JCC Ender Sigh rags on 'Murica

I snort my tea through a $100 bill.

 

It was 200 civilians.

 

Bazinga'd: Since when has the American government been forthcoming about its atrocities? How many officials have admitted that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died in the opening years of our invasion (rather than the 10-40,000 figures vomited up during the Bush regime)? Why must we resort to Wikileaks to learn about the routine slaughters perpetrated by our Nintendo pilots? How many news outlets have deigned to broadcast the fact that we dropped 25,000 bombs in 2016?

Russia has a heck of a lot of catching-up to do.

 

Ok turkey bacon. What and why.

 

One should always aim for weekday credibility. Sorry, credability.

Yes, please be speific, grdr4.

Quite, the ordance/ordiance/or dance/danc0r doesn't have a 100% non-cambottent kill rate, rdgr4.

Oh, wait, I missed:

I guess it's a good job Shakespeare knew his breeches from his breaches when he wrote Henry V.

Enough.

 

Well, that's easy, since the US military retroactively defines any combat age male who happened to be somewhere that was bombed as an enemy combatant. Thus, only women, children and elderly are counted as civilians. But since drone bombing missions are usually carried out in peacetime on unsuspecting targets based on conjecture ("we have strong reason to believe so and so person will be at this location at this time"), that is a highly inaccurate way to count civilian casualties.

 

This is true, but that applies during war. Drone hits are not carried out in wartime. And it's not like the US is world champion of adhering to the Geneva Conventions anyway.

 

Murican Republican Ex-house speaker Tom Delay thinks Health Care should be a responsibility not a right. Probably what most Republicans think.

**** this country.

 

People who fall sick without insurance to cover their treatment should be used as target practice for the military amirite?

 

In any event, they are not followed by the US when counting civilian casualties in drone strikes. There has been reporting on this. Any fit male above a certain age who was hit is counted as a combatant (i.e. not a civilian casualty) by virtue of having been hit. It's a statistical catch-22.

 

If he wasn't a terrorist, then why is he dead?

 

Bazinga'd: I would recommend reading Jeremy Scahill's The Assassination Complex, which delves into the Bush/Obama drone war apparatus, its victims, and the psychological toll it exacts on entire societies. Make no mistake, this chilling policy will come back to haunt us.

Here's a link to Amy Goodman's interview with said author on Democracy Now!

https://www.democracynow.org/2016/5/3/the_assassination_complex_jeremy_scahill_glenn

 

Guys. Your tipping culture is the worst thing ever. And add the ****ing sales tax to the purchase price like a civilised country!

 

Nope.