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Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile'

Posted by Soulskill on from the napalm-hugs-and-frag-grenade-kisses dept.

sanzibar writes "Not satisfied with the legal conclusion of the DOJ, the Obama administration found other in-house lawyers willing to declare a bomb dropped from a drone is not 'hostile'. The strange conclusion has big implications in determining the President's compliance with the law. If drone strikes are in fact hostile and the Libyan campaign continues past Sunday, he may very well be breaking the law."

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  1. Re:Yep, not the change I voted for by dirkdodgers · · Score: 1, Troll

    Right on, man. We have had great results to show for backing Islamist guerrillas in the past. What could go wrong?

    No. Unmanned drones dropping laser guided bombs delivers one thing: death. Not peace. Not justice. Bloody, awful, indiscriminate, pointless death.

    Get off your high horse about fucking torturing people. Your man is fucking killing people. All on his own. Without consulting the Congress. He just decided he could go start fucking killing people. If you want to say that it's ideologically justified killing, then you can be my guess to stand hand in hand in that position with George W Bush.