Obama to CIA: Bombs Away! No Let Up in US Drone Attacks

[thx1138]

These wretched people have vitually next to nothing to survive and they can't even go to bed at night and be assured they won't die in their sleep by a US 500lb. bomb. They had nothing to do with 9/11. Their only crime is that they are Muslims.

[thx1138]

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/wa...n_afghanistan/

[Oli]

This is an AGM-114 Hellfire missile. It is either laser or radar guided. It's maximum weight is 105 lbs.


The Predator can carry 2

This is a 500 lbs bomb. It's guidance system is...Gravity. It's maximum weight is...500 lbs.


The Predator can not lift off with one of these attached to it.

Thank you for your pious, pompous reply. Please have your facts in order before doing so again.

[SarahG]

Don't worry. There's always another top 20. Hell, we've been killing a #2 or #3 every other week for years now.

Afghanistan's a loser. We need to get the hell out of there. There's no solution & nobody can figure out who the "enemy" is from day to day. We already made the mistake of making Osama bin Laden the grand poobah personification of terrorism. A worse mistake would be to expand this insanity into Pakistan or Iran.

Whoever said liberals can't also be hawks is wrong.

[hippifried]

I don't care how the bomb is delivered or who does it. Detonating explosives in populated areas is an act of terrorism.

[SarahG]

Among the latest victims were 2 women and 3 children...hard core al Qaeda members, no doubt.

There is always collateral damage. Always has been, and always will be.

If it would make you feel better, we could always go back to our old tactics of just carpet bombing everything with incendiaries. Seemed to work out well against Dresden and Japan...

[SarahG]

I think there's something in the UN rules of warfare about targgeting non combatants. Maybe the bush administration withdrew its signature or maybe they apply to every nation except the US, UK and Israel. I don't know. Someone help me out here.

You would have a point....... if we were actually seeking out civilians to blow up.

Hmm, wait a minute. "Seeking out civilians to blow up" sounds familiar from somewhere. Oh that's right, that's what these extremists have been going out of their way to do for decades now.

[SarahG]

I don't care how the bomb is delivered or who does it. Detonating explosives in populated areas is an act of terrorism.

And the second urban areas are called off limits is the second these radicals pick those urban areas to base their operations.

Why do you think Hamas and Hezbollah picked residential districts, in cramped residential neighborhoods, from next to hospitals, and next to schools- to fire rockets into Israel?

[El Nino]

Murder is murder, and war, is a euphimism for genocide.....

[SarahG]

Murder is murder, and war, is a euphimism for genocide.....

And a fox may steal your hens.

That doesn't change that there are scenarios in which killing isn't murder.