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annm4peace

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Wed Apr 24, 2013, 12:00 AM Apr 2013

Anyone else watching Senate hearing on targeted killing by drones on Cspan ?

ugggg. So hard to listen to such callous talk.
There is a female combat pilot that seems so heartless.
my senator Al Franken was on the committee so heard from many of us on how we feel of the drone killings.

There is one young Yemeni man who speaks for the civilians and how there is blowback and how much easier it would be to have a suspect terrorist arrested than to fire missles on a village killing dozens of children and others.

The is also many questions of the legality of the use of drones, or enemy combatants. etc.

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Anyone else watching Senate hearing on targeted killing by drones on Cspan ? (Original Post) annm4peace Apr 2013 OP
video on Common Dreams annm4peace Apr 2013 #1
Col Martha McSally seemed very cold annm4peace Apr 2013 #2

annm4peace

(6,119 posts)
1. video on Common Dreams
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 12:02 AM
Apr 2013

(sorry, I can't figure out how to copy web address from my apple computer)


Published on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 by Common Dreams
Senate Hearing on Drone Warfare
Yemeni witness, others testifying on human cost of US drone warfare

- Jacob Chamberlain, staff writer
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights held its first hearing on the Obama administration's targeted killing program entitled “Drone Wars: The Constitutional and Counterterrorism Implications of Targeted Killing” Tuesday afternoon.


Farea Al-Muslimi testifies before the Senate Judiciary’s subcommittee on the Constitution and human rights.
The hearing, which began at 4pm accepted testimony from a number of individuals including Farea Al-Muslimi, a journalist, writer and pro-democracy activist from Yemen, whose village, Wessab, was struck by a drone six days ago.

annm4peace

(6,119 posts)
2. Col Martha McSally seemed very cold
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 12:21 AM
Apr 2013

She seems disconnected that many innocent civilians are being killed. She seems like a robot

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