
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism gives a detailed analysis on drone strikes: 344 strikes have killed between 2,562 and 3,325 Pakistanis. This number includes at least 474 civilians – though the true figure maybe as high as 881. US drones ‘cause mental trauma’ in Pakistan - a report by Al Jazeera. Medea Benjamin: “So many people who spoke out against George [W.] Bush’s extraordinary rendition and Guantánamo and indefinite detention have been very quiet when it comes to the Obama administration, who is not putting people in those same kind of conditions, instead is just taking them out and killing them. So we need to make people speak up and say that when Obama says this [program] is on a tight leash, this is not true, this is a lie.”
“But Obama is amazing! How can you not like him?”
And before anyone says “Obama isn’t assassinating people himself” - he’s allowing innocents to die on programs he’s in...