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Kucinich on the Ever-Expanding Use of Drones to Kill

Wed, 09/28/2011 - 09:30 — Dave Culver
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Peace & Nonviolence

  • The use of lethal force by the United States in countries such as Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia – countries we are not at war with – constitutes an already troubling method of waging war in which we are accountable to no one.
  • "Unnacountable, immoral, and, by definition, inhuman."
  • Killer drones used like a sport

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Nation of Change

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Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, soft­ware is cur­rently being de­vel­oped that would en­able a drone to fire a mis­sile with­out any input from a human being de­spite the fact that the New Amer­ica Foun­da­tion has found that 32% of those killed from drone strikes in Pak­istan were civil­ians.

Con­gress­man Den­nis Kucinich (D-OH) is a pro­po­nent of peace­ful res­o­lu­tion of con­flict who has stead­fastly op­posed the ex­pan­sion of war around the world and has con­sis­tently op­posed the use of drones abroad. Kucinich re­leased the fol­low­ing state­ment in re­sponse to the ex­pan­sion of U.S. drone bases abroad and the de­vel­op­ment of tech­nol­ogy that would allow ro­botic drones to hunt and kill human be­ings.

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Related:

Killer drones used like a sport, Stephen Lendman, War Is A Crime

  • They "sit in air-conditioned rooms far away from (America's wars). They guide their weapons with joysticks and monitors. The remote warriors work with a high degree of precision - at a fraction of the cost of a fighter jet," but just as deadly.
  • Despite waging multiple imperial wars, Obama, in fact, may oblige them, heading America perilously closer to all out general war, especially to distract growing millions from their economic misery at home.
  • America Detatched from War
  • The Militarization of America


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