Published on Oct 16, 2015 by freespeechtv
The Intercept series “The Drone Papers” exposes the inner workings of how the drone war is waged, from how targets are identified to who decides to kill. They expose a number of flaws, including that strikes have resulted in large part from electronic communications data, or “signals intelligence,” that officials acknowledge is unreliable. The documents reveal that targets were identified due to “so-called Arab features,” which includes being “taller than everyone else,” says Scahill. An investigative journalist, Sean Naylor, in his new book, “Relentless Stike,” tells a story of this method being used. Scahill explains, “how they struck a target because he was taller than the other people around him, and they thought that he—that that meant that he was sort of an Arab or a foreign fighter. And it turned out that he was of average size and that the people around him were children.”
Democracy Now with that “save the snails” do-gooder Amy Goodman churns my stomach as bad as Sean Hannity. What, are we supposed to be outraged by these revelations? “Oh, those boys, you know how boys will be boys.” Talk about profiling, “He was taller so we killed ’em”, then, come to find out, the target was an adult standing with children. USA, USA, USA! “We are here to save you!” Hey, all you flag waving morons, so go to your church and your Weekly Water Buffalo meeting, and just nevermind the world crumbling around you while you sit back and wait to scavenge off someone else’s bad luck for pennies on the dollar with a “good ole’ boy wink, secret handshake, Bob’s your uncle, and sleep tight. It’s all a big pile of $hit.