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In reply to the discussion: Repost as OP: All this talk of "right to retaliate" and "insurgents" is just legalistic twaddle [View all]coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)60. The number of DUers who refuse to admit how execrable the policy is has me contemplating on
a daily basis leaving DU for good.
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Repost as OP: All this talk of "right to retaliate" and "insurgents" is just legalistic twaddle [View all]
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
OP
You forgot the most important part. President Obama will be President forever and ever
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#2
if obama behaves like "those awful republicans" there's not that much difference on those issues nt
msongs
Feb 2013
#3
Yep. It's not that there's no difference between the parties, it's that the differences
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#10
The number of DUers who refuse to admit how execrable the policy is has me contemplating on
coalition_unwilling
Feb 2013
#60
I'm at least somewhat hopeful that she won't run. DU is not nearly as influential as it likes
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#6
Hillary45. Michelle46. President Obama nominated/becomes SCOTUS in 2018.
graham4anything
Feb 2013
#51
Heavens, yes! Suggesting a Clinton-Obama dynasty gives the impression that
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
#59
But what is your opinion on torture as practiced by CIA? Do you think president was right when he
idwiyo
Feb 2013
#74
Yes, and if we had stood by and let the Soviets help the Marxist Afghan government suppress the
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
#21
That's the problem - government of Afganistan was a socialist government and just like Chiliean
idwiyo
Feb 2013
#75
What a load of bull that is. Our Saudi 'allies' chop off hands and behead women.
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2013
#76
"Go back to the colonial era...boundaries deliberately drawn to maximise internal ethnic conflict."
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#61
Unfortunately, we all KNOW why Bush would never had used a drone (or any other weaponry)
bullwinkle428
Feb 2013
#48
Drones are here to stay because people buy into the fear racket and condone them and support them
Catherina
Feb 2013
#82
But..but..seeing as we can't win an actual war we must seem to be doing something.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2013
#57
Thanks for a brilliant rant- copied to read whenever the BS overflows
green for victory
Feb 2013
#78
Of course you did: facts are "baseless" when you don't want them to be true.
ConservativeDemocrat
Feb 2013
#89
"The U.S. has more military firepower than the next five nations world wide combined. "
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
#97
Conflicts like Libya and Syria are treated like Evil vs. Good in the U.S. media, but
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
#100