So from what I can ascertain, your statement of “90%” is based on a 5 month period sometime in 2012.
Also, it’s worth noting that the 90% figure is not referencing civilians, but persons who were “not the intended target”. This will be a mixture of (very tragically) some civilians and other unnamed combatants (since most drone strikes are targeted at individuals or small groups of individuals)
NB (since doubtless this will be your next line) I am not defending the US drone program in general. But it has enough problems and negatives without Trumpian rhetoric to make it sound even worse.
January 2012 and February 2013, U.S. special operations airstrikes killed more than 200 people. Of those, only 35 were the intended targets. During one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets. In Yemen and Somalia, where the U.S. has far more limited intelligence capabilities to confirm the people killed are the intended targets, the equivalent ratios may well be much worse.
“Anyone caught in the vicinity is guilty by association,” the source said. When “a drone strike kills more than one person, there is no guarantee that those persons deserved their fate. … So it’s a phenomenal gamble.” -article
Now it says in a 5 month period of that operation it’s 90% but over the whole year it says 35 out of 200 there was intended targets. That’s 85% give it take over a full year and a month. And that’s just what’s leaked. It could be much worse that 80 or 90.
Now the people who got wiped out in these illegal wars babies kids and women etc Are you going full right wing and pretend the most of them are bad guys?
How can you have this splitting hair defence on war crimes?
Trying to argue that it could possibly be 80, 70, 60 percent. How is that worth debating?
And it’s not just a dem attack trump is much worse and yes he must be stopped.