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First they say we succeeded, then they say we didn't.
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First off, the government never stated that they got him for sure. They said that they believe that they did, that intel came from the Somalia government so they screwed up..

Second, we did get the leader along with others..
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First off, the government never stated that they got him for sure. They said that they believe that they did, that intel came from the Somalia government so they screwed up..

Second, we did get the leader along with others..
Which leader, and what was he guilty of? I've only heard suspects and civilians getting killed.
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Re: US strikes suspected AlQueda targets in Somalia

Guilty? Don't have to be guilty of anything, just a "suspect" to get shot at (and have multiple civilians killed alongside you).

Imagine the outcry if other countries behaved like this.
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Guilty? Don't have to be guilty of anything, just a "suspect" to get shot at (and have multiple civilians killed alongside you).

Imagine the outcry if other countries behaved like this.
Hate to break it to you, but other countries do behave like this. Just about all of them in fact.
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Re: US strikes suspected AlQueda targets in Somalia

Oh?

Funny, I have no recollection of random airstrikes on civilian populations in the (unsuccessful) attempt to murder individuals "suspected" of being troublemakers.



Well, maybe Israel. But apparently it's OK for them to kill children in the streets as long as they kill someone in Hamas, too.
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Oh?

Funny, I have no recollection of random airstrikes on civilian populations in the (unsuccessful) attempt to murder individuals "suspected" of being troublemakers.



Well, maybe Israel. But apparently it's OK for them to kill children in the streets as long as they kill someone in Hamas, too.
Random airstrikes on civilian populations? So someone at the pentagon was just having a slow week and decided to order an airstrike somewhere? Just threw a dart at the map to pick a target.

Do you ever get tired of wallowing in all this cookey, I hate america, ideology or does it just come naturally?
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Hate to break it to you, but other countries do behave like this. Just about all of them in fact.
That is not true. It is an extreme minority of nations who behave like this. And it is also a minority of nations who provide the arms for it. USA being always at the top of that list.

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That is not true. It is an extreme minority of nations who behave like this. And it is also a minority of nations who provide the arms for it. USA being always at the top of that list.

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So you are telling me that most countries wouldn't use military force to defend themselves from what they view as a national security threat. Its just the evil old US of A?
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So you are telling me that most countries wouldn't use military force to defend themselves from what they view as a national security threat. Its just the evil old US of A?
No. Im saying most countries do not bomb first and wonder who they killed later, only a very few nations do that, very few. And when it is not a US ally, the US is the first to scream foul.

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And your source that the US bombed first without any source of intelligence information?

And if the US does it you're the first to scream foul.
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Coupla questions.

If you suspected that an al qaeda member lived in a us city - would you attack the entire neighborhood in the hopes of killing the suspect?

Apart from 9/11 when exactly is the last time that the US was attacked? how do you define a "terrorist" or "enemy"?
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And your source that the US bombed first without any source of intelligence information?
I never said they did not have a source. Its just that have come to see this current iteration of the white house as purely ideological, and so they only listen to the intelligence they want to here. If there 'source' was the warlords, i think that is pretty stupid, since these people are violent murderers who have their own agenda and our more than happy to use the US military to do their dirty work.

In essence that is the incompetence i have come to expect from this admin.

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Actually i waited quite patiently for some evidence to come in before i began to form a judgment.

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Random airstrikes on civilian populations? So someone at the pentagon was just having a slow week and decided to order an airstrike somewhere? Just threw a dart at the map to pick a target.

Do you ever get tired of wallowing in all this cookey, I hate america, ideology or does it just come naturally?

Well, look at who was killed. Was it the targets? Nope. Just some poor black people who happened to be living in the wrong city, so I guess it's no big deal.

If Russia saw some threat from individuals in London and sent in gunships to tear up a few city blocks, killing civilians and hopefully those "suspects," you'd be OK with it?
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You aren't kidding.....I am just amazed at the constant whining and crying.
Either too many drugs or living in a fantasy world, that's my 2-cents.
Interesting article here, proUSA:

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Pentagon survey says troops fatter, drinking more - Yahoo! News

The survey also showed 44.5 percent of respondents participated in "binge drinking," up from 41.8 percent in 2002. The Iraq war began in March 2003.

Personnel deployed from 2002 to 2005 had higher rates of work and family stress as well as higher rates of heavy alcohol, cigarette and illicit drug use than those who did not deploy, it said.

A greater number of personnel who deployed in that period met criteria for depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms than those who were not deployed, according to the survey....


Now, tell me, proUSA, who is it that is living in a fantasy world and is using more and more drugs?

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