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It looks like USA has now adapted Russian style bombing. (Original Post) fun n serious Mar 2017 OP
adapted? lies Mar 2017 #1
It has spiked a great deal since Trump. nt fun n serious Mar 2017 #3
No lies Mar 2017 #4
Yes, but these are civilian areas fun n serious Mar 2017 #6
same as ever lies Mar 2017 #7
let allah sort out the innocent? Gabi Hayes Mar 2017 #2
The US military has always had a "friendly fire" problem. mwooldri Mar 2017 #5
loads of dead civilians during obama days too. nothing new here until a new pattern msongs Mar 2017 #8
 

lies

(315 posts)
1. adapted?
Sat Mar 25, 2017, 09:41 PM
Mar 2017

Google is your friend... the US military under all Presidents pretty much since ww2 has killed endless civilians... sure we're still helping starve millions of women and children in Yemen.... and have been for over a year... and in Yemen we've repeatedly sold billions of weapons to dictators, no matter how many times they bomb pediatric hospitals and refugee camps.

Yemen's children starve as war drags on - About 2.2 million children suffer from malnutrition across Yemen

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/yemen-children-starve-war-drags-170102172118666.html

U.S. Dropped 23,144 Bombs on Muslim-Majority Countries in 2015

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/us-dropped-23144-bombs-muslim-majority-countries-2015

 

lies

(315 posts)
4. No
Sat Mar 25, 2017, 09:45 PM
Mar 2017

No it hasn't.

The US had six air wars ongoing the last year of Obama. Six.

You're just hearing about it maybe.

No spike.

If anything Libya has calmed down, from a US perspective.

Under Obama - a good man in so many ways - we killed untold civilians, increased disastrous drone strikes and propped up numerous horrible dictators.

 

lies

(315 posts)
7. same as ever
Sat Mar 25, 2017, 10:03 PM
Mar 2017

Obama broke the record for most weapons sold to Saudi Arabia - sold BILLIONS more AFTER they bombed a children's hospital THEN tried to stop a UN inquiry into Saudi war crimes in Yemen.

Drone strikes killed hundreds of civilians, and two US citizens without a trial.

After that White House Press Secretary told reporters that kid would still be alive if he'd had a better dad.

Same shit cops say when they kill black kids... blame the victim. No one blinked.

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-01-17/obamas-covert-drone-war-in-numbers-ten-times-more-strikes-than-bush

http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/the-number-tainting-barack-obamas-legacy-drone-strike-casualties/news-story/e33bcaebb0928249bcee7952f8cca678

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

I know we all hate Trump, and god knows what shit he'll do but part of being a moral human is looking at what your own team does with open eyes. And in that respect, we did massive damage.

Sure, we also propped up a right-wing coup in Honduras, which lead to dozens of democracy and LGBTQ activists being murdered.

More:

The U.S. dropped 26,171 bombs last year, 3,027 more than 2015.

According to an analysis of Defense Department data from the Council on Foreign Relations, a non-partisan think tank, the majority of the bombs were dropped in Iraq and Syria. The U.S. leads an international coalition fighting the Islamic State group in both countries and has carried out air operations in attempt to reduce the area controlled by the terrorist organization.

Nearly the same amount of bombs were dropped in Syria (12,192) and Iraq (12,095) last year."

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article124842824.html

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/12/united-states-isis-bombing-civilian-deaths

More

U.S. Bombed Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia in 2016

The U.S. dropped an average of 72 bombs every day — the equivalent of three an hour — in 2016, according to an analysis of American strikes around the world.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-bombed-iraq-syria-pakistan-afghanistan-libya-yemen-somalia-n704636

USA must come clean about civilian deaths caused by Coalition air strikes in Syria

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/10/usa-must-come-clean-about-civilian-deaths-caused-by-coalition-air-strikes-in-syria/

mwooldri

(10,303 posts)
5. The US military has always had a "friendly fire" problem.
Sat Mar 25, 2017, 09:46 PM
Mar 2017

Especially the Air Force. It doesn't matter if it's civilians, allied forces or even US forces. I'm hoping that the USAF has yanked their advertising stating "No one comes close".

msongs

(67,395 posts)
8. loads of dead civilians during obama days too. nothing new here until a new pattern
Sat Mar 25, 2017, 10:48 PM
Mar 2017

has been established for the trump era

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