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FACT: Obama's first drone strike killed 18 civilians and 4 children in Pakistan
NY Times ^ | April 27 | Me & NY Times

Posted on 04/27/2024 7:54:56 PM PDT by RandFan

Did you know when he came to office and ordered his first drone strike Obama killed 18 civilians in Pakistan, 4 of them children...

He went on to order 506 more drone strikes triple the amount of the proceeding Bush admin. and even incinerated an American citizen and minor (Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki).

Even the NY Times says his embrace of drone strikes would be his 'lasting legacy' (soaked in blood).

Obama’s Embrace of Drone Strikes Will Be a Lasting Legacy

In January 2009, when President Obama came into office, he inherited two controversial covert counterterrorism programs from George W. Bush: the rendition and harsh interrogation (including torture) of terrorist suspects, and the use of drones to kill terrorist suspects outside of traditional battlefields. Two days after taking the oath of office, Obama signed an Executive Order, which revoked the Bush-era directives authorizing torture, and reemphasized international conventions and federal laws prohibiting torture. The following day, Obama authorized two Central Intelligence Agency drone strikes in northwest Pakistan, which, combined, killed an estimated one militant and 10 civilians, including between four and five children.

Obama’s embrace and vast expansion of drone strikes against militants and terrorists will be an enduring foreign policy legacy. Whereas President George W. Bush authorized approximately 50 drone strikes that killed 296 terrorists and 195 civilians in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia, Obama has authorized 506 strikes that have killed 3,040 terrorists and 391 civilians. (Using the average estimates provided by three non-governmental organizations.) A technology developed and matured shortly before 9/11 to kill one individual, Osama bin Laden, became the default tactic for a range of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism missions outside of traditional battlefields.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: drones
If the Supremes rule that there is limited immunity for presidents then Barack Obama must be in deep peril and open to prosecution for his crimes.
1 posted on 04/27/2024 7:54:56 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

sounds like genocide to me!


2 posted on 04/27/2024 8:00:05 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: RandFan

Biden drone strikes a family of 8 including children and grandparents in “retaliation” for the Afghan abbey gate suicide bomber. The problem is that entire family was not only totally innocent, the father worked with the US forces and embassy as a translator and guide. They were a family that helped the US mission. The Pentagon blamed it on bad intel which it obviously was but that bad intel was used at least in part because Biden rushed the hit job for political purposes and they didn’t thoroughly investigate the background of the target.

And even if the man was a conspirator - they killed his entire family children and all. Why?


3 posted on 04/27/2024 8:02:58 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: RandFan

“Turns out I’m pretty good at killing people.”


4 posted on 04/27/2024 8:03:31 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RandFan

Along with the Clinton crime cartel.


5 posted on 04/27/2024 8:05:51 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: monkeyshine

Because that’s how the CIA operate and there is little accountability

Was it a drone strike?


6 posted on 04/27/2024 8:06:48 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

I guess that make 0bamaomau a mass murderer. Death sentence?


7 posted on 04/27/2024 8:25:17 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: monkeyshine

Optics.


8 posted on 04/27/2024 8:27:06 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: RandFan

War criminal!

Foreign war criminal!


9 posted on 04/27/2024 8:57:17 PM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: SuperLuminal

Lock up for first degree with no ss protection.
Put him in the One Bed Hilton comes the sodamites f


10 posted on 04/27/2024 10:34:56 PM PDT by midwest_hiker
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To: RandFan

When terrorists hide among civilians or surround themselves with women and children, it’s their fault, and it is covered by the rules of war.

The case with Obama was an actual terrorist case.

Biden’s strike is another matter, I think he got the wrong target.


11 posted on 04/28/2024 12:54:05 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: monkeyshine

Check

Biden is guilty he screwed that operation up from the start.


12 posted on 04/28/2024 7:07:25 AM PDT by Vaduz
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