 So far every preliminary report that I've seen about drones has always pointed to the same Conclusion that the US's use of drones in countries like Pakistan Yemen Somalia Afghanistan Iraq It's been catastrophic. We're not hitting enemy combatants We are hitting civilians sometimes most of the time And it's really difficult to quantify these civilian casualties here But one organization tried and even if they don't necessarily have a precise number They confirm what we all kind of expected that the results here of our drone use in these countries Which is illegal under international law by the way has absolutely been devastating thousands and thousands and thousands of innocent civilians Have died because of US drones since 9-11. So from one of this we go to Kenny Stancil to come and dream Explains air strikes conducted by the United States have killed between 22,000 and 48,000 civilians since September 11th 2001 according to a report published Monday by Air Wars a military watchdog that monitors and seeks to reduce civilian harm in violent Conflict zones the new analysis released ahead of the 20th anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks and the retaliatory launch of the So-called war on terror came just days after a US drone strike killed at least 10 members of a single family in Kabul amid the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan most media accounts point out that more than 7,000 US service members have died in post 9-11 wars But only some go on to state the massive civilian death toll and almost exclusively in generalities researchers lamented while Brown University's Cost-of-war project estimates that over 387,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the war on terror Air Wars sought to answer a specific question How many civilians have likely been killed by US air strikes in the last 20 years? The answer Air Wars found is at least 22,679 and potentially as many as 48,308 Civilians acknowledging the imprecision of their estimate the group noted that the gap between those two figures reflects the many Unknowns when it comes to civilian harm in war the Pentagon has declared a minimum of 91,340 air strikes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen Seven countries the United States military invaded or assaulted with bombs or drones in the past 20 years Notable peaks occurred during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and between 2015 and 2017 The height of the military offensive against ISIS in Iraq Syria and Libya given the dubious nature of data supplied by the US military Which notoriously undercount civilian fatalities air wars gathered together every reliable assessment of direct civilian Horm caused by US actions to construct a data set that includes information from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Iraq body count the nation the United Nations Assistance mission in Afghanistan and their own previous studies. Yeah, there's a lot to Taken after after hearing this none of this is surprising to me But to just get like a sense of the scale of the destruction that our drones have caused Not necessarily shocking at all, but still really difficult to digest It's it's nauseating hearing this number even if we interpret this as charitably as we possibly can and we assume It's the lower estimate 22,000 lives lost due to our drone civilians not enemy combatants, but civilians who are innocent that is truly It's it's gut wrenching to think about 22,000 families Know somebody who died because of our drones So if you multiply that by like four assuming each person who was killed knew at least four people like a hundred thousand people Have this story. Yeah, you know the United States government one of their drones killed someone I know my uncle my auntie and Do they not think that this is radicalizing people further? By the way, these drone strikes are illegal and I said that at the beginning of this video But I really think it's worth saying that again. These violate the territorial integrity and sovereignty of these countries Courts in Pakistan Have basically demanded that the US leave but the United States government hasn't complied and Pakistan is an ally but yet we're technically invading them and in their backyard We are terrorizing citizens. It's just honestly shocking that this Has been going on for so long and there's not that much outrage among the American public I know that there's like war fatigue and we're all exhausted from it But you you can't tune out when it comes to things like this if some other country like Mexico or Canada Was doing drone strikes in our backyard if they're flying over Oregon or Texas or Louisiana We would never allow that to happen We would never allow that to happen But we do it in other countries because we assume that these lives are less meaningful than ours They have less value than ours, but these are human beings They might dress differently and speak a different language than you they might have a different culture than us They might have a different skin color than you these are human beings like every single one of us They have aspirations. They love their family and they don't deserve this So, you know, there should be justice, but the sad part about this story is there never will be justice There's not going to be anyone held accountable not a single us official involved here is going to see a day in prison The biggest war criminals in the history of our country They get away scot-free. We're not a signatory to the international criminal court There's nobody who's going to hold us accountable because we're the most powerful country In the world so we can do things like this get away with it and do it again because leaders know There's there's nothing that anyone can do to stop them now Some of the statistics that i'm about to say here were already Touched on but i just want to go over this again as we look at some additional charge provided by airwars because these are truly stunning So, uh 2003 was the deadliest year for the war on terror. This was mentioned But this number of 5,500 civilians killed in 2003. That is truly insane. That's one year Now the second deadliest year was in 2017 with nearly 5,000 civilian deaths mostly by coalition bombings in iraq and syria Also, they state that 97 percent of all civilian deaths took place in iraq afghanistan And syria So i do want to play a video released by airwars where they kind of summarize their findings But rather than just like throwing a bunch of numbers and and data at you they also Provide you with some human faces here to remind you that this isn't just like a report about numbers We're talking about real lives here real pain real suffering Yeah, so massive credit to airwars here for trying to quantify what is seemingly impossible to quantify. I think they did Uh the best that they could and what they found out here is truly gut wrenching but not necessarily surprising um So yeah, there's there's no rosy takeaway. You know, we're out of afghanistan now, but again, there's going to be no accountability You know the worst offenders here are bush obama and trump Seems like joe biden according to multiple reports have skit has skilled down drones, but i mean 10 people killed in afghanistan by a us drone under joe biden's watch So, you know, if i had my way Every single u.s president would immediately go from serving to a full-on trial for crimes against humanity Because they're all involved here the blood is on every single one of their hands Ever since the war on terror began. So it's just i mean i'm exhausted talking about this because i don't know what to say You know, there's there's nothing that i can say That makes the situation better. It's just Disgusting and the best thing that we can do as individuals Who you know has a government that's gone rogue that doesn't listen to us, you know That has a military that's controlled by private industry essentially You know, the best that we can do is share this information and make americans aware about it So they know about the war crimes that we're committing because make no mistake about it. These are war crimes