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3. K&R. The proportion of innocents is almost certainly even higher, given
Sat Nov 29, 2014, 09:41 PM
Nov 2014

1) the administration's craven and dishonest redefinition of "militant" to include ANY male of a certain age who happens to have been slaughtered by a drone,

To avoid counting civilian deaths, Obama re-defined "militant" to mean "all military-age males."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002741255
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/29/militants_media_propaganda/

and

2) the administration's unconscionable adoption of "double-tapping," an Orwellian euphemism for the practice of attacking the same site again after a short pause, such as when first responders have appeared on the scene.



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