The Empire Strikes - "US Launches Air Strikes in Somalia"

[Attero Dominatus]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2953120

The Empire Strikes - "US Launches Air Strikes in Somalia"
   
Advertisements [?]
So, does that give Cuba, Russia, Serbia, Somalia, and all the other countries who accuse us having terrorists in the USA the right to declare a "War on Terror" and launch strikes on Miami, New York, and Los Angeles?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080303/ap_on_re_af/somalia... ;_ylt=AlL4oRTy0CNmxAhnTP85ulIE1vAI

WASHINGTON - The U.S. launched a military airstrike in Somalia to go after a group of terrorist suspects, defense officials said Monday.

"It was a deliberate, precise strike against a known terrorist and his associates," one U.S. military official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on the record.

He gave few other details, except to say the targets were believed staying in building known to be used regularly by terrorist suspects.

In the strike early Monday, Somali police said three missiles hit a Somali town held by Islamic extremists, destroying a home and seriously injuring eight people.

The strike follows one last year in which the U.S. shelled suspected al-Qaida targets in Somalia, using gunfire from a U.S. Navy ship off the shore of the lawless East African nation.

Refresh | 0 Recommendations    Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top

to the US Military.
 
you to the DUmmies.

babylonsister  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Mar-03-08 10:25 AM
Response to Original message
1. They've been just itching to bomb someone. I am thoroughly disgusted.
   
Did they even hit their supposed targets, and did they ask permission first? Was there collateral damage?
   Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top

 

alyce douglas  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Mar-03-08 11:09 AM
Response to Reply #1
16. we will pay.
   
sadly.
   Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top

If your islamic friends attack us, we strike back (unless we have a democrat in office).

Echo In Light  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Mar-03-08 10:43 AM
Response to Reply #5
8. No.Def not my point. One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter
   
   Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top

Islamic jihadists are not freedom fighters you moron. They want an islamic world.

Angela Shelley  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Mar-03-08 01:43 PM
Response to Reply #40
42. We could start by keeping our own
   
"terrorists" within our own borders ... see Blackwater, see CIA ... and doing away with our own "terrorist training camps" and stop funding other training camps around the world.

Whether I like it or not, the USA has funded, initiated and motivated terror around the world for the longest time. We do (still) have the right to learn from history and demand that this activity be stopped.

Once the USA wakes up and realizes that the title of Superpower is wishful thinking, things will change.

The US government should concentrate on crime reduction and safety within the borders, and not blame all of the problems on "foreigners". For example, the damage done to the US through predatory lending is higher than any terrorist activity has ever been or ever will be. I would bet that more US citizens have committed suicide because of financial problems in the past 5 years than soldiers who were active in Iraq have.

The internal problems in the US are causing the downfall of society, not the external terrorists.


   Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top

Is there anything you idiots do not blame America for? Rhetorical Question.

Tierra_y_Libertad  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Mar-03-08 02:34 PM
Response to Reply #38
46. There are many options other than military.
   
First, "terrorism" is a tactic, not a movement, ideal, religion, or political party. The Drug Lords in Columbia, Mexico, Peru, (even the United States) use terrorism for their own ends. Yet we refrain from using the military to bomb Tijuana or Cali or Brooklyn to kill those "who plan on killing innocent men, women and children". In fact, in "fighting terrorism", our military has killed far more "innocent men, women and children" than the "terrorists" ever dreamed of.

Should we, for instance, bomb the corporate headquarters of Exxon, Haliburton, or any number of other corporations because, in effect, they are killing innocents?

Let me ask you this. How has "fighting terrorism" through violence worked so far?







   Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top

**** you, troop hater. 

Ichingcarpenter  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Mar-03-08 10:40 AM
Response to Reply #3
6. legitimate infers legal
   
It is not legal according to international law.
   Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top

Non-uniformed combatants are not protected.

Winterblues  (366 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Mar-03-08 11:25 AM
Response to Reply #3
27. So you believe the Bush* Doctrine of pre-emptive attacks is correct policy?
   
I do not. I believe we must be attacked first..To presume one guilty before any action is just not American IMO.
   Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top

So let me get this straight. You think innocent people must die before we or our allies take any action?

CJCRANE  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Mar-03-08 11:15 AM
Response to Original message
20. These strikes usually serve
   
as a distraction from something.

It's right there in the neocon media playbook between "Bin Laden tape" and "terror alert".
   Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top

alfredo  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Mar-03-08 11:30 AM
Response to Original message
30. yep, they scored some dangerous women and children.
   
   Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top

Did you know that terrorists use human shields?

Swamp Rat  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Mar-03-08 01:36 PM
Response to Original message
41. Yet another war crime committed by the Bushler regime.
   

   Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top

[Chris_]

Did you know that terrorists use human shields?

That reminds me -- remember when Desert Storm was nigh and all those stupid libtards flew to Iraq and volunteered to be human shields?  The libtards said "put us in front of elementary schools and aspirin and baby food factories!" Saddam said "no, we will put you in font of our troop barracks, hangars, military airports, on gunships, etc."

That's why we didn't have to worry about American (or EU) "human shields" when we went in.  They skidaddled once they realized they would be REAL human shields and not just  anti-American sanctimonious symbols of libtardianism.

You have to admit -- THAT was funny.