The Obama Administration’s policy of escalating drone strikes took another hit today, after the explosion from a drone attack against the house of “suspected militants” in North Waziristan also destroyed a neighboring house full of women and children.
The combined toll from the blast was 20 people killed, with at least four women and three children among the slain. At least 13 other civilians were also reported wounded, including a number of other children.
Pakistani intelligence officials say most of the “suspects” killed in the attacks were Afghans, but it is unclear how much evidence they had of wrongdoing. Large numbers of Afghan civilians have been living as refugees in the tribal areas since the 2001 US invasion.
The large numbers of civilians (700 in 2009 alone) killed in the US drone strikes has fueled considerable anti-American sentiment in Pakistan. When pressed during a previous visit Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shrugged off concerns about the civilians, saying only “there’s a war going on.”
I'd like nothing more than to put Clinton's fat butt in a mud house along with innocent women and children, fire a rocket into it, then ask her how the war's going?
"We are at war!" the mouse growled and yet after over 9 years we still can't win? Against a bunch of desert dwellers? Come on Hillary give it a shake. What a minute, no don't embarrase yourself.
Imagine my shock, that the AP is "covering" the same story under the headline of a different story: http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/08/23/3-bombs-kill-3…
(Stay tuned for a reliable AP update, casting controversy over whether civilians were in fact killed by a U.S. drone, taking the words of the unassailable killers at face value, and leaving it at that.)
Scratch that. The AP is now flat-out concealing the story. No report. No update.
Just another day at the office for someone in the American Southwest.
"Honey, I'm home. What's for dinner?"
"Thought I'd let you do the ribs, Mr. Barbecue Man. How was work?"
"Let's not go there. How 'bout a nice dip in the pool? Where are the kids?"
"Funny you should ask. Let's not go there. The pool I mean. I was in a bad mood."
"That makes two of us."
blowing their hearts and minds
I hope Obama is proud of this with his Nobel peace prize . Zionist puppet!!
Is there no end to the American blood lust?
If you check historical facts since their landing on shores of "American" continent the answer is NO!
Emphatic agreement here.
This goes even beyond war crimes…it is out and out murder. The person(s) responsible must be tried for first degree murder.
So should Hillary visit some country overseas and just happen to get blown up the natural reaction by those doing the deed should be shrugging their shoulders and say "There's a war going on…. (yawn).. next question."? That's called a disconnect in the reality based community. Are Hillary and Albright related? Because they sure as hell dance to the same tune.
And, they sing the same tune as well.
We The People would not allow this murder of civilians if they were white Christians. Our deep-seated racial-religious bigotry is the ace in the hole for the propagandists in Washington. A huge portion of the Pentagon war budget — paid of course by us — is spent to make sure we don't put an end to their wars for profit and control. Imagine if this collateral slaughter was happening in Topeka, KS, or Edmonton, Canada, or Oslo, Norway. And imagine if Hillary responded as she does to Muslims — or if the Secretary of War (Defense?) Gates said, "Sorry, we bombed many civilians in Topeka, as we were trying to target some terrorists there … and we're going to keep on sending drones if we think it will save American lives. God bless America."
Ummmm, do you remember the 1999 78 day bombing of Serbia?
How about US training and leading the Croat ethnic cleansing of 250,000 Krajina Serbs in 1995?
We killed hundreds of housands if not millions of white children during WW11.
What would the Monster Hillary say if it were 20 Israelis killed in a Palestinian drone attack if such a thing were possible ( it is not)?
Ah, well Lou you know damn well those Palestinians are monsters and terrrorrrists…killing 20, did I hear 20 israelis. That's a freakin' crime against humanity, it's, it's a Holocaust!!
What goes around comes around. The Crusaders slaughtered 70.000 Muslims in Jerusalim in the 12th century on the name of the christianity. Now they are doing it in the name of Satan..Same coin with different face. Russian did the same, therefore, their empire collapsed in Afghanistan. The same fate will follow for the arrogant military leaders from US & Europe.
I hope you are right! These atrocities have gone on too long!
MoT,
This is simply, in a word, appalling. The callous disregard for human life by political elites in this country knows no limits. Certainly Hillary, as well as Cruella Deville Albright, will rot in hell for this.
The U.S. Government should be taken to the International Criminal Court and be made to pay billions of dollars for the death and destruction it is causing all around the world. The people responsible for the drone carnage should be imprisoned for the rest of their unnatural lives.
Surely there must be lawyers out there who would take this on. Surely no person or nation is above the law.
ICC was created and is OWNED by the Evil Empire (aka USA).
wake up, of course the powers that be are above the law, in case people haven't noticed might makes right here on planet earth. whether morally right or wrong the administration/s is and has been having it's way and getting away with it for a long time. the real war should be citizens against the govenmnent's unlawful actions and that i'm sure is a very long list. thank you wikileaks for being true patriots, keep up the good work.
That Predator drone strikes are still going on during the flood is beyond perverse. In related news, the US has denied aid agencies use of its airbase at Shahbaz.
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/08/washington-…
shrillary, bill, obummer, gates bush jr 7 sr should be set in the center of the flood with water wings, every time they near a bit of land the locals can pelt them with bags of puke and pus.
Murder Inc. is alive and well .
With Obama as "The Godfather"and Hillary as cheerleader – These people are working against everything The USA was supposed to represent
""When pressed during a previous visit Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shrugged off concerns about the civilians, saying only “there’s a war going on.”" What a shameful, arrogant and cold-blooded statement to make in the face of such murderous human slaughter. Her statement had all the hallmarks of a classic psychopath. I would expect that kind of a statement from a puffed-up, testosterone-driven, man-ape deviant like our recently past Republican president, but a woman? It numbs and horrifies the mind to think about it. Maybe America isn't ready for a female president afterall. What would we gain?
