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From <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://thiscantbehappening.net/print/1540">http://thiscantbehappening.net/print/1540</a><br>
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Paul<br>
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<h1 class="print-title">Hey, Hey, Barack! What Do You Say? How Many
Kids Have You Killed Today?</h1>
<div class="print-submitted">By <em>Anonymous</em></div>
<div class="print-created">Created <em>01/27/2013 - 14:07</em></div>
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<div class="field-label">by: </div>
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<div class="field-item odd"> Dave Lindorff </div>
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<p> 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:<br>
</p>
<p> <em>“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.”</em><br>
</p>
<p> 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. </p>
<p> 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.</p>
<p><img src="cid:part1.06020506.03010708@yahoo.com" alt="Noor
Syed, 8-year-old girl, one of Obama's first drone
victims, killed in Pakistan drone attack on Feb. 14, 2009."
title="Noor Syed, 8-year-old girl, one of Obama's
first drone victims, killed in Pakistan drone attack on Feb.
14, 2009." class="image image-preview " height="355"
width="624"><strong>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.</strong></p>
<p> 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.
</p>
<p> Just to try and make this monstrous crime by this president
clear, here is a partial list, compiled by the organization <a
href="http://droneswatch.org/2013/01/20/list-of-children-killed-by-drone-strikes-in-pakistan-and-yemen/">DronesWatch</a>
<span class="print-footnote">[1]</span>, 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):<br>
</p>
<p><strong>PAKISTAN
</strong></p>
<p>Noor Aziz | 8 | male
<br>
Abdul Wasit | 17 | male
<br>
Noor Syed | 8 | female
<br>
Wajid Noor | 9 | male
<br>
Syed Wali Shah | 7 | male
<br>
Ayeesha | 3 | female
<br>
Qari Alamzeb | 14| male
<br>
Shoaib | 8 | male
<br>
Hayatullah KhaMohammad | 16 | male
<br>
Tariq Aziz | 16 | male
<br>
Sanaullah Jan | 17 | male
<br>
Maezol Khan | 8 | female
<br>
Nasir Khan | male
Naeem Khan | male
<br>
Naeemullah | male
Mohammad Tahir | 16 | male
<br>
Azizul Wahab | 15 | male
<br>
Fazal Wahab | 16 | male
<br>
Ziauddin | 16 | male
<br>
Mohammad Yunus | 16 | male<br>
Fazal Hakim | 19 | male
Ilyas | 13 | male<br>
Sohail | 7 | male
<br>
Asadullah | 9 | male<br>
khalilullah | 9 | male<br>
Noor Mohammad | 8 | male<br>
Khalid | 12 | male
Saifullah | 9 | male
<br>
Mashooq Jan | 15 | male
<br>
Nawab | 17 | male
<br>
Sultanat Khan | 16 | male<br>
Ziaur Rahman | 13 | male
<br>
Noor Mohammad | 15 | male
<br>
Mohammad Yaas Khan | 16 | male<br>
Qari Alamzeb | 14 | male
<br>
Ziaur Rahman | 17 | male<br>
Abdullah | 18 | male
<br>
Ikramullah Zada | 17 | male<br>
Inayatur Rehman | 16 | male
<br>
Shahbuddin | 15 | male
<br>
Yahya Khan | 16 |male
<br>
Rahatullah |17 | male
<br>
Mohammad Salim | 11 | male
<br>
Shahjehan | 15 | male<br>
Gul Sher Khan | 15 | male
<br>
Bakht Muneer | 14 | male<br>
Numair | 14 | male
<br>
Mashooq Khan | 16 | male<br>
Ihsanullah | 16 | male
<br>
Luqman | 12 | male<br>
Jannatullah | 13 | male<br>
Ismail | 12 | male<br>
Taseel Khan | 18 | male<br>
Zaheeruddin | 16 | male
<br>
Qari Ishaq | 19 | male<br>
Jamshed Khan | 14 | male<br>
Alam Nabi | 11 | male
<br>
Qari Abdul Karim | 19 | male<br>
Rahmatullah | 14 | male
<br>
Abdus Samad | 17 | male
<br>
Siraj | 16 | male<br>
Saeedullah | 17 | male<br>
Abdul Waris | 16 | male
<br>
Darvesh | 13 | male
<br>
Ameer Said | 15 | male
<br>
Shaukat | 14 | male<br>
Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male<br>
Salman | 12 | male<br>
Fazal Wahab | 18 | male
<br>
Baacha Rahman | 13 | male
<br>
Wali-ur-Rahman | 17 | male<br>
Iftikhar | 17 | male<br>
Inayatullah | 15 | male<br>
Mashooq Khan | 16 | male<br>
Ihsanullah | 16 | male
<br>
Luqman | 12 | male<br>
Jannatullah | 13 | male<br>
Ismail | 12 | male
<br>
Abdul Waris | 16 | male<br>
Darvesh | 13 | male
<br>
Ameer Said | 15 | male
<br>
Shaukat | 14 | male<br>
Inayatur Rahman | 17 | male
<br>
Adnan | 16 | male
Najibullah | 13 | male
<br>
Naeemullah | 17 | male
Hizbullah | 10 | male
<br>
Kitab Gul | 12 | male
<br>
Wilayat Khan | 11 | male
<br>
Zabihullah | 16 | male
<br>
Shehzad Gul | 11 | male<br>
Shabir | 15 | male
<br>
Qari Sharifullah | 17 | male
<br>
Shafiullah | 16 | male<br>
Nimatullah | 14 | male
<br>
Shakirullah | 16 | male<br>
Talha | 8 | male<br>
</p>
<p><strong>YEMEN</strong></p>
<p>
Afrah Ali Mohammed Nasser | 9 | female
<br>
Zayda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 7 | female<br>
Hoda Ali Mohammed Nasser | 5 | female<br>
Sheikha Ali Mohammed Nasser | 4 | female<br>
Ibrahim Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 13 | male<br>
Asmaa Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 9 | male<br>
Salma Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 4 | female
<br>
Fatima Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye | 3 | female<br>
Khadije Ali Mokbel Louqye | 1 | female
<br>
Hanaa Ali Mokbel Louqye | 6 | female
<br>
Mohammed Ali Mokbel Salem Louqye | 4 | male<br>
Jawass Mokbel Salem Louqye | 15 | female<br>
Maryam Hussein Abdullah Awad | 2 | female
<br>
Shafiq Hussein Abdullah Awad | 1 | female
<br>
Sheikha Nasser Mahdi Ahmad Bouh | 3 | female
<br>
Maha Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 12 | male
<br>
Soumaya Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 9 | female
<br>
Shafika Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 4 | female
<br>
Shafiq Mohammed Saleh Mohammed | 2 | male
<br>
Mabrook Mouqbal Al Qadari | 13 | male
<br>
Daolah Nasser 10 years | 10 | female
<br>
AbedalGhani Mohammed Mabkhout | 12 | male
<br>
Abdel- Rahman Anwar al Awlaki | 16 | male
<br>
Abdel-Rahman al-Awlaki | 17 | male
<br>
Nasser Salim | 19|male</p>
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