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Gosztola in Firedoglake ..

Daniel Klaidman is the author of a new book, Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency, and in a video recently posted to the Daily Beast website, Klaidman evangelizes the utility and innovation of drone warfare while at the same time dismissing critics of Obama’s drone program. The video was highlighted by Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald yesterday. He called it “one of the most flagrant and repellent examples of rank government propaganda masquerading as objective journalism” that he had ever seen .. [Klaidman] shares an anecdote about a drone operator that waited until a “suspected militant” was done playing with his children. When the children ran off, he fired a missile that killed this father. Just who this target was is not stated. As a cross-hair hovers over a father and his children before the drone operator pulls the trigger, viewers are to trust Klaidman that this “militant” was, in fact, someone who posed an “imminent threat” to the US and needed to be taken out

go watch the video.. its really disgusting – mab .. read more