MSM: Drones Target Rescuers, Mourners

[The Northerner]

Over the last three days, twenty-seven people were killed in Pakistan by U.S. drone strikes. On Sunday, according to news reports, "suspected militants had gathered to offer condolences to the brother of a militant commander killed during another drone strikes on Saturday." The news reports may say militants, but after learning last week that the Obama administration has decided to count any male of military age in a combat zone as a potential target, we know it really could be anybody. And it's the same thing for the rescuers that were hit by a drone strike in Waziristan on Monday, after an initial strike that killed sixteen people. The CIA has now doubled down on targeting funerals of militants, as well as the rescuers that come to the scene. And this is what should be in the election coverage.

[Downwinder]

1. Isn't this the same as a suicide bomber detonating among first

responders to an earlier bomb?

There is no moral high ground.

[RC]

2. Combat zone? Do the locales know they live in a combat zone?

Or is a combat zone like a terrorist or a militant? It is because we say it is?

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Here, I can make it easy for ya..

"combat zone"; anywhere we have troops, or can reach with drones.
( this includes most all countries).

"Insurgents": see militants

Militanst: see insurgents

Taliban: what we call insurgents in Afghanistan, who used to be our allies until we changed our minds about needing them.

Al-Kada..what we call insurgents in a country we want to start bombing..errr..droning in.
They tend to be found in places that have oil or water or pipeline routes that we want.

[RC]

4. Gotit, now. thanks.