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Politics

April 21, 2011

DOD: Predator Drone Attacks, Regime Change in Libya

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Pentagon tweets: Killer drones are headed to Libya to effect regime change.

Reaction No. 1: Well, that didn’t take long.

Reaction No. 2: What could go wrong?

(Here are the stats, by the way, on what a bang-up job US drones have done in Pakistan.)

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