Get the hell out !

[kentuck]

Now!

[baldguy]

1. But... I haven't finished my coffee.

[Name removed]

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[kentuck]

3. Well, we've only been there ten years....

:shrug:

[a la izquierda]

4. K & R

[cordelia]

5. K & R

[Vinca]

6. +1000

[RKP5637]

7. Recommend!!! Our 10 year lease is up! Time to move out!!! n/t

[Javaman]

8. We. Are. Never. Leaving. nt

[TomClash]

9. Wait . . .

. . . there's still money to be made.

[ThoughtCriminal]

10. I've seen that movie - nm

[KoKo]

11. Did you happen to catch Sen. Kerry and Howard Dean on Morning Joe Scum this a.m.?

I hope you didn't because you'd lose your breakfast...

Let's just say it was "revealing" about their views on America's presence abroad and in Libya.

Not a hair's difference between the war policies of both parties. No wonder Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld were "off the table."

[FSogol]

12. I'll get a job tomorrow, Mom.

:shrug:

[blindpig]

13. k&r

[TlalocW]

14. Make me!

I'll drop you like yesterday's bran muffin!

TlalocW

[ImNotTed]

15. Kick

(Already recced.) ;-)

[Hell Hath No Fury]

16. I wish, but Javaman is right.

We are never truly leaving Afghanistan or Iraq. Even Col. Wilkerson said the same on KO last night.

[slay]

17. K&R

i agree - we have such big problems here - get the fuck out of that shithole indeed.

[NNN0LHI]

18. Out of where? Korea? Japan? Germany? Italy? Iraq? Afghanistan?

We have a lot of places we could theoretically get out of.

Don

[bvar22]

19. Couldn't have said it better.

:patriot:

K&R

[edbermac]

20. For how much?

[Timbuk3]

21. Said the patriot to the teabagger n/t

[RandomThoughts]

22. I am due beer and travel money, and many experiences.

[flvegan]

23. Amityville Horror meets DU?

[Codeine]

24. I'm gonna wash that Hell right outta my hair. nt

[Octafish]

25. Right now.

Yesteryear'd been better.

[WillyT]

26. K & R !!!

:kick:

[sad sally]

27. The US is running out of good men and women to fight and die, but not to worry.

Enormous piles of money are being spent on building bases for drones with operators sitting safely somewhere else. America is turning into the evil empire - drones ready to strike, ready to assassinate and destroy without "boots on the ground." The more they're used as the preferred weapon of choice, the more acceptable they become. They are changing the entire face of war.

The costs of the drone program are numerous, though not only in dollar terms. According to one expert quoted in the article, using what are essentially robots to fight for us creates the perception that war is costless. Soldiers are not put in harm’s way and the victims remain faceless. As reported in numerous press outlets, Predator attacks, however, have led to the death of innocent bystanders, including children. In addition, Predator pilots suffer from combat stress just as much as—and perhaps more than—pilots sitting in cockpits. The perception that war is costless is itself a cost of the drone program, as it threatens to undermine political checks on what could become an endless war.

There are also policy costs. First, terrorists killed by Predators cannot be mined for intelligence. Second, and perhaps more controversial, is the notion that the targeted killing program amounts to assassination, which is forbidden by E.O. 12333, which governs the activities of the Intelligence Community. Indeed, the use of drones in this manner may begin to erode the international norm against assassination. By engaging in strikes that some believe to be assassination, the United States threatens to undermine its stance that it occupies the moral high ground in this war; the Obama Administration’s use of the program may also endanger the goodwill it has engendered abroad, especially in Pakistan.

more http://harvardnsj.com/2009/12/predator-strikes-raise-novel-moral-legal-issues/?de

[amborin]

28. K&R

[astral]

29. While the gettin's good.

oh, wait, huh? yeah, the coffee...

[donheld]

30. was it something I said?

:shrug: :toast:

[Lochloosa]

31. At least let me put my pants back on.....sheeshh