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81. I didn't think you would

The Pentagon, of course, has a clearly vested interest in self-validation and ass-covering, don't you think? Liiiike... Its utter obfuscation of information regarding drone strikes. or the siege of Fallujah.

of course, the Pentagon is hardly alone in this. Pretty much every military spokesperson, in any nation around the world, is going to tll you that their nation is "the best," that there are no or negligible civilian casualties, that those casualties are all necessary, or dismissible, or some other stuff like that. because these organizations of course have an obvious interest in making themselves look good.

This includes the Israeli Defense Ministry. As I've showed you, they achieved their 1:1 ratio from Cast Lead by including police officers as combatants. The problem with that is, international standards count the police as civilians, unless they are actually engaged in combat. Given that Cast Lead was an air assault rather than a ground operation, it's really not credible to claim the police were engaged in combat. especially when over a hundred of them were killed while inside a precinct building

That is, the IDF is cooking the numbers to make itself look better. Sort of like how the Pentagon tried to cast every male person killed in Fallujah as a "combatant" - and claimed that all the women had fled, thus supposedly generating a 100% combatant kill ratio. Laughable.

This is what military authorities do. Pakistan, India, china, the Us, the United kingdom, Israel, Colombia, Egypt, Australia, basically everywhere in the world that engages in military activity lies its pants off about what, exactly, it is doing.

This is why there need to be such investigations, and why nations need to clearly and transparently work with the investigations.