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Reply #24: we are not at war with the thousands of innocent civilians our drones have killed. [View All]

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firehorse Donating Member (547 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 12:41 PM
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24. we are not at war with the thousands of innocent civilians our drones have killed.
And you don't seem to grasp the long term consequences of how it affects us as a nation when we things that sow the seeds of anger and opposition by killing innocent Iraqi and Afghan civilians than would otherwise have been the case if we didn't use drones.

And besides that, its warfare that is not gone through congress. If a video game player is recruited to kill people in Iraq while sitting in New Mexico, he bypasses a technical loophole because he physically is not a part of the military in the country where he is killing.

You also haven't addressed the question if you are OK with drones in your own back yard. Or are drones OK if they are used on brown people outside our borders? You seem ok with that, but are you ok with drones used on our own people, the way warrantless wiretaps were used here?
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