“[Usman Wazir] was at his job selling fruits when a drone hit his house, killing his younger brother, his wife, their 15-year-old son, and 13-year-old daughter.”
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Not even the White House knows the drones’ body count. The drones are believed to be “beyond-precise”, which naturally leads to the conclusion that whoever has been targeted must be bad.
“The Obama administration says civilian casualties are ‘not a huge number.’ If that’s true, evidence could put the debate to rest, but we haven’t seen any.”
Sarah Holewinski
It’s a shadow war where harmless civilians are killed by the Obama administration. It’s unsettling: “Since Obama took office, media outlets have reported more than 300 drone strikes in Pakistan targeting al-Qaeda or the Taliban, outnumbering the Bush administration’s drone strikes five to one.”
“If George W. Bush did what Obama has been doing, then journalists would have been all over it.”
(via mehreenkasana)
