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Why I Interrupted Obama Counter-terrorism Adviser John Brennan | Medea Benjamin
So there I was at the Wilson Center, listening to Brennan describe our policies as ethical, “wise,” and in compliance with international law. He spoke as if the only people we kill with our drone strikes are militants bent on killing Americans. “It is unfortunate that to save innocent lives we are sometimes obliged to take lives – the lives of terrorists who seek to murder our fellow citizens.” The only mention of taking innocent lives referred to Al Qaeda. “Al Qaeda’s killing of innocent civilians, mostly Muslim men, women and children, has badly tarnished its image and appeal in the eyes of Muslims around the world.” This is true, but the same must be said of U.S. policies that fuel anti-American sentiments in the eyes of Muslims around the world.
So I stood up and in a calm voice, spoke out.
“Excuse me, Mr. Brennan, will you speak out about the innocents killed by the United States in our drone strikes? What about the hundreds of innocent people we are killing with drone strikes in the Philippines, in Yemen, in Somalia? I speak out on behalf of those innocent victims. They deserve an apology from you, Mr. Brennan. How many people are you willing to sacrifice? Why are you lying to the American people and not saying how many innocents have been killed?”
My heart was racing as a female security guard and then a burly Federal Protection Service policeman started pulling me out, but I kept talking.
“I speak out on behalf of Tariq Aziz, a 16-year-old in Pakistan who was killed simply because he wanted to document the drone strikes. I speak out on behalf of Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki, a 16-year-old born in Denver, killed in Yemen just because his father was someone we don’t like. I speak out on behalf of the Constitution and the rule of law.” My parting words as they dragged me out the door were, “I love the rule of law and I love my country. You are making us less safe by killing so many innocent people. Shame on you, John Brennan.”
I applaud this woman, she has integrity and sound principles unlike the vast majority of the left and Obama liberals.
everyone needs to feel obliged to watch this video.
Shouts to this woman, we however, should be ashamed of ourselves
wow. brilliant. however, we can’t even stand up for ourselves.
Source: pulsemedia.org
Iranian company wants to send toy drone to Obama
An Iranian non-profit company says it will honor U.S. President Barack Obama’s request that Iran return a drone that crashed there last year.
But instead of the actual drone, the company says it will send miniature toy versions. A lot of them.
“We plan to send a full squadron of 12 to the White House for President Obama as a present,” said Reza Kioumarsi, a spokesman for the Aaye Art Group, a Tehran-based non-profit, non-governmental company that makes novelty items.
The company is trying to determine what Obama’s favorite color is before sending the drones, which are 1/80th the size of the real drone, Kioumarsi said.
In December, Obama said the United States has asked Iran to return the highly classified RQ-170 Sentinel drone.
“We’ve asked for it back. We’ll see how the Iranians respond,” Obama said at the time.
This is probably not the response Obama was seeking.
what
That’s kind of hilarious.
A recent Congressional Research Service report,titled U.S. Unmanned Aerial Systems, looks at the more-prominent role being played by drones. In 2005, drones made up just 5 percent of the military’s aircraft. Today one in three American military aircraft is a drone. The upsides of drones being they are cheaper and safer — the military spent 92% of the aircraft procurement money on manned aircraft. The downside — they’re bandwidth hogs: a single Global Hawk drone requires 500 megabytes per second worth of bandwidth, the report finds, which is 500 percent of the total bandwidth of the entire U.S. military used during the 1991 Gulf War.
Source: azspot
Pakistani people protest against drone attacks:
Hundreds of civilians have been killed since the drone attacks begun. On 14 July 2009, Daniel L. Byman of the Brookings Institution stated that although accurate data on the results of drone strikes is difficult to obtain, it seemed that ten civilians had died in the drone attacks for every militant killed. He suggested that drone strikes may kill “10 or so civilians” for every militant killed, which would represent a civilian to combatant casualty ratio of 10:1.
I couldn’t even reach the end of that article without crying.. omg i’m fucking done
Somalia is the sixth country where the United States has used assassination drones to launch deadly missile strikes.
The US military has also used drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq, and Yemen.
That is 212 famine stricken Somali’s killed in one week by United States drone attacks.
212 Somali CIVILIANS killed by US and US allies in 1 week.
Somali’s part of the 99% being killed by the 1%. OWS Stand up!
I wonder how the US will answer for “Killing innocent civilians that were already dying due to starvation and drought”
Source: thekufismacker
- Naomi Klein (via cwnl)
(CLICK THROUGH)
*Read the videos title before playing it.
”Our Brave Drones”
The most efficiently evil thing.
Delicious diabolically
Saying then that,money is definately the ugliest thing,
Id do ugly things for.
Methodical Mechanical
High-tech heartless assasins.Diabolical LazYboy sitting butt picking Black and white screen slayers.
Never need no brain for question’n,
Nor to pass a fitness test,
I sit like I do playing video games,
raining bombs on faceless strangers
whom are probably terrorists anyway.
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