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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
How about a US senator.... Sorry, he only said 4700...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2727923.html
And if by permission, you mean that the administration pays off corrupt government officials in order to allow them to kill people based often on nothing more than, "Look, there is a group of people in one place.... Splat them", then you and I have differing opinions on the meaning of "permission".
http://www.globalresearch.ca/america...kistan/5356569
In any case, I guess that you answered my actual question in the post with your reply.... i.e. nothing this administration could do would bother you, as long as they have a D after their name.
Sadly, this is FAR too often the case, with both the D's and the R's.
 
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I'm not really a fan of Lindsey Graham nor the huffingtonpost.com as I think it's actually worse than Fox News. However you did back up your numbers from a assumed reliable source being a US Senator whom should have access to that info. I'm still not sure I believe his numbers as no one else is backing it up and it's not like senators haven't lied or exaggerated the facts in the past.
Still most other agencies claim a much lower number so it's only Graham whom says other wise. The numbers I see widely reported from most groups is about 2 to 3 thousand with the reported number as roughly 350 drone strikes. Your second link shows the much lower number of 2k and not 4700.
To reach nearly 5k death you would have to be getting a average of about 13 kills per drone strike and that seems pretty high. This means either the 4700 number is not true or there has been way more than 350 drone strikes or drones are the most accurate killing machine in our arsenal.
What is funny though, is just because I don't agree with your opinion , that you immediately just jump to the you will let democrats slide on anything attitude.
Funny enough I said several times in my post that I don't agree with the usage of drones and how we use them, but I countered your overly broad argument with showing that we aren't just launching attacks with out permission or for no reason.
I'd rather no civilians get killed, but I'm not going to pretend that we can just wish away all the bad guys and just leave them be and they won't do anything bad as it seems you think.