Hey, Hey, Barack! What Do You Say? How Many Kids Have You Killed Today?

Hey, Hey, Barack! What Do You Say? How Many Kids Have You Killed Today?

By Dave Lindorff

I personally found the president’s inaugural speech not just insipid, but disgusting. It reached its gut-churning nadir near the end where he said:

“We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war...We will show the courage to try and resolve our differences with other nations peacefully – not because we are naïve about the dangers we face, but because engagement can more durably lift suspicion and fear...And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice – not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes: tolerance and opportunity; human dignity and justice.”

As he spoke these uplifting phrases, US factories were cranking out, under the terms of billion-dollar Pentagon contracts, fleets of drone aircraft that daily are raining explosives down on innocent men, women and children in countries that the US is not even at war with. Most of those drone attacks are personally approved by our Nobel Peace Laureate president, who has claimed the right -- unchallenged by either Congress or the Judiciary -- to order the liquidation of anyone he deems to be a terrorist (including American citizens), as well as those, even children, who happen to be in the vicinity of such a person. Of the 362 drone strikes in Pakistan to date, 310 were launched during the period Obama has been commander in chief.

The result of this policy of state terrorism has been a wretched, criminal slaughter of children -- a slaughter that has been hidden from view, and denied wholesale by the Pentagon and the president. Over 3000 people have been killed, the vast majority of them non-combatant "collateral damage" deaths. Over 172 of these have reportedly been children.

To borrow from the president’s own style-book, "We the People" have been complicit in ignoring this wretched slaughter. "We the People," who cringe in horror at the slaying of 20 innocent first graders in Newtown, Connecticut, don’t spare a thought or a tear for the thousands of innocent children killed in our name by our “heroic” forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and elsewhere, by our Presidentially-targeted drone aircraft in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, and by our weapons in the hands of allies and rebel fighters in places like Syria, Gaza, the West Bank of Palestine, Somalia, and elsewhere.

Just to try and make this monstrous crime by this president clear, here is a partial list, compiled by the organization DronesWatch, of children, some as young as 1 and 2 years old, who have been documented as killed by US drones (they are listed by name, age and sex in that order):



PAKISTAN



Noor Aziz
8
male


Abdul Wasit
17
male


Noor Syed
8
female


Wajid Noor
9
male


Syed Wali Shah
7
male


Ayeesha
3
female


Qari Alamzeb
14
male


Shoaib
8
male


Hayatullah KhaMohammad
16
male


Tariq Aziz
16
male


Sanaullah Jan
17
male


Maezol Khan
8
female


Nasir Khan
male
Naeem Khan
male


Naeemullah
male
Mohammad Tahir
16
male


Azizul Wahab
15
male


Fazal Wahab
16
male


Ziauddin
16
male


Mohammad Yunus
16
male


Fazal Hakim
19
male
Ilyas
13
male


Sohail
7
male


Asadullah
9
male


khalilullah
9
male


Noor Mohammad
8
male


Khalid
12
male
Saifullah
9
male


Mashooq Jan
15
male


Nawab
17
male


Sultanat Khan
16
male


Ziaur Rahman
13
male


Noor Mohammad
15
male


Mohammad Yaas Khan
16
male


Qari Alamzeb
14
male


Ziaur Rahman
17
male


Abdullah
18
male


Ikramullah Zada
17
male


Inayatur Rehman
16
male


Shahbuddin
15
male


Yahya Khan
16
male


Rahatullah
17
male


Mohammad Salim
11
male


Shahjehan
15
male


Gul Sher Khan
15
male


Bakht Muneer
14
male


Numair
14
male


Mashooq Khan
16
male


Ihsanullah
16
male


Luqman
12
male


Jannatullah
13
male


Ismail
12
male


Taseel Khan
18
male


Zaheeruddin
16
male


Qari Ishaq
19
male


Jamshed Khan
14
male


Alam Nabi
11
male


Qari Abdul Karim
19
male


Rahmatullah
14
male


Abdus Samad
17
male


Siraj
16
male


Saeedullah
17
male


Abdul Waris
16
male


Darvesh
13
male


Ameer Said
15
male


Shaukat
14
male


Inayatur Rahman
17
male


Salman
12
male


Fazal Wahab
18
male


Baacha Rahman
13
male


Wali-ur-Rahman
17
male


Iftikhar
17
male


Inayatullah
15
male


Mashooq Khan
16
male


Ihsanullah
16
male


Luqman
12
male


Jannatullah
13
male


Ismail
12
male


Abdul Waris
16
male


Darvesh
13
male


Ameer Said
15
male


Shaukat
14
male


Inayatur Rahman
17
male


Adnan
16
male
Najibullah
13
male


Naeemullah
17
male
Hizbullah
10
male


Kitab Gul
12
male


Wilayat Khan
11
male


Zabihullah
16
male


Shehzad Gul
11
male


Shabir
15
male


Qari Sharifullah
17
male


Shafiullah
16
male


Nimatullah
14
male


Shakirullah
16
male


Talha
8
male



YEMEN


Afrah Ali Mohammed Nasser
9
female


Zayda Ali Mohammed Nasser
7
female


Hoda Ali Mohammed Nasser
5
female


Sheikha Ali Mohammed Nasser
4
female


Ibrahim Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye
13
male


Asmaa Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye
9
male


Salma Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye
4
female


Fatima Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye
3
female


Khadije Ali Mokbel Louqye
1
female


Hanaa Ali Mokbel Louqye
6
female


Mohammed Ali Mokbel Salem Louqye
4
male


Jawass Mokbel Salem Louqye
15
female


Maryam Hussein Abdullah Awad
2
female


Shafiq Hussein Abdullah Awad
1
female


Sheikha Nasser Mahdi Ahmad Bouh
3
female


Maha Mohammed Saleh Mohammed
12
male


Soumaya Mohammed Saleh Mohammed
9
female


Shafika Mohammed Saleh Mohammed
4
female


Shafiq Mohammed Saleh Mohammed
2
male


Mabrook Mouqbal Al Qadari
13
male


Daolah Nasser 10 years
10
female


AbedalGhani Mohammed Mabkhout
12
male


Abdel- Rahman Anwar al Awlaki
16
male


Abdel-Rahman al-Awlaki
17
male


Nasser Salim
19
male

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