What would we gain?… Hmmmmm…. Methinks it would be an even greater silence on the part of the media and intellectual apparatchiks than we're cursed with at the present.
Since when did congress declare war on Pakistan or for that matter Afghanistan? Like Albright she is a real b##ch.
Will Hillery Clinton be giving a speech this year in memory of all those killed 9/11? Will she shrug and say, "oh well, there was a war going on."
this is nothing short of terrorism
Drones are a form of high-tech killing and have a real evilness about them. A soldier should at least have the courage to look in the eyes of those he kills if he is able to do so. Yes, killing is wrong, but get real. It happens every day around the globe. Oppose AfghanisNAM! Occupation is Not Liberation!
I just don't understand why they hate us!??!
"The USA was supposed to represent"
Supposed to, but seldom if ever…..NEVER did..
Perhaps TIME will now realize that US forces in Afghanistan pose a greater threat to women than do the husbands of 2 or 3 or even 300 Afghan women, dontya think?
Zionists and neo-Cons might as well be saying: "Don't worry ladies, we're going to bomb you to freedom. Our success in Iraq speaks for itself".
And these bastards have the effrontery to accuse Julian Assange of having "blood on his hands"!!
Just one of two wars bu$h got us into, and then left for Obama to try to clean up. How many dead on all sides, and for what? Oh, well, sacrifices must be made if Halliburton and the other defense welfare queens are to stay rich…at our expense.
Wrong data maybe sent to the drone. Robotics at its finest.
Sean
Is Clinton another Madeline Albright?
"It was worth it"
"There's a war going on." This fatuous comment from phony Christian Clinton. Congress never declared war on Afghanistan. There is a criminal violation of the Geneva Convention going on. Karzai should bring the parents and the dead bodies on their sons and daughters to Washington and lay them out on the Capitol steps so the a-sh–es like Obama and Clinton could see their victims. Then again if America required military or alternative service from all its young citizens instead of having a standing mercenary army these "wars" of choice would never happen.
those drones could be operated in israel.
Pakistan is currently suferring their worst natural disaster in their history, and we continue to bomb them. Could our government behave with a greater depraved indifference to human life and sufferring? Its hard to think of a better way to turn Pakistani's against us and aid our enemies in recruitment.
This has got to stop. It is out of control and completely unacceptable.
Clinton is following in the steps of Albright. These are not real women they are filled with testosterone.
Clinton's comments should put to rest the vicious lie that Muslims do not value human life, and the reason they engage in suicide bombing attacks is because they believe when they die they will be rewarded with 72 virgins. It should be clear to any reasonable person that it is Clinton and people of her ilk who are the ones with a callous disregard for human life, and the primary motivation for Muslims who engage in suicide bombings has nothing to do with Islam and everything to do with the simple human desire for revenge.
All empires expire in Afghanistan.
No big deal, those children are nothing but "collateral damage.: Ask any U.S. military brass and that is what you will hear. Besides, the children should have gotten out of the way of that drone strike. Dumb kids.
Well there's your hope and change for ya! Thank goodness he has the consent of the governed…
Video games are so fun!
Small point. The photograph accompanying this article is of the Global Hawk, which is unarmed. It's a bit like posting a news story about New York and illustrating it with a photograph of Chicago.
This is antiwar.com is it not? The commenters here are showing the sort of petty hostility that gives rise to war. we are all victims of curcumstance. We all have emotions that fail us and lead us to destruction. The only thing we can do is form moral judgements about what we think is right or wrong and stick to them no matter what situation may arise. Like pacifism and anti-war. War is wrong, negativity is wrong, victmisation is wrong prejudice is wrong. We know that logically this is true. Change can only happen in this world if we act as we think.
See! All you doubters? Wikileaks leaked those Afghan war Logs and innocent…
Oh wait… aaaaahhhmmm.
Shut up.
Shocking! Makes me ashamed to be American.
Yup, all the comments here spot on. Another American war crime. Wait till Russian/Chinese drones start slamming into houses in DC. Oh, there's a war going on. Next.
Clinton is right there is war going on. And the muslim fate is a hatefull fate. It is the only fate thats is killing people in the name of god how sick is that.
Oops! Maybe someone will finally turn the bad guys in and stop hiding them. Sooner they stop harboring terrorists the sooner we’ll go away.
Halliburton and Clinton and Obama(yes we cankill),are not at war,they simply are at a killing raid on this planet,surported by,the noble class,whos making a kill of money by killing innocent people,but where,s the revolution?People?
it's funny how the same people/individual plus the big media machine that back and supported the big texan from going to war are the same people complaining now.
somehow they forgot that war is expensive and there's a huge human prize to pay (friends & foes, alike). have we learned anything yet?
it's funny how the same people/individual plus the big media machine that back and supported the big texan from going to war are the same people complaining now.
First they say it's not war, and no official war has been declared.. Then they defend killing of innocent civilians as collateral damage for a war that isn't going on? Am I missing something?
Jct: Barack Obomber scores again! How many innocents has the Nobel Peace Prize Laureat killed so far since he was honored? Har har har.
And when they retaliate then those are called extremists / terrorists. Someone with eyes can easily judge who are the real terrorists?
Oh god! That was really so sad. They kill a child that so many in that place.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com
That was really so sad to hear. Why they still doing tha thing?
Jane
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