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Louis1895

(768 posts)
Tue Mar 28, 2017, 04:06 PM Mar 2017

Civilians deaths in Iraq and Syria

Is Trump carrying out his plan to kill families of "terrorists"?

Panic spreads in Iraq, Syria as record numbers of civilians are reported killed in U.S. strikes

By Loveday Morris and Liz Sly March 28 at 3:07 PM

MOSUL, Iraq — A sharp rise in the number of civilians reported killed in U.S.-led airstrikes in Iraq and Syria is spreading panic, deepening mistrust and triggering accusations that the United States and its partners may be acting with an unprecedented disregard for lives of noncombatants.


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Civilians deaths in Iraq and Syria (Original Post) Louis1895 Mar 2017 OP
These families aren't terrorists Warpy Mar 2017 #1

Warpy

(111,222 posts)
1. These families aren't terrorists
Tue Mar 28, 2017, 04:22 PM
Mar 2017

Boys over the age of 12 are handed guns and told to fight or everybody will be shot. The families inside the houses are faced with a horrible choice--hunker down and hope the snipers on the roofs are picked off or try to flee and have those snipers shoot them because DAESH shoots human shields who try to flee.

This is a horrible situation and there are no good choices to be had.

The bombing that Dolt45 thinks will solve the problem will have an appalling cost and is of extremely limited value, 20 people cowering inside a house killed to take out two or three fighters on the roof. Clearly, this is unacceptable to everybody who isn't him.

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