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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  • wendy fremstad
    signed 2012-12-11 08:19:08 -0800
  • Brooke & Leonard Pekkala
    signed 2012-12-11 08:16:31 -0800
    Please stop killing children …no terrorist is worth it….
  • uta kujath
    signed 2012-12-11 08:10:03 -0800
  • Doug Frost
    signed 2012-12-11 08:09:29 -0800
  • Ed Gould
    signed via 2012-12-11 07:48:42 -0800
    Begun by Bush/Cheney, and one of the reasons they deserve to be on trial in the Hague. Now continued by Obama. Change this Mr President!
  • Mitchell Lieber
    signed 2012-12-11 07:34:29 -0800
    Even if drones haven’t caused “many” casualties, they’ve caused 178 too many. Perhaps that number is even greater. Regardless, killing innocents in the name of people in the middle East is unacceptable behavior for our President and out Country. We need to find better methods of handling these issues because clearly our drone strikes aren’t accurate. I bet if this was happening to us it would be branded as inhumane and a form of terrorism, but since it isn’t, its something thats barely even reported about. Killing innocent children in the name of our fallacious ideas of peace is despicable and isn’t permissible by human standards. I really hope enough people get wind of this because this isn’t something our country should put up with.
  • e d barber
    signed 2012-12-11 07:33:02 -0800
  • Scott Powers
    signed 2012-12-11 07:25:32 -0800
  • Clyde Morron
    signed 2012-12-11 07:23:40 -0800
  • Richard Coates
    signed 2012-12-11 07:23:07 -0800
    I luv you Barack for all the good things that you do/attempting to do, but this is WRONG (and you know it is!)
  • Lois Karasek
    signed 2012-12-11 07:21:07 -0800
  • emma leventhal
    signed 2012-12-11 06:11:27 -0800
  • Richard and Nancy Huff
    signed via 2012-12-11 05:17:44 -0800
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  • Steven Mello II
    signed via 2012-12-10 23:39:15 -0800
  • Sharon Girod
    signed via 2012-12-10 21:33:10 -0800
  • Ruth Hooke
    signed via 2012-12-10 20:01:17 -0800
  • Joe Byers
    signed via 2012-12-10 19:40:30 -0800
  • Scott Keesling
    signed via 2012-12-10 18:49:17 -0800
    What we’re doing with drones smacks too close to what the Nazis did with their V-Rockets in WWII. What hell is going on?!!!
  • Tracina Stewart
    signed via 2012-12-10 17:45:04 -0800
  • Dr. F Taylor
    signed via 2012-12-10 17:39:32 -0800
  • Mary Freed
    signed via 2012-12-10 17:02:19 -0800
  • jennifer brinch Last Name*
    signed via 2012-12-10 16:31:42 -0800
  • joanne krieger
    signed 2012-12-10 16:04:43 -0800
    Stop killing inocent children, it’s blood on your hands. Not ours, none of these wars are freedom wars, I am against all of them, it’s only for you War Mongers to make more money, over dead childrens bodies.
  • Jan Mittendorf
    signed via 2012-12-10 15:54:30 -0800
    Killing innocent civilians will come back to haunt the US, why is life so not valuable on our planet, have we become so calloused as to killing children with no remorse for humanity, don’t blame the American People, its YOU People murdering behind closed doors.
  • Gregory Corning
    signed via 2012-12-10 15:35:05 -0800
  • Robert Pineda-Volk
    signed via 2012-12-10 13:38:49 -0800
    Please stop this madness!
  • Robert Chunco
    signed 2012-12-10 12:55:48 -0800
  • Timothy Mullen
    signed 2012-12-10 12:23:42 -0800
  • Lawrence Jackson-Rosen
    signed via 2012-12-10 12:15:59 -0800

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