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Arctic16Melissa Cronin
10/07/15 8:58pm
How is this not a war crime? Just because it was supposedly inadvertent doesn’t excuse the results.
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  momofpeanutArctic16
  10/07/15 9:44pm
  Intent is a largeart of the definition of crime.
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  Princess PigeontoeArctic16
  10/07/15 10:02pm
  Um, intent is exactly what constitutes a war crime. The U.S. had to have known there was a MSF hospital there and intentionally fired upon it.
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BIlllingtonMelissa Cronin
10/07/15 8:23pm
Look, I’m not an idiot with regards to the United States’ foreign policy. But for what reason would the military launch an airstrike onto a MSF hospital?
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  PorxaderpBIlllington
  10/07/15 8:25pm
  “theirs turrists in them thar hospital”
  
  That’s all the excuse they need anymore.
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  JimTom's DoulaBIlllington
  10/07/15 8:27pm
  Because the Afghans were upset that it was treating Taliban fighters and told us they were using it as a base.
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filmgirlMelissa Cronin
10/07/15 8:30pm
He didn’t say “stuff happens” “and next one I will apologize”.

They fucked up and he took ownership of it.
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  Set Fire to the Room--do it now (fiends NOT friends)filmgirl
  10/07/15 8:32pm
  I mean, I guess, if you call it ownership when he’ll do everything he can do avoid there being a single consequence, including an independent investigation.
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  Midtown43filmgirl
  10/07/15 9:00pm
  Agreed. It was a tremendous fuck up but I respect that he’s man enough to own up to it and apologize.
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ArkMelissa Cronin
10/08/15 12:37am
“Mistakenly”.

It was not a mistake. The hospital was precision targeted and sustained several direct hits.
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  lewis55Ark
  10/08/15 7:12am
  Not it is “mistakenly.” He had nothing to do with the actual decision to bomb this hospital. He ordered the military to support Afghan government efforts to expel the Taliban, which I think most people on this blog support, and in the process of doing that, lower level military commanders made a major fuckup. A fuckup that seems to have emerged from them mistakenly believing intelligence given to them by Afghan commanders, who didn’t care that it was a hospital and wanted it bombed because their were Taliban fighters in it.
  
  Obama does not sit in the situation room 24/7 making tactical decisions on ever single bomb fired when the military is providing close air support for ground forces. This does not excuse what happened AT ALL, but I think its worth pointing out that from Obama’s perspective, yes this was something done “mistakenly”.
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  RooseveltsRevengelewis55
  10/08/15 8:52am
  No one is saying ordered the strike. But American forces did. And they knew this was a hospital.
  
  Right after it happened they defended it saying “we were taking fire from talk an forces in the hospital”
  
  This was immediately refuted by Doctors Without Borders.
  
  Then we said “accidental”
  
  DWB the said “it was a sustained direct bombing. Numerous hits.”
  
  Now it’s “oops, fog of war.”
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ARP2Melissa Cronin
10/07/15 8:31pm
Very few people think it was deliberate, but it shows that you shouldn’t bomb a building just because you heard a rumor from a friend of a friend that there are terrorists in the area. It borders on gross negligence (and its how we ended up in Iraq and with an Guantanamo problem).
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  Floating Adam WestARP2
  10/07/15 8:34pm
  That’s an oversimplification. This wasn’t a drone strike, it was close air support to “friendly” forces on the ground supposedly taking direct fire from the enemy. In a fluid situation like that there’s not a lot of time to independently verify “yup, that sure is the building shooting at them” without risking lives. That’s not to excuse it, it’s a tragic thing that happened, but yea there it is.
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  gramercypoliceFloating Adam West
  10/07/15 8:50pm
  That’s also a bit of an over simplification because the hospital was on a large, unique parcel of land, with a large expanse of what looks like lawn or close-cut ground cover. So, the bombers knew what building they were bombing (not saying the pilots knew it was a hospital, just that it wasn’t one building crowded in among many others).
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2DollarzMelissa Cronin
10/07/15 8:44pm
Thanks Obomber!
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CartireMelissa Cronin
10/07/15 8:24pm
Why would anyone think this was deliberate? Fire some people. Throw some intelligence guys in jail. But let’s be rational here. Even Hitler wouldnt purposely hit a hospital. Unless it was the ran by Jews.
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  JimTom's DoulaCartire
  10/07/15 8:27pm
  Because the Afghans were upset that it was treating Taliban fighters and told us they were using it as a base.
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  FreshlyShavenCartire
  10/08/15 10:00am
  Because we have a long history of bombing civilians (cf. the double tap) in these War-on-Terror wars. The US has no moral credibility and nobody in their right mind gives it the benefit of the doubt.
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ArdenMelissa Cronin
10/08/15 9:39am
Russians have civilian plane shot out of the sky: People MUST be held accountable and punished for their actions.

America bombs an international aid organization: look guys, mistakes happen alright? Sorry about the dead people but let’s all just move on, kay?
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PeabodyHereMelissa Cronin
10/08/15 12:40pm
Apologies to the dead and especially to the wounded. Restitution is on the way ... not.
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portland1Melissa Cronin
10/07/15 9:14pm
Apologizing will only embolden our enemies, the doctors.
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