We are still bombing them daily? I thought Obama put a stop to that.

and yes.

Obama Finally Opens Up About The Administration's Massive Drone War


The drone war: It's a sticking point among liberals and activists, and a subject about which Obama has stealthily avoided going into depth.

Until now.

CNN's Jessica Yellin sat down with Obama for an interview, which was posted on 9/11 at 5 p.m.

"You know, drones are one tool that we use. And our criteria for using them is very tight and very strict. It has to be a target that is authorized by our laws. It has to be a threat that is serious and not speculative," Obama tells Jessica. "And we've got to make sure that in whatever operations we conduct, you know, we are very careful about avoiding civilian casualties. And in fact, there are a whole bunch of situations where we will not engage in operations if we think that there's gonna be civilian casualties involved."

But just last week, a drone strike in Yemen killed ten civilians. In fact, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports that there have been approximately 116 drone strikes in Yemen alone. Often, the report says, Yemen will step up to take the blame for strikes which go off course (as they promptly did with the aforementioned strike).

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-finally-gets-personal-on-the-subject-of-drones-2012-9#ixzz26Ss5JbV4

Why our president, has a drone war going on, guantanamo bay is still in use, the patriot act was expanded and resigned, and the bush tax cuts were resigned. And also a judge recently ruled that the part in the NDAA 2012 where the government can indefinitely detain american citizens without trial is unconstitutional, and within 24 hours Obama appealed it! I think I woke up in BIZZARRO world. I don't know what is going on anymore.

Perfect!

and imagine how it must be.

It calls for some real serious hard core exercises in empathy.

Behngazi appears to have been preplanned to some extent

The movie had been out for months. The events started before it could be traced to the US or anywhere else for that matter

There are groups of people who believe they have the right to defend their religion's honor via rioting and killing others who had nothing to do with it.

If there hadn't been as much as a firecracker set off in the last 10 years some of this would have happened.

Who would have ever thought they might resent it?

has been doing a great job the last couple of nights trying to get everyone's attention away from that stupid movie.

...yet we Americans still react with astonishment when, after we kill people in other countries whenever and however the hell we want to, they react by killing us back.

Other nations and peoples don't agree. It's not in the least surprising that Americans are targets over there. What's surprising is that it doesn't happen frequently.

When I suggested that perhaps the movie was only a part of what caused the anger and violence, I was quickly kneejerked that I was "excusing the murderers" and assorted other happy horse dung that was, to put it nicely, little more than an insult to my intelligence. I sometimes wonder if some of these people have ever ventured outside the county they were born in.

The self-righteous crap about how we don't riot over insults to Christianity is reflective of shallow, self-absorbed "thinking".

provenance of the film, i wouldn't be surprised if the film was some kind of red herring used to explain the violence to a gullible public. it's been out there for awhile, but came to public attention only as the violence did.

Maybe there were some co-ordinated international attacks/riots/uprisings and it is embarrassing so this film gets trotted out to distract and change the subject.

We're probably gonna start sending in more drones into more countries now.

The continuous self-righteous "we don't riot and kill people when our religions(s) are insulted, just makes me despair when I see it here.

I wonder if belief in freedom, democracy and tolerance in America would survive such events. I would wonder if belief in freedom, democracy and tolerance would survive on DU. Judging by the last couple of days, I doubt it.