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Trump gives CIA new power to conduct drone strikes: U.S. media

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Trump just recently discovered that healthcare is complicated. He claimed "nobody knew that." Now this is the guy that's "lowering the threshold on acceptable civilian casualties and scaling back other constraints" on drone strikes? Trump has no grasp of consequences because he's never had any. He's always had enough money to shrug off all the bankruptcies, RICO scam charges, lawsuits, and other dumb things he's done. Now he's playing with lives.

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I know some people supported Trump because they were tired of Obama's drone strike and foreign intervention polices, and that was one of the few somewhat valid reasons to support him. But now Trump is upping the ante despite his campaign promises of non-intervention. Is there anything left that separates him from the Washington establishment? Besides him spending all his time in Mar-a-Lago? If it wasn't obvious before, it should be now. You've been scammed.

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Yes, give the CIA even more power

And worry less about civilians

People are loving this

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MrBum: "I know some people supported Trump because they were tired of Obama's drone strike and foreign intervention polices..."

Exactly! In fact, just go back to the last thread on the failed Yemen raid, if not even closer to today's thread, and you'll see some posters saying "bb-b-b-b-b-butwhataboutobama and his drones killing people??" Now how are they going to admonish him while saying Trump is great for doing the same thing (but worse)?

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"Trump administration is also working to loosen Obama-era rules that aimed to limit civilian deaths in drone strikes"

Trump simply fulfilling another campaign trail promise. http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/12/04/donald-trump-doubles-down-targeting-terrorists-families-hannity

There was military pushback over Trump's repeated "you have to take out their families" remarks, so the Geneva Convention-defying dirty work has been outsourced to The Company.

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*When I first read this I thought it said:

Trump gives CIA new power to conduct drone strikes on U.S. media*

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SimondB: "Trump gives CIA new power to conduct drone strikes on U.S. media*"

Don't be surprised if it's in the pipeline, but SNL is enemy number one, first!

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And let's not forget that this was the man who advocated killing the families of alleged "terrorist's".

See how I cleverly used quotation marks so I can distant myself from this comment?

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Plausible deniability?

Or

Does killing people not agree with his stomach?

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