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timosman
03-12-2017, 02:56 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXeqZn4qflU
undergroundrr
03-12-2017, 03:37 PM
Thank goodness the CiC doesn't share any responsibility.

http://news.antiwar.com/2017/03/10/us-deploying-thousands-more-ground-troops-to-kuwait-to-fight-in-iraq-syria/


This adds credence to the sense that President Trump is going to be a bit more hands-off on his escalations, giving the military commanders additional leeway on actions, and even on troop levels, which is likely to raise further questions about what those commanders intend to do in the war, if they no longer have to get permission first.

His hands are clean. Believe me. They're the cleanest hands.

EDIT: And I'm so happy that it looks like only 4 civilians may have died according to the official Pentagon count.
undergroundrr
03-12-2017, 03:51 PM
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CPUd
03-12-2017, 05:05 PM
I'm guessing DGP will still let his paying members fly the drones on the weekends

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https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/838649968193851392
merkelstan
03-12-2017, 09:27 PM
"... in deadly raid." -- um yeah under Obama nobody died in military operations: raids are normally just games of backgammon over tea. Except when Trump is president!
kpitcher
03-12-2017, 09:42 PM
"... in deadly raid." -- um yeah under Obama nobody died in military operations: raids are normally just games of backgammon over tea. Except when Trump is president!

I don't recall Obama ever giving the go ahead and laying the blame on a general if it went bad. Trump was sure to play up the supposed treasure trove of intel, made media by going to meet the casket, yet the current commander in chief made sure to blame the military for the death.
merkelstan
03-13-2017, 05:09 AM
I don't support US troops killin folks in Yemen. Yemen isn't a threat to US national security. So yeh Trump is responsible for all the dead.

The faux media outrage is pure hypocrisy though.
buck000
03-13-2017, 07:15 AM
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Here's Iona's article at The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2017/03/09/women-and-children-in-yemeni-village-recall-horror-of-trumps-highly-successful-seal-raid/
phill4paul
03-13-2017, 07:16 AM
"... in deadly raid." -- um yeah under Obama nobody died in military operations: raids are normally just games of backgammon over tea. Except when Trump is president!

I condemned Obama for his military intervention. He is no longer CiC. As long as Trump continues down the same road then I will condemn him also.