Don’t forget everyone in this part of the world killed by a drone is an al qaeda leader whether they know it or not.

Vector56:  A correction just for the record: In your May 8 comment about “...what IMax, Heterochromatic AND GERARD missed ...”
  It appears you misunderstood my comment about the use of the passive voice of verbs in reporting these incidents—so-and-so ‘was killed’ ... noone would claim responsibilitiy ... ‘according to unnamed sources’ ... etc. I was speaking not only about this incident, but about almost every war report that comes out.  Nobody is willing to actually admit to having committed murder or doing anything wrong. Why? In every case, the perpetrators are known by name. But it appears that the custom is to shield them from guilt by not mentioning them by name—as if nobody is responsibility. That’s what the so-called passive voice is for; that’s why it’s called “passive.”

“While my preference is capture and trial this is positive news for Arab Muslim.” - IMax, May 7

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Over the past 7-8 months that I’ve been sharing my views on these pages, when extra-judicial killing becomes an issue, I have steadfastly decried the Obama policy of execution over that of capture, interrogation, and public trial.  Only the smallest and least able to reason among us could mistake my position on the subject.

I see you very clearly, Vector.  You’re concern is not that of extra-judicial executions.  Your concern is in using this issue to club the United States.  You’re a hypocrite.  Phony as hell.

Free Thinker asked:

“What kind of culture and value system is this that places priority and resources on spending millions to kill one man half way around the world over feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless or educating the futhure generations in the heart of the homeland?!”

I believe I can answer that:  A whites-uber-alles system.

The very system you vote for and most of the folks here on truthdig support to the hilt.

vec—not everyone in the world gets a day gets a day in court….people making
war quite often don’t nor do the people that they kill.

“two American officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media.”

I wonder if Obama’s “Injustice” Dept. will find the time to go after these “whistle blowers”?

Also, what gerard, IMax and heterochromatic “deliberate choose to miss” (to quote Alyona Minkovski ) is the fact that neither of these two human beings killed had their day in court. That is far more important than who they were, or were not.  Also remember that the Cole was a ship of War; a military target.

berniem—- yuo shouldn’t believe our goverment when it
claims that some non-existant person named bradley
manning is in prison…....

all this talk about some deranged pipsqueak is just
government disinformation, of course….there is no
Bradley Manning because the government says he exists.

BB—- If you read the story, it pretty clearly states that an AQ “operative” was killed
along with the main target…..you can’t translate operative to foot soldier?

Frankly, I don’t believe anything this government says. These occassional “successes”, which I think are fabrications, serve only to numb the public to the ever growing number of crimes committed in our name everywhere in the world that the invisible hand of our vaunted free market capitalist system feels the need to dominate and squelch any and all oppostion to its will! FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!

I wonder what the dollar to kill ratio is?

American criminals make these guys look like minor league.

They put “undated” on the photo of a 14-year-old.

And you dummies just eat this up?

If any Al Qaeda member was killed it was just collateral damage to Obomber’s re-election campaign, as everyone with an IQ into the double digits knows that Al Qaeda is a US operative group and has been since the early 80s.

This man, also known as Fahd Al-Awlaqi, is lucky not to have been captured prior to 2008.  He’s been saved the humiliation of being scared by water.

While my preference is capture and trial this is positive news for Arab Muslim.  Al-Awlaqi killed ten times more Arab Muslims than he did any other single culture.

As our local area shaikh said this morning.  “The man is dead and Allah was watching”.

Why are these things always so passive voice—as if they “just happened” but nobody actually “did” anything?  “Was killed by a missile” ... “was fired from a drone” etc. “Was acknowledged by the government, etc”  You’d think they’d be proud.

You ever notice that we never seem to kill an al qaida foot soldiers or accountants? They are apparently the unltimate capitalist enterprise, everybody get to be a boss.

This is starting to look like Vietnam. Al qaida, like the vietcong, seem to keep rising from the grave, for according to our own stats, we have killed each one of them three times.