Two boys 16 and 12 killed at their aunt's house by US drone

[Ichingcarpenter]

TWO boys have been killed by a missile fired from a US drone only three days after attending a public meeting to draw attention to the mounting civilian death toll from drone strikes in Pakistan.

Tariq Aziz, 16, and his 12-year-old cousin, Waheed Khan, were killed last Monday on their way to Tariq's aunt's home in Norak near the Afghan border, in a strike that undermines US claims that missiles targeting militants cause no civilian casualties.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/boys-killing-belies-us-claim-on-drone-strikes/story-e6frg6so-1226187021609



Someone needs to give that drone a peace prize.

[Ezlivin]

1. Until they have Facebook pages

Americans will ignore them.

[Fumesucker]

2. I remember Obama joking about this..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWKG6ZmgAX4

[Vattel]

4. That joke was offensive

but what is truly morally outrageous is that most Americans do not object to the countless innocent people who get killed as "colateral damage" in our wars.

[Fumesucker]

6. I have to say that joke opened my eyes..

As a father and grandfather that joke hit me in my heart, I was stunned.

[emilyg]

10. So was I.

[PufPuf23]

31. Poor taste and extremely cold joke, ever more so in hindsight.

The drone program is evil and hurts more than helps national security and world peace.

[demmiblue]

35. Wow... never saw that.

:puke:

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[Vattel]

5. a bit over-stated, but not much

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Can you imagine how many would be killed if there had been NO Peace Prize?

:mad:

[DirkGently]

8. We don't even claim "no civilian casualties" any more, do we? It's more "We don't care who we kill."

[bulloney]

9. Tariq Aziz? Isn't that the name of Saddam Hussein's defense minister who resembles Larry Tate?

[Poll_Blind]

11. "Someone needs to give that drone a peace prize." They...already...did. nt

PB

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. I see what

you and I did...somebody got it.

[BOG PERSON]

34. woah!

:nuke:

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. That drone can have Obama's. It's meaningless to him.

[uponit7771]

14. As usual, I'll wait for more details...when people come out with histrionics against Obama it's been

...the case in the past that it's overblown.

Such tragedy either way...

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[Fumesucker]

16. Obama takes the subject of killing teenagers so seriously he jokes about it...

Jokes about it in front of audiences..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWKG6ZmgAX4

[msanthrope]

17. You just proved my point---

There are interesting questions to ask the government that harbored Bin Laden in a residential neighborhood for the better part of a decade.

You, meanwhile, are posting clips from The Prom off of YouTube.

[Fumesucker]

21. So you're cool with that joke?

It doesn't bother you at all?

This whole drone strike strategy is going to sooner or later backfire on the USA in a spectacular fashion, it's certainly destroying any remaining moral authority this country might have had left after Dubya's clusterfuck of two land wars in Asia.

[msanthrope]

23. In the entire checklist of shit that bothers me,

I find that a joke that the President made at The Prom is pretty low down.

But again, keep posting about your outrage over a joke, rather than asking the tough questions--like, where should our relationship with the country who harbored Bin Laden go from here? Are Pakistan's nukes secured? Can we draw down without the use of predator drones?

[Rex]

33. Way to deflect!

Your sadness over the children's deaths is touching. :eyes:

I really hope you don't have kids.

[Union Scribe]

37. You don't seem too bothered by collateral damage, either.

[dana_b]

18. a tragedy that didn't need to happen

but did because our government uses drones! I don't give a damn who the kids were traveling with or what their parents do or don't do - they were KIDS and our drones killed them!

[msanthrope]

24. Should we send in troops to Pakistan? nt

[SomethingFishy]

28. Really? Maybe in your mind but if I'm faced with a choice

of killing a couple of "terrorists" who are standing near children.. I would probably WAIT like a fucking sane human being.

The only thing uncomfortable here is you trying to defend the slaughter of children.

[slipslidingaway]

30. Obama- bashers ...

"Personally attacking any individual DU member in any way. Posting broad-brush attacks, rude nicknames, or crude insults toward a group of DU members."

[The Straight Story]

29. CIA Increases Drone Killings of Pakistanis Who “Might be Militants”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2255411

[rhett o rick]

32. You will wait for more details? Then you will kiss Obama's feet. Why wait? nm

[gratuitous]

19. Some might call that a war crime

But of course, since it's the star-spangled U. S. of A. doing it, it's not a war crime. There are subtleties of international law that are just too inscrutable to be explained to the hoi polloi, so just take the administration's word for it. They're Democrats, you know, so you libruls keep quiet about it.

[FiveGoodMen]

26. Many here would have called it a war crime

...if Bush had done it.

[malaise]

20. Ah well collateral

damage :sarcasm:

[krabigirl]

22. Sad. Glenn greenwald also wrote recently about this. It's shameful. Nt

[Mnemosyne]

25. ...

[MadHound]

27. More dead innocents to lay at this President's door n/t

[Marnie]

36. Someone needs to give that drone a peace prize.

Agreed.
The extent to which Obama has take murdering at will, extra legally, on a world wide scale, will ultimately be his legacy. It is a door once opened that will be piled through by other nations and probably will never be closed again.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

38. Will this glorious achievemnt be added to The List?

[BOG PERSON]

39. he never promised *not* to drone bomb muslim kids