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Demovictory9

(32,456 posts)
Fri Apr 6, 2018, 12:21 PM Apr 2018

Trump asked why CIA didnt kill targets family also

President Trump reportedly asked the CIA why it waited until a terror target’s family left the building before launching a drone missile strike against him.

“Why did you wait?” the president asked, according to the Washington Post, after being shown a video of an earlier strike in Syria by the ISIS-fighting spooks.

The CIA’s head of drone operations told the commander-in-chief that the agency’s goal was to minimize civilian casualties, an explanation that left Trump “unimpressed,” the paper reported.

On the campaign trail, then-candidate Trump once said that the US should kill not just terrorists, but their wives, children and other relatives as well.

https://nypost.com/2018/04/06/trump-asked-cia-why-they-spared-family-when-killing-terrorist-target/

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riversedge

(70,218 posts)
3. I recall trump saying that-at it was an issue at the time.....
Fri Apr 6, 2018, 12:25 PM
Apr 2018

we knew who he was, yet many voted for him. yup, we knew.


....On the campaign trail, then-candidate Trump once said that the US should kill not just terrorists, but their wives, children and other relatives as well.

https://nypost.com/2018/04/06/trump-asked-cia-why-they-spared-family-when-killing-terrorist-target/

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
4. True colors coming out. A sick, sadistic fuck who LIVES for revenge.
Fri Apr 6, 2018, 12:27 PM
Apr 2018

Another one of this idiot's 'Hit Parade' questions is, "Why do we have nukes if we're not going to use them?"

Mr. Mueller, sir? Please hurry!



K&R
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
8. Absolutely! And he probably sees nothing wrong with this.
Fri Apr 6, 2018, 12:35 PM
Apr 2018

He is a man without a conscience. Without any empathy or remorse. I hope more than anything that he is in a position someday where he is the one who will require the sympathy of others while we turn our backs on him and show him exactly the same brutal coldness and lack of humanity that he has shown the rest of the world.

Snackshack

(2,541 posts)
9. Yes he would.
Fri Apr 6, 2018, 12:41 PM
Apr 2018

If trump had his druthers and could get away with it he would dismantle our democracy and go full fledged dictatorship in a hot minute. While on the campaign trail trump mused to a crowd about why even have an election, just make him president and be done with it...

magicarpet

(14,150 posts)
11. Fascist Dictator.... In a New York minute.....
Fri Apr 6, 2018, 12:45 PM
Apr 2018

..... If given the slightest chance to pull it all off. He is 3/4 of the way there already.

lostnfound

(16,179 posts)
13. Kids and wives just property to him
Fri Apr 6, 2018, 03:51 PM
Apr 2018

He has no respect for the autonomy or individual lives of his own family members. Part of his primitive worldview.

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