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nationalize the fed

(2,169 posts)
Sun Apr 24, 2016, 07:40 PM Apr 2016

Guardian-After drones: the indelible mark of America's remote control warfare

The Guardian | Spencer Ackerman | Thursday 21 April 2016

The strikes last a moment, but the consequences last forever. Six families explain how Obama’s secret drone war has left them struggling for answers after loved ones were wiped out without warning



Nabila’s favorite memories of her grandmother come from weddings. It didn’t matter who was getting married – relative or neighbor – her grandmother, Mamana, was an active participant, owing to her matriarchal perch above their village.

Mamana was as responsible as she was festive. An uneducated woman, she was the local midwife, and served as an impromptu primary care physician, even a veterinarian, when the need arose.

On a fall afternoon in 2012, Mamana called Nabila and a squad of her siblings and cousins outside to the family’s okra fields, part of their sprawling garden in tribal Pakistan. It was about to be the Eid festival and the Rehman family needed to gather and prepare vegetables. Nabila, nine years old, had set to work when the drone fired its missiles.

A dark plume of dust rose from the garden and mixed with acrid smoke. It spared Nabila and the other children the sight of their grandmother’s mutilated corpse.

Her older cousins, all male, ran to help the screaming children. Nabila’s hand and her arm were injured with burns and shrapnel. Her three-year-old brother, Safdar, who was watching the harvest from the roof of their home, had fallen to the ground, breaking bones in his chest and shoulders. The teenagers had gotten Nabila and some of the others out of the way when the second round of missiles hit, in what the CIA refers to as a “double-tap”, to make sure it kills its targets...snip
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/21/drone-war-obama-pakistan-cia



Barbaric. What a disgrace. Not even a protest in the US.
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Guardian-After drones: the indelible mark of America's remote control warfare (Original Post) nationalize the fed Apr 2016 OP
Among the most serious of all possible Ghost Dog Apr 2016 #1
Horrible. K&R. nt. polly7 Apr 2016 #2
Hi Polly7! nationalize the fed Apr 2016 #3
Would folks feel better if they were killed by bombs from conventional aircraft? Blue_Tires Apr 2016 #4

nationalize the fed

(2,169 posts)
3. Hi Polly7!
Sun Apr 24, 2016, 08:55 PM
Apr 2016

Hey I know you're busy but in case you didn't get a chance to read this article here's the link again.

It's well worth the few minutes to read- it will explain what has been going on in the US. The writer got a few predictions wrong but the essence is more true than ever.

Backing up Globalization with Military Might

New World Order Onslaught
by Karen Talbot
Covert Action Quarterly, Issue 68, Fall 1999

excerpt: Profits for the Military-Industrial Complex

Clearly, a related major objective behind the NATO action was to add more billions to the already bloated U.S. military budget and to fill the coffers of the military-industrial corporations with super profits acquired from the hard-earned tax dollars of American workers. After all, the stocks of Tomahawk Cruise missiles must be replenished. Congress, with great bi-partisan fervor, is approving an increase for the Pentagon of $20 billion adding up to $288.8 billion for FY 2000. By contrast, all other domestic discretionary spending, including for education, job-training, housing, environment and health programs, totals $245 billion— "the biggest disparity in modern times," according to the Center for Defense Information. More food and education being taken from children to feed the war machine...
http://www.globalissues.org/article/448/backing-up-globalization-with-military-might#ProfitsfortheMilitary-IndustrialComplex

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
4. Would folks feel better if they were killed by bombs from conventional aircraft?
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 06:17 PM
Apr 2016

I still haven't gotten one good answer to this question...

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