Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

The administration has said that its covert, targeted killings with remote-controlled aircraft in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and potentially beyond are proper under both domestic and international law. It has said that the targets are chosen under strict criteria, with rigorous internal oversight.

It has parried reports of collateral damage and the alleged killing of innocents by saying that drones, with their surveillance capabilities and precision missiles, result in far fewer mistakes than less sophisticated weapons.

Yet in carrying out hundreds of strikes over three years -- resulting in an estimated 1,350 to 2,250 deaths in Pakistan -- it has provided virtually no details to support those assertions.

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Murderer

Hope and Change.
A the left is absent once again.

what else would you expect from a nobel prize winner

what else would you expect from a nobel prize winner

#3 | POSTED BY KERSH FF

I wonder how the Norwegians feel about giving Barry the Peace Prize now?

the bush wars killed millions..

obama is no good.

that being said.. i hear the republican conventional war drums beating for iran's head.

so what am i supposed to do?

Make sure to watch that youtube link (I don't know how to get the video to show up in the "more" section) in case you haven't seen it. Then think back to Bush joking about trying to find WMDs and the outrage then.

Genocidal war crimes.

#6 - Ron Paul baby. And don't fool yourself into thinking Obama won't start a war with Iran too. After reelection anything goes, and up till Reagan it was the Dems that were the true hawks.

so what am i supposed to do?

#6 | Posted by klifferd

Vote for Ron Paul

I am reminded of a bunch of posts a long time ago attacking G Bush on the use of the war powers act and I brought up the use of predator drones (we were using them for recon at the time)

If we ever get some adults in D.C. the War Powers Act need to be revised to address the changing nature of our world and the future use of predator drones over sovereign countries where no declaration of war exists.

The Constitutionality of the Predator Drone Program

State Department Legal Advisor Harold Koh stated that as
a result of the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. could "use force consistent with its inherent right to self-defense under international law" and the lethal operations conducted by the Predator drones "comply with all applicable law, including the law of war."1

www.internationalconstitutiona
llaw.net

When the Americans vacated Shamsi airbase a week ago, there were at least 3 Predator type drones parked there.

They did not fly them away for some reason... they got them pulled apart and loaded onto C-130 aircraft and sent to Afghanistan or wherever.

Point is, as I have previously said, the Pakistan Govt was in cahoots with the Americans for the drone program, dispatching such people as Mehsud, who was the leader of the Pakistan Taliban.

The guy who attacked the Navy base in Karachi was killed by a drone only a few days later.

The drones have been very very useful to Pakistan.

Now that America and Pakistan are not so chummy, we see these figures popping up... anything from 1000 to 2000 people killed.

There is no direct way to verify these numbers except by third-hand sources.

It might be true (or might not be) that the drones killed 2000 people in Pakistan.... But we do know for a fact that the Pakistan Army itself killed over 20,000 people in Pakistan.

Over 95% of the people killed by the Army plus the drones, are either Afghans or the children of Afghan refugees.

Over 90% of the bomb blasts in Pakistan have originated from Afghan Refugee camps.

We have informed the United Nations that we are accelerating the kicking out of Afghan refugees.

(we were using them for recon at the time)

Drones were used to take out taliban during Dubya's time.

In other words they're used for EXTERMINATION, aka GENOCIDE. That's a WAR CRIME!

Drone use is a sickness best portrayed in the movie Toys. They talked about how the modern soldier was hesitant to kill, but a kid with a joystick takes joy in it, so all we have to do is make remote control planes with real weapons that kids think is a video game. That was 1992. Look where we are.

Who cares?

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I would say that's way out of line, if it was posted within the first 6 hours. But 10 hours later, where is the left? Where is the outrage now? Double standards once again show their ugly face.

#17 | Posted by adammm

What we see here is that the left doesn't give a shit about the constitution unless they can use it to their advantage and that the end result always justifies the means.

I just still can't get over that youtube I posted of Obama joking about the drone strikes. We're talking about a tactic that aid organizations have said kill 14 civilians for every 1 possible combatant killed. It is so unbelievably offensive and itinerary, and yet the left remains silent. The right, I don't care about, since they're not hypocrites when it comes to killing innocent people.

incendiary, not itinerary.

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