Though initial reports suggested that the Pentagon was going to offer a more significant number of admissions of civilian casualties in their airstrikes against ISIS, today the Pentagon only admitted to two more civilians killed, both Syrians, in a pair of strikes against Raqqa in July.
The strikes on July 4 and 17, according to the Pentagon statement, killed two civilians and wounded four others. Centcom spokesman Col. Patrick Ryder insisted that ISIS was to blame for the deaths because they operate in “populated areas.”
Col. Ryder said the current assessment is that the US strikes against ISIS have “likely” killed 16 people. This is dramatically fewer than the number reported by various human rights groups and other observers, who have put the probable civilian death toll in the hundreds.
In addition to the CENTCOM toll, the Pentagon has confirmed two different incidents this month alone, both against Mosul, and both of which killed a number of civilians. In each case the Pentagon bragged that the civilians killed were an “acceptable” number, and far fewer than if they’d launched those attacks at different times of day.
BERNIE — ALL ENGINES BURNING
1. Bernie claims that he is the only candidate that has energized the voters, especially the young voters and women voters, as all the other candidates are putting the voters to sleep. If this be true, then Bernie has already won the White House.
2. With Bernie there is some hope for change, with all the others there is absolutely no hope.
3. Bernie is so absolutely dedicated to giving the people a social net, that it is inconceivable for him to pull the Obama trick and suddenly be a paid actor for Wall Street. Whereas, all the other candidates state that the best hope for jobs is the high-stakes gambling that exemplifies Wall Street.
4. Medicare for all is for most voters at the top of their wish list, so if Congress fails to pass muster, surely many a head will roll come next election.
5. Finally a candidate for President who says the forbidden words, “Cut military spending.” A first ever in over half a century.
6. Since 1776, all of the wealth owned by the privileged upper-half of society, since 1776 not a single politician has stuck his neck out to gain liberty for the impoverished laboring-class lower-half, comes now Bernie. Go for it Bernie.
” Finally a candidate for President who says the forbidden words, ‘Cut military spending.’ A first ever in over half a century.”
Well, except for Eugene McCarthy in 1968, 1972 and 1976, and George McGovern in 1972, and Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter in 1976, and John Hospers in 1972, and Roger Lea McBride in 1976, and Ed Clark in 1980, and David Bergland in 1984, and Ron Paul in 1988, 2008 and 2012, and Andre Marrou in 1992, and Harry Browne in 1996 and 2000, and Michael Badnarik in 2004, and Gary Johson in 2012, and Ralph Nader in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008, and David Cobb in 2004, and Cynthia McKinney in 2008, and Jill Stein in 2012, and Roseanne Barr in 2012.
But yeah, except for all of those and numerous others, yeah, Bernie’s the first in half a century.
Be honest, end your worthless confusion and do something more then protect your excessive wealth.
For Bernie is the only candidate for President who voted against the Iraq War, Bernie wants wars of plunder and aggression the least, which means that he wants to cut military spending the most.
“This is dramatically fewer than the number reported by various human rights groups and other observers,” source?