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Gosh, the families of 5,000 dead young American soldiers and multiple thousands more young maimed American soldiers may think something's missing from that list.
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Under Bush there was 575 dead young Americans, the rest occurred and are still occurring under obama.
US Troop Deaths in Afghan War Under Obama Now Twice That Under Bush :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [reg.de]
1728 US troops have died in Afghanistan since October 7, 2001, with 1153 of those deaths having occurred since President Obama's inauguration. 575 US troops died in Afghanistan during President Bush's term in office.
Does this number include obama's drone strikes? Does it include the innocent people murdered in obama's signature strikes.
Drone 'Signature Strike' Witness Responds To Obama Speech: 'I Don't Trust A Single Word'
The president said in his May speech that "before any strike is taken, there must be near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured -- the highest standard we can set." Still, he added, "There is a wide gap between U.S. assessments of such casualties, and non-governmental reports."
That includes the strike at Datta Khel. The nonprofit United Kingdom-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which tracks drone deaths based on published news accounts, estimates that between 26 and 42 people were killed.
United States officials, meanwhile, had a completely different account of the meeting. Speaking under conditions of anonymity, one told The New York Times in August 2011 that "a large group of heavily armed men, some of whom were clearly connected to Al Qaeda and all of whom acted in a manner consistent with A.Q.-linked militants, were killed."
"A manner consistent with A.Q.-linked militants" is the most revealing phrase: the attack was a signature strike. As it later emerged, the U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter had tried to stop the attack, only to be outmaneuvered by the CIA in internal administration debates. Two years later, The New York Times reported in April, many officials within the government now believe the strike was "botched."
"When I was in Pakistan, the fury and rage of people about the CIA, about the killing of large numbers of tribal leaders, was profoundly troubling," Greenwald wrote in an email. "Imagine a town hall in the United States bombed, and all the councilmen/women of a city wiped out."
Khail does not have to imagine. Among the men killed at Datta Khel were four of his cousins: Muzammal Khan, Sher Hayat Khan, Nek Bahadur Khan, and Belal Khan.
In his speech, Obama acknowledged that "(a)ny U.S. military action in foreign lands risks creating more enemies, and impacts public opinion overseas." But he said strong oversight, and a high threshold for taking action, should allay concerns about drone strikes.
Khail has heard of the speech, and his concerns are not allayed.
"I do not trust him, I don't trust a single word from him," he said
The best thing to come out of all obama's carnage is that one statement "I do not trust him, I don't trust a single word from him".
Now Americans are starting not to trust him either.
