Posted on 11/20/2005 10:13:37 AM PST by SmithL
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A top U.S. Air Force general said Sunday that reports of civilian casualties in Iraq as a result of American military action were exaggerated.
"I would tell you first off I don't believe most of it and I am very much aware that some of that has been staged," said Lt. Gen. Walter E. Buchanan III, Commander of the 9th U.S. Air Force and U.S. Central Command Air Forces.
Buchanan, speaking to The Associated Press on the sidelines on the annual Dubai Air Show, said the U.S. Air Force was doing everything necessary to minimize civilian casualties.
"We are very, very careful, and we use precision-guided munitions. We only drop the weapons we have to and they are always the smallest weapons possible," he said.
There are no official figures on civilian casualties in Iraq. A U.S. military spokesman told the AP last month that as many as 30,000 Iraqis may have died during the war, which began with the U.S. invasion in March 2003.
"We control the collateral damage, and we have very strict rules of engagement to guide us through minimizing noncombatant injuries and death," Buchanan said.
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Quite the Opposite of the "Alphabet" TV CHannels, eh?
Watcha got???
Azhar like candy!
We do our best not to kill civilians. We do NOT target non-combatants. If the US pulled up stakes tomorrow and left Iraq by the end of January, terrorists would kill literally hundreds of thousands if not millions of people, they considered sympathizers. It happened in Asia, roughly three million to be exact.
The terrorist does his best to target non-combatants. If the terrorists stoped all hostilities tomorrow, no further deaths would occur.
Which of these two groups is vilified most by the MSM?
With these facts, what can we conclude by the MSM's actions?
That it is biased toward the terrorist, and that it would be perfectly comfortable with the deaths of millions of innocents, something they proved so well in the aftermath of Vietnam and Combodian genocide.
Loathe the MSM, because they loathe everything decent people stand for.
Star Trek episode "A Taste Of Armageddon". Oh, oops, sorry,,,, mustn't mix fiction with reality.
I believe it....
I don't doubt one bit that the terrorists would murder Americans, then stage them as having been killed by a bomb we dropped.
The fact that the AP carried his remarks is stunning enough on its own. Well said General.
I'll bet you dollars to donuts that that figure includes those killed by the terrorists, as distinction not made by the Marxist Media.
LOL!
With these facts, what can we conclude by the MSM's actions?
The goal of the Democrats and their liberal news media allies is to see George W. Bush fail whatever the cost.
If the cost of seeing Bush fail is having America lose a war that is now in the mopping up stage and having hundreds of thousands of Shiites and Kurds butchered by the Sunni Baathists, then that is a price that they are cheerfully willing to pay.
RE: US Targets Civilians, Hundreds of Thousands Killed by US, blah, blah, blah. Some people will believe anything.
Coudn't agree more.
I do have to say though, that this goes way beyond Bush IMO. He's the current whipping boy because of his status, but their agenda is much more anti-American than that implies. They want to turn this nation to the dark side, and that's all there is to it.
Shades of Racak in Kosovo, staged corpses.
AND perfectly consistent with current Democrat "values." Someone ELSE pays the bill.
"...as many as 30,000 Iraqis may have died during the war..."
Did the AP ever think that many thousands were Iraqi soldiers, insurgents, and foreign terrorists?
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