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Question: Do you approve of using drone aircraft to kill suspected terrorists overseas?
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Yes, even if they're American citizens		  
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Yes, but only if they're not American citizens		  
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No, regardless of citizenship		  
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perdedor
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« on: May 14, 2013, 04:56:54 AM »
http://web.law.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/microsites/human-rights-institute/COLUMBIACountingDronesFinalNotEmbargo.pdf

This study suggests that 50 civilians are killed in drone strikes for every 1 terrorist.

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http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/25/world/asia/pakistan-us-drone-strikes
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Our government and our citizens need to drop this fantasy of an "easy" war  that we can fight remotely with surgical precision. It's a delusion -- our exceptionalism is still getting thousands of people killed.
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« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2013, 09:22:42 AM »
Quote from: Politics Junkie on May 15, 2013, 11:24:32 PM
Obama's not perfect. But Bush went into Iraq without proof that they had weapons of mass destruction, which they didn't. Also, war and child abuse are not comparable in that manner. Child abuse is not done in self defense. Would the American retaliation to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor be comparable to child abuse?

Well.....

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment

http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/
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