Sorry, 18 dead. Tim
-----Original Message----- From: Timothy Heald Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 7:42 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Robotic assassinations. Somalia taught us what? Lets see it cost us 6 dead and some wounded vs. over 1000 dead on the Somali side. Why do people insist that we lost that battle? Tim -----Original Message----- From: Angel Stewart [mailto:gel@;silkcotton.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 5:57 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Robotic assassinations. Better hope it isn't your cousins or family in the middle east etc. that are targeted next time on unknown grounds of their being 'Terrorists' eh. And people question why US Foreign Policy may provide fodder for madmen to feed the fanatics at their disposal. I wonder what would have happened if that Hellfire missile missed, or the car otherwise got away and there was...oh what's the politically correct term? Oh right..'Collateral Damage'...?? But I guess it wouldn't matter to the average American..since from their point of view its probably all a bunch of stinking brown skinned Arab bastards being killed anyways. Fuck em all and the Muslim monkey they rode in on hmmmm? So we sit back and admire the 'might' of the UNITED States of America..able to kill remotely with Robots. Ooooh what Big Balls they have! Next they'll be dropping a Nuke on Iraq with a remotely piloted plane. ( Oooh look CNN? See? No American Loss of Life to report to the public....only a lot of bastard brown skinned middle eastern muslim people...) So the US takes the high road and kills people..or engages in 'Assassinations' instead of following the due process of International Law and arresting the people or otherwise bringing them to justice...then again I guess Somalia taught certain sectors a lesson that their 'special' training might not be worth shit in certain environments. Sweet.Way to go Bush. Reverse years of work against US involvement in outright assassination attempts. So it's not alright for Israel....but now its suddenly ok for the US? Bunch of facking hypocrites if you ask me. And I'd REALLY like someone to try to explain that and change my point of view. Wonder if it would be alright for China, or USSR to start doing the same against enemies of THEIR states. Ah what the fuck! Trinidad could start launching coconuts remotely at anyone we don't like next! -Gel -----Original Message----- From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:Acantrell@;kentlaw.edu] Surprised nobody has brought up the robotic assassination the CIA conducted on Sunday in Yemen. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20021104/ciadrone.html Basically they used an unmanned Predator aircraft to fire a Hellfire missile at some terrorists driving in a car. What do you think - cowardly or patriotic? Adam. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
