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Title: '168 Pakistani kids killed by US strikes'
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Published: Aug 11, 2011
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Post Date: 2011-08-11 15:29:28 by tom007
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'168 Pakistani kids killed by US strikes' Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:5PM GMT There has been one drone attack every four days under President Obama. (file photo) A new report reveals the non-UN sanctioned US drone strikes have killed up to 168 children in Pakistan over the last seven years. Research by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism has found that CIA drone attacks on Pakistan's tribal belt have led to far more deaths than previously mentioned. It says just over four percent of the nearly 2,900 people killed in the drone attacks have been militants. It reports the CIA has carried out 291 drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004 -- a figure eight percent higher than in previous research. Over 80 percent of all strikes have been carried out under President Barack Obama administration. This breaks down to one strike every four days. Washington claims its air raids target militants who cross the Pakistani border into Afghanistan to help the Taliban fight US-led foreign forces. However, locals say civilians are the main victims of the non-UN-sanctioned attacks. A recent report by the Brookings Institution says the illegal strikes have taken the lives of 10 civilians for every militant killed. Islamabad has repeatedly condemned the strikes as a violation of its sovereignty, asserting that such attacks have proved counterproductive in US-led war against terrorism. The United Nations says the US-operated drone strikes in Pakistan pose a growing challenge to the international rule of law. Philip Alston, UN special envoy on extrajudicial killings, said in a report in late October 2010 that the attacks were undermining the rules designed to protect the right of life. Alston also said he feared that the drone killings by the US Central Intelligence Agency could develop a "playstation" mentality. SS/JR/MGH
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CIA drone attacks on Pakistan's tribal belt have led to far more deaths than previously mentioned. It says just over four percent of the nearly 2,900 people killed in the drone attacks have been militants. It reports the CIA has carried out 291 drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004 -- a figure eight percent higher than in previous research. ..... Alston also said he feared that the drone killings by the US Central Intelligence Agency could develop a "playstation" mentality. CIA must stand for 'Certainly Insane Assholes'.
"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
Certified Insane Assassins? Either works here.
Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson Certifiably Insane Assholes came to mind after I posted it, but your definition is even better.
"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
The crimes that this country (I don't want to call it my country, or our country any longer) commits day after day, year after year are almost too mind-numbing to believe or comprehend. This country will not go unpunished for what it has done.
Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson They hate us cuz' we're free. Just ask your friendly neighborhood mouth breathing drooling defective from FreepTardia - they'll 'splain it all to you. /Sarcasm
This country will not go unpunished for what it has done. I think Mark Twain got it right: It is the actions of our corrupt government and its lazy, cowardly, and disinformed Sheeple which have brought us to this sad state of affairs. When you allow psychotics to control your government you get psychotic government.
you might appreciate this.... THE WAR PRAYER - MARK TWAIN http://lexrex.com/informed/otherdocuments/warprayer.htm ================================== Matthew 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. "...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
Thank you. I do appreciate it - and have posted it in its entirety a couple of times on different threads. I am always amazed by the power of self delusion. There are demagogues and then their are suckers. Bush and Obama are demagogues and FreepTards, Dildoheads, Weiner Nation, and Vannity's fools who are s-u-c-k-e-r-s.
Yes, the dually, zio-fundie nutters have the bit in their teeth and are taking us to the brink.
Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson It is like a herd of rabid Lemmings.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
That is, I am afraid, what many of the good folks who go the the church I monitor believe.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
The lads that compiled the statistics behind this report have created an "interactive timeline of all recorded CIA drone strikes," which can be accessed here: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/08/10/timeglider/ We recoil in horror when someone drowns their children, and we explode with indignation when a thugs mugs and kills an innocent person on the streets of Memphis or LA, but every day we are complicit in crimes fully as evil and every bit as much drenched in blood. I am beyond outrage at the actions of this government. I no longer care to participate in the "political process" in my country in any way. Paying taxes, as it is, makes me an accessory in these crimes. I do not care to make myself more complicit in the actions of my government than I am otherwise forced to.
It is a violation of Natural Law to use this document in a manner inconsistent with its labeling. '168 Pakistani kids killed by US strikes'
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#5. To: tom007 (#0)
'168 Pakistani kids killed by US strikes'
#6. To: Lod (#4)
The crimes that this country (I don't want to call it my country, or our country any longer) commits day after day, year after year are almost too mind-numbing to believe or comprehend.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
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#8. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#7)
THE WAR PRAYER - MARK TWAIN
#9. To: Original_Intent, 4 (#6)
When you allow psychotics to control your government you get psychotic government.
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#12. To: Eric Stratton (#11)
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
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