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The Third Presidential Debate

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Deckard, Oct 17, 2012.

  1. basso

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    Great question, via the NYorker, of all places:

    President Obama, you run a very regular and deadly program of secretive targeted assassination by drone aircraft, and yet you have forbidden the use of coercive practices such as waterboarding in interrogation. So why is assassination O.K., but using force in an interrogation is out of bounds?

    Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blo...-the-foreign-policy-debate.html#ixzz2A4fMOrY1
     
  2. mc mark

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    Because one decimated Al Qaeda,

    the other didn't.

    next question
     
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  3. Ubiquitin

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    could not have put it better.
     
  4. basso

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    is not the former morally repugnant?
     
  5. basso

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    also, if al queda is "decimated", how did they manage the attack that killed chris stevens, in an area where they had not previously been particularly active?
     
  6. Ubiquitin

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    Because they didn't.
     
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  7. basso

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    yeah, thanks, but that report contradicts the previous 5 weeks of reports.
     
  8. vlaurelio

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    you just answered your own question
     
  9. FranchiseBlade

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    It has to suck when the actual facts are allowed to come out and they don't fit in with the narrative basso has created for himself.
     
  10. Ubiquitin

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    [​IMG]
     
  11. basso

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    t'would, t'were they actual facts.
     
  12. Ubiquitin

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    I don't even know what to think anymore.
     
  13. FranchiseBlade

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    If you check the post below yours, you'd see more facts that go against your increasingly discredited narrative.
     
  14. basso

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    you're just posting links to the same story, talking points put out by the admin, but to different reporters.
     
  15. basso

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    FTFY.
     
  16. Ubiquitin

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    So if I can't believe the people on the ground, can I believe the commentators who make money vilifying their political opponents?
     
  17. basso

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    watch, then check back with me in an hour:

    <iframe width="853" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MIAE6vLct-0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
  18. Ubiquitin

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    Debate time! Hopefully Romney does not take a swing Obama.
     
  19. basso

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    A U.S. ambassador is missing and his diplomatic team is desperately fighting off terrorist attacks. Our commander-in-chief and his national-security team in Washington are listening to the phone calls from the Americans under attack and watching real-time video from a drone circling overhead. Yet the U.S. military sends no aid. Why?

    good question.

    http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/331125/first-aid-living-bing-west
     
  20. Ubiquitin

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    What would the army do? Crackdown against an entire city? Overthrow the month old government?
     

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