Afghan hospital bombing: panel ready to begin US war crimes investigation

[bobthedrummer]

Source: Spencer Ackerman The Guardian

International panel set to investigate deadly bombing of Doctors Without Borders hospital but must first get assurance US and Afghanistan will comply

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/14/afghan-hospital-bombing-inquiry-doctors-without-borders

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No argument- this was a war crime regardless of all else. Change you can believe in.

[TipTok]

1. Interesting article here...

http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/11/doctors-without-borders-ignored-geneva-rules-before-u-s-air-attack/

Basic assertion is that the hospital was not properly marked with the universal Geneva symbols.

[MynameisBlarney]

3. The daily caller?

Isn't that tucker carlson's site?

[Downwinder]

4. It is the responsibility of the belligerents to make

sure the area is clear of noncombatants.

[MynameisBlarney]

2. While I agree...

That the bombing of that hospital may very well be a war crime, I can't help but wonder why the MANY war crimes committed by the bush43 cabal were pretty much given a pass.
Now it seems they're not wasting any time at all to pursue war crimes charges in this instance.

[bobthedrummer]

5. The US Air Force's New AC-130 Gunships Are Really Bomb Trucks (Tyler Rogoway 6-1-14 Foxtrot Alpha)

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-u-s-air-forces-new-ac-130-are-really-bomb-1584518199

Children burning in their hospital beds, doctors and nurses under attack for an extended period by an AC-130. The hospital was clearly well identified prior to the crime.

Let's keep our troops over there "as long as it takes" because freedom is on the march!
How many veterans killed themselves today?

[Octafish]

6. Hope someone has a FOIA going for the audio and video tapes from that C-130.

Flying Gatling guns with automatic RPG launchers circling overhead for an hour...



http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/13/us-dispatched-a-murderous-ac-130-airborne-gunship-to-attack-a-hospital/

Anyone remember when Candidate Obama had said he was going to end the war in Afghanistan? Wonder what happened? That was 7 of 14 long years ago now. Oh well, who cares now, right?

[bobthedrummer]

7. He committed thousands of OUR troops beyond 2016 today Sir. In Afghanistan and along the Silk Road.

[Octafish]

8. Got some bad advice, somewhere, Sir. Petraeus, perhaps?

Worst of all, COIN advocates committed the cardinal sin of believing that a shift in military tactics or a new commander would be enough to win a military conflict in which the US was engaged. As the great Chinese war philosopher once wrote, "tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat". That is a lesson that Petraeus, among others, simply forgot. Indeed, it's worth remembering that when asked by President Obama, point blank, if a surge of troops to Afghanistan could turn things around in 18 months, Petraeus responded:

"Sir, I'm confident we can train and hand over to the ANA (Afghan National Army) in that time frame."

SOURCE: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Ronald_Reagan/Ronald_Reagan_Myth.html

COIN sounds so much like COINTELPRO it echoes.

[bobthedrummer]

9. He kept all the wrong "experts"-now he's actually their COIN operated POTUS imho Sir. n/t