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"Cheney's Assassination Ring"

What I find funny is that many liberals said that we should have assassinated Saddam and avoided the war.
 
gumboot said:
If he was (and you may be right) he's wrong on two counts. This task force (it seems it keeps changing its name for opsec reasons) is operating under CENTCOM so to say it operates without oversight is simple nonsense. Secondly, it's a combat unit involved in very specific combat operations. There's nothing wrong with trying to kill enemy leaders in war. It's smart.
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While TF[XXX] operating under CENTCOM isn't a bad thing, that doesn't mean that the Task Force Unit wouldn't operate under a more secretive command as well - as Hersh suggested.

And I'm not that much familiar with covert special units anyway - so I don't have a more secretive unit in mind concerning the topic - or are there more secretive units I failed to acknowlege here?
 
Skeptic said:
Too late. Already done.
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Yes, but it's not my translation. Mine will be the definitive version. Of course, I haven't learned Klingon yet. But I can do that in a year or more.

Random observation for the day: the built-in spell checker in Firefox recognizes the word "Klingon".
 
Ziggurat said:
Yes, but it's not my translation. Mine will be the definitive version. Of course, I haven't learned Klingon yet. But I can do that in a year or more.

Random observation for the day: the built-in spell checker in Firefox recognizes the word "Klingon".
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It also recognizes Micro$oft...just saying


And why do you need to translate Shakespeare back into its original Klingon?
 
Donal said:
It also recognizes Micro$oft...just saying
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Amusing, but that's actually because it recognizes "micro" and "oft", and ignores the $ since it's not a letter. So for example, it won't complain about teddy$bear or Micro*oft or $cam either, but it will complain about $oup.

And why do you need to translate Shakespeare back into its original Klingon?
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For the teenagers. They don't like the archaic language.
 
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leftysergeant said:
My main objection is to the fact that the unit was only answerable to a sociopath, and not monitored by any agency which might have to deal with the results of an operation gone sour.
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Glad to see the around 800 laws this would break isn't that big a deal. You just want the team you shake your pom-poms for to benefit from it.
 
Decreasing collateral damage?

The argument that I've heard a lot of right-wingers bring up is the idea that Cheney was doing us a favor by allowing special ops to narrow their focus and take out targets without killling civilians. I hope everyone sees this as a dangerous precedent. I'm a fan of Obama, but I certainly don't see the merit of Biden calling in assassination squads to take down foreign leaders of his choosing without any oversight or accountability! :boggled:
 
JihadJane said:
Would killing Dick Cheney be assassination?
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Yes it would be an assassination. However assassination is quick and too good for the likes of Cheney. It is infinately more fitting that if there is something to these alligations that he is brought to trial and judged to the letter of the law. Then exceuted for the world to wittness.
 
Donal said:
Glad to see the around 800 laws this would break isn't that big a deal. You just want the team you shake your pom-poms for to benefit from it.
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Not surprising. Since when do Communists have anything against political murder?
 
KellyG said:
The argument that I've heard a lot of right-wingers bring up is the idea that Cheney was doing us a favor by allowing special ops to narrow their focus and take out targets without killling civilians. I hope everyone sees this as a dangerous precedent. I'm a fan of Obama, but I certainly don't see the merit of Biden calling in assassination squads to take down foreign leaders of his choosing without any oversight or accountability! :boggled:
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What foreign leader did Cheney "allow special ops" to "take down"??
 
KellyG said:
Let's wait and see...
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So you don't know. And have no evidence that such a thing has occurred.

Even Sy Hersh doesn't seem to have claimed that the JSOC has assassinated any foreign political leaders. The only thing mentioned in either article is "a list of terrorists, suspected terrorists out there who can be assassinated." There's no mention of "foreign leaders" being targeted.
 
OK, when did Hersh start venturing into woo? He was a pretty damned respected journalist.

But, reading those articles Jihad Jane posted (from a woo site, no less), he is starting to ramble and make a lot of assumptions in order to make his story stick.
 
Where was your wooometer made? There was a recall recently on a faulty batch.
 
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