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He made the remarks in an interview with Press TVs U.S. Desk on Thursday when asked about Pakistani prime minister who said Americas drone strikes are a blatant violation of human rights. In addition, the UN high commissioner in her press conference called the killing of civilians in tribal area as illegal and discriminatory and violation of human rights.
This is while Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Wednesday said that drone attacks will continue as long as it is necessary.
Lindorff added, Attacking Pakistan is the ultimate war crime.
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I'm pretty certain that if US citizens on US soil were constantly and remorselessly slaughtered by a foreign power's military drones most of us, it not all of us, would feel so enraged and consider such acts to be war crimes.
sad sally
(2,627 posts)decides to attack the "homeland" in order to kill US terrorists. (and how can what the US is doing in so many other countries not be considered terrorism?)
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)just like after 9/11. Who are we fooling? We are no less human that the next people. Do you really think that collectively we are morally any different that most other nations?
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)Lindorff needs to do some serious research into this little historical event called the Holocaust.
I'm quite certain I could find enough war atrocities to keep drone attacks off the top 100 war crimes list, much less the top 10.
Dude, you must get real immediately.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)A former bureau chief covering Los Angeles County government for the Los Angeles Daily News, and a reporter-producer for PBS station KCET in Los Angeles, Lindorff was also a founder and editor of the weekly Los Angeles Vanguard newspaper, established in 1976, where he won the Grand Prize of the Los Angeles Press Club for his reporting. Lindorff also worked at the Minneapolis Tribune (now the Star Tribune), the Santa Monica Evening Outlook and the Middletown Press in Connecticut.
He is the author of four books, the most recent being The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office, written with attorney Barbara Olshansky of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Lindorff has been active on journalistic issues and was a founder of the National Writers Union in 1983, serving for many years in leadership positions in that union. He was also active in the Hong Kong Journalists Assn. during his five years in Hong Kong, when he was a correspondent for Businessweek magazine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Lindorff
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)theocracy.
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)Safety? Security? A hopelessly corrupt Democracy?
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Which candidate are you voting for in this hopelessly corrupt Democracy?
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Magoo48
(4,716 posts)Is it possible that the goal is to provide incentive for future retaliations against us and, therefore, rational for keeping the profit spewing MIC war machine grinding on, and on, and on.....?
I hope I'm simply having a flight of paranoia....sounds evil now that it's writ down.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)What a fucking joke.
Sid