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Like doing surgery from 5,000 feet?

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Like doing surgery from 5,000 ft up? Are they joking? What kind of fools do they think we are?

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When the Deep Horizons' "three stooges of pollution" finished pointing fingers at each other,the story they left on our doorstepwas, "Stopping that leak is, like doing surgery at 5,000 feet."

Americans do things far more difficult than surgery at 5,000 feet.

Example 1: Technicians in Nevada fly unmanned predator missiles attacking Afghanis. Maybe Oil Industry Exec can calculate the distance between the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of Oman?
In the Nevada desert, they operate as "commuter combat pilots" flying unmanned Raptor drones over Afghanistan. [MORE]

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An activist since the Edmund Pettis Bridge March, and the Chicago Police Riot of 1968 when Pigasus was Nominated. Recently a founding member of Miami for Peace, Richard has produced and edited the (www.miamiforpeace.net) website which has carried (more...)

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