Topic: Don't you know there's a war on? (Read 77155 times)

Büge · « **Reply #520 on:** October 21, 2011, 07:12:37 PM »

Quote from: Mongrel on October 21, 2011, 06:23:37 PM

Let's say Hitler didn't shoot himself (OH NO, GODWIN'S LAW! THIS COMPARISON IS TOTALLY DISPROPORTIONATE!) and was instead found by some erstwhile private Kaplanski.

I'm not saying that a trial wouldn't have been the right thing there either - I am definitely not an eye-for-an-eye kind of fellow - but I'm not saying I would've been surprised if an "accident" happened.

"Now they'll never save your brain, Hitler."

Thad · « **Reply #521 on:** December 14, 2011, 09:58:57 AM »

BB: Blackwater Iraq data-dump: mercenaries shot a judge with impunity, used bullets as hand signals, were not disciplined as this "would lower morale"

Mothra · « **Reply #522 on:** December 14, 2011, 10:22:32 AM »

Also, if you haven't heard, Blackwater renamed itself again, from Xe. It's now called "Academi".

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On Monday, Virginia-based Xe plans to unveil a new name—Academi—and new logo. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Ted Wright, president and chief executive, said the name change aims to signal a strategy shift by one of the U.S. government's biggest providers of training and security services.

Mr. Wright said Academi will try to be more "boring."

Yeah, you know, we'll try to scale back on murdering civilians until the PC POLICE decide we're sufficiently dull enough. What ever happened to the ACTION in this biz, mann

Thad · « **Reply #523 on:** December 14, 2011, 10:23:51 AM »

Well, Blackwater DID sound like a generic bad guy in a Bond movie/superhero comic/what-have-you.

Mothra · « **Reply #524 on:** December 14, 2011, 10:46:41 AM »

I prefer my amoral mercenary rings to sound as genuinely evil as they act!

François · « **Reply #525 on:** December 14, 2011, 10:48:42 AM »

"Blackwater" has long been a euphemism for sewage water contaminated with feces and urine.

Mothra · « **Reply #526 on:** December 14, 2011, 01:05:01 PM »

White House senior officials will not recommend a veto of the Defense Bill.

More troubling to me is how it's been reworded:

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Once Obama’s officials saw the text though, says Levin, “the administration asked us to remove the language which says that US citizens and lawful residents would not be subject to this section.”

Specifically, the section that Obama asked to be reworded was Section 1031 of the NDAA FY2012, which says that "any person who has committed a belligerent act" could be held indefinitely.

“It was the administration that asked us to remove the very language which we had in the bill which passed the committee…we removed it at the request of the administration,” said Levin. “It was the administration which asked us to remove the very language the absence of which is now objected to.”

You have got to be shitting me.

Ziiro · « **Reply #527 on:** December 14, 2011, 01:23:28 PM »

The veto is irrelivant. If you look at the numbers, Congress will probably override. He'll veto for the press but be overridden by congress.

Here's the house vote as well.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #528 on:** December 14, 2011, 01:40:22 PM »

At least Obama is finally giving his opinion about Occupy Wall Street now.

Mothra · « **Reply #529 on:** December 14, 2011, 09:50:33 PM »

Büge · « **Reply #530 on:** December 15, 2011, 10:20:21 PM »

If I'm reading Google Chrome's translation correctly, the US just approved legislation that names Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups.

Oh, and they just sent troops into Mexico, too.

Mongrel · « **Reply #531 on:** December 16, 2011, 08:17:35 AM »

Looks like those Mexican papers just got a little overexcited

Brentai · « **Reply #532 on:** December 19, 2011, 01:47:06 PM »

Not even a day after we leave Iraq and they go and arrest their own VP.

Welp.

THAT was a huge damn waste of time.

Ziiro · « **Reply #533 on:** December 19, 2011, 01:56:52 PM »

Mothra · « **Reply #534 on:** December 19, 2011, 03:52:17 PM »

100,000 Iraqi civilians killed, 32,000 wounded

4,500 US soldiers dead

Quote from: Ziiro on December 19, 2011, 01:56:52 PM

Norondor · « **Reply #535 on:** December 19, 2011, 05:20:45 PM »

AT LEAST WE ARE NOT AS BAD AS SADDAM HUSSEIN :)

Norondor · « **Reply #536 on:** December 19, 2011, 05:22:14 PM »

ALSO WE KILLED UGLY MEAN BEARD MAN :) :)

Doom · « **Reply #537 on:** December 19, 2011, 05:24:49 PM »

I liked all the articles in the news about the US Army leaving in such a hurry that they abandoned thousands of pieces of equipment. The articles tried to play it off as us being so gosh darn nice to the new Iraqi Army. I laughed pretty god damn hard.

Norondor · « **Reply #538 on:** December 19, 2011, 05:49:17 PM »

Gotta get back home in time for NDAA, bro. all those FEMA internment camps aren't gonna man themselves.

Mongrel · « **Reply #539 on:** December 28, 2011, 09:54:05 AM »

WaPo does a rundown on drone killings

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The Obama administration’s counterterrorism accomplishments are most apparent in what it has been able to dismantle, including CIA prisons and entire tiers of al-Qaeda’s leadership. But what the administration has assembled, hidden from public view, may be equally consequential.

In the space of three years, the administration has built an extensive apparatus for using drones to carry out targeted killings of suspected terrorists and stealth surveillance of other adversaries. The apparatus involves dozens of secret facilities, including two operational hubs on the East Coast, virtual Air Force cockpits in the Southwest and clandestine bases in at least six countries on two continents.

Other commanders in chief have presided over wars with far higher casualty counts. But no president has ever relied so extensively on the secret killing of individuals to advance the nation’s security goals.

The rapid expansion of the drone program has blurred long-standing boundaries between the CIA and the military. Lethal operations are increasingly assembled a la carte, piecing together personnel and equipment in ways that allow the White House to toggle between separate legal authorities that govern the use of lethal force.

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