Defend this: White House exempts Syria airstrikes from tight standards on civili

[thundley4]

Star Member cali (95,703 posts)   Tue Sep 30, 2014, 06:30 PM


Defend this: White House exempts Syria airstrikes from tight standards on civilian deaths

You support this? Than defend this, because this is part of what anyone defending/supporting the Syrian/Iraq bombing against ISIS is supporting.

The White House has acknowledged for the first time that strict standards President Obama imposed last year to prevent civilian deaths from U.S. drone strikes will not apply to U.S. military operations in Syria and Iraq.

A White House statement to Yahoo News confirming the looser policy came in response to questions about reports that as many as a dozen civilians, including women and young children, were killed when a Tomahawk missile struck the village of Kafr Daryan in Syria's Idlib province on the morning of Sept. 23.

The village has been described by Syrian rebel commanders as a reported stronghold of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front where U.S officials believed members of the so-called Khorasan group were plotting attacks against international aircraft.

But at a briefing for members and staffers of the House Foreign Affairs Committee late last week, Syrian rebel commanders described women and children being hauled from the rubble after an errant cruise missile destroyed a home for displaced civilians. Images of badly injured children also appeared on YouTube, helping to fuel anti-U.S. protests in a number of Syrian villages last week.

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http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-exempts-syria-airstrikes-from-tight-standards-on-civilian-deaths-183724795.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025604436

The DUmmies blame this on everyone except the Holy Won of Chitcago.

arcane1 (25,234 posts)
2. Ok, I'll defend it: ISIS makes Lindsey Graham frightened, or at least pretend to be frightened.

That's all I have

scarletwoman (27,142 posts)
3. It's how to keep breeding a continuous supply of enemies.

I mean, if we ran out of enemies, how would the defense contractors and weapons manufacturers make a profit?

Doctor_J (30,261 posts)
4. It's Libermann's fault

I'm pretty sure

Maedhros (3,881 posts)
6. Anyone supporting this nonsensical war deserves every bit as much contempt

as those who supported the Iraq invasion.

 

[Dori]

If ISIS showed up on their doorstep, would they still blame Bush?

[DefiantSix]

If ISIS showed up on their doorstep, would they still blame Bush?

Only if ISIS was using a dull knife that day.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Umm, okay, Assad is evil and 'Has to go' because he didn't take much care about civilian casualties while trying to take out insurgents who wanted to kill him as horribly as possible, but since those same insurgents want to kill us as horribly as possible we're going to take them out without taking much care about civilian casualties?  Is that about right?   

[BlueStateSaint]

Umm, okay, Assad is evil and 'Has to go' because he didn't take much care about civilian casualties while trying to take out insurgents who wanted to kill him as horribly as possible, but since those same insurgents want to kill us as horribly as possible we're going to take them out without taking much care about civilian casualties?  Is that about right?

Hey--it's the Obamessiah's 'moral equivalency' and all that.

[obumazombie]

Defend it ?
owebuma's supporters give him a grade of "A" just for getting elected to the office.
Sycophants like Beckel have a reflexive defense reaction to anything that owebuma bungles.

[GOBUCKS]

Innocent muslim civilians are like homos in Iran.

There are none.

[67 Rover]

Just wait until the Lancet report is completed and you will see that Barry will have a two million civilian casualties at minimum.  He is a Nobel peace price winner you know.