They Hear and Cheer Cindy Sheehan in Pakistan

Tweet Part of an article from a daily newspaper in Pakistan; whole article here: http://www.thefrontierpost.com/News.aspx?ncat=ar&nid=974

Dispelling all the notions over the controversy, it seems that drone has become a decisive weapon in America's failing wars in South Asia, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan. President Obama has deployed three times more drones in illegal attacks on civilians than the former Bush/Cheney administration. However, regardless of the real forces that rule America, the reality is that drones kill far more civilians than Taliban or militants: hardly surprising when weapon systems are remotely controlled and depend upon half-cooked intelligence provided by the notorious CIA agents. Washington's love for gimmicks and media presentations allowed an imprudent military to release footage of a drone's-eye view of attacks until some smart military lawyer realised the footage could be used in war crimes trials! But, the US troops enjoy the impunity over the slaughtering of ant-like humans scurrying for cover as the drones launch hellfire missiles to blow people and buildings to smithereens. The block-heads in the military and CIA thought it was a great propaganda stunt at the time until it became evident that drones killed 10 times more civilians than the combatants. Wedding parties were the favourite targets in Afghanistan and FATA area in Pakistan. Even the "ground footage" of innocent men, women and children lying dead and dismembered did not curtail the use of drone-footage in the media. It is widely known that the drones have the lowest known enemy kill ratio of any weapon deployed in today's wars, but that little fact doesn't reduce or eliminates their use. In a typical Orwellian inversion, Obama has tripled the use of drones in the present conflict zones. That's the reason why entire populations mobilize against the invaders that indiscriminately slaughter innocent civilians. Over six million people have fallen prey to CIA's covert and overt operations around the world since its inception in 1947. The war against terrorism is being fought to grab the natural resources and the markets of other countries. The two genocides committed by Indonesia against its own people in 1965 and then against the people of East Timor in 1975, were sanctioned by the US government and aided by the CIA. The way CIA carries out its operations probably shows that all the US presidents worked under its sway rather than controlling it. Interestingly, the CIA and Pentagon personnel that fly drone missions from thousands of miles away from the blood-drenched front are obliged to obtain clearance from superiors before launching missile strikes. But, the personnel controlling the predators may not see or smell the blood and guts as graphically as a direct confrontation, because very few have the stomach required for killing the women and children and facing future indictments for war crimes. Already a group led by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan rallied last Saturday near the CIA headquarters and former Vice President Dick Cheney's home in northern Virginia o protest the use of unmanned drones for attacks on al-Qaeda and Taliban targets.