. +1 |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 09:54 AM Response to Reply #31 |
38. That |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 12:51 PM Response to Reply #38 |
51. no. put nixon or bush or reagan there. would you still support that. |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 10:15 AM Response to Reply #31 |
40. Absolute nonsense. |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-03-11 01:13 PM Response to Reply #31 |
67. the same folks that want to scare us into voting for obama with the spectre of pres perry.. |
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mikekohr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
34. When You Dedicate Your Life To Placing Bombs On Planes Filled With Innocent Men, Women, and Children |
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COLGATE4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 09:54 AM Response to Reply #34 |
37. Just a pseudo-Old Testament rant. which doesn't address the question. The issue is whether it is |
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mikekohr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 04:22 PM Response to Reply #37 |
56. Live by explosive, die by explosive |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-03-11 03:00 PM Response to Reply #34 |
70. and what of those who dedicate their job to ordering the dropping of bombs.. |
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GreenStormCloud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 09:08 PM Response to Reply #34 |
78. Total agreement. N/T |
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pmorlan1 (763 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
35. Pitiful |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 09:58 AM Response to Reply #35 |
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Bodhi BloodWave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 11:20 AM Response to Reply #35 |
44. so you know what people would do now? can you give me next weeks lottery numbers? n/t |
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Marnie (706 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
45. A known terrorists? |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:13 AM Response to Reply #45 |
85. That is not true. |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 11:22 AM Response to Original message |
46. The legal justification for the assassination of an American Citizen by a "Unitary Executive". |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
50. No, now I'm upset that they killed an American citizen. Really. |
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Tarheel_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
54. Not me. |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
58. this sounds like RW radio all through the Bush years |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
59. Deleted message |
lindysalsagal (444 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 06:43 PM Response to Original message |
61. This guy is a self- admitted terrorist, who publishes his murderous rants online and |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-03-11 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
68. Change your headline: "So you're upset that they killed a known American citizen?" |
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Splinter Cell (498 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-03-11 03:22 PM Response to Reply #68 |
71. So.... |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-03-11 03:30 PM Response to Reply #71 |
72. Frankly, I'm not losing sleep over al-whatsisname. |
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COLGATE4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-03-11 03:47 PM Response to Reply #71 |
73. No, I'd rather they prove that he is/does as you allege he is/does |
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Kurovski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 12:15 PM Response to Reply #71 |
76. Abortion activists terrorizing clinics and doctors, openly threatening their lives |
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Fearless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-03-11 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
69. I'm against the death penalty regardless of who it is used on or how it is used. |
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Phx_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
75. +1 |
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saras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
79. If you're deliberately going to ask a red-herring nonquestion, OF COURSE you will get flak |
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Vattel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
81. good lord some people are ignorant |
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Splinter Cell (498 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 06:44 AM Response to Reply #81 |
88. They sure are. |
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