What should be shocking for everyone in the world is the homicidal official policy calmly expressed on 60 Minutes by a air-strike controller: "If you're gonna kill up to 29 people in a strike ... that's not a problem." before January 20th, how many more Afghani, Iraqi, Somali Pakistani and now Syrian children will die in cowardly U.S. air-strikes to kill 'insurgent' leaders who will be replaced by more fervent U.S. enemies.

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What should be shocking for everyone in the world is the homicidal official policy calmly expressed on 60 Minutes by a air-strike controller:

"If you're gonna kill up to 29 people in a strike ... that's not a problem."

Back in March, Rep. John Conyers, House Judiciary Committee Chairman, said he will pursue legal action against Bush after the November elections. Earlier, on UTube, January 29th, Conyers told interviewer Rob Kall, "Its not off the table."

Since November 5th on we have been hoping to see Congressmen Dennis Kucinich and Robert Wexler re-vamp up their efforts to impeach Bush and Cheney.

Now that Barak Obama is safely through the elections, those who still say no to impeachment have the continuing daily air-strike murder of Afghani innocents on their conscience. They no longer have the political expediency excuse of getting Obama elected first - before stopping the murders. Impeach for war crimes now to stop the slaughter of children.

In spite of the fact that no Afghanis were among the 9/11 Saudi Arabian suicide attackers, the butchery from the air has gone on and on mercilessly. If fact, for years, one only rarely hears mention of al Qaeda, rather, we hear mostly of U.S. war with the Taliban, the former government of Afghanistan, with which our Afghan government wishes to negotiate peace and offer an all-around thirty-five year back amnesty for fighters of all sides to get all foreign forces out of Afghanistan.

A proper exhortation:
President-elect Obama! Tell Bush to Stop Deadly Air Strikes Murdering Children!

During the Aug 31, 2008, CBS 60 Minutes show about bombing civilians In Afghanistan, a head of operations in a computer screened control room directing air attacks in both Afghanistan and Iraq uses incoming coordinates explains that his command center has clearance to sacrifice up to thirty civilians in a strike targeting insurgents, or a single insurgent leader - if more than thirty is under consideration, the President's or Vice- President's go ahead is required!

Bombing Afghanistan:

“"There's this macabre kind of calculus that the military goes through on every air strike, where they try to figure out how many dead civilians is dead bad guy worth,’ says Marc Garlasco, who knows the calculus of civilian casualties as well as anyone.

At the Pentagon, Garlasco was chief of high value targeting at the start of the Iraq war. He told 60 Minutes how many civilians he was allowed to kill around each high-value target -- targets like Saddam Hussein and his leadership.

"Our number was 30. So, for example, Saddam Hussein. If you're gonna kill up to 29 people in a strike against Saddam Hussein, that's not a problem," Garlasco explains. "But once you hit that number 30, we actually had to go to either President Bush, or Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld."

Garlasco says, before the invasion of Iraq, he recommended 50 air strikes aimed at high-value targets -- Iraqi officials.

But he says none of the targets on the list were actually killed. Instead, he says, "a couple of hundred civilians at least" were killed."

Neither were any 9/11 attackers from Iraq, Somalia nor Pakistan, yet their children, as well as Afghani children, have paid with their lives as 'insurgencies' fight a violent U.S. foreign policy of occupations within their countries

Meanwhile, Afghan President Hamid Karzai tries to explain to his people why they’re being killed by his allies.

"Asked if he is asking the American government to roll back the air strikes, Karzai says, "Absolutely. Oh, yes, in clear words."

Afghan Official: Coalition strike kills civilians
The Associated Press - "Karzai on Wednesday called on US President-elect Barack Obama to ensure that Afghan civilians are not killed in operations by US forces, following a bombing ..."

U.S. Strike Said to Kill Afghan Civilians by Reuters, New York Times, Nov. 5, 20008. "Scores of civilians have been killed in U.S. air strikes this year leading to seething resentment against the presence of foreign troops and a rift between Karzai and his Western backers."

Karzai referred to the incident in the Shah Wali Kot district in the southern Taliban heartland of Kandahar province.

"By bombing Afghanistan, the war against terrorism cannot be won,"

Karzai did not give any more details but several villagers who had taken a group of wounded to the hospital in Kandahar city said more than 90 people had been killed and dozens more wounded in the air strike on Monday, which they said hit a wedding party. Karzai told a news conference. "As we speak today, we had again civilian casualties ... In Shah Wali Kot of Kandahar we had civilian casualties," he said."

The U.S. military said it was checking reports.

said U.S. forces spokesman Commander Jeff Bender.

"If innocent people were killed in this operation, we apologize and express our condolences to the families and the people of Afghanistan," he said in a statement.

Karzai requested Obama make it his priority to end civilian casualties.

"The main problem which has become a matter of tension (with the United States) is civilian casualties," Karzai said. "Civilian casualties should completely stop. The war in the villages of Afghanistan will never give fruit."

Some 4,000 people, around a third of them civilians, have been killed this year in fighting with the Taliban, who have expanded the scope and scale of their insurgency trying to oust Karzai's Western-backed government and eject foreign forces.

Almost two years ago, the parliament of Afghanistan asked for negotiations with the Taliban, proposing a 35 year back amnesty for all fighters and calling for the removal of all foreign armed forces and an immediate cease to the civlian killing air-strikes.

