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PRESIDENT OBAMA (ON VIDEO):

And before any strike is taken,

there must be near-certainty

that no civilians

will be killed or injured.

The highest standard we can set.

Yes, the conflict with al-Qaeda,

like all armed conflict

invites tragedy.

But by narrowly

targeting our action

against those who

want to kill us

and not the people

they hide among,

we are choosing the

course of action

least likely to result in

the loss of innocent life.

DANIEL:
When the president

gets up in front of the nation

and says that they're doing

everything they can to ensure

that there is near-certainty

that there will be

no civilians killed, he

is saying that because he

can't say otherwise.

Because any time

an action is taken

to finish a target there

is a certain amount

of guesswork in that action.

Because it's only in the

aftermath of any kind

of ordnance being dropped

that you know just how

much actual damage was done.

And oftentimes we, the

intelligence community,

is reliance.

The joint Special Operations

Command, the CIA included,

is reliant on intelligence

coming afterwards

that confirms that who

they were targeting

was killed in that

strike. Or that they

weren't killed in that strike.

LISA:
We all know

people die in war.

We all know that.

If we don't, we're diluted.

The fact of the matter

is, is that these things,

these devices can go pretty much

unimpeded anywhere in the world

and blow crap up.

And there is no single governing

body about how they're used.

And that is something that

will promote war, not deter it.

The people that really

get the impact, aside

from the people at the

distant end who are getting

hit by these weapons, are

all these new recruits

that are coming in.

And you know, the people

that are being affected

are America's children.

People die, things

get destroyed,

and people who are aged

18 to 24 sit and watch it.

How can anyone not

find that disturbing?

HEATHER:
Hearing politicians

speak about drones,

being precision weapons, being

able to make surgical strikes,

to me it's completely

ridiculous.

It's completely ludicrous to

even make those statements.

It's as flawed as it can

be with people operating

it from across the world.

It they really think they can

send a bomb through a window

of a compound and

hit one militant,

then why are we seeing

so many civilians

dying of collateral damage?

I'd like to ask

those politicians,

have they not been

notified of that?

Do they not know what's

going on in their own war

that they're controlling?

REPORTER (ON VIDEO):

A former US drone

operator and analyst has slammed

American and British militaries

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