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rayiner on May 12, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rand Paul: Show Us the Drone Memos

> I was under the impression that killing US citizens without a trial had been considered pretty much unthinkable until a few years ago

U.S. citizens were killed in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and it is believed that some of the ones that went to fight for the Nazis were also killed by American soldiers on the battlefield.

throwaway7767 on May 12, 2014 [–]

U.S. citizens were collateral damage as part of that war. That is not the same thing as targeting an induvidual for execution.

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