Mon May 7, 2012 2:15PM GMT
“These drone strikes create more terrorists. So, the war will keep going on and the question is who profits? And the answer to that is… the officers, the senior generals, arms makers, and arms dealers,” he said in an interview with Press TV’s US Desk on Sunday.
“The arms dealers will give heavy contributions to both political parties and the people in Congress who remained in office,” McGovern added.
The analyst also criticized the former administration of George W. Bush and incumbent Barack Obama for disregarding international law over the attacks.
“The US regime behavior towards international law is a very difficult issue to address,” he said.
McGovern said the attacks are carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency to avoid clear violation of international law.
“The US drones in Pakistan run by the CIA, why is the CIA running those drone strikes, not the Air Force? It’s very simple,” he said.
“If the Air Force did it, it would be a clear violation of international law since we are not at war with Pakistan,” the analyst added.
The aerial attacks, initiated by former US President George W. Bush, have escalated under incumbent Obama.
The US regularly uses the unmanned aircraft for attacks and spying missions in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Yemen.
Washington claims that the unmanned aircraft target militants and their strongholds, but victims of such attacks have been predominantly civilians.
In an interview with Press TV, Pakistani human rights lawyer Shahzad Akbar said over 2,800 of the 3,000 people killed over the past seven years in non-UN-sanctioned US assassination drone strikes in Pakistan were civilians.
The director of the Foundation for Fundamental Rights said only 170 of the people killed in the aerial attacks on the northwestern tribal belt of Pakistan have been identified as militants.
That means that “over 2,800 people were civilians, whose identities are not known, and they have just been killed on suspicion of being militants,” Akbar said.
The killing of Pakistani civilians, including women and children, in the US drone strikes have strained relations between the two allies, prompting Pakistani officials to send warnings to the US administration over the assaults.
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Jean, I agree with you on that thought….I once had a spiritual teacher who said to me , “You are not here to achieve, you are here to be LOVE….”…..and at that moment I felt a sigh of relief like the weight of the world had just been lifted off of my shoulders!
This is the single biggest reason we need to get Ron Paul elected….Romney will be as big or bigger(hard to imagine)…drone bombing war monger than is Obama the Barbarian…………the USA is hated the world over for this casual killing of thousands and thousands of innocent people…just for profits………it’s so criminal…………..so evil………………..if you love America you need to help get rid of teh crime syndicate that is running our government………….PEACE
You know, I just have to say this, because it’s what I believe. It’s all right if you don’t believe it, but I want to say it: This election is not going to happen the way you think. Everything on this planet is going to be turned around. It will be far, far better than you imagine!
You won’t need to work so hard at it. Perhaps you will come to understand accomplishing something by NOT DOING. That is another, very valid way, and it is the way of the Tao. It seems to me you are locked into 3D thinking, because it’s rather obvious that you don’t understand the Tao – and don’t have much interest in it either. Your vibrations are not pleasant, and that doesn’t bode well. You won’t stop and listen. You just go ahead with your own ideas.
So be it.
Those vibrations make me feel like I don’t want to visit my blog.
Hugs,
~Jean