Six...and counting

Discussion in 'The Back Room' started by JO'Co, Jun 30, 2011.

  1. JO'Co

    JO'Co Well-Known Member

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    I'm all for blowing up as many terrorists as our robots can find, but doesn't the Constitution give the Congress the power to declare war? The Democrats used to call both Bush presidents "war mongers" for wars that the Congress and the Democrats themselves had declared. Mr. Obama is now bombing SIX different countries without even informing the Congress. I found this on Weasel Zippers...

    MOGADISHU, Somalia, June 30 (UPI) — An unmanned aircraft attacked two leaders of a militant Somali group with ties al-Qaida apparently wounding the targets, a U.S. military official said.

    The drone strike occurred last week against senior members of al-Shabaab, coming as concern grows within the U.S. government that some leaders of the Islamist group are working more closely with al-Qaida to strike targets outside of Somalia, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

    Somalia is at least the sixth country in which the United States is using drones to conduct airstrikes, the Post reported, joining Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq and Yemen.

    Both of the leaders targeted in the drone attack had “direct ties” to American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, the military official said.
     
  2. IrishCorey

    IrishCorey Well-Known Member

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    As long as we're using human controlled robots to blow up brown people in foreign lands, Americans (white or brown) seem to have little issue with this because it's faceless... (see topic I started earlier)

    I agree with you though.
     
  3. gipper

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    Quite frankly I consider the drones our version of the IED. As long as these bastards get off setting IEDs and blowing up our troops, I have no problem with giving them a taste of their own medicine.