On Jan 4, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Percival Myers wrote:
> If we are looking at the number of killed Pakistani innocents, what
> does it matter who owns the drones? Aren't the rest of the numbers
> from 2001 through the intervening years more important when the
> received answer is the rate at which Obama kills them in 2009 versus
> the 2006-2007 Bush rate - when we know Bush had already abandoned that
> battlefield in favor of a different one?
Spare St Barry from any embarrassing comparisons?
<http://www.jamestown.org/programs/gta/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=35542&cHash=4ab726a2c5
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In 2002, the drones were mostly used to monitor ground activity. Attacks began apparently in June 2004. Through January 2006, the drone attacks "were relatively 'clean' in regards to unintentional civilian deaths...."
<http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/drone-wars>
"US forces struck just twice in 2006, three times in 2007 and seven times in the first eight months of 2008...."