Monday, January 18, 2010

Watch Drone War on Google Earth

The love affair with drone Predator UAVs is spooky. The "intelligence" is sometimes good and well too often collateral damage and civilians are assassinated instead of political enemies. Everyone (including the President, news media and public) are avoiding the fact US is actively assassinating people in contravention to Presidential Executive Order, in effect since 1980s and still current that mandates that we do not assassinate people. Real people die - this is not a video game or remakes of Navy Seal movies.

Think of it this way: The sights of people dying in Haiti moves you to contribute funds to help them. If you could see the civilians dying in Afghanistan and Pakistan due to bad intelligence, what would it move you to do?
clipped from maps.google.com
U.S. Drone Attacks in Pakistan
The approximate locations of U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan since 2004. Strikes prior to 2008 are yellow, those in 2008 during the Bush administration are red, and strikes during the Obama administration in 2009-2010 are green. Most strikes are on Pashtun villages in North and South Waziristan in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the Afghan border.
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