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News ID: 30573
Publish Date : 28 August 2016 - 20:42

U.S. Killing Civilians in Syria



By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

This just in: On July 19, U.S. warplanes dropped bombs on a crowd of civilians in the Syrian village of Tokhar. When the dust cleared, a minimum of 95 people were killed, and some groups claimed that as the wounded began dying, the toll rose to nearly 200.
Throughout the war, CENTCOM has dramatically undercounted the number of civilians killed on so many occasions that it’s become a cliche. More than half of the time, CENTCOM won’t even investigate the incident, insisting there isn’t enough "sufficient verifiable information.”
Amnesty International officials say that this is almost always the case as far as CENTCOM is concerned, and that they routinely reject information they bring them that includes the names of slain civilians and pictures of the aftermath of the strike. The Pentagon won’t even provide them with criteria on what they actually would want.
This is not surprising. Pentagon officials want to be able to sell the public in "liberated” ISIL territory on the idea that the U.S. is being extremely careful and limiting the death toll to absolute bare minimum. That the actual evidence shows this is clearly not the case appears to be of no real concern to them.
After all, this is not the first time that the U.S. government mass-murders civilians or tries to earn profit through waging wars, and/or is never held accountable over its unspeakable war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Also, this is not the first time that the United States government supports dictatorial and tyrannical regimes and even funds and arms terrorist groups to affect regime change in a sovereign nation.
The War Party conceives itself as above international law along with ally Israel, but this reality is taboo to report and so too all the killing and terrorization of civilians. More so, the U.S. government has traditionally supported the oppressive regimes that are widely considered as dictatorial and tyrannical. Some examples include the successive U.S. governments’ support for the regimes in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Israel. That such an approach is contrary to the "democratic principles” which the U.S. Constitution is said to be oriented on is beyond dispute.
Also, in the years since 9/11, the U.S. government has covertly directed funding and arming of the most destructive armed forces including Takfiris, not only in Syria but before that Libya, Iraq, Somalia, and Afghanistan. Ukraine has been similarly launched into civil war and escalated oppression by U.S.-led destabilization, covert Special Forces, and local fascists.
Long story short, the United States has been and still is involved in several covert foreign regime change actions. It has toppled many governments through masterminding and engineering coups across the world, including the 1953 coup d’etat against the popular government of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh or the 1973 coup in Chile that brought down the government of President Salvador Allende.
The War Party is now involved in a similar campaign in Syria. The only problem is that this time the people of Syria are fighting back, with some great results. Despite the carnage and mass-murder, they are also winning the Real War on Terror in alliance with Iran, Russia, and Hezbollah.