Jeremy Scahill on Obama's War Machine, American Assassinations & Journalism

Kristen Schall on Inside the Actor's Studio Apartment:

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I love Obama. He is proving very decisive in international dealings, with his only mess up being in Libya. Love the drone strikes and the support for Israel. If he leaves guns alone, I will vote for him a 3rd term.

 

Just eats you alive doesn't it rtsy? That a democrat could be better at killing bad guys than a republican.

 

And it's going to be a pleasure watching hate destroy you over the next 4 years. We'll call you basso jr

 

Healthcare should be universal.

(Just following rtsy's lead, spouting random crap in unrelated threads... 'abolish teh IREZZ!' derp)

 

^ CANCEL "WHITNEY" FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, WTF ARE U THINKING NBC

 

rtsy, I don't know what your political positions are and I don't know what you're trying to accomplish here, but you should stop. You aren't changing any minds here.

Those on the "right" whack off to the idea of secretive executive assassinations (while simultaneously maintaining they want a "limited government"). And no one on the "left" really gives a damn if Obama is blowing up innocent people or assassinating people without due process. They have far more important things to worry about, like whether the top income bracket should be taxed 38% or 40% or 50% or whatever is the new number they champion nowadays.

 

That was a good interview.

 

You've shown no ability to comprehend this so this is not really for your benefit , but it's not that people dont' care, it's that we're willing to accept the benefits over the costs.

You're one of these idiots who likes to apply binary labels to everything "U R LIB U MUST OPPOSE ALL WARS DRONES VIOLENCE DOES NOT COMPUTE" Your internal thought process on these matters is about as sophisticated as



Nobody actually likes drone strikes but given the other options that we've tried thus far (not really doing anything, massive expensive pointless invasions) it's a tradeoff I"m willing to make if it eliminates/occupies/annoys al qaeda, which the evidence indicates it does, and to the extent it prevents skyscrapers from being blown up here, i'm willign to tolerate them. I've never really maintained otherwise. I thought the Iraq war was a mistake, not because "ALL WAR IS WRONG" - I don't believe that and never did but because it was the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time.

Now the necessary counterpoint is to copypasta some Greenwald screed about American citizens getting blowed up - let me be perfectly clear on this point, I don't give a **** if American citizens who are in lawless parts of civil-war Yemen running around with terrorist groups where shelling is part of the daily routine get blown up without due process. I don't think the 14th amendment applies in that instance based on my reading of the case law and based on me having a brain.

 

Oh god, the hyperbole paranoia monster is out. Rational conversation is now off the table. If my legacy is shutting people like you up, then it can't be all bad.

You devalue the positions you advocate by advocating them in the way that you do. Not that it really matters on a basketball-related message board, but you apparently seem to take it seriously.

Perhaps if this is you in real life, and you really are taking this stuff that seriously, you should pull an @Highway 30, and seek professional help for this personality disorder that you suffer from. I'm not kidding.

 

Why? All the undesirables will already be in FEMA concentration camps.

 

It all started when:

 

You would have mentioned the 2001 Authorization of the Use of Military Force (AUMF) bill, or the Patriot Act (both under Bush) if you truly gave a flying **** about the violation of the Bill of Rights/Constitution and a government or military threat to our civil liberties.

You only care about these issues (drones killing babies included) when you can point a finger at Obama; which shows us all how disingenuous and full of $hit all your threads are.

You might want keep in mind that fear mongering doesn't work when you are the only idiot in the room.

 

Why we talking about Bush? He gone like forever.

Black man here. He dangerous.