OBAMA DRONES STRIKE FIRST LIBYAN CIVILIAN TARGETS -- While Political World Obsesses on Birther Story

When, oh when will the "progressive" leftists come to grips with the fact that they are supporting a POTUS with no respect for citizens constitutional rights and rule of law?

I'm crying with you.. How about Petraus taking over the CIA?? WTF!! where is the media coverage of that? Panetta to the Pentagon? why? tell us why!!!!!!!

Two months ago all us liberal types were supporting the protestors in Libya.
Then when Gadaffi started killing and threatened to kill hundreds of thousands of Libyan protesters, and the UN intervenes with military action, liberals freak out.
The left is way too utopian!
We think that the good witch Glinda will wave her magic wand and Dorothy will click her ruby slippers and peace will come.
Grow some balls hippies!

even if this is a lie (ziggy),

the intention of the article is good ( Stickin it to the MAN). no matter how you look at it there is something going on with our military.

This thread is a hoax
It's a lie and she's admitted it

See the exchange with the first poster at the bottom quoted in this post.

She confabulated 2 stories neither of which claim any civilian was harmed by a drone in Lybia. The drone hit a rocket launcher.

Excerpts:

LIBYAN CIVILIAN MASSACRE BY U.S. DRONES THAT IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW.

OBAMA'S AUTHORIZED SLAUGHTER OF LIBYAN CIVILIANS BY DRONE ATTACKS ON HOME COMPOUNDS.

WAKE UP, PEOPLE! WE ARE SLAUGHTERING LIBYAN CIVILIANS!

OBAMA'S SUCCESSFUL AUTHORIZATION OF THE DRONE MASSACRE OF LIBYAN CIVILIANS,

Meanwhile--what is going on that he, and the right, don't want us to focus on.

COULD IT BE THE HAMBURGER-LIKE REMAINS OF INNOCENT LIBYAN CIVILIANS SLAUGHTERED BY THE OBAMA-AUTHORIZED DRONES?

After all, five days ago Obama AUTHORIZED THE USE OF OUR DRONES AGAINST CIVILIANS IN LIBYA.

Did you get the "U.S. DRONES SLAUGHTERING CIVILIANS IN LIBYA" part?

3 hours ago
GENERALNATTY --> @Politicalamazon

Umm where does it say that the drone hit civilians? , it says that it took out a rocket launcher that was used to attack civilians.

"A U.S. Air Force Predator drone took out a rocket launcher used to attack civilians in the battle between Qadhafi forces and civilians in Misrata, Libya, NATO said today."

Response 2 hours ago

PoliticalAmazon
@GENERALNATTY:

Sorry--thought the Gates and civilian info was in the same article. My bad.

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These are all made up lies in this story.

PA... you've entered the Trump zone!
Welcome to waste-of-time writing and giving a public show of self-indulgent, careless of others sensibilities, with your display of mental masturbation.
Kinda gross lady...
(I'm being waaay kind calling you a lady on the image you posted with this story)

IT'S CALLED WAR FOR A REASON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Has there ever been one that civiilians haven't got the worse end of the deal???????? Get a freaking grip on reality!!!!!!!! No one wants innocent people to die but it happens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Should we just let Gaddaffi kill everyone? Guess that would be ok!!! I mean what do we do....damned if we do and damned if we don't!!! and TRUMP is the douchbag you can thank for all the Birther bullcrap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get off my President's back and let him do his freaking job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You make it sound like President Obama loaded the drones and did it himself.....gee let's see where are those civilians at?
NATO< NATO< NATO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are all in it together!!!!
Do you want his job? Do you think it is easy trying to do all he has to do? especially after the Mess that BUSH left this country in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you really think that he likes that bullshit that TRUMP has been doing when he has more important things to dwell on?????? Do you think He enjoys hearing that the civilians got killed? Besides.....is there a difference between civilian deaths and people in the military deaths???????????? DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not good for anyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I would appreciate it if you would not use my Saviors's name in vain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PoliticalAmazon - you are clearly on the wrong site. I think you are looking for the "Idiots-R-Us" site. Please exit with your rubbish now.

LIBYAN CIVILIAN MASSACRE BY U.S. DRONES THAT IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW.

This story is a confabulation. It's a bald faced lie.

Read this exchange at the beginning.
GENERALNATTY

Umm where does it say that the drone hit civilians? , it says that it took out a rocket launcher that was used to attack civilians.

"A U.S. Air Force Predator drone took out a rocket launcher used to attack civilians in the battle between Qadhafi forces and civilians in Misrata, Libya, NATO said today."

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Political Amazon's response
Sorry--thought the Gates and civilian info was in the same article. My bad.

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I challenge you to show us where it is there is a Civilian Massacre by U.S. Drones going on right now in Libya.

You are a liar and you are insulting every person on this thread to do nothing more than feed your irrational hatred of Obama.

His supporters no care about human life they care more about Obama look good and if you attack his drones you racist.

We are quietly getting embroiled in our third war. Fourth if you include Pakistan. Does the humanitarian part officially end when we start killing the people we are supposed to be saving?

http://tinyurl.com/3fcchey
NATO forces hit civilian areas in Libya, commence drone attacks

The UN Security Council resolution purportedly authorizing U.S./NATO operations in Libya was further undermined yesterday when NATO airstrikes reportedly hit civilian targets in Tripoli and other cities.

