Former Drone Pilots Denounce 'Morally Outrageous' Program !

Interesting how those operating the Drones and killing hundreds if not thousands of innocent Muslims seem to speak out against their Drones and killing the innocents, and leaving their Jobs! Whereas all the so-called Muslim Leaders and famous Scholars of today very proudly continue to support the killings!

INNA LILLAYI WA INNA ILAYHI RAJI'OON!!! 

Former Air Force airmen are speaking out against America's use of drone warfare, calling the military drone program "morally outrageous" and "one of the most devastating driving forces for terrorism and destabilization around the world." 

In interviews with NBC News, three former servicemen — who together have 15 years of military drone experience — decried the civilian cost of drone strikes and called on President Obama to "turn this around" before he leaves office. 

"We were very callous about any real collateral damage," said Michael Haas, 29, who worked as both a drone operator and instructor. "Whenever that possibility came up, most of the time it was a 'guilt by association' or sometimes we didn't even consider other people that were on screen." 

American drone strikes have increased exponentially under President Obama; in Pakistan alone, the current administration has launched 370 strikes compared to the Bush administration's 51, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which tracks the attacks. 

Add Somalia and Yemen (using New America Foundation data), and President Obama has launched 894 percent more drone strikes than did his predecessor.

Combined, drone strikes on Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen have killed 2,736 to 4,169 militants, according to the New America Foundation. 

 

Meanwhile, those strikes have also killed hundreds of civilians. Estimates range from 488 to 1,071, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. 

 

"We witnessed gross waste, mismanagement, abuses of power, and our country's leaders lying publicly about the effectiveness of the drone program," the four men wrote in their letter. 

 

Stephen Lewis, 29, who controlled the cameras on the drones that helped guide Hellfire missiles into their targets, said he "drank [himself] to sleep" every night after getting home from work. "It was the culture there," he said. "Everybody did something to take the edge off — to reform reality so you didn't have to think about what you did." 

 

Cian Westmoreland, 28, who worked on communications infrastructure out of bases in Germany and Afghanistan, said he had nightmares "about kids or mothers dying and me trying to help them, and I couldn't. 

 

"I would just feel helpless. And I knew it was partially my fault," he said. 

 

Lewis remembers why he left. "Immediately after I took my first life," he said, he told his superiors that "I didn't belong there — I didn't need to be there anymore. 

 

"People think it's a video game," he said. "But in a video game you have checkpoints, you have restart points."

With drones, "when you fire that missile, there's no restart." 

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