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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  • Jeannine Eiesland
    signed via 2012-12-05 06:39:06 -0800
    I don’t approve of this way of trying to kill an enemy or strike a target of some kind. It is cowardly, in my opinion, and results in the deaths of those who have not made the choice to died to achieve a country’s goals.
  • M Allen
    signed via 2012-12-05 06:10:17 -0800
  • mark chasan
    signed via 2012-12-05 06:06:57 -0800
  • Patrick O'Donnell
    signed via 2012-12-05 06:04:51 -0800
  • Marilyn Stripling
    signed via 2012-12-05 05:55:42 -0800
  • Shuja Ahmad
    signed via 2012-12-05 05:40:20 -0800
  • Paula Lim
    signed via 2012-12-05 05:38:21 -0800
    Murder is murder……and this is simply murder. While I am all for taking out the “bad guys”, I am very much against the taking of the lives of innocent civilians, especially children. It is not who we are as a nation. We should operate by a higher standard! President Obama, I voted for you , twice, because I though that you represented something better than George Bush and the Rethuglican Party…….now please prove to me that I did not waste my votes.
  • Reverend Gerald Oleson
    signed 2012-12-05 05:24:11 -0800
    Who would Jesus murder?
  • Barbara McClure
    signed 2012-12-05 05:21:52 -0800
  • Gabriel Dibenedetto
    signed via 2012-12-05 05:06:49 -0800
  • Oscar Bush
    signed via 2012-12-05 05:03:59 -0800
    There is no excuse for drone warfare. It’s cowardly and sick, a handy tool for a warmonger government run by the oil companies. Government by the people does not support this behavior on the part of the military industrial complex. Please add my signature. I want the American people to know that taking innocent lives for the American war machine is wrong, and our government needs a serious overhaul. The American People need to know that the terrorist scheme has been run into the ground as a propaganda tool for greedy heartless oil companies. This type of behavior increases the threat of a terrorist attack on the western world in retaliation. There is no legal justification for taking innocent lives. How long before the drones pick and choose who may or may not be a terrorist? Or a suspect? Do you want a drone eyeball on your home or your neighbor’s home? I don’t like this; it’s symptomatic of a really despicable government.


    Thanks you for allowing me to express my opinion. I have much more to say.


    Oscar Bush
  • Ivars Balkits
    signed via 2012-12-05 05:00:59 -0800
  • Marta Daniels
    signed 2012-12-05 04:27:39 -0800
  • Cheryl Fergeson
    signed via 2012-12-05 04:26:20 -0800
  • dixie tracy-kinney
    signed via 2012-12-05 04:18:00 -0800
  • Daniel Bitter
    signed via 2012-12-05 04:13:50 -0800
  • Edward Devey
    signed via 2012-12-05 04:07:09 -0800
  • Susan Taylor
    signed via 2012-12-05 03:51:42 -0800
    Republicans can’t be pro life for one issue and not another!
  • Mary Wolney
    signed via 2012-12-05 03:33:58 -0800
  • Lawrence Reichard
    signed 2012-12-05 03:31:53 -0800
  • Dennis Johnson
    signed via 2012-12-05 03:22:17 -0800
  • Judith Robbins
    signed 2012-12-05 03:04:58 -0800
  • Ditrik Tosh
    signed via 2012-12-05 02:25:51 -0800
  • Michael Gach
    signed via 2012-12-05 02:13:56 -0800
    I am would like much greater restrictions on US drone strikes. I believe they carry great consequences for obtaining future peace and resolution in the world.
  • Harold Jones
    signed via 2012-12-05 01:51:43 -0800
  • Patricia Cooke-Tassone
    signed via 2012-12-05 00:54:12 -0800
  • Rick Cutcliffe
    signed via 2012-12-05 00:48:38 -0800
  • Josh Griffith
    signed via 2012-12-05 00:46:20 -0800
  • A.D. Butz
    signed via 2012-12-05 00:36:45 -0800
  • kim didia
    signed via 2012-12-05 00:30:21 -0800

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