Trump Has Killed More Civilians with Illegal Drone Strikes in 9 Months Than Obama Did in 8 Yea

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From last October. I'm Quite certain things haven't improved since.

Trump Has Killed More Civilians with Illegal Drone Strikes in 9 Months Than Obama Did in 8 Years

By Rachel Blevins

While the mainstream media focuses on anything but the current state of U.S. intervention in the Middle East, the Trump Administration is breaking records by accumulating a horrific number of civilian deaths.

Former President Obama earned the nickname of “Drone King” when he dramatically escalated the use of drone strikes, while also downplaying the number of innocent civilians who became “collateral damage.” In the two years that his administration devoted to publicly spending millions of taxpayer dollars to fight the Islamic State group, the estimated civilian death toll ranged from 2,300 to 3,400, according to Airwars, an organization tracking deaths in the war against ISIS.

Trump Has Killed More Civilians with Illegal Drone Strikes in 9 Months Than Obama Did in 8 Years
10/18/2017

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By Rachel Blevins

While the mainstream media focuses on anything but the current state of U.S. intervention in the Middle East, the Trump Administration is breaking records by accumulating a horrific number of civilian deaths.

Former President Obama earned the nickname of “Drone King” when he dramatically escalated the use of drone strikes, while also downplaying the number of innocent civilians who became “collateral damage.” In the two years that his administration devoted to publicly spending millions of taxpayer dollars to fight the Islamic State group, the estimated civilian death toll ranged from 2,300 to 3,400, according to Airwars, an organization tracking deaths in the war against ISIS.
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Our minimum estimate of civilians likely killed by Coalition since 2014 is now 5,117 - with 55% of deaths occuring under Trump's leadership pic.twitter.com/H8S5Ihwuzb


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During @BarackObama's 29 months at helm of ISIS war we tracked 855 alleged civilian casualty events which likely killed 2298-3398 civilians pic.twitter.com/RUVvcy5zX9

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President Trump has been in office for just 9 months, and he has already surpassed Obama’s murderous record with estimated numbers as high as 4,500 civilian deaths.

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Read the rest here:

http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/trump-has-killed-more-civilians-with-illegal-drone-strikes-in-9-months-than-obama-did-in-8-years
 
Financing doesn't negate their figures.

How do you know?

I'm not saying I know, nobody here knows, people just pretend to know. There is no way for any one person to possibly know what the actual figures are.

I'm not saying don't cite the figures, I'm not saying don't put pressure on Trump to end the violence, I'm just saying don't go around pretending these numbers are 100% reliable.

If they aren't accurate it could be anything from padded slightly to extremely exaggerated.
 
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Financing doesn't negate their figures.
Fake news, military spending is all a hoax in order to fabricate an allusion of an economy that doesn't exist by propping up American corporations and buying politicians around the world. Everything else is just movie tricks and special effects. /s
 
Anyone who kills from afar is no friend of freedom.

Trump is the worst thing that could have happened to America. Now people cheer and wave flags and read his tweets and think that everything he does is nothing short of glorious.
 
How do you know?

I'm not saying I know, nobody here knows, people just pretend to know. There is no way for any one person to possibly know what the actual figures are.

I'm not saying don't cite the figures, I'm not saying don't put pressure on Trump to end the violence, I'm just saying don't go around pretending these numbers are 100% reliable.

What incentive is there to fake those numbers anyways? Most people in this country dont give a shit if 10 people are killed or 10,000.
 
How do you know?

I'm not saying I know, nobody here knows, people just pretend to know. There is no way for any one person to possibly know what the actual figures are.

I'm not saying don't cite the figures, I'm not saying don't put pressure on Trump to end the violence, I'm just saying don't go around pretending these numbers are 100% reliable.

If they aren't accurate it could be anything from padded slightly to extremely exaggerated.

Just 1 person killed could get you or me life in prison for premeditated murder.

The numbers “could be padded” so it’s ok? Yea let’s just blow it off.

The first person killed in the name of “freedom” should be reason enough to have trump hanged.

Do you believe it’s ok to kill others who have done nothing to you?
 
This article claims that one study showed 95% of Airwars casualties were non-credible:

In response, the commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve Stephen Townsendtook to Foreign Policyto criticise advocacy groups and the media for a lack of intellectual rigour in assessing their sources before making claims of civilian casualties. He noted that, of the 270 allegations made by Airwars that had been assessed, 258 (more than 95%) had been found to be non-credible.


https://www.realcleardefense.com/ar..._reporting_101_check_your_sources_112395.html


Here is a prequel to that article:

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/civilian-casualties-and-media
 
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How do you know?

I'm not saying I know, nobody here knows, people just pretend to know. There is no way for any one person to possibly know what the actual figures are.

I'm not saying don't cite the figures, I'm not saying don't put pressure on Trump to end the violence, I'm just saying don't go around pretending these numbers are 100% reliable.

If they aren't accurate it could be anything from padded slightly to extremely exaggerated.

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Just 1 person killed could get you or me life in prison for premeditated murder.

The numbers “could be padded” so it’s ok? Yea let’s just blow it off.

The first person killed in the name of “freedom” should be reason enough to have trump hanged.

Do you believe it’s ok to kill others who have done nothing to you?

What the fuck are you talking about??

No, I don't believe any of our foreign policy is "ok"..

But am I going to ruin our chances at letting Rand have influence over the President and his policies because of some fake made up data, just so we can go back to some neo-con puppet like Hillary and cause even more damage and destruction and death and socialism?? No, that's fucking stupid...
 
What incentive is there to fake those numbers anyways? Most people in this country dont give a $#@! if 10 people are killed or 10,000.
The incentive to fake the numbers derives from their method of figuring out the number. The way they determine how many die is by calculating it by the number of terrorists that are created as a result (blowback). Why do you think the "fake news" is saying that taliban has more control then ever?
 
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It has been claimed that 95% of Airwars claims of civilian casualties are non-credible, so claims like what are being made in the OP don't necessarily have much merit. Obama was a Soros puppet, you think he would have inflated his numbers?
 
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