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doodle
05-06-2011, 06:49 PM
Regardless of whether people see Obama as truthful or a liar ( poll results link (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?290969-Overall-you-find-Obama-to-be-truthful-or-liar&) ), one has to admit he's got game:

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110506/capt.c043057d9689440ba0fa6cce63789113-c043057d9689440ba0fa6cce63789113-0.jpg


17 March 2011 Last updated at 13:27 ET

US drone strike 'kills 40' in Pakistani tribal region

At least 40 people have died in a US drone strike in the Pakistani region of North Waziristan, local officials say.

Most of the victims were believed to be civilians attending a tribal meeting near the regional capital, Miranshah.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12769209


C.I.A. Drones Kill Civilians in Pakistan

Published: March 17, 2011
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Several missiles fired from American drone aircraft on Thursday struck a meeting of local people in northwest Pakistan who had gathered with Taliban mediators to settle a dispute over a chromite mine. The attack, a Pakistani intelligence official said, killed 26 of 32 people present, some of them Taliban fighters, but the majority elders and local people not attached to the militants.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/world/asia/18pakistan.html


US Killed 700 Civilians in Pakistan Drone Strikes in 2009
'Year of the Drone Strike' Netted Only Five Actual Militant Leaders
by Jason Ditz, January 02, 2010

http://news.antiwar.com/2010/01/02/us-killed-700-civilians-in-pakistan-drone-strikes-in-2009/


Obama: U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Must Do More Than Kill Civilians
Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Asked whether he would move U.S. troops out of Iraq to better fight terrorism elsewhere, he brought up Afghanistan and said, "We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293187,00.html#ixzz1LchV0X2q


This took place under Obama's command in Afghanistan:

Caution, graphic images

The Kill Team
March 27, 2011| By Mark Boal

The War Crime Images Censored by the Pentagon
A disturbing look at the photos collected by the kill team in Afghanistan – and widely shared among U.S. soldiers as a war souvenir

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/photos/the-kill-team-photos-20110327

QueenB4Liberty
05-06-2011, 06:51 PM
Wow. I have no words. I could never live with myself if I had known I had caused an innocent person to die.

doodle
05-06-2011, 08:33 PM
Well said.

anaconda
05-06-2011, 08:36 PM
The troops should hand pocket Constitutions to both Obama and Biden. That would send a message. Would be a great photo op.

doodle
05-11-2011, 10:43 PM
Can't go wrong with the Constitution any time.

Pericles
05-11-2011, 11:05 PM
Can't go wrong with the Constitution any time.

That ^