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In reply to the discussion: Toll Of 5 Years Of Drone Strikes: 2,400 Dead .The U.S. drone program under President Barack Obama [View all]elias49
(4,259 posts)32. I'm just tired of this country 'delivering weapons' all over the world.
This isn't our planet. As another op points out, we've deployed 'black ops' to 105 countries around the world. Those that don't play our game - won't buy our capitalist system, and our goods - get the poop end of the stick. Or destabilized (Ukraine).
One of the reasons the Vietnam war ended when it did is because the American public SAW what war was about. It's about dismemberment, burned bodies (phosphorous) and children without parents. IMO, you can't get precise enough. Never will.
War is the last vestige of megalomaniacs. Maybe if people could see what the landscape looked like after a major battle during the Civil War they'd say "Enough".
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Toll Of 5 Years Of Drone Strikes: 2,400 Dead .The U.S. drone program under President Barack Obama [View all]
glasshouses
Jan 2015
OP
Sorry folks but for the continuance of this program he will leave the WH tainted. Shame.
YOHABLO
Jan 2015
#3
Is it worse that the bombs are delivered by a pilot on the ground and not a pilot in the air?
Oklahoma_Liberal
Jan 2015
#11
That strikes me as an extremely low death count from a 5 year bombing campaign.
stevenleser
Jan 2015
#17
You're aware that it's probably dumb luck that the girl in your sig line hasn't been droned, yes? nt
Dreamer Tatum
Jan 2015
#18
No, it's not. The chances of someone in one of the worlds most populous countries being one of 2500
stevenleser
Jan 2015
#19