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.Obama was for protecting civilians until he was against it.
“They were carrying bodies out of the rubble. … I saw seven or eight ambulances coming out of there,” said Abu Abdo Salabman, a political member of one of the Free Syria Army factions, who attended the briefing for Foreign Affairs Committee members and staff. “We believe this was a big mistake.”
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
"White House exempts Syria airstrikes from tight standards on civilian deaths"
"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."
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Rules, laws - those are for others to follow.
Thank goodness the anti-war left is all over this. There are giant paper mache puppet heads being taken out of mothballs even as I type this, I am certain!
So, the lightworker now gets to learn that there is unfortunately no war without "collateral damage". As if ISIS was going to move the civilians out of the way, as opposed to using them as human shields.
How many French civilians died in order to "liberate" the by-then rubbled city of Caen? About 15,000? But, at least, the siege had been blessed by the Free French regime in exile, which knew that, if France was ever to be free again, the ugly truth was that French civilians --maybe lots of them-- would die in the process.
Where, O where, is Code Pink, Breasts Not Bombs, ANSWER, ...Cindy Sheehan?
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