The end of another month in the US war against ISIS means another official accounting of civilian deaths from the Pentagon, and as usual the official figure is dramatically smaller than the figures documented by NGOs.
For the month of July, the Pentagon found only 13 “credible” incidents across both Iraq and Syria, and a total of 61 civilians killed in US airstrikes. This is one of the highest figures admitted for a single month by US officials, despite being an obvious underestimation.
Airwars, a UK-based NGO that offers more comprehensive documentation, noted scores of US airstrike incidents, and several hundred killed in the strikes. Indeed, strikes in just the first week in the city of Mosul killed an estimated 300 civilians, while hundreds were killed elsewhere, including 99 killed in a single 72-hour span in Raqqa.
The biggest incidents reported by media outlets and other groups often find themselves excluded from the US reports, or on those rare occasions when they do find their way into Pentagon reports, scores of deaths get revised dramatically downward to a mere fraction of the actual count.
The USA goes out of its way to find “trouble” in the world, trouble that more times than not it is directly responsible for! It is the foreign policy of the USA that has to be upgraded to take into account the world of 2017 and beyond, not the Dark Ages! You reap what you sow and by siding with a continued policy of human rights violations the USA is digging its own grave! In American cities people stand and salute American military personnel all the time at sporting events, all the while that same military of slaughtering innocent people so the military/industrial complex can continue making windfall profits at the expense of innocent defenseless populations all over the globe! What a disgraceful shame!
The us is providing new meaning to the phrase “collateral damage.” Evidently, as indicated by mosul and requa (sp?), the military just steps back and says, f– it, let’s just bomb the sh– out of the populated areas and see what is left.
The drones are another matter-wedding parties at risk.
Astonishing is not the word!