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2-3-2009 8:31 PM
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blueridge says:
His guest Pierre Sprey, a former Pentagon official under McNamera, and developer of military planes like the Warthog, destroys the arguments for war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and particularly of drone strikes in Pakistan, which kill more civilians that alleged, unproven "combatants". (The woman's comments are worthless). Must hear podcast.

The "war on terror" based upon 9/11 is also challenged effectively as the entire erroneous premise, which Obama continues just like Bush, for a multitude of errors and war crimes.

Sprey on bombing targets with UAV drones:

You can't tell with a camera or an infrared sensor or something whether somebody's a Taliban. In the end, you're relying on either, you know, some form of intercepted communications, which doesn't point at a person. It just, you know, points at a radio or a cell phone or something like that. Or, most likely, you're relying on some Afghani of unknown veracity and unknown motivation
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2-3-2009 9:06 PM
blueridge
Sprey on the "war on terror" and 9/11:

BILL MOYERS: This is all part of the war on terror. He said it in his inaugural address.

PIERRE SPREY: Yes, he said that. I was appalled. ...

PIERRE SPREY: 9/11 was not an act of war.

BILL MOYERS: What was it?

PIERRE SPREY: It was a criminal act. It was a simple...Criminal act by a bunch of lunatic fanatic violent people who needed to be tracked down and apprehended and tried exactly as you would with any other lunatic violent person, like we do with our own domestic terrorists, like the guy who bombed the Oklahoma federal building.

PIERRE SPREY: It's not a war....We, by calling it a war, we have glorified al Qaeda. We have[b]...
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2-4-2009 11:27 AM
PeaceWatcher
Afghanistan, is an endless war, thanks to Russia and the US generations of the Afghan people know nothing except to fight.

Unless the US started a real process to rebuild the country and to create opportunities to the people to live and work in peace, a fighter will be born with each baby in Afghanistan.

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