If you listen to the American Press, you would think that Obama cares more about your children than his own. All of his efforts are "for the children" regardless if it is for ObamaCrapCare or gun control. Yet, he has no problem with using airstrikes to kill insurgents. The problem is that 11 Afghan kids were killed. So are we to assume that Afghans have less value than Americans? If Obama was Republican, we would be hearing that from the fifth estate.
The discrepancy between the two groups of children is glaring and concerning. Would we have the same difference if the children were those of right wing verses liberal parents right here in the US? For those who forget, Ruby Ridge and Waco were examples. In both cases, children were killed by government agents, one in his mother's arms. Was there any outrage? Only from us right wing, bible thumping, gun totin' middle of America patriots.
We are warning you now. Sometime in the near future, a group of young American children will be killed by government agents and NO ONE WILL protest. There will not be prayer meetings, there will not be memorials, there will be absolute media silence, there will be no condemnation and there will be NO call for new legislation. You see there are different classes of all people. Afghan and those killed by government agents are worth less than those killed by mentally challenged idiots.
Conservative Tom
The discrepancy between the two groups of children is glaring and concerning. Would we have the same difference if the children were those of right wing verses liberal parents right here in the US? For those who forget, Ruby Ridge and Waco were examples. In both cases, children were killed by government agents, one in his mother's arms. Was there any outrage? Only from us right wing, bible thumping, gun totin' middle of America patriots.
We are warning you now. Sometime in the near future, a group of young American children will be killed by government agents and NO ONE WILL protest. There will not be prayer meetings, there will not be memorials, there will be absolute media silence, there will be no condemnation and there will be NO call for new legislation. You see there are different classes of all people. Afghan and those killed by government agents are worth less than those killed by mentally challenged idiots.
Conservative Tom
Presidential Administration Kills 11 More Children
April 9, 2013 by Sam Rolley
The current Presidential Administration evidently has a great deal in common with the Taliban when it comes to furthering agendas on the graves of dead children.
Rounding out one of the bloodiest weeks in the 12-year Afghan war, fighting between U.S.-backed Afghan forces and Taliban militants on Saturday left 11 Afghan children dead following a U.S. airstrike attempting to annihilate militants hiding in a remote residential area. The children were all between 1 and 12 years old.
According to reports, officials claim that six militants were also killed in the drone strike.
As the U.S. government continues to pump taxpayer money into a war effort in Afghanistan that has been unsuccessful by most accounts, some estimate that an average of 4.8 children die each day in the country as a consequence of ongoing conflict. In Pakistan, where the United States carries out clandestine drone strikes in an effort to eradicate militants, child death tolls directly-related to the strikes hover around 200.
During a vigil for victims of the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., President Barack Obama had this to say about protecting innocent children:
Since I’ve been President, this is the fourth time we have come together to comfort a grieving community torn apart by a mass shooting. The fourth time we’ve hugged survivors. The fourth time we’ve consoled the families of victims. And in between, there have been an endless series of deadly shootings across the country, almost daily reports of victims, many of them children, in small towns and big cities all across America — victims whose — much of the time, their only fault was being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The news of the most recent child deaths in Afghanistan makes it hard not to wonder: Does the President’s logic about the tragedy of children becoming the victims of brutal and terrifying murders at the hands of misguided madmen not apply when the goal is not taking away Americans’ rights, but rather continuing the government’s perpetual war?
This drone warfare is immoral, unconstitutional, and violation of international law. Besides, it is counter-productive as a military strategy. You kill one guy (who is easily replaced) while making everyone in the family of the kids killed enemies of the U.S. You won't want to hear this, but I feel the same way about Israel's bombing campaign in the last Lebanon war. There were way too many civilians and civilian properties destroyed.
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Drones are great in that they eliminate the need for a pilot being exposed to hostilities. However, the damage being done in Afghanistan is undermining all the good we had done.
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