As France 24 reports today,

NATO planes staged raids on civil and military sites in the Libyan capital Tripoli and other cities, JANA news agency said, without confirming the number of people killed and wounded. Earlier air raids conducted by the Western alliance struck near a compound in Tripoli where Kadhafi resides.

“A military source said civil and military sites were targeted by the colonialist aggressor,” said JANA, specifying that the strikes had also covered Al-Khums, Gharian, El Assa and Sirte, the birthplace of strongman Moamer Kadhafi.

Three new explosions rocked the Libyan capital in the late evening as NATO warplanes overflew Tripoli, AFP journalists said, after several earlier blasts in the city centre and outlying quarters.

The Chinese news agency Xinhau adds that civilian infrastructure was among NATO’s targets:

NATO warplanes bombed several military and civilian targets in Tripoli, resulting in casualties Saturday night.

Three loud explosions were heard near the Women’s Military Academy in downtown Tripoli after NATO fighter jets flew over the capital, a Xinhua correspondent said.

The NATO airstrike also targeted cities of al-Khums and Sirte, destroying water-supply and sewage systems as well as private cars, the state-run JANA news agency quoted the Libyan military as saying.

Even before the new reports of NATO hitting civilian targets, the military alliance was coming under criticism from the Libyan opposition — which NATO is ostensibly supporting — for not doing enough to protect civilians from pro-Gaddafi forces.

Last week, NATO reportedly halted operations in defense of civilians in the city of Ajdabiya, due to inclement weather conditions that inhibited their military capabilities. Libyan rebel spokesman Shamsiddin Abdulmolah, however, pointed out to CNN that the loyalists who were bombing the city “have no problem with the weather conditions there.”

Gaddafi’s forces were using Grad missiles and mortars, the spokesman said, “and sometimes we feel that NATO wants to use any excuse out there so they don’t carry out their duties.”

But NATO leaders have already made it clear that they view their mission as deposing Gaddafi, not necessarily enforcing a no-fly zone or protecting civilians which Resolution 1973 originally authorized.

Two weeks ago, President Obama and his British and French counterparts, David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy, made public their objective of regime change, which was specifically not authorized by Resolution 1973. In a joint op-ed, they wrote:

So long as Gaddafi is in power, Nato and its coalition partners must maintain their operations so that civilians remain protected and the pressure on the regime builds. Then a genuine transition from dictatorship to an inclusive constitutional process can really begin, led by a new generation of leaders. For that transition to succeed, Colonel Gaddafi must go, and go for good.

They subsequently made it clear that they were stretching Resolution 1973 even further, by sending in ground forces, despite the resolution’s explicit prohibition of “a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory.”

The reports of NATO attacks on civilian infrastructure are simply the next logical step in this process of mission creep. While NATO will undoubtedly deny that it is intentionally hitting infrastructure, history shows that this is certainly within its modus operandi.

In the 1999 bombing of Serbia, for example, NATO intentionally bombed bridges, a television station and other civilian targets in an effort to weaken Slobodan Milosevic’s communication and transportation capabilities. The attacks were a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, as are the alleged bombings of water-supply and sewage systems yesterday in Libya.

More civilian deaths at the hands of the U.S. and NATO in Libya should be expected going forward, especially with the recent deployment of Predator drones in the country. These unmanned flying bombers have become notorious in Pakistan and Afghanistan for indiscriminately killing civilians.

While the Pentagon insists on the targeting precision of drones, their track record is less than impressive. As Geoff Simons, author of Drone Diplomacy, points out in a letter to the Guardian,

The evidence is overwhelming that drone usage in Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere massively increases “collateral damage”. On 6 May 2002 a drone killed 10 Afghan civilians in a car convoy. On 5 January 2006 a drone targeting al-Qaida‘s Ayman al-Zawahiri blew up a house in Pakistan. He wasn’t there and eight civilians were killed. A week later a Predator ordered into action from CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, destroyed three houses in Demadola, Pakistan, killing 22 civilians, including five women and five children.

On 19 May 2009 a drone attacked homes of villagers in North Waziristan thought to be aiding insurgents, killing 14 women and children. On 2 December 2010, Conflict Monitoring Centre in Islamabad issued a report charging that the US was deliberately ignoring Pakistani civilian deaths (2,043 over five years) caused by drones. On 23 January 2011, after 13 more civilians were killed, 2,000 tribesmen in North Waziristan held a protest against drone missile strikes.

In May 2010 Philip Alston, UN special representative on extrajudicial executions, warned of a “PlayStation” mentality among drone operators in the United States. Alston, a professor of law at New York University, said that he’s “particularly concerned that the US asserts an ever-expanding entitlement to target individuals across the globe … an ill-defined licence to kill without accountability.”

The deployment of drones in Libya comes just on the heals of a drone attack in Pakistan that reportedly killed five children and four women, who were among the “militants” targeted for execution.

As the weapons are now being used in Libya, these sorts of tragedies will be expected, especially since the U.S. and NATO have already made clear that they are not bound by international law. Having already exceeded Resolution 1973 with declarations of regime change and commitment of ground forces in Libya, they now appear to be disregarding the Geneva Conventions in targeting civilian infrastructure.

The violations can only be expected to continue going forward, unless the U.S./NATO intervention is halted in its tracks.

WooHooo!!!!

Umm where does it say that the drone hit civilians? , it says that it took out a rocket launcher that was used to attack civilians.

"A U.S. Air Force Predator drone took out a rocket launcher used to attack civilians in the battle between Qadhafi forces and civilians in Misrata, Libya, NATO said today."