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Old 06-22-10, 05:04 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by Zachstar View Post
And if flares had started the smallest of fires somehow the Taliban would surely enhance to use to make it seem that the US is attacking civvies again. Because of the times we did so and tried to cover it up. Its very hard to trust...

That is why drones are SO SO SO much better for this role. They are so quiet and so long ranged that they can make ABSOLUTELY sure they are attacking a bad guy and have the whole thing on tape clear as day which wards off pressure and scares the hell out of the enemy.
Yea about those drones... last I heard they werent to fond of those either.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...ne-protest-va/

Woops .... heh link for LOL's

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]This story first appeared at Inter Press Service.[/I]
WASHINGTON, Jun 3, 2010 (IPS) - Some CIA officers involved in the agency's drone strikes programme in Pakistan and elsewhere are privately expressing their opposition to the programme within the agency, because it is helping al Qaeda and its allies recruit, according to a retired military officer in contact with them

Here is the right link

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0603/dis...drone-strikes/
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