IRAQI AND SYRIAN CIVILIAN DEATHS TOP 4,000 – YET, US INSISTS COALITION HAS KILLED LESS THAN 500

In a wholly unfamiliar world, excessive bureaucracy would equate meticulous record-keeping, particularly when applied to human life; but – because self-interest apparently precludes the need for accurate assessment in the ongoing War on Terror – the total number of civilians killed in multiple undeclared U. S. wars exceeds official tallies by the thousands.
Iraq and Syria, alone, readily evince astonishingly pompous underestimations of resultant civilian casualties from coalition airstrikes ostensively targeting Daesh (the Islamic State), as independent watchdog group, Airwars, now documents more than 4,300 killings of innocent civilians in the two war-weary nations – fully ten times less than the U. S. Central Command total of 484 non-combatants slayed as of June 2017.
‘Two weeks ago,’ the New York Times reported June 19, ‘the American military finally acknowledged what nongovernmental monitoring groups had claimed for months: The United States-led coalition fighting the Islamic State since August 2014 has been killing Iraqi and Syrian civilians at astounding rates in the four months since President Trump assumed office. The result has been a ‘staggering loss of civilian life,’ as the head of the United Nations’ independent Commission of Inquiry into the Syrian civil war said last week.’

This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on JULY 8, 2017.