[Vision2020] Hey, Hey, Barack! What do you say? How Many Kids Have You Killed Today?

[Paul Rumelhart]

I saw this on Google+ today, and thought I should post it here. From 
http://thiscantbehappening.net/print/1540

Paul


  Hey, Hey, Barack! What Do You Say? How Many Kids Have You Killed Today?

By /Anonymous/
Created /01/27/2013 - 14:07/
by:
Dave Lindorff

I personally found the president's inaugural speech not just insipid, 
but disgusting. It reached its gut-churning nadir near the end where he 
said:

/"We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace 
do not require perpetual war...We will show the courage to try and 
resolve our differences with other nations peacefully -- not because we 
are naïve about the dangers we face, but because engagement can more 
durably lift suspicion and fear...And we must be a source of hope to the 
poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice -- not out of 
mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant 
advance of those principles that our common creed describes:  tolerance 
and opportunity; human dignity and justice."/

As he spoke these uplifting phrases, US factories were cranking out, 
under the terms of billion-dollar Pentagon contracts, fleets of drone 
aircraft that daily are raining explosives down on innocent men, women 
and children in countries that the US is not even at war with. Most of 
those drone attacks are personally approved by our Nobel Peace Laureate 
president, who has claimed the right -- unchallenged by either Congress 
or the Judiciary -- to order the liquidation of anyone he deems to be a 
terrorist (including American citizens), as well as those, even 
children, who happen to be in the vicinity of such a person. Of the 362 
drone strikes in Pakistan to date, 310 were launched during the period 
Obama has been commander in chief.

The result of this policy of state terrorism has been a wretched, 
criminal slaughter of children -- a slaughter that has been hidden from 
view, and denied wholesale by the Pentagon and the president. Over 3000 
people have been killed, the vast majority of them non-combatant 
"collateral damage" deaths. Over 172 of these have reportedly been children.

Noor Syed, 8-year-old girl, one of Obama's first drone victims, 
killed in Pakistan drone attack on Feb. 14, 2009.*Noor Syed, 8-year-old 
Pakistani girl and one of Obama's first drone victims, murdered in a US 
drone attack in South Waziristan, Pakistan on Feb. 14, 2009.*

  To borrow from the president's own style-book, "We the People" have 
been complicit in ignoring this wretched slaughter. "We the People," who 
cringe in horror at the slaying of 20 innocent first graders in Newtown, 
Connecticut, don't spare a thought or a tear for the thousands of 
innocent children killed in our name by our "heroic" forces in Iraq, 
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and elsewhere, by our 
Presidentially-targeted drone aircraft in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen 
and Somalia, and by our weapons in the hands of allies and rebel 
fighters in places like Syria, Gaza, the West Bank of Palestine, 
Somalia, and elsewhere.

Just to try and make this monstrous crime by this president clear, here 
is a partial list, compiled by the organization DronesWatch 
<http://droneswatch.org/2013/01/20/list-of-children-killed-by-drone-strikes-in-pakistan-and-yemen/> 
[1], of children, some as young as 1 and 2 years old, who have been 
documented as killed by US drones (they are listed by name, age and sex 
in that order):

