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Thread #167108   Message #4028404
Posted By: Iains
15-Jan-20 - 02:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: US war with Iran begins
Subject: RE: BS: US war with Iran begins
There would seem to be protests against the ayotollahs in Iran. Could exterminating the terrorist possibly lead to regime change?
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the drone strike it was relatively clean and surgical.
According to outside monitoring groups, by the end of his second term, President Obama had authorized 528 strikes with a death toll reaching somewhere between 380 and 801 civilians in Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen alone. And that’s believed to be a conservative estimate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_U.S._drone_strikes
Modern weaponry and warfare would seem to have outpaced the Geneva Convention on Warfare.
Whether the act was right or wrong the world is a better lave without the man