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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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Bryan Sudbury signed 2012-12-02 12:27:21 -0800

These drone strikes are simply disgraceful and immoral. They do nothing to enhance US security, and in fact create more potential for terrorist acts against the US. There must be accountability!
June Eisley signed 2012-12-02 12:20:12 -0800
Rick Sherman signed 2012-12-02 12:05:30 -0800
David Crump signed 2012-12-02 10:21:57 -0800

These drone strikes must stop!
Kyle Luck signed 2012-12-02 10:11:44 -0800

“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you…”

-Mt. 7:12
Sheri-lee Campbell signed 2012-12-02 08:42:20 -0800
Kari Finch signed 2012-12-02 07:37:40 -0800
Pamela Chavez signed 2012-12-01 17:26:01 -0800

Unconscionable acts of terror by the USA! END ALL WARS NOW!
Todd Selle signed 2012-12-01 16:08:42 -0800

Drones, in addition to having the capacity for killing the innocent, also have the capacity to diminish the people who remotely operate them; sitting in a comfortable room thousands of miles from where an attack is delivered can desensitive such an operator from the impact of the act s/he helps initiate. No weapon in history has had this potential, and if it’s inevitable that this one is going to be used, at least its usage should be tightly controlled and monitored.
Josue Martinez signed 2012-12-01 14:57:29 -0800

I voted for Obama only because Romney would have been worse. Shame on Obama and his government claque for killing innocent people in the name of democracy, which no longer exists in the USA, and against the wishes of the majority of the American people. Obama is every bit an international criminal as was George W. Bush.
Anonymous signed 2012-12-01 14:08:55 -0800

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

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