Reports of civilian deaths in US airstrikes against ISIS started pretty much the same day the strikes did, and over a year into the war, the US is accused of killing hundreds of civilians over the course of 71 different incidents.
Monitoring groups have upheld these allegations, but US Central Command is not only continuing its blanket denials, in most cases they say they aren’t even bothering to investigate the claims because they assume them to not be “credible” in the first place.
All told, Centcom has copped to two civilians deaths in a single incident, and published the results of an investigation into only that one incident. They claim to have investigated 10 of the 71, but some are “ongoing” and others wrapped up without any published report.
Centcom insists, perhaps fairly, that they can’t exactly interview witnesses in these strikes, but then goes on to assume that all of the allegations are lies, while bragging about their war being their “most precise ever” on the grounds that they’ve only conceded a couple of civilian deaths.
This is just adding to the questions about Centcom’s “information management” in this war, which has also led to Pentagon investigations about them deliberately altering intelligence reports to make the war sound like it’s going better than it actually is.
When you have a nation with huge number of sociopaths, their fawning enablers afraid that those black guns and men with them may direct their tactics, tortures rapes and mayhem here at hom, we do not care who they kill outside our borders.
What the hell we got cpps using poor blacks /brownd/ red/yellow fruitcakes as punching bags and for target practice and all the rich white folk say is;”it’s them damned blacks raising hell again”.
US and Europe are fiding easy rapine of Africa and M.e. and now philippines Marimar and Laos And they aare not fighting any nationsbsovereign military, not one.
Cheaper to hire those who live to kill and then we make heroes of them that kill to live.
Evrry death in Aghanistan Syria Iraq and wherever our Dept of Stste srnds an asdasdonation squad to end econpmic blockages or to caudr chaos uses civilians to do most of our mass murdes we get the soft targets and they ate all civiian murders
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Making refugees to inundate Europe – one bomb at a time.
We don't count small numbers–the only number that matters is 6 million.
There is only “ONE WAR” with many fronts and upon each of those fronts we find the military might of the Sovereign US, and those they pay or those who pay homage to them, killing civilians,
The massive amounts of wealth whose extraction is paid for by the labors of primarily white eurocentric populations and the blood of those with pigmented skins, goes to less than 20% of elites and their supporters.
It makes no difference if it is a Ukranian or American , Serbian(Balkan and ex soviet bloc) Turkish or Chinese made bullet it most likely will kill a civilian.
We have the worlds mightiest military and economic forces being used not in defense from physical harm of their people, but the Sovereign wealth of their nation as investment (Caeser Economics) whereby through military funding they invest nothing but gain all the rights and access to the subjugated nationsbphysical assets.
While Russia the wolf cub no longer a bear has been dividing up its own national wealth among a very very few elites they have bern using their sovereign wealth not in killing fields but in attpting to build by trade, same goes for China.
If one takes true critical look the peolles of eurocentric nations lifestyles are going downward andbtheir once benign governments can no longer fully control either immigrationvor the kickback ofhate from any numbers of civilians who are the objects of the war makers.
If you think that all the recent immigration is not for planned then you are sadly
mistaken.
The war has nowbopened up many a new fronts where hi tech surveilance and social engineering with the pschologicly prepared weaponry now being used aginst their own peoples.
“One War” many battle fronts, all where the common denominatorvis destruction of personal liberty’s , agree or face civilian
deaths.
How come we never see the pictures of innocent civilians to "stir the world's conscience" like the picture of the drowned boy who washed up on shore?
Yep. This particular image is the neocon approved one, and then the Facebook sheep will disseminate with the purpose of approving immigration of refugee Syrians. And it is not from the goodness of neocon hearts — they do not have any. It is from the fury of Empire, Jr., the Europe, that is gasping for air under the tsunami of refugees. But all this too little and too late.
Europe and US, as well as their allied "eyes", Canada, Australia and New Zealand — have been all complicit in the attempt at restructuring Moslem world, making t either fully compliant — thus temporarily spared, or introducing chaos, anarchy and wholesale destruction that will last for generations — and then upon wholesale exhaustion fall like a ripe fruit into imperial waiting hands. But as always, those that would change the world in a hurry, never think of consequences. They always feel they can deal with them later. So, now Turkey is not only inundated with refugees from both Iraq and Syria, but is also facing the overt attempt by US to forcibly change borders of Iraq, and create "independent" Kurdistan under our four hundred or so "advisors" put in there in the aftermath of the fall of Mosul. With the physical link to Bagdad gone, Kurds are a geopolitical prey, and Biden has on that topic rhapsodized extensively. The refugee camps are in dangerous area, and can be used for militant activities. Turkey must either move them, or allow them to claim their rights under UN Convention to leave with the support of host country in the course of transit through their country. Lebanon's population is now 1/4 refugee population, a virtual time bomb. Jordan has large camps, numbers not clear, but as it is already home to Palestinians that fled Israeli occupation of West Bank — it is already 50% Palestinian! There is no place left for refugees to go. Many naïve Europeans think that the Gulf states are rich enough, and can take refugees, but this is prime example of European ignorance. Most of those countries are not habitable due to the limited area that are not a desert, so population is concentrated in very few, high density areas. It would not help that Syrians see those countries as enemies as they support destruction of their country, violent regime change, and support many of the terrorist groups that forced them to flee. They have nowhere to go but to Europe. And by whatever means they can find, and mostly on foot.
So, now with the aide of a few pictures — as if by far more distressing pictures do not exist for years — we are using this poor dead boy the way we use poor kittens on Facebook to stir our sentimental urges, as real emotions already elude us. And that means that we are ready to "do something" even though that something means also continuing to kill thousands of innocent civilians on daily basis — from Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan. Seven countries that are on the receiving end of our drone strikes, bombings and booths on the ground in the shape of "moderate" terrorists. Are we something!
And they say M.E. terrorists. Next time somebody blows up an innocent American we need to remember this.