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"I'm So Ashamed" - Meet The Drone Operator Who Helped Kill 1,626 People And Walked Away
The face of America's unauthorized offshore wars has changed over the years, and these days it can most often be found watching the infrared screen of a terminal in some heavily-guarded air force base on US soil, operating heavily-armed, remote-controlled drones thousands of miles away, tasked with executing a lethal mission which usually involves one or more "collateral" casualties.
For almost five years, Brandon Bryant was one of those faces, and worked in America's secret drone program bombing targets in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
He was told that he helped to kill 1,626 people, but as time went by he felt uneasy with what he was doing. He found it hard to sleep and started dreaming in infra-red.
What made him stop? "The actual breaking point happened when we were hunting an American citizen, and they were saying he was maybe the next bin Laden. This was an American citizen - these were the people that I swore to protect. I believe that at that moment we were doing the wrong thing and that was when I decided to turn my back and walk away."
There were countless others who were happy to fill his vacant position.
Below is Brandon Bryant full interview with BBC's Witness program about his doubts and the mission that convinced him it was time to stop.
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For women and children, just don't lead them so much.
Brandon is a government trained and sanctioned sociopath.
i'm amazed at the general tenor of the threads here. This guy is the 21st century PFC. He is a foot soldier and and not a decision maker. Besides the way he killed and the number - how is he different from any grunt who may have shot a couple of 'enemy combatants' over there. This guy is a nobody and not worth the time to discuss. Let's focus on the real bad guys - those who are employing guys like this and the other rifle toting guys to engage in the first place. Focus on this guy? - really? - why not focus on the other millions of sheeple who enable this shit to happen. Let tat boy go back to Some other non lethal online game and let's get on with holding his masters to account.
Exactly correct, this guy is a grunt, property of the US military, no more or less. Focusing on this guy detracts attention from those who deserve it, various elected officials, the military industrial complex, etc. Giving this soldier orders to kill innocents halfway around the world, why? Who are the *real* terrorists in this picture?
He just confessed to murder.
The ones that run are al quaeda.
The ones that stand still are well-disciplined al quaeda.
So he was fine helping kill all those people but once he was told an American was being targeted then look out! That was going too far. Gotcha.
So if he was told they were oging to drone a Ted Bundy type guy he'd refuse because he was American but all those "ragheads" (I'm sure that was how he viewed them) are fair game.
Fuck this piece of shit and the rest like him.
Suddenly Abe forgets how to write checks?
https://ia801509.us.archive.org/29/items/mok_g/msg.mp4
We need more people who're unwilling to be tyrants.
This man, Snowden, Manning and the Original NSA survielance leakers are all examples of what we need.
People who're willing to go to jailed or be killed to reveal the truth about what tyrants are doing in secret.
Truth is treason is an empire of lies.
After murdering 1,626 innocent people Brandon feels ashamed. What a noble soul.
In the old days we fire bomb whole cities - like Dressdon. Now it is impossible to win a war because you must be politically correct.
We need to dronify attack craft, like the A-10, so as to make strafing by drone a more personable experience.
War is a racket
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The world is a better place when we all leave each other the fuck alone.
Yep, murder droning...you'd think a democracy would have had a discussion about that before starting up the first remote hellfire machine.
Quitter
lots of OPINION POSTS.... Clintoon didn't kill bin laden once because an emrate peince was wit him. 28 pages covering up the saudi royal family funding of al queda and bathhouse bendover idiot drops the india visit and runs to his MASTER....ah barak so nice of you to come...now bendover.....
if shit for brains didn't pull the troops out and give the victory away there wouldn't be an isis... if shit for brains didn't support and fund al queda in lybia there woudl not be total chaos there. if shit for brains didn't overthrow mubarak the muslim brotherhood woudl nto have rigged the election which was overturned.... al sisi came ut strongly against the paris murders.... and shit for brains ignores him and cuts off aid that he gave to the muslim brotherhood.
shit for brains doesn't really want to fight the jihadis and hence the drone program... obama has lots of blood on his hands but he could care less. he is funding the enemy, releasing the enemy and totally supporting the enemy and will give iran nukes which they will use simultaneously agains the USA and israel....
i'd like to see a general sherman type run the show in iraq and syria against isis and clean that up in about 2 weeks.... libtards are simply trying to stop the drones... fuck em... the ONLY WAY to stop islamic terrorist jihad is to kill them until they quit and if they dont well tough shit... shit for brains could have stopped isis from the get go, but instead funded and trained them.. what you see going on today is what you get when a fucking idiot is running the show surrounded by weak, stupid YES MEN... gates, dempsey, brennan are morons... brennan is a former desk jockey who like gates is ruining everything they touch... incompetent idiots... who follow shit for brains and turn everything they touch to shit..... they are pure POLITICAL SCUM...