Facing growing criticism over an attack earlier this month that killed hundreds of civilians in Mosul, the Pentagon today confirmed that it has video footage of ISIS forcing hundreds of civilians into the destroyed buildings, which they presented as “provoking the attack.”
While this is designed to shift some of the blame away from the Pentagon for bombing buildings full of civilians, it appears to actually do the exact opposite: it confirms that the Pentagon knew before the attacks that those buildings were full of civilians, and attacked them anyhow.
ISIS has long been criticized for pushing civilians around and forcing them into various areas, but the fact that civilians were being forced into buildings does not prove that the buildings were of any specific value as a target in the first place, and the Pentagon’s assertion appears to be that putting civilians in there amounted to making the buildings a more tempting target in and of itself.
The huge civilian death toll of the US strikes has been condemned by several human rights groups, unsurprisingly, but the Pentagon’s narrative has rapidly changed from denial, to sheepish admission of “probable” guilt, and now to outright defiance over the fact that they killed so many people.
Imagine the shock and anger Americans would display if some nation bombed an American public setting, like a basketball or football game! Too many Americans can’t even feel the ugly leash of disinformation around their ignorant-ass necks! People are always alluding to the “evils” of Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler, but what I see happening today rivals ANYTHING that the Nazis ever did, AT LEAST! Do Americans clueless to what’s going on actually think that Iraqis will just forget mass murder events like this on their own people? I don’t think so, so in the future we will have another crop of “terrorists” to “justify” another bloated military budget! This type of indiscriminate murder only makes American LESS SAFE in the world, Herr Trump!