US warplanes pounding Syria killed 10 more civilians over the past few days, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Seven were killed Friday when the planes attacked a gas processing plant in Deir Ezzor Province, causing an explosion in a small town. Three more were killed in a strike further north.
Pentagon officials shrugged off the reports, insisting there was no proof their planes actually killed the people, and insisting that there is a “process” in place to investigate such killings.
US warplanes had killed other civilians late last month in Syria when destroying a series of grain silos they reportedly thought was a “militant base,” and destroyed all the food for several villages in the process.
Despite the Pentagon continuing to insist care is taken not to kill civilians, the administration made a point of formally relaxing the standards of killing civilians inside ISIS-held territory, insisting pledges not to attack places where civilians are known to be don’t apply in the new war.
US people may be happy having no troops on the ground. This would rise the number of military death, but … the own staff by "friendly fire".
"friendly fire" is actually a nice well designed definition – much friendlier than being ripped in pieces and burned to death. At least in such things the US Army shows professionalism.
Root CAUSE
America, it being Empire USA, has been in a state of war ever since white Europeans did a genocide on the native Americans to steal all the land, ever since white Europeans made chain slavery of Africans perfectly legal by creating a fake morality called the US Constitution.
For the educated and white upper half of society hoards all the wealth, the uneducated and non-white lower half is kept enslaved by poverty and if your not born into an educated and white family, then from birth to death you must endure impoverished slavery in a matriarch ruled police state.
Of course it wasn't the planes. What with the general caution represented by launching flying high explosives from above at high speed ('don't try this at home') and all. Obviously, bin Laden strangled the civilians.
I don't suppose anyone constituting this 'procedure' they mention ever recuses himself? Didn't they used to prefer 'drop weapons'? That's the position I'd promote the latter people to, anyway, if I were evil.
If they'd not dropped the bombs, they could have waited for DAIS to kill even more civilians. At least with suicide bombers you can guarantee to kill civilians as you can see the little children before you press the button.
Thank goodness they were just killed as opposed to being beheaded. This proves the the US is the good guys and the brown people are the bad guys.
The US military should be confronting the skumbags that have infiltrated and terrorized Syria since 2011. Instead they are helping them. Talk about the Empire of Lies!