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Target Practice (American Military=Murderers) by Christopher Dickey [Lead story in Newsweek site]
Newsweek ^ | 1-19-2006 | Chrisopher Dickey

Posted on 01/19/2006 9:35:40 AM PST by Jonah Johansen

Target Practice Washington’s enthusiasm for remote-control assassination is partly about boys with toys. But after disasters like the failed attempt on Zawahiri, we need to take a closer look at the tactic......

......Some accounts suggest the Germans gave no help at all, others that their main purpose was to make sure certain locations like hospitals, embassies and shelters were not hit. If so, and if they helped avoid another disaster like the 1999 bombing of China’s embassy in Belgrade, or an atrocity like the 1991 obliteration of a bomb shelter in Baghdad, then they did the United States a great service. They may not have saved us from ourselves in this thankless war, but they might have kept us from murdering even more Iraqi civilians

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: british; iraq; msm; newsweek; treason
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"but they might have kept us from murdering even more Iraqi civilians" Isn't this a new lowfor Newsweek and the MSM in general. I think it reveals just how deep the hatred for America runs in the newsrooms of the Main Stream media.
1 posted on 01/19/2006 9:35:44 AM PST by Jonah Johansen
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To: Jonah Johansen
The guy is a loon rehashing old news...


2 posted on 01/19/2006 9:38:56 AM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: Jonah Johansen

I am sorry. But until Newsweak apologises for the hundreds of Americans their fraudlent "Flush the Koran" story has, and will kill. they have no moral standing to render any judgements on anything. They have ZERO intellectual or moral crediblity.


3 posted on 01/19/2006 9:40:44 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Is there a satire god who created Al Gore for the sole purpose of making us laugh?)
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But after disasters like the failed attempt on Zawahiri,

Huh?


4 posted on 01/19/2006 9:43:07 AM PST by Patrick1
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>>>>Washington’s enthusiasm for remote-control assassination is partly about boys with toys. But after disasters like the failed attempt on Zawahiri, we need to take a closer look at the tactic...... <<<<

This quote reveals two things immediately: Newsweek has ZERO grasp of the serious nature of combat, and Newsweek has ZERO grasp of the facts.

BTW, I don't call an attack where several of the top Al Q'aida guys were taken out a "disaster"... no one in their right mind would, either. The utter fallacy of non-lethal warfare, which liberals embrace with a lemming-esque abandonment of rationale, will never, ever, EVER hold up to real life.


5 posted on 01/19/2006 9:44:06 AM PST by snowrip (Liberal? YOU HAVE NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT. Actually, you lack even a legitimate excuse.)
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To: Jonah Johansen

Newsweak never publishes "news". I flush in their general direction.


6 posted on 01/19/2006 9:44:23 AM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: One Wing to Rule them All and to the Darkside Bind them)
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"But after disasters like the failed attempt on Zawahiri,
Huh?"

Count on these guys to be behind the news cycle.


7 posted on 01/19/2006 9:45:20 AM PST by popdonnelly
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Failed?,,,,, HA! the missiles detonated and killed enemy, sounds like the sweet smell of success to me...
8 posted on 01/19/2006 9:45:25 AM PST by brainstem223
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"Huh?"

The moonbats have a habit of being WAY behind actual events. If this had been published last week it might have caused some damage. With the possibility some major AQ talent was reduced to compost in that "failed" attack....well, sounds exactly like what it is: stupid.

9 posted on 01/19/2006 9:47:10 AM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: One Wing to Rule them All and to the Darkside Bind them)
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To: snowrip
Washington’s enthusiasm for remote-control assassination is partly about boys with toys. Oh, the dripping condescension...
10 posted on 01/19/2006 9:48:05 AM PST by ArmyTeach (Pray daily for our troops.)
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To: Jonah Johansen
The "author" of this article is obviously partial to medical metaphores so how bout this one: letting politicians run a war is like letting medical malpractice lawyers perform surgery. The doctors and nurses (or in this case the generals and soldiers) need to perform the surgery for it to turn out right...LET THE MILITARY RUN THE WAR!
11 posted on 01/19/2006 9:49:37 AM PST by grand old partier
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[...or an atrocity like the 1991 obliteration of a bomb shelter in Baghdad]



I vaguely remember this, but not the details.

Didn't this turn out to be a bogus story cooked up by the Iraqi government for propaganda purposes? Or am I thinking of some other similar incident?
12 posted on 01/19/2006 9:51:39 AM PST by spinestein
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That was no Iraqi "bomb shelter"!! MF'ers!! It was a known military bunker (supposedly command and control) that, unbeknownst to the mission planners, had been converted to a "bomb shelter". We hit it and rightfully so. It was a military target. You don't put up a fence and barbed wire around a bomb shelter. Newsweak has hit below the belt with that statement, but then again, what else is new.

Rant off

SZ


13 posted on 01/19/2006 9:53:03 AM PST by SZonian (Tagline???? I don't need no stinkin' tagline!)
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To: spinestein

Oops. Here it is.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/iraq2002/89776_iraq04.shtml


14 posted on 01/19/2006 9:53:25 AM PST by spinestein
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To: Coop; aculeus; section9; BlueLancer; hellinahandcart; Constitution Day; Petronski; ...

Front-runner for Flaming Asshat of the Week.


15 posted on 01/19/2006 9:53:36 AM PST by dighton
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To: Jonah Johansen

Only one thing could explain an attitude as pissy AND prissy as this: prolapsed colon.


16 posted on 01/19/2006 9:57:38 AM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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And here's an example of the "disaster" our ignited posterior covering was describing.
17 posted on 01/19/2006 9:58:30 AM PST by Coop (FR = a lotta talk, but little action)
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I fail to see how killing bomb makers and mass poisoners is a "failure" - looks pretty much on the mark, but heck, that's just me.


18 posted on 01/19/2006 9:58:45 AM PST by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada!)
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But after disasters like the failed attempt on Zawahiri, we need to take a closer look at the tactic......

Well, just between you and me, I think that ol' Zawahiri may have been one of the bodies they took away with them after the attack.

Because there were eye-witness reports they took away several bodies. And the ones they left behind we pretty far up the AQ food chain, so until he proves differently, I am going to presume we got the bastard.

19 posted on 01/19/2006 10:00:39 AM PST by Kenton
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1) The 2006 bombing against Al-Zawaheri in Afghanistan was a SUCCESS: 4 known terrorists ided, plus sympathizers including the Al Qaida top bopmb maker who had a $5M bounty on his head.

2) 1999 China Embassy Belgard bombing was a success. Officially it was a mistake but Chinese embassy had been receiving parts of the downed F-117 stealth fighter.

3) 1991 Baghdad bunker was a communicationcs command and control center (yes it had a civilian bunker as well). This building had been under direct ground surveillance and the bomb was laser guided by a man on the ground only a couple of blocks away.


20 posted on 01/19/2006 10:06:04 AM PST by Mark Felton ("Your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.")
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