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Title: Mosul & the War on Civilians: Terrorizing & Reducing Countries to Failed States
Published: 2017-04-03
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIvDaAnbeXg
Title: Mosul & the War on Civilians: Terrorizing & Reducing Countries to Failed States
Published: 2017-04-03
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIvDaAnbeXg
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March twenty fifth the US Central Command issued a press release on civilian casualties in the Iraqi city of Mosul following an airstrike on March seventeenth that killed more than two hundred civilians the Pentagon said it opened a formal civilian casually credibility assessment to determine if it was responsible for the deaths the Pentagon has admitted killing two hundred twenty civilians in Iraq and Syria since mid two2/33
thousand and fourteen independent groups say the number is far too low and the real number is closer to three thousand under article fifty one and fifty four for local one of the Geneva convention indiscriminate bombing of civilians is classified as a worker air wars the group following airstrikes in Iraq Syria and Libya reports have thousand civilians were killed in Iraq and Syria and the month of3/33
but of course United the reality here is that more than a hundred civilians certainly on Ted Washington Heights saying this morning that they've been speaking to us civil defense in Baghdad it in %HESITATION in my soul and a minimum of a hundred and one body so far removed from the scene and perhaps many more many more bodies that and this is what leads to this report4/33
and this is possibly one of the highest ever reported civilian casualty events %HESITATION but the coalition will be U. S. might have been involved the establishment media has ignored the story when they do report on atrocities they routinely blaming Islamic state and failed to match reports made by witness others like Iraqi politician camera scans are on March fifteenth he said that thirty five hundred civilians have5/33
died in most all from air strikes and artillery over the last month we looked at Monday's coverage on C. N. N. the BBC and I'll just era none of those channels mention the impact of the entire operation on civilians in Mosel while only the BBC have the Mosel story as a headline reporting on displacement and the de mining of liberated areas targeting civilians in disregard of6/33
international law is nothing new during the second World War both sides routinely targeted civilians the first bombing us at the invaded Poland and later in our it was the British however you theft is Egypt bombing after Winston Churchill became during night forty he authorized aerial bombs German cities independent of historians often do well on the blitz bombing of Britain in nineteen forty and nineteen forty one7/33
but that act of terror was to work by allied bombings of Homburg Frankfort Munich and other German cities strategic bombing raids claimed the lives of around five hundred thousand civilians a British air staff paper from nineteen forty one said the ultimate aim of area bombing in Germany to break the morale of the population big cities and towns uninhabitable produce widespread destruction and fear of death they8/33
because it welcomes back to Britain it special correspondent Mister Quentin Reynolds a year and a half ago I saw the Nazis concentrating them might %HESITATION London from the cloud hell was less I saw the magnificent work of your grand fireman and they are all lined up to them as the flames Ross London is set their chief and took a %HESITATION which in but it wasn't a9/33
knockout it gave birth to a grim determination but the Germans should paid dearly for such destruction then at last came that spring morning when the people of London and the other blitz cities of Britain heard that the royal laughed false that sent more than a thousand planes over Cologne on the rule crews having instructions to let them have it right arm that she and so it10/33
was I have bombers dropped big beautiful bomb bang in the center of the map so you are at I'm not a cut right on that shit creating havoc in fear in the hearts of the foolish people put Hitler in power and keep them there the directive issued the following year authorized to rail Air Force to use force without restriction the marshal of the Royal Air Force11/33
Sir Arthur harassed also known as bomber Harris said thirty years after the fire bombing of Dresden that he'd do it again during an interview in nineteen seventy seven Harris said that the bombing that killed over fifty thousand people prevented a million Germans from joining the army the British pound at night and the Americans by day in nineteen forty three during the Casablanca conference the combined chiefs12/33
of staff agreed to conduct its combined bomber offensive targeting not only military industrial and economic systems but the morale of the German people toward the end of the war the US military conducted a number of raids on the civilian population of Japan on March ninth nineteen forty five U. S. military dropped half a million cylinders and they palm petroleum jelly on the most densely populated areas13/33
of Tokyo killing over one hundred thousand civilians and making over a million people homeless the raid was by far the single most destructive bombing raid in history overshadowing the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Korean War general Curtis lemay oversaw the merciless bombing of north Korean civilians lemay had the Strategic Air Command during the war told the office of airforce history in nineteen eighty14/33
four that US bombing raid to kill twenty percent of the population after flattening cities and villages the Air Force targeted infrastructure including hydroelectric in irrigation dams that flooded farmland and destroyed crops but the recent bombings in most all the U. S. targeting of civilians was ignored by the media at the time the U. S. also considered using atomic weapons on North Korea and by the end15/33
of the Vietnam War in nineteen seventy five the United States have dropped seven million tons of bombs on Vietnam Laos and Cambodia more than twice the amount of bombs dropped on Europe and Asia in World War two after the US lied about the north Vietnamese attacking his ships in the Gulf of Tonkin President Johnson signed off on operation rolling thunder the aerial bombing of North Vietnam16/33
rolling thunder delivered six hundred and forty three thousand tons the operation also targeted hospitals schools Buddhist pagodas agricultural cooperatives fishing boats dikes in sanitarium resulting in the death of an estimated fifty two thousand civilians the US also use cluster and anti personnel bombs in addition to conventional in nineteen sixty nine president Nixon launched the secret bombing of Cambodia dubbed operation menu without consulting Congress a total17/33
