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>> an iraqi citizen looks to be just walking down the road, just minding his own business and then one second hes there, one second hes not. as far as i can tell he was vaporized. i dont think his family ever knew what happened to him because there was nothing left. >> come around and well clear the smoke and fire one more. >> a lot of people dont know this, but the only thing that was found in that building when our teams went in there were a bunch of dead families. three families, to be exact....

>> the new prime minister is not going to be very happy about all of this. in general the reaction to the u.s. drone strikes trying to target terrorists and assassinate them with hellfire missiles from drones whether in pakistan or yemen or elsewhere, generally speaking the reaction from the folks out there is pretty negative. >> no question. i was speaking with a diplomat this morning in fact about this who said that drone strikes are the single most important issue when it comes to americas im...

Wait a minute and lets go see and go through the process after weve lost -- after theyve spent 100,000-plus lives, 1,500 plus on chemical weapons, it is clumsy. i will give the president credit for calling their bluff after he drew the red line in the sand about using chemical weapons, but i think theres a lot of confusion among the american public. now were going to mix the politics with it and were going to send it to congress and its going to get more confusing and more awkward, because our c...

Anyway. an iraqi citizen looks to be just walking down the road, minding his own business. then one second hes there. one second hes not. as far as i can tell, he was vaporized. i dont think his family probably ever knew what happened to him, because there was nothing left. >> come around, and well clear the smoke. well fire one more. >> a lot of people dont know this, but the only thing that was found in that building when our teams went in there were a bunch of dead families. three families, t...

They shoot off the missile anyway. >> an iraqi citizen looks to be just walking down the road, just minding his own business and then one second hes there, one second hes not. as far as i can tell he was vaporized. i dont think his family ever knew what happened to him because there was nothing left. >> come around and well clear the smoke and fire one more. >> a lot of people dont know this, but the only thing that was found in that building when our teams went in there were a bunch of dead fam...

Joe kennedy wouldnt say is an enemy? hugo chavez, is he our enemy because hes a lefty? what does it take to become an enemy of the united states? >> we need to know that, and back to cynthias point which is such a central point, what are the rules around here? where is the transparency here? were owed this as american citizens. our tax dollars are paying for these drones and these hellfire missiles and things. you know, were owed an explanation about this, and what happens when other countries g...

Killed by a drone without first being charged with a crime. as americans, we have fought long and hard for the bill of rights. the idea that no person should be held without due process and that no person should be held for a capital offense without being indicted is a principle and basic right. what did this filibuster accomplish? >> well, i think it very much pushed rand paul to the forefront of a discussion that more americans are having around drones. and certainly youve seen some agreement ...

About launching drone strikes. maybe thats logical. of course, will repeat, we need congressional oversight. i believe all of this should be transferred to department of defense. we need parameters as to the presidents behavior. we need more transparency. but to somehow translate that into dropping hellfire missiles on people in cafes in the united states of america, that is not what we should be discussing. >> shepard: part of this is about technology and part of this is much bigger. listen to ...

I dont disagree that we need more debate, more discussion, and frankly probably more legislation to make sure that america does protect the rights of all of our citizens, to make sure at the same time that if someone is an enemy combatant, that enemy combatant has nowhere to hide. not in a cafe, not anywhere, but to say that somehow that even though we will try to take that person to say that we would hit them in a cafe with a hellfire missile, first of all, there are no drones with hellfire mis...

Way to sort of take the enemy off the battlefield. they dont cost a lot of money. theres no risk to u.s. forces and its more or less invisible. you dont see pictures of the, by and large, huge craters because they leave pretty small imprints. its just a couple hellfire missiles pretty often. pretty irresistible. what we have not had so much debate about is what are the consequences in those countries where people see the effects of the drones, their relatives are being killed. are we potentially...