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May 12 2009

Re: Drones: America's New Air Force

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By Bob Boldt

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Re: Drones: America's New Air Force
60 Minutes' Lara Logan Reports On The Increasing Use Of Drones In The Battlefield

I don’t know if any of you had the patience to sit through this blatant infomercial for the Pentagon, brought to you courtesy of 60 minutes, yesterday.

"These remote drones are so deadly accurate they can pick off the bride in a wedding party and leave the groom with his hair intact." -- Made up quote from Drones: America's New Air Farce.

CBS' Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Lara Logan’s efforts on behalf of eroticizing the war in Iraq now seems to be directed towards selling Obama’s impending disaster in Afghanistan. I had to switch it off.

I am so sad that CBS seems to feel the need to continue to rubber stamp the military-industrial complex’s latest techno-follies. No matter how geewiz-wonderful these deadly, giant, model airplane toys appear, an aerial assault is no way to have the kind of ground war we seem bent of waging in Afghanistan.

Somebody tell me again, why are we conducting a full-scale assault on Afghanistan? These are strictly local Taliban defending their homeland, not “international terrorists” looking for a round two on US targets.

There should have been a disclaimer title on the piece and a subtitle “War Criminal” under the picture of the remote pilot Lara was so fawning over. I’m glad I don’t go to that little Eichman’s church. I would empty the communion wine over his head. Then he would have Christ’s blood on his head as well as the real blood of Afghan children on his hands. Remote drones mean remote morality.

Robert Boldt an editor of MWC News, is a freelance film/video producer living in Jefferson City, Missouri. He is active in local politics, worked on the Howard Dean and John Kerry campaigns and is a cofounder of The White Rose Collective. Articles by Bob Boldt at MWC News http://mwcnews.net/bob-boldt

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1. 12-05-2009 08:34

Flesh & Stone

Bob,
I believe we've been witnessing the "accuracy" of the drones in action in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan and elsewhere for a couple years now, with (sadly) a significant up tick in the numbers of civilian deaths from drones this year.

Paid media liars are a dime a dozen. Logan just happens to have the Miss America (blonde and blue eyed) look the media moguls think they need now to sell the wars. After all, aren't they aiming their message at adolescent males (or those males who never grow up)?

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fleshandstone@gmail.comNOSPAM! ">Kat

2. 12-05-2009 12:15

Flesh & Stone

Sweetheart....the military industrial complex OWNS CBS....

WESTINGHOUSE / CBS INC.
Westinghouse Electric Company, part of the Nuclear Utilities Business Group of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL)
whos #1 on the Board of Directors? None other than:
Frank Carlucci (of the Carlyle Group)

Television Holdings:
* CBS: includes 14 stations and over 200 affiliates in the US.
* CBS Network News: 60 minutes, 48 hours, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, CBS Morning News, Up to the Minute.
* Country Music Television, The Nashville Network, 2 regional sports networks.
* Group W Satellite Communications.
Other Holdings:
* Westinghouse Electric Company: provides services to the nuclear power industry.
* Westinghouse Government Environmental Services Company: disposes of nuclear and hazardous wastes. Also operates 4 government-owned nuclear power plants in the US.
* Energy Systems: provides nuclear power plant design and maintenance.

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3. 12-05-2009 16:09

Sodom and Gomorrah

No doubt about it we have walked to the edge on top of Uluru, past the point of no return into the precipitoud decline of morality beyont which there is no redemption. So as we find ourselves in an increasingly amoral world, beginning to experience the shadowy world twixt Sodom and Gomorrah we begin to ask ourselves again - what was morality all about?

My feeling is that as the social fabric that depended utterly on it evaporates we will begin to understand - and that time is not far away. The glitzy world behinf the pixels of CBS will be no comfort.

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4. 13-05-2009 12:56

Not heroes any more...

Good to see this article here. The Drones - I guess that should put an end to the obscene hero worship that has been going to the troops. Hard to think of someone who kills by remote control and then goes home for supper a hero.

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