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© Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.U.S. acknowledges its forces were behind airstrike on Mosul
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN BAGHDAD©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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PTownsend
US out of MENA. Bring ALL troops home.
Find alternatives to burning petroleum. Stop invading foreign nations to take their resources.
Champions of big oil and big military. Trump, the Republicans and the billionaire tycoons they represent are intent on sending America back to the 1950's. No nation has ever been made 'great' by returning to a fictional past. Trump: greasing the slippery slope, accelerating the US downward slide and putting the world at risk doing so.
Chucky138
So what is the US government waiting for, The US government should file criminals charge against it air force crew, who kill innocent civilians.
SenseNotSoCommon
But they were killed by the good guys.
Nobody could possibly be radicalized over this event. Could they?
Strangerland
And Trump continues the war.
So much for those who said he was not war-mongering.
SuperLib
And this is why you don't get involved.
smithinjapan
Strangerland: "So much for those who said he was not war-mongering."
Yeah, but you forgot that when Trump does what he says he would not, or preached against, it's suddenly okay, and in fact that opposite is wrong (except the Democrats still can't do it!).
CrazyJoe
I understand that there are always civilian casualties in war but there has been a rich history in America of holding the President, the Secretaries of State and Defense accountable for such losses. There is usually a huge out cry and investigations - funny that Trump has not been held accountable yet . . . I guess nobody cares and accountability is a thing of the past.
JeffLee
Muslims became radicalized for all sorts of reasons, nor for no tangible reason at all. Many choose to give up comfortable middle-class lives in the West to become suicide bombers in Syrian warzones. Go figure.
The attack was requested by the Iraqi military, which designated the target, according to the US. So prosecute the Iraqis if you think vengeance is due.
SenseNotSoCommon
Indeed. The USA and its hapless allies have been the gift that keeps on giving in that respect.
Damned ingrates. How dare they!
nandakandamanda
The target was probably a HUGE truck bomb parked by IS in the middle of the housing area. Iraq forces asked for it to be hit, but the resulting explosion seems to have taken out the whole neighborhood.
Quote:
'Local lawmaker Faris al-Sanjari told Reuters the coalition air strike had targeted a truck bomb causing a huge explosion. “You can’t kill dozens just to destroy a booby-trapped truck parked near houses,” he said. One witness told Reuters heavy air strikes in the area began on March 7, but on Friday a strike hit a massive ISIS truck bomb in a residential area, which exploded and destroyed seven homes where dozens of people were hiding. Another resident said 25 homes were damaged. With fighting still going on, residents have been unable to recover bodies since the strike, the resident said.'
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2017/03/23/Government-forces-prepare-new-push-for-western-Mosul-.html
lostrune2
Sad. They should own up to it
And don't say "no civilians are ever killed" because that's countries who don't own up to it
Madverts
Iraq now saying IS responsible?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39398336
RichardPearce
If the Syrian or Russian airforces had been the ones to do this, there would have been at least one quote saying they were deliberately targeting civilians, at least one mention of the total number of civilians killed in the entire war, and the odds are even that you'd have seen the area described as 'rebel held' rather than 'ISIS controlled'. And notice how even in the 'admission', responsibility is denied.
chisineko
A military objective - destroy the enemy's means to resist and destroy the enemy's will to resist. Failure to do both or even intend to do both results in failure. However, warfare is good for business, and an enemy or two is absolutely essential for the proper application of government. Fear among the masses is required to make them plod along in the desired direction. In words attributed to Rom Emanuel, an adviser to barack hussein obama, never let a good crises go to waste.
SuperLib
This is why I said we shouldn't get involved, and I specifically mentioned situations like this. You can do everything right 99% of the time but that one airstrike that kills civilians will be front page news and will be used to define our participation in the crisis and the Middle East overall.
Let Russia do the killing.
JeffLee
If we didn't get involved, the same crowd would be shouting, "the West is turning its back on a humanitarian crisis." I'm old enough to have heard this litany over and over again. The one constant is that when local people in faraway places decide to start killing each other, usually for local religious reasons, the West is usually construed to be responsible, due to its "Involvment," such as trying to ensure local girls can go to school without getting killed by religious fanatics.
They are lunatics. Their bizarre anti-Western creed/ideology makes them that way. That's why your attempt to somehow rationalize their motives is ridiculous.