"In 2009, 44 predator strikes carried out by the CIA in the tribal areas of Pakistan struck only five of their intended al Qa'eda and Taliban targets, but more than 700 innocent civilians also died, according to Pakistani authorities. A senior Taliban commander said a suicide bomb attack that killed seven CIA operatives in Afghanistan last week was an act of retaliation against the US drone attacks.
Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported: "According to the statistics compiled by Pakistani authorities, the Afghanistan-based US drones killed 708 people in 44 predator attacks targeting the tribal areas between January 1 and December 31, 2009.
"For each al Qa'eda and Taliban terrorist killed by US drones, 140 innocent Pakistanis also had to die. Over 90 per cent of those killed in the deadly missile strikes were civilians, claim authorities.""
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but see, they were PAKISTANI civilians, civilians most likely to join al qu'eda or the taliban in the first place. so its not really like a real "civilian." its like, you kill strep throat with penicillin, which kills a ton of your good bacteria too, bc some weak shit like keflex just wont get the job done. but then once theyre all dead, you need to take probiotics or eat a ton of yogurt. in this case, we reinstate the misplaced civilians with less dangerous ones. maybe we can finally put puerto rico to use? and anyways, we must protect ourselves from a threat before we let it fabricate. this is our doctrine. and we have nuclear weapons. so...
ReplyDeleteyou have accomplished your goal of making me sick to my stomach
ReplyDeletei didn't know pakistan had authorities?
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