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Bryan Schatz, Mother Jones: The Pentagon Says It Has Killed 20,000 ISIS Fighters—and Just 6 Civilians
But observers say US-led bombing has killed hundreds of noncombatants.
Asked about his critics' calls for the United States to use more force in its air war against ISIS, President Barack Obama rejected the idea of expanded airstrikes in an interview with NPR on Monday. "If the suggestion is is that we kill tens or hundreds of thousands of innocent Syrians and Iraqis, that is not who we are and that would be a strategy that would have enormous backlash against the United States," he said. He also questioned the idea of "carpet bombing" ISIS, which had been suggested by Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). "You bomb ISIL," Obama said, using the administration's preferred acronym for the so-called Islamic State. "You're not trying to bomb innocent people."
WNU Editor: Here is an easy observation to make .... most people do not believe that only 6 civilians have been killed after 8,600 air strikes and the dropping of 28,000 bombs.
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When you consider all eleven million people within a 20,000 Mile area terrorists because of their citizenship with a certain state, it's difficult to kill ANY Civilians. No doubt the six killed were spies, or informants.
How did they count?
28000 thousand bombs wow we are going to run out of bomb's at this rate before the Islamic state run out of jihadis.
you can just drop one bomb.....
Do a reverse Heinlein Coventry and let the apes desicate their playpen.
Hell naw, we got bombs for days
Obama knows nothing about bombing. What he does take part in is assassinating people with drone rockets, which he's been controlling for over five years now, with many civilian deaths because (1) people are targeted because of their behavior and (2) they usually aren't alone.
So we can take what the commander-in-chief says, or what any one under him in the Pentagon says, with a grain of salt. Civilians in any US enemy Asian or African country are enemies to be killed. If these people had had better judgment they would be US citizens, in America. (Not in Yemen.)
Don Bacon
Compare this bombing to the bombing of Tokyo in 1944 that is how is done .
Those people had it coming.
"If these people had had better judgment they would be US citizens, in America. (Not in Yemen.)"
If they had better judgement they would have come to America and reliably voted Democrat.
Boehner, Cantor and Paul Ryan are just kabuki theater to make it look like there is a contest.
Is it really that difficult to locate the leader of ISIS and bomb him to oblivion? Why we weren't bombing his stronghold in Syria years ago still baffles me.
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