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In reply to the discussion: Jeremy Scahill (on Bill Maher): Obama made assassination acceptable to Democrats [View all]WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)25. Okay, "THIS" this: drone strike targets and kills 16 y/o American
Scahill also spoke about the assassination of 16 y/o American born Anwar al-Awlaki. The kid was in a restaurant eating with friends when a drone strike took him out.
Anwar al-Awlaki's Denver-born son Abdulrahman was, like his father, killed by American forces. The lesson from Abdulrahman's story, says Nation correspondent Jeremy Scahill, is that the US can aim "targeted strikes" at anyonewith impunity. "Its the most horrific form of pre-crime," Scahill says. "They dont know the identities of the people that theyve been killing, they dont know whether theyve been involved in any activity, they are killed for who they might be or who they might one day become." Scahill joins Democracy Now! for a special hour-long segment on his new book, Dirty Wars.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/173994/jeremy-scahill-secret-story-behind-obamas-assassination-two-americans-yemen
Obama Admin: A 16-year-old American boy killed in an Obama administration drone strike "should have [had] a far more responsible father," Obama campaign senior adviser Robert Gibbs says in a new video released by the group We Are Change.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/24/robert-gibbs-anwar-al-awlaki_n_2012438.html
(The day you guys just leave "this" and "just sayin'" to conversations on your Facebook page can't come soon enough.)
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Jeremy Scahill (on Bill Maher): Obama made assassination acceptable to Democrats [View all]
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
May 2013
OP
No doubt the next repug president will be flayed on DU when they continue some
morningfog
May 2013
#2
I think only on a show like Bill Maher can he come out that boldly...
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
May 2013
#7
We can name some children from Pakistan, but then they are not American citizens. So I guess
sabrina 1
May 2013
#48
I didn't want to mention the *obvious* point he made: drown strikes are sloppy
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
May 2013
#20
Yep. "Bring it on!" "Smoke 'em out!" Obama style. All that's missing is the cowboy boots.
Tierra_y_Libertad
May 2013
#12
no one in Afghanistan understand what we are doing there - I'll take a crack at it!
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
May 2013
#28
A trillion dollars worth of mineral deposits are why we are still in Afghanistan.
OnyxCollie
May 2013
#32
Gee, was he paid by the same undisclosed organizations to Rat Fuck Bush all those years too?
bvar22
May 2013
#50
Thank you. It's really so simple you wonder why some people just can't get it.
sabrina 1
May 2013
#69