***Breaking***200 civilians killed by US airstrikes

[Cattledog]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/world/middleeast/us-iraq-mosul-investigation-airstrike-civilian-deaths.html?_r=0

BAGHDAD — The American-led military coalition in Iraq said Friday that it was investigating reports that scores of civilians — perhaps as many as 200, according to local residents — had been killed in recent American airstrikes in Mosul, the northern Iraqi city where Iraq’s security forces have been waging a monthslong offensive.

The reports of a heavy civilian toll from airstrikes in Mosul comes on the back of two recent incidents in Syria, where the coalition is also battling the Islamic State from the air, in which activists and local residents said dozens of civilians had been killed.

[Fred Sanders]

1. Shameful lack of media coverage in America over the American slaughter of civilians, women and

children in the last few days. Remember what Trump said about the families of terrorists? Have the rules of engagement changed to not caring about civilian casualties, because that is a war crime by definition. Are Americans and DUer OK with this?

Shame.

[defacto7]

2. I will never be OK with innocent casualties

in any amount or for any reason or purpose. When humans become calloused to the pain and slaughter of others, they cease to be human. There are no sides to take, no ideology to champion but human and inhuman.