*PAKISTAN??*

Noor Aziz | 8 | male?
Abdul Wasit | 17 | male?
Noor Syed | 8 | female?
Wajid Noor | 9 | male?
Syed Wali Shah | 7 | male?
Ayeesha | 3 | female?
Qari Alamzeb | 14| male?
Shoaib | 8 | male?
Hayatullah KhaMohammad | 16 | male?
Tariq Aziz | 16 | male?
Sanaullah Jan | 17 | male?
Maezol Khan | 8 | female?
Nasir Khan | male?Naeem Khan | male?
Naeemullah | male?Mohammad Tahir | 16 | male?
Azizul Wahab | 15 | male?
Fazal Wahab | 16 | male?
Ziauddin | 16 | male?
Mohammad Yunus | 16 | male
?Fazal Hakim | 19 | male?Ilyas | 13 | male
?Sohail | 7 | male?
Asadullah | 9 | male
?khalilullah | 9 | male
?Noor Mohammad | 8 | male
?Khalid | 12 | male?Saifullah | 9 | male?
Mashooq Jan | 15 | male?
Nawab | 17 | male?
Sultanat Khan | 16 | male
?Ziaur Rahman | 13 | male?
Noor Mohammad | 15 | male?
Mohammad Yaas Khan | 16 | male
?Qari Alamzeb | 14 | male?
Ziaur Rahman | 17 | male
?Abdullah | 18 | male?
Ikramullah Zada | 17 | male
?Inayatur Rehman | 16 | male?
Shahbuddin | 15 | male?
Yahya Khan | 16 |male?
Rahatullah |17 | male?
Mohammad Salim | 11 | male?
Shahjehan | 15 | male
?Gul Sher Khan | 15 | male?
Bakht Muneer | 14 | male
?Numair | 14 | male?
Mashooq Khan | 16 | male
?Ihsanullah | 16 | male?
Luqman | 12 | male
?Jannatullah | 13 | male
?Ismail | 12 | male
?Taseel Khan | 18 | male
?Zaheeruddin | 16 | male?
Qari Ishaq | 19 | male
?Jamshed Khan | 14 | male
?Alam Nabi | 11 | male?
Qari Abdul Karim | 19 | male
?Rahmatullah | 14 | male?
Abdus Samad | 17 | male?
Siraj | 16 | male
?Saeedullah | 17 | male
?Abdul Waris | 16 | male?
Darvesh | 13 | male?
Ameer Said | 15 | male?
Shaukat | 14 | male
?Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male
?Salman | 12 | male
?Fazal Wahab | 18 | male?
Baacha Rahman | 13 | male?
Wali-ur-Rahman | 17 | male
?Iftikhar | 17 | male
?Inayatullah | 15 | male
?Mashooq Khan | 16 | male
?Ihsanullah | 16 | male?
Luqman | 12 | male
?Jannatullah | 13 | male
?Ismail | 12 | male?
Abdul Waris | 16 | male
?Darvesh | 13 | male?
Ameer Said | 15 | male?
Shaukat | 14 | male
?Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male?
Adnan | 16 | male?Najibullah | 13 | male?
Naeemullah | 17 | male?Hizbullah | 10 | male?
Kitab Gul | 12 | male?
Wilayat Khan | 11 | male?
Zabihullah | 16 | male?
Shehzad Gul | 11 | male
?Shabir | 15 | male?
Qari Sharifullah | 17 | male?
Shafiullah | 16 | male
?Nimatullah | 14 | male?
Shakirullah | 16 | male
?Talha | 8 | male

*YEMEN*

?Afrah Ali Mohammed Nasser | 9 | female?
Zayda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 7 | female
?Hoda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 5 | female
?Sheikha Ali Mohammed Nasser | 4 | female
?Ibrahim Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 13 | male
?Asmaa Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 9 | male
?Salma Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 4 | female?
Fatima Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 3 | female
?Khadije Ali Mokbel Louqye | 1 | female?
Hanaa Ali Mokbel Louqye | 6 | female?
Mohammed Ali Mokbel Salem Louqye | 4 | male
?Jawass Mokbel Salem Louqye | 15 | female
?Maryam Hussein Abdullah Awad | 2 | female?
Shafiq Hussein Abdullah Awad | 1 | female?
Sheikha Nasser Mahdi Ahmad Bouh | 3 | female?
Maha Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 12 | male?
Soumaya Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 9 | female?
Shafika Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 4 | female?
Shafiq Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 2 | male?
Mabrook Mouqbal Al Qadari | 13 | male?
Daolah Nasser 10 years | 10 | female?
AbedalGhani Mohammed Mabkhout | 12 | male?
Abdel- Rahman Anwar al Awlaki | 16 | male?
Abdel-Rahman al-Awlaki | 17 | male?
Nasser Salim | 19|male

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