It's not just the Iraqis that for years have wanted Americans to leave.

Ah but big brother U.S. conglomerate owned media makes sure that their audiences continue to 'understand' that the wars of occupation must continue - for ever changing false justifications.

As to the future, John Pilger said Nov. 6th, on Democracy Now:

“Well, it comes down to, I suppose, asking an Afghan child how they feel when their family has been destroyed by a 500-pound bunker-busting bomb dropped by the United States and dropped by President Obama, as he continues that war. I think that’s the reality that we really have to begin to discuss now, having celebrated, and rightly celebrated, the ascent of the first African American president of the United States."

Well, if we can trust Obama not to bomb children, how 'bout pressuring him to try to embarrass Bush out of continuing to bomb until January 20th?

And America does not need such war criminal leadership as Gen. Petraeus provides as exemplified in his statement:

"Certainly there does have to be a better explanation of the blows that have been struck in recent weeks and months," Petraeus told The Associated Press in an interview. "It is hugely important that three of 20 extremist leaders have been killed in recent months."

Those three dead 'extremist' leaders will easily be replaced by three even more fervent warriors encouraged to battle the U.S. extremists who, on Bush, Cheney and Petraeus orders are willing to bomb civilians in violation of even the Geneva Conventions of which the United States is a signer.

The 'insurgent' leaders will be replaced! The dead children's places can never be taken up by others for their grieving families, nor in our painful conscience.

Write, call Obama, Congress and media to encourage Obama act now. It is already too late for so many!

While Obama waits to take up his office, we must impeach the child murderer who Okays 'up to 30' innocents per strike. (The word swine comes to mind as the daily toll of children comes in off the wire services.)

During the nominating conventions, the international condemnations and denunciations of the U.S. for a UN verified toll of 60 children among a total of 90 dead civilians in one air strike in Afghanistan did not cause even a ripple of contrition in American media. It was good of Obama speak about this great shame of killing villagers, though still apparently feeling the need to position himself with Bush's war against the Taliban. Now, Barak is through as President-elect, and has at least spoke to a necessity of something more than just a military solution.

But before January 20th, how many more Afghani, Iraqi, Somali Pakistani and now Syrian children will die in cowardly U.S. air-strikes on 'insurgents' against the Bush foreign policies stemming from a 9/11 attack by Saudi Arabians?

Iraq? No need here to review the "Shock and Awe" pyrotechnically beautiful second U.S. destruction of the city of Baghdad from the air, the now infamous unbelievably brutal air attacks obliterating Fallujah along with so many of its inhabitants, or the general Nazi like use of air power in urban warfare in and on Iraq since April 2003.

In Pakistan, US air-strike kills at least 8, but misses target, October 23, 2008, Christian Science Monitor, "Frustration with such strikes is rising in Pakistan. On Thursday, the parliament called for making talks with militants the 'top priority.'"

BBC News, 9 January 2007, US Somali air strikes 'kill many'

"The heavily-armed AC-130 gunship can fly at night.
The US has carried out at least two air strikes in southern Somalia targeting Islamist fighters, who the US believes include members of an al-Qaeda cell"

May 05, 2008, DemocracyNow, Thousands of Somalis Protest Deadly US Air Strike

"Thursday’s air strike comes in the midst of a deepening humanitarian crisis in Somalia that the International Committee of the Red Cross described as “catastrophic.” Over one million people have been made internal refugees, and 3.5 million, or nearly half the country’s population, may need food aid by the end of the year."

Syria: U.S. Attack "Serious Aggression",
"Syria Says U.S. Helicopter Raid Killed 8, Including Children. Sukkariyeh, Syria, Oct. 27, 2008. Send this story via email E-Mail Story ..."


And as your writer posts this today is just another superpower air kill day for the U.S. pre-Obama administration of George W. Bush:

U.S. Missile Attack Kills at Least 10 in Pakistan, New York Times, Nov. 7, 2008.

"The deaths were the latest fatalities in a string of American missile attacks that have drawn increasingly irate protests from Pakistan."

Write and phone to bring about the impeachment of this criminally homicidal Commander-in-Chief as life-savingly quickly as possible dear fellow American brothers and sisters. It will help Obama as well as America and the world.

Authors Website: http://prosecuteuscrimesagainsthumanitynow.blogspot.com

Authors Bio:

Jay Janson is an archival research peoples historian activist, musician and writer; has lived and worked on all continents; articles on media published in China, Italy, UK, India, in Germany & Sweden Einartysken,and in the US by Dissident Voice; Global Research; Information Clearing House; Counter Currents; Minority Perspective, UK,and others; now resides in NYC; First effort was a series of articles on deadly cultural pollution endangering seven areas of life emanating from Western corporate owned commercial media published in Hong Kong's Window Magazine 1993; Howard Zinn lent his name to various projects of his; Weekly column, South China Morning Post, 1986-87; reviews for Ta Kung Bao; article China Daily, 1989. Is coordinator of the Howard Zinn co-founded King Condemned US Wars International Awareness Campaign, and website historian of the Ramsey Clark co-founded Prosecute US Crimes Against Humanity Now Campaign, which contains a history of US crimes in 19 nations. Dissident Voice supports this website with link at the end of each issue of its newsletter.