The Brennan confirmation hearings in the Senate are bringing sudden Congressional attention to the long-standing Obama Administration policy of drone strikes against Pakistan, but that’s not changing policy.
At least not so far, as US drones fired two more missiles against a pair of houses in South Waziristan Agency today, killing nine people and wounding five others. The slain were referred to, as usual, as “suspected militants.”
Also as usual, officials conceded that they didn’t have names for any of the victims of the attack, and simply said that since it was an attack on a tribal area affiliated with the Mehsud tribe they assume it had something to do with Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Hakimullah Mehsud.
It was the second strike in as many days, as a US attack yesterday in North Waziristan killed five other people, who were likewise unidentified. This is par for the course as with thousands slain in the drone war, only a few dozen have ever been identified.
All I feel for the US and its targetted killins is DISGUST.
THIS IS A BLOT ON HUMANITY
There will be blowback
They are not americans, so why does anyone care?
We don't need no stinking names!!!!
Imagine if Walmart bought a few drones and did this.
Further, imagine that Walmart forced everyone living in the geographic US to pay them a certain amount of money to fund this activity and locked everyone who refused to pay in cages.
Why would Walmart not be able to get away with this?
How do we change things so that government can equally not get away with it?
They are just basically slaughtering anyone at this point. Who are they kidding, as if we're all supposed to keep buying into this bs, age old story that al-CIA-duh is constantly infested everywhere, and the big bad US is fighting the triumphant and painstaking battle of weeding out all those crazy brown people, with such poignant resolve and dedication!!
Give me a break. They are just killing anything that moves that has a gun, or even just farmers and innocents that just sneeze the wrong way to justify this nonsense. Dozens of times already, including Alwaki himself, were announced to be killed years ago, then captured, then killed again. Its all nothing but made up names and written up by some spook sitting on the toilet. "Abu Himza Al-Libi, part of the Hadim Jaraheeri Network was killed in a drone strike today" See how simple? And yes, of course, no pictures, no proof, no single story on the ground or anything…we're all just supposed to believe the good ole boys are killing the 'bad guys' and then go back to sleep and watch Jersey Shore.
What's sad is so many people still buy into the fear and propaganda concerning all of this, and thats the reason why there is no hope for the country anymore. I mean, anywhere from 60-85% of the lemmings still agree with drone strike policy in polls….hell, IW did a poll asking if people would allow the TSA to do cavity searches, and although only 35% said yes, that is still way too high. "Sure, sir, stick your hands my a$$ NP! RAH RAH AMERICA!!'
JC and his Father really need to return soon, and strike down the degenerate garbage wrecking the planet…that, i fear, is the only answer at this point.