of three thousand six hundred thirty flights over Cambodia dropped one hundred ten thousand tons of bombs during a fourteen month period totally you Esther dropped nearly three million tons of bombs on Cambodia a million time five hundred thousand people died as a direct result of the the hundreds of thousands more died from the effects of displacement disease or starvation as a direct result of the bombing18/33
the brutal and genocide of premier Rouge came to power in Cambodia be killed a third of the country's population although the New York times broke the story about the secret bombing campaign in may nineteen sixty nine there was little adverse public reaction between nineteen sixty four in nineteen seventy three the US dropped more than two million tons of ordinance allows during five hundred eighty thousand bombing19/33
missions equal to a plane load of bombs every eight minutes twenty four hours a day for nine years making laws the most heavily bombed country per capita in history over twenty thousand people were killed and many continue to die years later from unexploded ordinance president George bush's invasion of Iraq in nineteen ninety violated many international norms including a Nuremberg crimes against humanity and the fourth Geneva20/33
Conventions of nineteen forty nine and their two additional protocols of nineteen seventy seven under bush's orders Pentagon destroyed commercial schools hospitals church in shelters residential areas storable sites private vehicles and civilian government after the invasion the red crescent this idea Jordan estimated hundred thirteen thousand civilians died sixty percent of them children the objective of the bombing was to systematically destroy Iraq's infrastructure leaving it in a21/33
pre industrial condition in addition to making sure bush's sanctions imposed on Iraq remained in place through the nineteen nineties ultimately killing more than five hundred thousand Iraqi children president Clinton bombed Bagdad in nineteen ninety three in violation of international law he also bombed Afghanistan and Sudan target of the Saddam regime was a pharmaceutical factory Clinton said the factory was making chemical weapons for Osama bin laden22/33
he also said the bombing was in retaliation for the attacks on US embassies in in fact the all she for factory in Khartoum was Sudan's largest commercial manufacturer of prescription drugs for both medical producing fifty percent of the country's supply as a result of the bombing tens of thousands of people many of them children have suffered and died from malaria tuberculosis and other treatable diseases Clinton23/33
also attacked the former Yugoslavia in nineteen ninety nine the US and NATO targeted bridges railways and railway stations major roads airports hospitals and health care centers television transmitters evil mind hundreds of schools nobody's for students and children thousands of civilian and an estimated one thousand civilian men women and children were killed and four hundred and four thousand injured as a direct result of the NATO bombs24/33
the campaign was designed to terrorize the Serbian people bush's son George W. continue to inflict misery on the people of Iraq when he invaded the country in two thousand and three his shock and awe aerial bombardment campaign and subsequent military attack killed a hundred thousand it was designed to take out what remained of Iraq's military after the previous invasion and was also used to terrorize the25/33
Iraqi people could suffered under more the a decade of so numerous non military objects were deliberate we targeted including a particle distribution facilities three media facilities civilian telecommunication facilities government buildings roads and bridges due to the use of depleted uranium radiation in nineteen higher normal back the U. K. medical journal lancet later reported over a million people were killed during the invasion and occupation president Obama26/33
escalated bush and the CI a strong war and increased illegal attacks in the Middle East tenfold from his predecessor you ever saw more drone attacks in the first year of his administration that all of bush's term according to a report published by the intercept in two thousand and fifteen nearly ninety percent of people killed in operation haymaker drone strikes in Afghanistan are not the intended target27/33
of the attack the report compiled from classified documents released by a source in the intelligence community except news accounts of civilian deaths caused by drone strikes drone strikes have killed scores of civilians in Afghanistan Pakistan and Yemen and Somalia since two thousand and nine the military considered anybody Connor drone strike area as guilty by association apparently including women and children I %HESITATION killed thirteen people %HESITATION28/33
with a total of five hellfire missile shots and only three of them were actual combatants or the other and they don't know I don't know I would like to know you testified in the German parliament and you said and also %HESITATION you've testified before the United Nations correct that me you don't know if you might be picked up for war crimes but you're willing to risk29/33
assessment correct and I think that it's completely unfair that %HESITATION we helped on prosecute and German Nazis in World War two who were just following orders and %HESITATION we can't put ourselves into that same %HESITATION umbrella %HESITATION we helped create this occurrence system international court system and we are unable to hold ourselves accountable for our own actions I think it's completely unfair to the rest of30/33
the world in addition to a largely secret and hidden drawn more Obama's secretary of state Hillary Clinton conducted deal legal warn Libya that resulted in the assassination of that country's leader and the murder of thirty thousand Libyans the recent killings of civilians and also by U. S. airstrikes represent a continuation of the war on civilians strategy devised more than seventy years ago during the second World31/33
War well the technology has changed and become far more effective in deadly the original philosophy remains terrorizing target populations and reducing come failed states the establishment media is doing its part by shifting blame away from the Pentagon and concentrating on the atrocities committed by the Islamic state and assorted other so called rebel groups in Syria and Iraq propaganda plays a major role in the it's designed32/33
to last a definite the crimes of the state the violations of international law and mass murder will continue until the American people stand up and demand an end to the carnage committed in their name WNED for just a small subscription fee you can become a member of the news but to me and help keep this website running your subscription will provide you with full community access