John Kirby likens Israeli airstrike that killed civilians to US bombings in Iraq, Afghanistan: ‘We did the same thing’

NY Post ^ | May 28, 2024 | Steven Nelson

[McGruff]

White House spokesman John Kirby defended Israel amid international outrage after an airstrike reportedly killed dozens of civilians in the Gaza Strip — saying the US military “did the same thing.”

“We have conducted airstrikes in places like Iraq and Afghanistan where, tragically, we caused civilian casualties,” he said — adding that the US responded the same way as Israel in the aftermath.

“We owned up to it, we investigated it, and we tried to learn from it to make changes,” Kirby said at Tuesday’s regular White House briefing.

He noted that Israel said it used precision bombs and that the Hamas terrorist group acknowledged that two senior leaders were also killed in the strike — indicating that they were hiding out among the civilians.

[BobL]

“White House spokesman John Kirby defended Israel amid international outrage after an airstrike reportedly killed dozens of civilians in the Gaza Strip — saying the US military “did the same thing.””

I’m not sure this will win Kirby any points in the ‘international community’.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Turns out that the IDF strike didn’t kill all those people. Apparently the explosion of a Hamas ammo dump did. The IDF precision strike was 500 meters away.

[Mariner]

I’m astonished the statement was approved.

[xkaydet65]

Well we certainly did 80 years ago. And often those died under our bombs were not out enemies.

[Chicory]

I was going to post this from the article: “Kirby said that preliminary Israeli military findings suggest that an unintended secondary explosion caused the civilian deaths,” because I suspected that the second explosion came from Hamas munitions, which they seem to be protecting by storing amidst their own civilians...

[Chad C. Mulligan]

https://www.firstpost.com/world/blast-in-hamas-ammunition-dump-caused-rafah-refugee-camp-tragedy-says-israel-13776222.html

[hardspunned]

Another of your giant sized loads of crap. Whenever genocide needs a proponent, there you are.

[MrRelevant]

War is hell

[Mark17]

I’m astonished the statement was approved.

Kirby will soon get his walking papers.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Must have hit the bottle early.

[Da Coyote]

Anything coming from the Biden White House should be isolated, disinfected, burned, and launched into the sun.

That place makes Mos Eisley appear to be nirvana.

[McGruff]

“The Israelis have said they used 37-pound bombs, precision guided munitions. A 37-pound bomb is not a big bomb, and it is exactly the kind of munition…“If, in fact, that's what they used, it is certainly indicative of an effort to be discrete, targeted and precise,” he said.”

Didn't Biden stop the shipment of precision bombs?

[Chad C. Mulligan]

A 37-pound bomb is not a big bomb,

Right. Even a kid could pick one up. A five-gallon bucket of water weighs more.

[rbg81]

He is correct, however.

[montag813]

We killed 67,000 French civilians with friendly fire during WWII!!! As Rush said, “in war you kill people and break things.”

[magooey]

Hardspunned may be in breach of the rules of FreeRepublic. Perhaps he should be asked to leave this website.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

There are a number of posters who seem to be here just for a snark competition. Some even claim twenty years seniority, so you’d think they would have matured past their pre-teens, but no....

[SomeCallMeTim]

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