A Pakistani Man Surveys The Damage To His Car After An Obama Drone Strike
Posted on 10/24/2013 7:02:17 AM PDT by Starman417
Our Nobel Peace Prize Winning Community Organizer and his henchmen are facing charges of War Crimes by Amnesty International. There is an overabundance of hypocrisy; however, the bulk of hypocrisy belongs to the mute Obama voter and his reluctance to apply the same set of standards to a Progressive president as those used to discredit President Bush.
Those same sanctimonious claims of righteous indignation were used to elect President Obama, but Obama voters accepted the expansion of Bush's Drone Warfare as being unavoidable. There was no need to march and call Obama a "Baby Killer; after all, he had already won a Nobel Prize for Peace. No, the Obama Voters remain silent like bumps on a log. Obviously, Progressive leaders have the innate intellect to conduct war crimes against humanity judiciously; therefore, Obama's crimes against humanity are justified or at least, we are left to assume they are justified, when the watchdogs of justice are silent.
The United States is facing increasingly harsh criticism over its use of lethal drone strikes to target suspected terrorists. American drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen may amount to war crimes, according to a pair of reports released by international human rights groups Tuesday.The criticism is international, the world is awakening to screams of hypocrisy:The Obama administration has always maintained that its lethal operations are targeted at terrorists and “proportionate,” that is, designed to avoid civilian casualties. “Under domestic law, and international law, the United States is at war with al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their associated forces,” President Barack Obama said in a speech at National Defense University in May. Nevertheless, the president said, the U.S. only acts against those that “pose a continuing and imminent threat to the American people” and that “before any strike is taken, there must be near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured–the highest standard we can set.”
Both reports say Obama isn’t following his own standard, accusing the United States of deliberately violating the laws of war. Examining nine drone strikes in Pakistan, the Amnesty International report concludes that the attacks killed large numbers of innocent civilians, and accuses the U.S. of targeting rescuers who arrive in the aftermath of the strikes to aid the wounded. A report from Human Rights Watch states that the majority of people killed by six drone strikes in Yemen were civilians (57 out of the 82 killed).
The reports describe civilians in both countries as being pinned between two equally frightening sources of violence: The extremist groups the U.S. is targeting and the lethal methods the US uses to target them. In at least one case where Amnesty International accuses the U.S. of deliberately targeting rescuers, Abu Yahya al-Libi, a high ranking member of al Qaeda, was killed. Amnesty International argues that al-Libi was among civilians and “overseeing” rescue efforts, and therefore shouldn’t have been targeted. In another case, one of those killed was a 68-year old grandmother with no connection to terror groups.
The groups’ findings that the United States has killed more civilians than it has admitted are bolstered by a UN report obtained by NBC News last week that stated U.S. drone strikes had killed as many as 400 civilians in Pakistan and almost 60 in Yemen. These reports clash with the U.S. government’s own assessment of the strikes. Officials have maintained that civilian casualties from drone strikes are minimal, even in the face of multiple third-party evaluations that state otherwise. While the majority of those killed in the six drone strikes examined by Human Rights Watch were civilians, the report states that a majority of the almost 500 killed in drone attacks since 2002 were “combatants.”
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Shocked, I tell you!!!
Didn't “O” ace their f&^%ing global test when he was campaigning for President???!!!
I call BS on the caption.
Hypocrisy, thy name is ‘Democrat’.
Drone attacks on terrorists are one of the Obama actions I get least exorcised about, the hypocrisy of Obamabots notwithstanding.
I've got lots of spare rope that I'm willing to give them.
When? Looks like a rusted out hulk.
The guy is note even looking at it, much less pointing at it.
That’ll buff right out.
His car doesn’t look any different than the rest of the country.
That was a fine vehicle before the drone strike. If you look at the picture you will notice that isn’t baling wire holding the door closed, it is really a drone targeting device that an infidel slipped on it as it was driven off the showroom floor moments before it was struck. I think we should reimburse him at least a hundred thousand dollars for his vehicle.
“I think we should reimburse him at least a hundred thousand dollars for his vehicle.”
The way our government operates, I wouldn’t be surprised if we haven’t reimbursed the guy for a $100K.
Flopping Aces is a commentary site that uses a lot of humor. I'm pretty sure that the picture is more along the lines of an editorial cartoon than photojournalism.
Actually, the man is an insurance adjuster. He showed up early, still wearing pajamas and a robe. He is wiring the doors closed to prevent theft of valuables in the car, since the windows and locks appear to be compromised.
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