Reports coming out of Syria suggest that a recent US airstrike against the town of al-Bab, an ISIS-held town near the Turkish border, killed a large number of innocent civilians, with estimates floating around 50.
The strike happened two weeks ago, and the US warplanes leveled a building ISIS was using as a makeshift prison, burying scores of detainees within. Bodies were still being recovered days later.
Centcom initially didn’t report the airstrike at all, but finally confirmed it this weekend, dubbing the jail an “ISIS headquarters” and saying they didn’t see any of the evidence of civilian deaths.
Centcom had previously conceded they were investigating a handful of the reports of civilian deaths in the air war against ISIS, but hadn’t confirmed any of them. Given they were talking about only a handful of casualties, this was clearly not among the incidents being investigated at the time.
I am Al Bab! Now where's the march? The armlinked politicians?
Yeah it was ISIS headquarters and Hiroshima was a military base. We know.
And the world mourns another senseless act of terror!
Sounds like the USG has given up on the strategy of "winning hearts and minds" altogether. Now it's just "bomb them back to the Stone Age" regardless of who they bomb. Seems like they've also given up trying to maintain the illusion of decency here at home. They no longer seriously attempt to defend their brazen and despicable barbarity – and the majority of Americans don't bother to question them nor do they demand an accounting. The majority of the American people are silent.
Amazing… the peaceful and liberal, human rights loving Administration of phonies, liars and hypocrites.
Made possible because Obama has the backing of the "smart and enlightened, sophisticated, tolerant and forward thinking" people in the US, whereas Bush had nothing but religious nuts and Zionist fruitcakes supporting his imperial wargasms, so it was bad for the progressive human rights crew.
Turns out there isn't much difference between the 2 groups when you look at the results, eh?
The media will ignore this one, because the Muslim haters don't value these innocent lives lost.
Special report: America's perpetual state of emergency October 23, 2014
The United States is in a perpetual state of national emergency. Thirty separate emergencies, in fact. An emergency declared by President Jimmy Carter on the 10th day of the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979 remains in effect almost 35 years later. A post-9/11 state of national emergency declared by President George W. Bush — and renewed six times by President Obama — forms the legal basis for much of the war on terror.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/…