Here's why they hate all Westerners - we have no regard for their lives

[malaise]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/14/slaughter-iraqi-family-us-air-strike-isis
<snip>
Slaughter of Iraqi family in suspected US-led air strike hints at cost of war

Five members of one family, including a pregnant woman and girl aged eight, died in one village. Other victims of the anti-Isis air campaign may go unrecorded

Bolting out of his front door, he found several hundred men running through the dark towards an olive farm on the outskirts of the village of Fadhiliya, 10 miles north of Mosul. The farm, home to a family of seven, had been hit by an air strike some time after midnight, the local imam said.

Outside the ruins of the two-storey farm house – now a tangled mess of iron rods and concrete slabs – the men found 16-year-old Lina Laith Hazem in hysterics.

They sifted through the rubble for hours, looking for other survivors amid the surrounding chaos. They found only one, Shahd Hazem Abdulla, Lina’s 25-year-old aunt.

“We used our bare hands to pull the bodies out,” said Mustafa, a farmer in his late 40s.

By 9am on 4 April, five corpses had been pulled from the wreckage, including a pregnant woman and an eight-year-old child. All five were members of the same family: Hazem Abdulla Shahin, 69; his wife Nadya Nouri Dawoud, 60; their son Laith Hazem Abdulla, 43; his pregnant bride Hana Ali Abdulla, 43, and their eight-year-old daughter Danya Laith Hazem.

“We wrapped the dead in blankets and buried them the same day,” said Rahim, a relative of the family who helped uncover the bodies.

Since 8 August, a US-led coalition including Canada, Britain, France, Jordan and other countries, has carried out several thousand air strikes, as part of its campaign against the Islamic State militant group, which last year declared it had established a caliphate across vast swaths of Iraq and Syria.

[daleanime]

1. K&R.....

[AuntPatsy]

2. Kick so that the truth is not ignored

[polly7]

3. Thanks malaise.

[Dont call me Shirley]

4. Warmakers are very sick people in desperate need of mental reprogramming.

[cali]

5. Horrific, but I think you do Iraqis in general a grave disservice when you

make the claim that they hate all Westerners. They don't. They're more complex and sophisticated than you're giving them credit for.

And it's not true, either, to state that all Westerners have no regard for the lives of Iraqis.

Yes, I'm "nitpicky" about language. I believe words mean something.

[DallasNE]

6. Black Lives Matter

We have imported our foreign policy to our own shores so the disregard for human lives has come full circle.

[malaise]

11. I disagree

It is domestic policy that has been exported overseas - that's how the Native Americans and all minorities have been treated for centuries. Three quarter human - we weren't even human in the Constitution.

[AZ Progressive]

7. America barely cares about black people in this country....

Why would it care about dark skinned people almost halfway across the world?

[sabrina 1]

8. How long have they been doing this now? Wedding parties in Afghanistan, mothers running

with babies in their arms, to try to escape our WMDs for YEARS.

I'm surprised they don't hate us more.

Our FPs are BIGOTED, RACIST and just plain WRONG.

I thought when we elected Dems in 2008 that this would STOP.

Whatever made me think that our side was so much better.

Those lives were important.

So tragically sad that it is being done in our name!

And what happened to the 'anti-war Left' since Bush left office?

Disgusing hypocrisy is all I see everywhere.

RIP innocent victims of our criminal FP.

[Maedhros]

12. The "Anti War Left" apparently wasn't really anti-WAR, it was just anti-BUSH.[n/t]

[KG]

9. 'they hate ush for our feedumbs'

[A Simple Game]

13. You really think the pregnant woman and the eight year old girl were making car bombs?

What we need is a way to make the "pilots" of these drones read the stories of the success of the bombing of their "terrorist targets." Maybe some of them have a conscience.

[jtuck004]

14. Would you say the same thing about Boston's residents? Don't care for their own, etc.n/t