U.S. is slaughtering civilians at a staggering pace
According to polls most Americans are indifferent to the carnage that we inflict around the world.
Right now the target of that carnage is Raqqa.
At least 100 civilians have been killed over the past 48 hours by US-led air attacks targeting fighters in Raqqa, the de-facto capital of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) in Syria.
Residents told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that at least 100 civilians had been killed since Sunday, with 55 civilians killed in the eastern neighbourhoods of Bedou and al-Sukhani on Monday.
Meanwhile, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) put Monday's death toll at 42, including 19 children and 12 women, and said 27 were killed on Sunday - a two-day total of 69 people.
The last two days are just the peak of what was already a really bad week.
On Aug 20, 40 civilians were killed in US-led coalition airstrikes on #ISIS held #Raqqa /On Aug 21, 32 were killedhttps://t.co/WZ4HVkhqCt
— SaadAbedine (@SaadAbedine) August 22, 2017
More than 170 civilians have been killed by U.S.-led strikes on Islamic State in Raqqa city in the past week, a spike in casualties since an offensive to oust the militants began more than two months ago, a war monitor and sources said.
Things were bad enough under Obama, but then Trump loosened the rules further.
We killed so many civilians in the recent the Battle of Mosul, that some are talking about war crimes.
Our minimum estimate of civilians likely killed by Coalition since 2014 is now 5,117 - with 55% of deaths occuring under Trump's leadership pic.twitter.com/H8S5Ihwuzb
— Airwars (@airwars) August 22, 2017
Yet Americans will still wonder "why they hate us?" It must be because of our freedom. Yeh, that's the ticket.
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As long as there are no flag draped coffins coming home
very few care unless they can score political points.
Right. Congressman Ted Thieu, a vet, has
worked on this . Rand Paul? Not many though.
From last year: http://www.salon.com/2016/03/17/look_like_war_crimes_to_me_congressman_r...
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Most don't even care about the flag draped coffins
If the beer stopped, now that would be perceived as a catastrophe.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
About
the only thing America is good at anymore.
Dear Dems: You lost the WH, Senate, House, dozens of governors, state level SOS and AG and about 1,000 state legislative seats. Maybe...you're doing something wrong.
That's not true
We are also good at locking up people for very long periods of time for petty crimes.
When it comes to inflicting suffering on poor people, we excel.
Good to see war crimes charges are being discussed.
Add to the killing of civilians through indiscriminate bombing the policy of assasination.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Call me cynical...
Look back at the 'Collateral Murder' video. You clearly hear the war crime perpetrators justify the slaughter of the helpful, unarmed citizen with the van containing children, paraphrased, "Well, shouldn't have kids in a war zone."
Then, that 'scumbag' Manning was charged and convicted of a crime, rather than the ruthless killers and international criminals (by definition of violating international law).
In a deft move, while the government's hated villain was behind bars, the murderous State shows its 'benevolence,' by allowing a gender change operation, in accordance with the all-important and superseding priority of identity politics; "See? We cater to this very important and vital matter of gender identity!"
Never mind the actual, horrific crimes, whereby the whistleblower was criminally charged, in lieu of the truly dastard criminals of that episode. This now allows all to be forgiven/forgotten because the State got the 'important' element 'correct' by allowing Manning the crucial gender change while rotting in prison for exposing a crime. Thus, the prevailing attitude of our State, and through indirection and fleeting attention of the populace, can persist..."stupid people having kids in a war zone...it's their own fault." Of course, never mind those people live there and didn't really have a choice that the U.S. arbitrarily decided to plop down in their far-away city and make it a war zone, through no choice/fault of the residents.
@ChezJfrey How about the clip in
Sickening!
I want a Pony!
I suppose if the kids killed
I suppose if the kids killed aren't 'beautiful' babies, they just don't matter...
Life is not a 'Virtual Reality' video game and neither should be death regarded as a casual score. Anyone capable of regarding this sort of routine massacre of civilians as 'collateral damage' to be disregarded and continued in the attacks on/invasion of other people's countries for the theft of their resources should be kept isolated, where they pose no hazard to others. Glad that I left reading this until after eating, but wish I'd digested longer, too...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.