US Drone Strike Hits Wedding Convoy In Yemen

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1. Mistake? What mistake?

This is done on purpose to generate more "terrorists" that we now have to "fight".
How can we know, from miles away, who for sure, is down there? We can't. We just say there were bad guys after the fact. But we don't really know for sure. Especially when the country the strikes take place in says there were no terrorists involved.
So we blow up wedding parties, funerals, do double strikes, with seemly impunity.

As was mentioned, what will we do if some other country figures out how to do a drone strike here? On a shopping center? On a full sports stadium? On some random 'snake pit' highway intersection.

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3. And the lap dog media

fall all over themselves condemning the Palestinians when they use a homemade rocket with no guidance system and mostly no ordnance, against Israel, who is occupying them.

I just call the drone war, High Tech terrorism

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9. The mass media are not lapdogs

They have pretty much the same owners that most politicians do.

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4. Who says it was a wedding convoy...?

[Demo_Chris]

6. What are we doing firing missiles at anyone in Yemen? nt

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7. Witnesses that apparently the NYT found credible.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/world/middleeast/drone-strike-in-yemen-hits-wedding-convoy-killing-11.html?_r=0

Of course if you really wanted to know, you could have googled it.

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8. "The rest of the story" Paul Harvey

Most of the dead appeared to be people suspected of being militants linked to Al Qaeda, according to tribal leaders in the area ... and of course a few civilians were killed in action....

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10. So, you blame "suspected militants" in order to condone killing a wedding party of 17...

What would we do if 17 of our citizens were murdered? How many would rally behind a revenge murder? Is this really a sane way to reduce the threat of terrorism? I don't think so, do you?

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11. And what tribal leaders said so, and who said they were tribal leaders?

And what inducements or threats may have been made?

Reading the history of Americans' 19th-century conquest of the lands of the American Indians, you will gain a lot of perspective on the consequences of new weapons, asymmetrical warfare, false-flag operations, mission creep, the influence of war profiteers, use of factions to fight other factions, the purchase of puppet "leaders".

It's all the same old horseshit as always.

[Demo_Chris]

5. Thank goodness we can blame this on President Bush...

And not some Democrat, otherwise we might have to look at ourselves ask what we are voting for.

Amazingly enough, there were Germans in the 1930's who watched as the Jews and Gypsies and Gays and other "undesirables" were being rounded up and stuffed into ghettos or executed outright, and being moral people they weren't happy with it at all.

They didn't do anything either.

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12. The Esquire article about the murder of Abdulrahman al Awlaki by drone

ends with the observation that other nations are acquiring drones, and the implicit observation that if the President can legally murder people around the world because he considers them to be terrorists, then other heads of state can legally murder him if they consider him a terrorist.

http://www.esquire.com/features/obama-lethal-presidency-0812-5

"Other nations also possess this technology," said John Brennan in his most recent speech. "Many more nations are seeking it, and more will succeed in acquiring it. . . . An arms race involving drones would be very different from an arms race involving nuclear arms, because the message that spread with nuclear arms was that these weapons must never be used. The message that you are spreading with drones is that they must be — that using them amounts to nothing less than our moral duty.

The former official in your administration — the one familiar with targeting — has suggested a question intended to encapsulate the danger represented by the expansive nature of the Lethal Presidency:"Ask the administration if the president himself is targetable."