Trump's ISIS War Set to Double Obama's Civilian Deaths
Source: Newsweek
The U.S.-led coalition's campaign against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) under President Donald Trump is on track to cause double the civilian casualties than the operations of his predecessor Barack Obama, according to new analysis.
Monitoring group Airwars, in a new figures provided to The Daily Beast, estimated that the coalition has killed over 2,200 civilians in ISIS-held territory in Iraq and Syria between Trump's inauguration on January 20 and July 13. This represents more than 360 civilian deaths a month and at least 12 a day since he entered the White House.
According to the coalition's figures, its strikes have killed 603 civilians since the beginning of the airstrike campaign against ISIS in 2014. Of those, Airwars estimates that around 40 percent of them came after Trump's inauguration, alluding to the possibility of a greater disregard for civilian life at a time when ISIS's hold on its self-styled caliphate is coming to an end.
The coalition does not specify the airforce of the country that conducts each coalition airstrike in Iraq and Syria. The member nations in the coalition include Britain, the U.S., Belgium, the Netherlands, Australia, France, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Italy and Turkey.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/president-trumps-isis-war-course-double-obamas-civilian-deaths-637538
cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Baby Killer!
louis-t
(23,292 posts)he's "badass'.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)_t(R)umps fault_ along with the killer 'Iraq' & Afghan solders WE trained to ground slaughter anything that moves.
and Russia & Saudi & Assad "fly-boys" who bomb the hell out of entire groups of homes, any hospital with a cell phone they can lock jet targeting system on to and slaughter any moving cars and people they spot on the ground.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)and kept saying Obama was too soft for not killing enough civilians.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Hell, in their eyes Trump is still an "anti-interventionist"
I'm old enough to remember when Hillary was supposed to be the bloodthirsty warhawk...