There Must Be Accountability for U.S. Drone Strikes

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, heralded as the leading authority for drone-strike casualty numbers by the recent report entitled Living Under Drones by Stanford and NYU researchers, reports 178 children have died in Yemen and Pakistan as a result of U.S. drone strikes. War Costs has produced a video and report on the topic. 

Please consider joining us in our appeal to leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives to reintroduce H. Res. 819,  which calls for more accountability and transparency for U.S. Drone policy.

Speaker Boehner and Minority Leader Pelosi, 

H. Res. 819 calls for the release of the legal justification of U.S. drone strikes that have killed civilians in targeted areas, as numerous reports have detailed. 

Please reintroduce this bill to the House floor this month, as too much of U.S. government's drone policy is kept secret from Congress and the American people.

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  • Nolyn Sprouse
    signed via 2012-12-03 14:06:34 -0800
  • Sergio Rivera
    signed via 2012-12-03 14:06:32 -0800
  • Sylvia Ruth Gray
    signed via 2012-12-03 14:06:30 -0800
    The current use of drones is not ethical and is a shame to our country’s name.
  • Marion Gerrish
    signed via 2012-12-03 14:06:23 -0800
    lA sure way to make a country hate us forever, kill their children, haven’t there been enough killings to satisfy all of the hawks that are ruining our country?
  • Jim Steitz
    signed via 2012-12-03 14:06:23 -0800
    Killing unidentified individuals based on a profile of their behavior observed in real-time, in a foreign land, witnessed by a remote drone operator, cannot be reconciled with any interpretation of international law.
  • Barbara Zalesky
    signed 2012-12-03 14:06:18 -0800
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  • Don Pew
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  • Herb Everett
    signed via 2012-12-03 14:04:17 -0800
  • Elizabeth Bell Friou
    signed via 2012-12-03 14:04:04 -0800
    Killing is wrong. Remember: “Thou shalt not kill!”? Even in war (which is so often wrong) it is wrong to kill civilians, the elderly, and women and children. I am an atheist — how is it that so many religious people are happy to kill? Stop the drones.
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  • Jack & Dee Rosenfeld
    signed via 2012-12-03 14:02:48 -0800
    Drones are weapons one wishes no one had thought to invent, but they did, so here we are hoping they won’t be used against us and hating the fact that they have killed innocents, including children. Yes, bombs have done worse, with more numbers involved, but there is so much secrecy around the use of drones that they take on a more sinister threat. At least, remove the secrecy.

Join the international effort to expose the financial & humane costs of the U.S. military industrial complex.

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