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Green party’s Jill Stein spells out he facts on drone warfare

Stein says report shows urgent need to end drone warfare BY JILL STEIN FOR PRESIDENT 1364.80PC ON SEPTEMBER 25, 2012   Speaking before an audience of nearly 400 last night at a campaign stop at Humboldt State University in Eureka, California, Green Party candidate Jill Stein cited a report on drone warfare published today from Stanford and NYU researchers as evidence that her intention to stop drone warfare was the right course for America. The report documented the number of civilians being killed by U.S. drone strikes, as well as the antagonism that such strikes are producing among the affected populations.

According to Stein, “The Stanford and NYU report underscores the serious mistake that has been made by the Obama Administration in turning to this type of warfare. The inability of this technology to avoid civilian deaths is just the first of its many problems. In using it, the Obama administration has blurred the distinction between combatants and non-combatants, and between the battlefield and civilian communities. They have encroached upon the sovereign right of nations to have their airspace free of unauthorized foreign aircraft.  And they have truly brought a reign of terror to entire populations. The arrogance with which the Administration dismisses the concerns over this weaponry is truly disturbing.”

“During the Vietnam war, it was said that the real battle being fought was for the ‘hearts and minds’ of the populace,” Stein continued, “Nothing could be better calculated to lose such the hearts and minds of a people than subjecting them to a war of terror from the air using drone aircraft. The fact cited in the report – that 74% of the people of Pakistan now regard the United States as their enemy – is due, in part, to the use of drone warfare.”…… http://www.jillstein.org/end_drone_warfare

September 28, 2012 - Posted by | Uncategorized

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