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Old 10-24-2012, 10:22 AM
Rudeboyelvis Rudeboyelvis is offline
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Originally Posted by Danzig View Post
the same people saying bush should be 'on trial for war crimes' say nothing about obama and his use of 'signature' strikes. bush was bad because he ordered captured militants to gitmo and other bases.
but obama-he just kills them and others with drone strikes, so it's all okey-dokey.
The daughter of the assistant Police Chief of St. Petersburg was killed last week in Afghanistan along with three other by a suicide bomber dressed as an Afghani Intelligence Officer.

Here's a link to the story in the local paper - though it doesn't go into much detail surrounding the circumstances:

http://www.tampabay.com/news/militar...nistan/1256424

What is very interesting to note, is that the suicide bomber previously had no ties whatsoever to Al Queda or the Taliban - he was a simple tribesman caring for his family.
That was until a drone wiped out some of his family - or specifically, an uncle who had held a fairly high stature within the tribe, and by tribal law, his unprovoked attack and subsequent death was required to be avenged.

So there you have it. It isn't bad enough to unilaterally occupy a sovereign nation and go to war against an undefined enemy, with no exit strategy or even so much as an end game, but now we are giving the non-Al Queda afghani's an excuse to be recruited to kill our kids. But BigDumb loves it -
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