178 Children Killed by Drone Program

According to the Pakistani authorities, 60 cross-border predator strikes in the period from January 2006 to April 2009 killed 14 wanted al-Qaeda leaders and 687 Pakistani civilians. In a 2009 opinion article, Daniel L. Byman of the Brookings Institution wrote that drone strikes may have killed "10 or so civilians" for every "mid- and high-ranking Al Qaeda leader. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism found that between 391 – 780 civilians were killed out of a total of between 1.... The Bureau also revealed that since President Obama took office at least 50 civilians were killed in follow-up strikes when they had gone to help victims and more than 20 civilians have also been attacked in deliberate strikes on funerals and mourners, tactics that have been condemned by legal experts. Barbara Elias-Sanborn has also cautioned that, "as much of the literature on drones suggests, such killings usually harden militants' determination to fight, stalling any potential negotiations and settlement.

Drone strikes were halted in November 2011 after NATO forces killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in the Salala incident. Shamsi Airfield was evacuated of Americans and taken over by the Pakistanis December 2011. The incident prompted an approximately two-month stop to the drone strikes, which resumed on 10 January 2012.

U.S. Drone Strikes Are Causing Child Casualties: Video & Report

War Costs’ latest video (with report available at SCRIBD.COM) brings attention to the children who have died as a result of drone strikes. The video names some of the children who perished in these strikes, and points out the obfuscation tactics of American officials who will not own up to the significant amount of civilian casualties that have occurred due to this legally- and morally-dubious policy.

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Enlisted His Friends in Labor Unions to Scare the Daylights Out of Public

Judge Andrew Napolitano blasted President Obama’s “fear mongering” on the sequester as the reason that the air traffic controllers union is now threatening a potential shutdown of airport runways.

Napolitano said, “This is part of the president’s fear mongering. This is part of his efforts. Now, he’s conscripted his friends in the labor unions to scare the daylights out of the public.”

The judge pointed out that the sequester is not a decrease in spending, but rather a decrease in the rate of increase in spending.

“The American people have the right to know the president is creating a monstrosity over this sequester that was originally his idea.”