By Kenneth J. Theisen
As I write this, various news reports coming out of Pakistan claim that up to 80 people at a Pakistani funeral were killed after missiles were fired from a U.S. drone. According to Pakistani intelligence officials and witnesses the attack occurred in the village of Najmarai in the Makeen district of South Waziristan on Tuesday.
"Three missiles were fired by drones as people were dispersing after offering funeral prayers for Niaz Wali," a Pakistani intelligence official told the Reuters news agency. The funeral was being conducted for six victims of an earlier Tuesday drone attack.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of War claimed, “There are no US military strike operations being conducted in Pakistan." But since the beginning of the year there have been more than a score of these non-existent U.S. drone attacks launched within Pakistan. The drone attacks were begun under the Bush regime and the attacks have been increased by the Obama administration.
While more innocents were being murdered in Pakistan on Tuesday, in Washington President Obama was holding a press conference where he was hypocritically condemning the Iranian regime of using violence against civilians.
According to an Associated Press account of the news conference, Obama said the world was "appalled and outraged" at Tehran’s use of violence. Obama stated, “…we deplore violence against innocent civilians anywhere that it takes place."
Somehow as U.S. forces under the command of Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama kill innocent civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other places, I find it very hard to give the hypocrite-in-chief any credibility when he utters such lies. But I guess Obama means the killing of civilians is okay if it occurs under his authority.