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The blood of the innocents
The first drone strike outside of a declared war zone happened in November of 2002 in Yemen. And in that strike, it was a CIA operation, with the military, and the whole thing was coordinated out of a command center in Washington, D.C. And in that strike, actually, six people were killed, including an American citizen. And at the time, Condoleezza Rice, you know, senior official in the Bush administration, was defending the right of the president of the United States to assassinate individuals, including U.S. citizens,
Based on intelligence that they never had to make public. There wasn’t another drone strike in Yemen until 2011. 2011, 2012, the Obama administration really starts to intensify drone operations in Yemen.
Despite the fact that at times Pakistan was being bombed once every three days by drones, you had an active drone program in Afghanistan, it wasn’t until May of 2013 that a sitting U.S. president gave an official address where he acknowledged that drones were being used by the United States. The first time the kill chain, what the bureaucracy of assassination looks like.the president of the United States who signs what amounts to a death warrant for whoever they’ve decided should die, based on what amounts to a parallel, secret judicial system in the United States that is not really subjected to any kind of judicial review, where the president acts sort of as emperor—issues an edict that you die.
Those like you at the top of the government bureaucracy often don't see or experience the dirty work that goes on at the bottom, but it's there, as we've experienced at the hands of the American government and American bureaucrats.That makes money off the plight of the poor, who lines his pockets with the blood of the innocents!
Ted Rudow III, MA
Despite the fact that at times Pakistan was being bombed once every three days by drones, you had an active drone program in Afghanistan, it wasn’t until May of 2013 that a sitting U.S. president gave an official address where he acknowledged that drones were being used by the United States. The first time the kill chain, what the bureaucracy of assassination looks like.the president of the United States who signs what amounts to a death warrant for whoever they’ve decided should die, based on what amounts to a parallel, secret judicial system in the United States that is not really subjected to any kind of judicial review, where the president acts sort of as emperor—issues an edict that you die.
Those like you at the top of the government bureaucracy often don't see or experience the dirty work that goes on at the bottom, but it's there, as we've experienced at the hands of the American government and American bureaucrats.That makes money off the plight of the poor, who lines his pockets with the blood of the innocents!
Ted Rudow III, MA
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