2aguy
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Well.....that is the wonderful thing about the internet....a democrat, anti American President says something stupid in an attempt to deflect criticism from muslim terrorists and at the same time insult Christianity, the Western religion, and in the process exposes himself to the truth....his direct orders to initiate drone strikes have killed almost as many people or possibly more people, than the inquisition.....what an idiot.....
Obama 8217 s Drones Have Killed More Than the Spanish Inquisition PJ Tatler
Fair enough. But how is Obama himself doing on that score?
Well, on Monday of this week the Bureau of Investigative Journalism published their annual study of deaths from U.S. drone strikes, and reported the following:
At least 2,464 people have now been killed by US drone strikes outside the countryās declared war zones since President Barack Obamaās inauguration six years ago, the Bureauās latest monthly report reveals.
Of the total killed since Obama took his oath of office on January 20 2009, at least 314 have been civilians, while the number of confirmed strikes under his administration now stands at 456.
Research by the Bureau also shows there have now been nearly nine times more strikes under Obama in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia than there were under his predecessor, George W Bush.
And the covert Obama strikes, the first of which hit Pakistan just three days after his inauguration, have killed almost six times more people and twice as many civilians than those ordered in the Bush years, the data shows.
The figures have been compiled as part of the Bureauās monthly report into covert US drone attacks, which are run in two separate missions ā one by the CIA and one for the Pentagon by its secretive special forces outfit, Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).
The research centers on countries outside the USās declared war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan.
So how does that number of 2,464 killed in Obamaās drone program ā not including those killed in Iraq or Afghanistan ā compare to, say, the Spanish Inquisition?
A decade ago the Vatican published the results of a six-year study of the Inquisition, including the number of those killed across Europe. With respect to the 350-year-long Inquisition in Spain, the BBC reported that the study found the following:
According to the 800-page report, the Inquisition that spread fear throughout Europe throughout the Middle Ages did not use execution or torture to anything like the extent history would have us believe.
In fact the bookās editor, Professor Agostino Borromeo, claims that in Spain only 1.8% of those investigated by the notorious Spanish Inquisition were killed.
Nonetheless, as the report was published, Pope John Paul II apologised once more for the interrogatorsā excesses, expressing sorrow for āthe errors committed in the service of the truth by the recourse to non-Christian methodsā [...]
But the Vatican report, the product of a six-year investigation, insists that the Inquisition was not as bad as often believed.
Professor Borromeo says for example that for 125,000 trials of suspected heretics in Spain, less than 2% were executed.
A quick calculation finds that 1.8 percent of 125,000 would represent 2,250 killed during the Spanish Inquisition if Prof. Borromeoās estimates are correct.
Obama 8217 s Drones Have Killed More Than the Spanish Inquisition PJ Tatler
Fair enough. But how is Obama himself doing on that score?
Well, on Monday of this week the Bureau of Investigative Journalism published their annual study of deaths from U.S. drone strikes, and reported the following:
At least 2,464 people have now been killed by US drone strikes outside the countryās declared war zones since President Barack Obamaās inauguration six years ago, the Bureauās latest monthly report reveals.
Of the total killed since Obama took his oath of office on January 20 2009, at least 314 have been civilians, while the number of confirmed strikes under his administration now stands at 456.
Research by the Bureau also shows there have now been nearly nine times more strikes under Obama in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia than there were under his predecessor, George W Bush.
And the covert Obama strikes, the first of which hit Pakistan just three days after his inauguration, have killed almost six times more people and twice as many civilians than those ordered in the Bush years, the data shows.
The figures have been compiled as part of the Bureauās monthly report into covert US drone attacks, which are run in two separate missions ā one by the CIA and one for the Pentagon by its secretive special forces outfit, Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).
The research centers on countries outside the USās declared war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan.
So how does that number of 2,464 killed in Obamaās drone program ā not including those killed in Iraq or Afghanistan ā compare to, say, the Spanish Inquisition?
A decade ago the Vatican published the results of a six-year study of the Inquisition, including the number of those killed across Europe. With respect to the 350-year-long Inquisition in Spain, the BBC reported that the study found the following:
According to the 800-page report, the Inquisition that spread fear throughout Europe throughout the Middle Ages did not use execution or torture to anything like the extent history would have us believe.
In fact the bookās editor, Professor Agostino Borromeo, claims that in Spain only 1.8% of those investigated by the notorious Spanish Inquisition were killed.
Nonetheless, as the report was published, Pope John Paul II apologised once more for the interrogatorsā excesses, expressing sorrow for āthe errors committed in the service of the truth by the recourse to non-Christian methodsā [...]
But the Vatican report, the product of a six-year investigation, insists that the Inquisition was not as bad as often believed.
Professor Borromeo says for example that for 125,000 trials of suspected heretics in Spain, less than 2% were executed.
A quick calculation finds that 1.8 percent of 125,000 would represent 2,250 killed during the Spanish Inquisition if Prof. Borromeoās estimates are correct.
