Pentagon Plans Escalated Drone Killings
August 31, 2015 | By Stephen Lendman | Drones, Government Corruption, Military, Obama Exposed, Pentagon, War Propaganda
Drones are instruments of state terror. Washington’s
official narrative is pure rubbish – claiming terrorists alone are
targeted, civilians aren’t killed, and drone warfare makes America
safer.
Fact: Attacks are indiscriminate extrajudicial
executions – in flagrant violation of core international law.
Fact: Few so-called “high value” targets are
eliminated.
Fact: Large numbers of civilian men, women and
children are murdered in cold blood. International law protecting
them in combat theaters is ignored.
Fact: Bodies of innocent victims are blasted into
unrecognizable pieces or burned beyond recognition.
Fact: Family members, bystanders and rescuers are
killed or maimed by what’s called “double tapping” – striking
the targeted area two or more times.
Fact: Drone warfare facilitates anti-American
recruitment. It elevates the US to greater pariah state status. It’s
state-sanctioned murder – undermining respect for rule of law
principles.
Pentagon officials aren’t satisfied. They plan
expanding drone attacks by 50% in the next four years – from around
60 daily to 90, an agenda for escalated mass slaughter and
destruction, as well as greater aerial spying over wider areas.
It’s part of America’s war on humanity worldwide
– endless conflicts for unchallenged global dominance, ravaging,
destroying and pillaging one country after another.
Drone warfare alone kills thousands of victims.
Washington suppresses casualty figures to keep its Murder, Inc.
campaign secret.
By 1919, Pentagon planners intend having the air
force fly 60 daily flights, the army 16, Special Operations Command
four, and private military contractors 10 or more.
An earlier report said only 84 of 2,379 drone attack
victims in Pakistan since 2004 were Al Qaeda members. Only 295 were
members of an armed group.
John Kerry claiming “(t)he only people we fire at
are confirmed terror targets at the highest level” is one of his
many Big Lies.
Indiscriminately slaughtering civilians is
longstanding US policy since the beginning of the republic. Only
weapons, targets and tactics change over time.
National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden
turned truth on its head claiming targeted drone strikes assure
“near-certainty” of no civilians killed. She ludicrously called
exceptions “rare instances.”
Drone warfare under Obama exceeds all his
predecessors combined. Cold-blooded murder is official administration
policy.
Noncombatants suffer most – innocent men, women
and children in harm’s way. Drones hover 24-hours a day over
targeted areas – striking homes, vehicles and public spaces without
warning.
Residents are terrorized, constantly fearful,
knowing deadly strikes can happen any time, with no way to protect
themselves.
Britain’s Reprieve human rights group estimates 28
noncombatants killed to eliminate one so-called terrorist. There’s
nothing precise about indiscriminate slaughter.
US drone warfare kills thousands extrajudicially. No
due process. No judicial fairness, just cold-blooded murder in
countries threatening no others – part of America’s war OF terror
on humanity.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago
and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new book is titled “How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized
Banking, Government Collusion and Class War”.
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