Brett Wilkins – Anti-War.com Feb 8, 2020
Somewhere in the U.S., a drone pilot remotely guides an armed UAV to its designated target. Click to enlarge
A former Air Force drone operator-turned-whistleblower is once again speaking out against the atrocities he committed while serving in a military he describes as “worse than the Nazis.”
Brandon Bryant was a sensor operator of USAF unmanned aerial drones from 2006 to 2011. His job was targeted killing – remotely firing missiles at targets 7,000 miles (11,000 km) away from an air-conditioned command center near Las Vegas, Nevada. During his Air Force tenure, Bryant says his squadron engaged 1,626 targets, including women and children. He estimates that he is personally responsible for the deaths of 13 people.
Victims of U.S. drone strike in Yemen. Click to enlarge
Bryant told Britain’s Independent that he reached his breaking point after accidentally killing a child in Afghanistan. He had just fired a Hellfire missile at a building containing an enemy target when he saw a child leave the building. Bryant reported the incident to his superiors. “It was a fucking dog,” he was told. “Drop it.” But he couldn’t drop it. “When the missile struck, I knew in my soul I had become a murderer,” he said.
Earlier, after his first kill, other airmen in his squadron congratulated Bryant on “popping his cherry.” He told Roots Action Network in 2017 that drone operators were told their job was “killing people and breaking things.” This “went against everything that I had ever learned about honor and justice and training,” he said. Bryant said his superiors punished and mocked him to keep him in line. He called the US military “worse than the Nazis” because “we should know better.”
After the strike that killed the Afghan child, Bryant decided to quit the military and start speaking out against drone warfare. Becoming a whistleblower has had dire consequences. Bryant says he has lost family and friends, and that he and his family have been threatened. However, he is driven by a desire to educate Americans about the dehumanizing effect of drones on both their operators and their victims. “I would want people to know, beyond its existence, the consequences it has on us as a species to delineate our power into something so easily destructive,” he said. “Every time we get closer to that edge, we’re going to have to realize where it places us.”
Bryant faces an uphill battle. Like the Bush and Obama administrations before him, President Donald Trump has embraced drone warfare, most infamously illustrated by the recent assassination of Iranian military commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Recent US drone strikes have also sparked outrage for killing civilians. In the deadliest of these, an unconfirmed number of Afghans – reportedly more than 60 – were killed along with the regional leader of a splinter Taliban faction in Herat province last month. Last September, a drone strike meant to destroy an Islamic State hideout instead killed around 30 Afghan pine nut farmers in eastern Nagarhar province.
According to the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism, there have been at least 6,786 US drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia alone since 2004, resulting in as many as 1,725 civilian deaths. While it is impossible to say exactly how many civilians have been killed in the wider post-9/11 US-led global war on terror, credible death toll estimates range from conservative figures of around half a million to possibly more than 2 million.
Looking at that image of those little children lying dead on the ground, all I can say is, “Jesus Christ, God help us all! Free humankind from these evil monsters and their atrocities!”
What a cowardly way to wage war!
We need more whistleblowers like this guy. Well done to him, one brave fellow.
So President Trump has joined the selected club of War criminals . And then the US politicians are surprised by the hatred against the US government .
With the end of WW2 , one criminal group was defeated by a worse one as demonstrated by the long lists of war started by the USA since 1945.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
Pack of kids with the destiny of millions controlled by ‘orders’, a keyboard, and a couple of gaming joysticks. The headrest on the chair – to cushion the blast shock or just for comfort?
Bryant should be given a Purple Heart and a Medal of Honor for his courage and self sacrifice. He is a true hero.
Yes, kudos at least to him for saying what he has and leaving the military.
But you are the new Nazis : its just that the sheeple in your country have not woken up to that fact yet, … though the rest of the world are starting to, .. and like the Nazis you will be destroyed very soon. and very poetically, along with your masters, on the stole strip.
The jews destroyed the “nazis” because those honorable and brave Germans tried to do everything in their power to stop the jewish conquest for world hegemony and communism.
Thanks to this war, World War II, a war that neither Hitler or the WHITE German people ever wanted, and though they tried valiantly to avoid it, the total population of Europe was reduced by 150 million, from 542 million in 1940 to 392 million in 1950. The war caused the slaughter of over 100 million White Europeans by other White Europeans. Certainly, we Americans, and the ALL-LIES, Americans & Brits, allied with the communist butcher of millions of his own people, convinced those Germans to be like us, to kneel and bow in the presence of the “chosen”.
After all, think about itl The unmitigated gall of those Germans, to want Germany for Germans, racial pride, self determination, and the ability to rule themselves free from jewish domination. How dare they free themselves from Communism, drugs, poverty, usury, high crime, race-mixing and the catastrophic problems jews bring to any society they settle in — the pornography, faggotry, pedophilia, transgenderism, unlimited immigration, alcoholism, crime, child abuse, obesity, autism, venereal diseases, and everything else we Americans are accustomed to today are thanks to our jew masters and manipulators, who control every institution critical to America’s existence.
But, don’t be alarmed. Today, not only Germany, but in fact, all of Europe, Canada, and Australia, virtually all White homelands, and only White homelands, by the way, are in the same boat with America … up schitz creek without a paddle — because of the jews.
The Nazis merrily gathered the traitor khazarians to work camps/concentrated with traitors who were controlling the economy in Germany and only stealing everything for their tribe.
Sure there was a war to regain it back.
The true murderers are the kazarians…have you read the revised history of all the wars…please read it. Churchill was a traitor to his people, a drunk and gambler…the rothchild gang are laughing at the rest of us.
usa is now controlled by the same tribe of khazarians…khazarians mafia at work all over the world…there will never be peace until these khazarians are tried and thrown in prison or hung to dry.