Woman leads protest march near CIA HQ and Cheney's house.
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[quote]LANGLEY, Va. -- A group led by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has protested near the CIA's headquarters and former Vice President Dick Cheney's home in northern Virginia.
They were protesting the use of unmanned drone aircraft to attack al-Qaida and Taliban targets.
The group of about 70 people rallied alongside a highway near the CIA compound Saturday. About half then marched to Cheney's nearby street and stayed for 20 minutes. Police kept them from going down his street.
Sheehan's 21-year-old son Casey was killed in Iraq in April 2004. She staged a prolonged demonstration outside former President George W. Bush's ranch near Crawford, Texas, in 2005.
She says using drones is "cowardly" and "immoral."[/quote]
Source: [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/16/AR2010011602242.html?hpid=politics[/url]
That's retarded.
Would she prefer we go after them with broadswords?
People just don't give a shit till their son or daughter is taken away.
How selfish.
Also, fuck Cheney.
Wow, drones?
Aren't drones like so much more safe since they hit precisely the target they want to hit instead of for example bombing, which goes all over the place?
[QUOTE]They were protesting the use of unmanned drone aircraft to attack al-Qaida and Taliban targets.
She says using drones is "cowardly" and "immoral."
Sheehan's 21-year-old son Casey was killed in Iraq in April 2004[/QUOTE]
What a moron. I suppose she would prefer more Americans be killed on the ground (like her son) than use a machine from the safety of a building in the US.
[QUOTE=Big Bang;19691363]Wow, drones?
Aren't drones like so much more safe since they hit precisely the target they want to hit instead of for example bombing, which goes all over the place?[/QUOTE]
Umm, no. Smart bombs are remarkably accurate, and drones have only been equipped to carry antitank missiles.
[QUOTE=thisispain;19691362]People just don't give a shit till their son or daughter is taken away.
How selfish.
Also, fuck Cheney.[/QUOTE]
People just don't appreciate that people's sons and daughters voluntarily join the military because they don't want the battle taken to their parent's homes. How ignorant.
Also, Cheney is a decent person, who should not be molested.
Cheney is out of office anyways. Why his house of all places?
Sheehan should give up. Her son joined the military [B]VOLUNTARILY.[/B] He knew the risks.
Why is she protesting against the drones again? Did the taliban use the drones?
Or maybe she's like westboro whatever cuntbunch church who just want everyone to die. Because her son did and now everybody else deserves to.
Goddamn it woman.
Kill yourself for the greater good.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;19691531]Cheney is out of office anyways. Why his house of all places?[/QUOTE]
It was closer to the Holiday Inn they were all staying at.
[QUOTE=Murkrow;19691584]Why is she protesting against the drones again? Did the taliban use the drones?
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She doesn't like that the US military kills terrorists with missiles fired from unmanned drones. She apparently thinks that terrorists should be given a fair chance to kill more the sons of other people.
[QUOTE=Alan Ninja!;19691683]She doesn't like that the US military kills terrorists with missiles fired from unmanned drones. She apparently thinks that terrorists should be given a fair chance to kill more the sons of other people.[/QUOTE]
Use broadswords! :hist101:
We should give them jetpacks and use them as our drones.
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Yeh ur fucked.
[quote]They were protesting the use of unmanned drone aircraft to attack al-Qaida and Taliban targets.[/quote]
Fuck, get a life.
woman protests the war and use of unmanned drones, which have killed hundreds of civilians, after her son dies in said war
is called a stupid whiny bitch by teenage conservatives who know nothing about war outside of videogames on facepunch
Feelings on drones aside, good. I don't think Cheney should be allowed to live a single day for the rest of his life without being reminded of how many people have died because of his fucking war.
[QUOTE=Urkel01;19691778]woman protests the war and use of unmanned drones, which have killed hundreds of civilians, after her son dies in said war
is called a stupid whiny bitch by teenage conservatives who know nothing about war outside of videogames on facepunch[/QUOTE]
I am, in fact, 20.
oh but when a fat rightwinger protests "socialist policies" that never happened from the comfort of her chair, it's "true american patriotism"
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;19691796]I am, in fact, 20.[/QUOTE]
that's cool, doesn't change the fact that you have no idea what losing a family member to a war is like or what war is like at all
or what being an innocent person killed by an unmanned drone is like, either
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seriously [I]what the fuck is wrong with you people[/I]
[QUOTE=Urkel01;19691797]
seriously [I]what the fuck is wrong with you people[/I][/QUOTE]
Facepunch. They're all white, middle-class kids with a hardon for killing people.
What idiots. The CIA's [i]lack[/i] of action lead to a near catastrophe on Christmas day, and these fucktard hippies are protesting that the CIA finally stopped sitting on their asses waiting for a shitload of Americans to die and actually did something?
I hope their plane blows up.
don't use unmanned drones?!? what are you suggesting [B]WOMAN,[/B] that we go back to using swords and arrows??? excuse me, but my expensive, civilian-killing military toy is WAY more important than your dead son or whatever. fuck off, whiny bitch.
[QUOTE=Doug52392;19691906]What idiots. The CIA's [i]lack[/i] of action lead to a near catastrophe on Christmas day, and these fucktard hippies are protesting that the CIA finally stopped sitting on their asses waiting for a shitload of Americans to die and actually did something?
I hope their plane blows up.[/QUOTE]
don't support civilian-murdering or pointless wars = FUCKING HIPPY I HOPE YOUR PLANE BLOWS UP YOU FAG
not to mention they weren't even protesting the cia, so what are you on about
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;19691848][QUOTE=Urkel01;19691797]
seriously [I]what the fuck is wrong with you people[/I][/QUOTE]
Facepunch. They're all white, middle-class kids with a hardon for killing people.[/QUOTE]
Amen brother.
Hmmm.
A single unmanned drone with large field of vision from the skies.
or
A group of soldiers which could be injured or killed in the conflict.
[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;19692060]Hmmm.
A single unmanned drone with large field of vision from the skies.
or
A group of soldiers which could be injured or killed in the conflict.[/QUOTE]
this could possibly be a legitimate argument if drones didn't hit the wrong targets and kill civilians over half the time
and couldn't be easily hacked by taliban forces in any case
and didn't cost millions of dollars each
and were actually useful at any point in the war's history, rather than just being an expensive toy
etc.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;19691848]Facepunch. They're all white, middle-class kids with a hardon for killing people.[/QUOTE]
White, Middle-Class kids (by kids, I'm assuming 13-15), mostly.
Are all of them like this? No.
Just saying.
[QUOTE=Urkel01;19692107]this could possibly be a legitimate argument if drones didn't hit the wrong targets and kill civilians over half the time[/QUOTE]
Soldiers/Civilians can fall victim to friendly fire by Aircraft and other Soldiers.
[QUOTE=Musicfreak59;19692122]White, Middle-Class kids (by kids, I'm assuming 13-15), mostly.
Are all of them like this? No.
Just saying.[/QUOTE]
lots of them are, especially on this site
kids are stupid
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;19691360]Would she prefer we go after them with broadswords?[/QUOTE]
Apparently.
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