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PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts) Thu Apr 23, 2015, 10:56 AM Apr 2015

U.S. drone strike accidentally killed 2 hostages

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) President Barack Obama announced Thursday that a U.S. counterterrorism operation targeting an al Qaeda compound in January accidentally killed two innocent hostages, including one American.

Multiple U.S. officials told CNN the hostages were killed by a U.S. military drone that targeted the al Qaeda compound.

"As president and as Commdander-in-Chief, I take full responsibility for all our counterterrorism operations including the one that inadvertently took the lives of Warren and Giovanni," Obama said Thursday morning, where he apologized on behalf of the U.S. government

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/23/politics/white-house-hostages-killed/index.html?eref=edition

Obama: ‘I Take Full Responsibility’ For US Operation That Killed Innocent Hostages Held By Al Qaeda
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-make-statment/story?id=30525474

Statement released by White House:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/23/statement-press-secretary

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U.S. drone strike accidentally killed 2 hostages (Original Post) PoliticAverse Apr 2015 OP

"Accidentally???" ann--- Apr 2015 #1

Yes, they were bombing AQ but didn't know the hostages were being kept there. geek tragedy Apr 2015 #2

No, I didn't say the ann--- Apr 2015 #7

do you have any information to suggest that drones are less accurate than geek tragedy Apr 2015 #8

So apart from hand to hand combat onenote Apr 2015 #4

Tanks and aircraft carriers ann--- Apr 2015 #5

Probably Germany... Helen Borg Apr 2015 #11

Resolving it via a chess match would not be cowardly. Helen Borg Apr 2015 #10

Taking full responsibility should mean locks Apr 2015 #3

Agree with you 100% but ann--- Apr 2015 #6

I take full responsibility zipplewrath Apr 2015 #9

"I take full responsibility" PSPS Apr 2015 #12

He should have taken responsibility back in January when it happened. bananas Apr 2015 #13

*We killed some folks..." elias49 Apr 2015 #14

ann---

(1,933 posts)

1. "Accidentally???"

Reply to PoliticAverse (Original post)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 11:49 AM

Apr 2015

Using drones is the coward's way to fight a war. I thought Obama
was better than that. Guess he's no better than Bush.

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

2. Yes, they were bombing AQ but didn't know the hostages were being kept there.

Reply to ann--- (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 12:07 PM

Apr 2015

The rest of your post is irrational gibberish, unless you think Nixon and LBJ were the picture of courage by sending millions of troops into Vietnam while dropping millions of tons of bombs using the old fashioned airplane method.

ann---

(1,933 posts)

7. No, I didn't say the

Reply to geek tragedy (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 12:48 PM

Apr 2015

president himself was a coward. I said that using UNMANNED drones
to kill others is sick, perverted and the coward's way because so many
innocents are murdered in the path of destruction and by "accident."

The only way LBJ and Nixon would have courage is if THEY joined the
military that fought the wars they started.

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

8. do you have any information to suggest that drones are less accurate than

Reply to ann--- (Reply #7)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 12:49 PM

Apr 2015

manned aircraft?

onenote

(42,783 posts)

4. So apart from hand to hand combat

Reply to ann--- (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 12:38 PM

Apr 2015

what do you not consider a coward's way to fight a war. Presumably you think using aircraft is a coward's way. And tanks -- a coward's way. Probably firearms, spears, bows and arrows and catapults also are coward's ways of fighting.

ann---

(1,933 posts)

5. Tanks and aircraft carriers

Reply to onenote (Reply #4)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 12:46 PM

Apr 2015

are manned. Drones are controlled by technicians safely
hidden in Florida - or wherever it is these places are.

Helen Borg

(3,963 posts)

11. Probably Germany...

Reply to ann--- (Reply #5)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 01:32 PM

Apr 2015

Helen Borg

(3,963 posts)

10. Resolving it via a chess match would not be cowardly.

Reply to onenote (Reply #4)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 01:31 PM

Apr 2015

Just saying...

locks

(2,012 posts)

3. Taking full responsibility should mean

Reply to PoliticAverse (Original post)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 12:33 PM

Apr 2015

we will never again send drones or bombs over any countries.

ann---

(1,933 posts)

6. Agree with you 100% but

Reply to locks (Reply #3)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 12:46 PM

Apr 2015

America has not learned that lesson. Sadly.

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)

9. I take full responsibility

Reply to PoliticAverse (Original post)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 01:02 PM

Apr 2015

I'm never sure what that means. I hear people say that all the time. "buck stops here" and all of that, but what do they mean? Does that mean that they will some how suffer some consequence? I don't imagine that Obama plans on personally doing anything. I'm sure he'll order some reviews and such but he won't give up any power, he won't be paying anyone anything, he's not going to adopt someones kids or pay for their house or something. Even if he arranges for compensation, HE won't pay it, we will, the US tax payer.

Mostly what he seems to be saying, and what most people who say this seem to be saying, is that they won't blame anyone else. Well, good, scapegoating doesn't accomplish anything. But at the end of the day what the real conclusion usually becomes in essence is that it becomes NO ONES fault. No one is truly HELD responsible. It is one thing to take responsibility, it is another thing entirely to hold ones self responsible.