Posted on 09/25/2016 1:52:38 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
And on the evening of Sept. 19, 2016, Syrian Su-24s destroyed what the regime claimed was a convoy of militants in Urum Al Kubra, but was in fact a humanitarian convoy.
LOL!
I think I see I’m not the only one who thinks bombing “hospitals” is likely to result in hits on militarily significant targets like ammo dumps, vehicles, command posts, etc.
Wonderful Obama butt-licker propaganda!
That Assad is so evil - we MUST depose him and install the muslim brotherhood!!!
Destroying hospitals, huh?
Did somebody get their license plate numbers?
Ask “Doctors Without Borders “ about who,is targeting hospitals in Yemen and Afghanistan and droning civilians
There is a guy near Baker, Florida who has one of these parked in his front yard.
30.754891, -86.696782
SU-24 = Ivan knockoff of F-111.
Dangerous place these hospitals - what with all the secondary explosions. Must be the ether bottles.
Oh come on! They are also good for blowing up baby milk factories. Credit where credit is due.
I think that you may be on to something.
I’m amazed at the thinking. Did everyone think war was a game to be played on the xbox and then reset up the next time you plugged in the cartridge so all the destroyed people could get it again?
Bombing innocents is what makes war go away. We and the allies hit a number of factory areas in Germany in WW II that included people that lived near them like the employees. We had to destroy two cities in Japan to get them finally to the Missouri. And a lot of villages in Nam were blow to get to the Vietcong hiding in them. When the war started in Iraq, we missiles a city, not an enemy encampment.
War is detestable because of the pain, suffering, death and the ugliness of hoping it won’t be you. But tht’s the reality of it. The need to punish them until they don’t think it’s worth it or want it anymore are the rules for success in that business.
If we had decided to put boots on the ground in Japan, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff estimated that an invasion of Japan’s home islands would result in approximately 1.2 million American casualties, with 267,000 deaths. The bombs in Japan , Nagasaki and Hiroshima, totaled less than 200,000 deaths and casualties.
You say that’s a lot of people anyway, the lesser of evils prevails here. And it stopped the war immediately. No more deaths.
Do I agree with calling the innocents, no. Do I agree with killing people, no. But we didn’t start that one and Japan had not previously been a nuclear threat to anyone like Iraq.
So history shows us that the more people they want to stop the fighting, the less fighting we have to do. And the more people that want to stop fighting have to be led to that point. We in this country are just now beginning the feel the effects of war to the populous as we get people stabbed, night clubs bombed, and fear of attack in this country through anything that disrupts our lifestyle.
So maybe it will end. But as you can’t reason with them as they have proven that the only way they see success is to kill westerners that will not conform to their religion. And they are willing to die to do it, even desire to, makes making them quit like we did to Japan, or Germany, or even our civil war, almost impossible. But hurt them enough, or kill them enough, for them to realize the reality of war and why it is so detestable it isn’t worth fighting and they can’t win, through pain like Japan, Germany, or Saddam, is going to be the only way to stop it. .
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I prefer to call them UN Re-Supply Convoys, given their history in Israel’s conflicts.
Zero Hedge has a report indicating that the convoy was probably hit by a Hellfire style missile. And apparently the Russians claim a Predator drone was in the area.
The photographs of the convoy damage don't look like the results of bombing with dumb, high explosive bombs from high altitude. They look more like the results of precision missile strikes.
Of course what was actually in the trucks is another question.
They have already answered it.
“Médecins Sans Frontières believes giving GPS coordinates of its facilities to Assad and Russian forces increases chance of direct targeting”
“Fourteen attacks against hospitals have already taken place since the beginning of this year [the article is from February], contradicting claims by Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian prime minister, that Russian forces are not targeting civilians or civilian infrastructure as part of its campaign to support the Assad government. “
“MSF said on Thursday that a total of 94 airstrikes and shelling attacks hit facilities supported by the organisation in 2015 alone, in 12 cases leading to the total destruction of the facility. Some hospitals also suffered from “double tap” attacks, where a second airstrike targets paramedics and EMTs who arrive at the scene to rescue the wounded, between 20-60 minutes after the first bombing.”
I am surprised that his 40 year old cold war relic, bastardized copy of an F-111 is still flying.
The US military is particularly notorious for making the “double tap” war crime/atrocity into standard practice.
I said Afghanistan and Yemen
Check again
How many hospitals destroyed there
If MSF wasn’t being used or letting itself be used as HQ for terror ops maybe they wouldn’t be targeted
I remember US accidentally striking a MSF hospital in Afghanistan, saying it was a mistake and apologizing. For Yemen I remember Code Pinkos being upset of some US citizen Al-Qaeda officer and his near adult son assassinated with drones. What am I missing?
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