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In reply to the discussion: 7 years! [View all]rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)101. The number I've quoted has come under question. I quoted the number that
has been given by Sen Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a huge fan of Obama's drone killing. Other sources are more conservative but the kill ratio has been reported as from 30 to 100 innocent men, women and children killed for every single terrorist "suspect".
An analytically conservative Council on Foreign Relations tally assesses that 500 drone strikes outside of Iraq and Afghanistan have killed 3,674 people.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/-sp-us-drone-strikes-kill-1147
US drone strikes could be classed as war crimes, says Amnesty International
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/22/amnesty-us-officials-war-crimes-drones
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International issued a pair of reports in October fiercely criticizing the secrecy that shrouds the administrations drone program, and calling for investigations into the deaths of drone victims with no apparent connection to terrorism.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/obama-drone-program-anniversary_n_4654825.html
How can anyone wonder why Obama doesn't condemn the war crimes of the previous administration, when he is committing what some consider war crimes himself.
I wonder who gets to decide who dies by drone strikes.
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Just a moment, please. I thought Obama was a neocon. A Third Way neoliberal. This doesn't add up.
Buzz Clik
Apr 2016
#2
... but not the ones who live entirely in the artificial reality of their twisted minds.
Buzz Clik
Apr 2016
#73
How! Our other trade agreements have cost us good jobs (that have been replaced by
JDPriestly
Apr 2016
#94
My line is that Democratic Presidents generally disappoint me slightly whereas GOP ones invariably
Warren DeMontague
May 2016
#106
I don't think anyone on here is saying continuing what Obama has done would be a bad thing.
liberalnarb
Apr 2016
#36
So is the solution to sit out the presidential election and allow the White House to
Squinch
May 2016
#114
I'd be willing to bet dollars to holes in donuts that within DAYS of a Sanders inauguration ...
Hekate
Apr 2016
#61
"All of that and more" -- Bernie Sanders, when asked by Chuck Todd if he would use drones
betsuni
Apr 2016
#51
Its certainly a good graphic, but I also like to imagine the bread lines that were avoided
BootinUp
Apr 2016
#8
FDR is one of my heroes, but FDR was not God.The rewrite of history on FDR could get to be as bad...
Hekate
Apr 2016
#66
"And to think that the RWNJs were afraid that Obama was going to destroy America!"
Plucketeer
Apr 2016
#18
The fool, larry elder, says its weakest recovery ever. Cant stand to see a black man succeed
Liberal_in_LA
Apr 2016
#92
"Destroy America"? Fuck, I only wish I'd had some liquid cash to put in the stock market early 2009.
Warren DeMontague
May 2016
#105