[Marxism] Obama's Pakistan scorecard - 687 - 14

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This week, Pakistani officials released stunning figures of the civilian  
death count in the American drone war: almost 700 innocent men, women and  
children killed so far -- as opposed to 14 actual, wanted extremist leaders. 
As  the Pakistani paper_  The News reports_ 
(http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=21440) :

Of the 60 cross-border predator strikes carried out by  the 
Afghanistan-based American drones in Pakistan between January 14, 2006 and  
April 8, 2009, 
only 10 were able to hit their actual targets, killing 14 wanted  al-Qaeda 
leaders, besides perishing 687 innocent Pakistani civilians. The  success 
percentage of the US predator strikes thus comes to not more than six  per 
cent....
 
 
Now there's change you can believe in (to coin  a phrase)! In just a few 
months in office, Obama has managed to raise the  average kill rate achieved 
by Bush from 32 to 38 per month. And who can doubt  that this young, capable, 
charismatic president will not increase that civilian  slaughter rate even 
further as he ratchets up the drone war in the months -- and  years and 
years -- to come?  


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-pakistan-counts-the-toll-of-the-bush-obama-drone-war.html_ 
(http://chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1738-death-by-the-numbers-pakistan-counts-
the-toll-of-the-bush-obama-drone-war.html) >
 
 
 
 
 

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