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NJ5 on 23 June 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/world/asia/24pstan.html?ref=global-home

First three paragraphs:

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An airstrike believed to be carried out by a United States drone killed at least 60 people at a funeral in South Waziristan on Tuesday, residents of the area and local news reports said.

Details of the attack, which occurred in Makeen, remained unclear, but the reported death toll was exceptionally high. If the reports are indeed accurate and if the attack was carried out by a drone, the strike would be perhaps the deadliest since the United States began using the aircraft to fire remotely guided missiles at members of theTaliban and Al Qaeda in the tribal areas of Pakistan.

If confirmed, the strike would be the 23rd by a United States drone this year, as the Obama administration has intensified a policy inherited from the Bush administration.

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If I was from Pakistan I would be very pissed off...

 



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d21lewis on 23 June 2009

Fucking SkyNet. I told them it wasn't ready.



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d21lewis said:
Fucking SkyNet. I told them it wasn't ready.

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akuma587 on 23 June 2009

Even if you are trying to do a good thing in a foreign country, occupying another country always has huge disadvantages. The people usually end up hating you even if you help them out.



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TheRealMafoo on 23 June 2009
NJ5 said:

If confirmed, the strike would be the 23rd by a United States drone this year, as the Obama administration has intensified a policy inherited from the Bush administration.

Obama could slit peoples throats, and it would still somehow be Bush's fault to most of the world.

How in the hell are air strikes in a region Obama intensified fighting this long into, something he inherited?

Unbelievable.



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Rath on 23 June 2009

@Mafoo. Airstrikes were carried out under the Bush administration, they have continued and instensified under the Obama administration. I don't see how thats arguable, its not saying that the strike is Bush's fault - or even if the policy is bad. Just that the policy was originally started under Bush.

As for the strike, I'm not going to condemn it until more information comes out. If it turns out (as it almost certainly will) that civilians were killed then its another stupid strike by a US military that seems incompetent at directing its drones in the right area. If it has killed more civilians then they definately need to stop firing the damned things as they obviously have no control of who they end up hitting, so innocent civilians die. That and its a PR disaster for the US.



outlawauron on 23 June 2009

Hmm, who would the target have been?

I mean I doubt there would just be a random attack, regardless of country responsible.



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TheRealMafoo on 23 June 2009
Rath said:
@Mafoo. Airstrikes were carried out under the Bush administration, they have continued and instensified under the Obama administration. I don't see how thats arguable, its not saying that the strike is Bush's fault - or even if the policy is bad. Just that the policy was originally started under Bush.

Sure. That's why it's in there. It was not placed in that article to defect blame one bit. Just to state a fact.



Rath on 23 June 2009

I'd say so. You're awfully defensive about a very small mention.

Not everything in the media is an attack on the conservatives.



Tyrannical on 23 June 2009

 

Qari Zainuddin, second from right, with his bodyguards. An assassin loyal to the Pakistani Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, killed Mr. Zainuddin on Tuesday.

An airstrike believed to have been carried out by a United States drone killed at least 60 people at a funeral for a Taliban fighter in South Waziristan on Tuesday, residents of the area and local news reports said.

 

Sounds like the drone got 60 of his Taliban friends too.

 



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