Yemen? Seriously?

[Jocassee]

So apparently we're lending air support to a dirty war being fought in Yemen? And nobody bothered to tell the American public? What gives?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/world/middleeast/09intel.html?_r=1&hp

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials.

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[Azrael256]

Yeah, so the War Powers bit doesn't apply to engagements that are not sufficiently kinetic to sometingorother... I forget.  It's in the fine print somewhere in the back.

Didn't you see Clear And Present Danger?  It's like that but with jihadis instead of coke.

[roo_ster]

Huh?  What? 

Now, killing the heck outta jihadis is a good thing on general principle.

This sounds like were providing CAS to a beleaguered Yemen gov't, though. 

By the time BHO is finished, every majority muslim country will have been more or less bombed and Dearborn, Michigan will have been flattened with daisy cutters.

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

By the time BHO is finished, every majority muslim country will have been more or less bombed and Dearborn, Michigan will have been flattened with daisy cutters.

I may have to vote Democrat in 2012. 

[De Selby]

There's a new white house toast:  Long live the policies of GW!

[longeyes]

Hey, Yemen, Schmenen, don't forget the Falkland Islands.  That's where the real action is.  Obama's on the record down there in favor of the Argentinians.

[RoadKingLarry]

Never attribute to malice what can be blamed on stupidity.
I kind of default to that but with Obama I just can't quite get a lock on it.

[French G.]

I understand through unconfirmed sources that a few of the terrorists killed in Yemen in 2005-2006 by Hellfire drones strikes might not have been hellfire drone strikes. At least that's what the Force Recon Marines I ate breakfast with claimed.

[Jamisjockey]

There's a new white house toast:  Long live the policies of GW!

 

[MechAg94]

There's a new white house toast:  Long live the policies of GW!

I think you need to include a bunch more Presidents in that short list.  Probably need to go back to the early 1900's when we would send Marines all over South America.

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

Hey, Yemen, Schmenen, don't forget the Falkland Islands.  That's where the real action is.  Obama's on the record down there in favor of the Argentinians.

He's not just going with the Bush Doctrine, but the Monroe Doctrine, too.