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US military admits it killed 10 civilians and targeted wrong vehicle in Kabul airstrike

But, but, but Trump. Why is it the only answer libs have is Trump, Trump, Trump. Biden can do no wrong, we can't discuss any of his actions.
did I blame Trump for those kids dying? I said it happened during his administration and you guys didn't give a damn....now you only give a damn, because Biden is president.
 
But, so long as the Biden family gets their billions of dollars from their 10% ownership in the Chinese mining conglomerate that is scheduled to mine the estimated $2 to $3 trillion in lithium in Afghanistan.
 
Was it only a week ago that people declaring this a bad hit were derided for siding with the Taliban?
 
Exactly. That buffoon was bragging about getting a "high-value" ISIS-K target. Little did we know that "K" stands for "kids".
This is nothing new, unfortunately. What is new is you started to pay attention because it’s under Biden.
 
McKenzie stated that the warhead was set to go off after it entered the vehicle to reduce the collateral damage ……….in a walled courtyard….
He's talking about the RX9 Hellfire missile. It's 'warhead' is said to weigh about 20 pounds and contains no explosive material. It relies upon kinetic energy and 6 blades that deploy just before impact to destroy it's target. The photos of the damage in Kabul don't appear to match up with photos where it had previously been allegedly deployed in that there seems to be a lot more shrapnel and blast damage than in those previous examples. But that could possibly be attributed to the attack occurring within a pretty confined space.
 
Thank God you posted all those threads snarkily attacking Trump and his military for all the civilian deaths from prior strikes, especially the business about loosening targeting rules.

:rolleyes:

Honestly....




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At any rate, did they say who made the call?

Whatever happened to the days when the Biden Admin were supposed to be the smart ones, the well organized ones?
 
Y'all don't know the half of this tragedy. The systems were working and the people that actually know what they are doing.....yes, I know how rare that is........were tacking the suiside bomber and requested permission to engage it. That request was refused. That resulted in 170 dead civilians and 13 dead American military.

That decision had to have come from just two people in the chain of command.....SecDef or POTUS!
I heard something to that effect with regard to the suicide bomber but wasn't able to get any confirmation...naturally.
 
This whole "official explanation" doesn't wash. First they claim they observed this vehicle and it's activities for hours. If that is true how come they didn't know it was full of kids. Second, it was easy to see from the video they provided that the man was loading empty containers into the vehicle. Since when does a vehicle full of children and empty containers equal an eminent threat? Third, they are trying to excuse this cluster by saying the situation was tense. WTF. Lastly, they were confident they had the right guy because the car was a white Corolla. Seriously, how many white Corollas do you think are in this city?

Some heads need to roll on this one. Reparations to a family that don't exist any more doesn't cut it.
Jesus Christ try harder with the reading. The vehicle was not full of children. The children appeared around the vehicle just mere seconds after the missile was launched. Also the last most critical stop the vehicle made before heading home the security cameras had been turned off shortly after it arrived at that location and subsequently no one was able to see what was loaded onto it there. There are also a ton of Toyotas in these countries.
 
did I blame Trump for those kids dying? I said it happened during his administration and you guys didn't give a damn....now you only give a damn, because Biden is president.
News flash, Trump is not pres anymore. Biden has to put on his big boy pants and take his lumps for this ineptness. Just because he is senile doesn't mean he gets a pass.
 
But, so long as the Biden family gets their billions of dollars from their 10% ownership in the Chinese mining conglomerate that is scheduled to mine the estimated $2 to $3 trillion in lithium in Afghanistan.
Can you point to which Chinese mining company that they have 10% ownership in....I know Biden nor his wife have any ownership in any Chinese companies, much less mining companies....and their son and brother did have some interest in an energy company, but that isn't mineral mining...so, stop making crap up.
 
News flash, Trump is not pres anymore. Biden has to put on his big boy pants and take his lumps for this ineptness. Just because he is senile doesn't mean he gets a pass.
So, it cannot be discussed that people are acting like they care now that Biden is president when they didn't give a damn before? yeah, no you don't care about dead kids...the only thing you care about is trashing Biden.
 
Jesus Christ try harder with the reading. The vehicle was not full of children. The children appeared around the vehicle just mere seconds after the missile was launched. Also the last most critical stop the vehicle made before heading home the security cameras had been turned off shortly after it arrived at that location and subsequently no one was able to see what was loaded onto it there. There are also a ton of Toyotas in these countries.
don't you know it is only an outrage since Biden is president....he wouldn't give a damn if Trump was president.
 
From CENTCOM:



three things come to mind:

1. Intel probably hasn't gotten any better since we left Afghanistan completely, meaning that much of the the "over the horizon" capability that we were assured would "stop terrorists from terrorizing with their terroristy ways even after we leave" probably looks a lot like this strike.

2. McKenzie took responsibility for it, and then didn't try to shift responsibility to anyone else while still claiming he was taking responsibility, even though he totally could have. Whatta novel concept.

3. a shit show. from beginning to end.
War is hell.
 
Been saying this strike was highly suspect since the very beginning.

There was absolkutely zero chance that our retreating military could get operational intel that fast. Zero.

The fact that the hit was reported being clean with one ISIS-K leader to-be-named killed and no other injusties was bullshit.... if it sounds like a fairy tale then it is.

Then they came out later with the bullshit "well, we hit the ISIS-K leader, killed him but won't tell you who he was... but some of the bombs in his car flew over to this other guy's house and killed him and his family" was again such an improbable occurance that it was clearly bullshit.

Now they tell the truth. They had no ****ing clue who they were firing a missile at, but they did it anyway.

Now we are down to the still unstated, most likely truth about this hit... they just picked a target at random and figured the chaos they left in Kabul would ensure nobody would know the difference.
Source for that last claim?
 
I don't give a shit about any of that, and btw, pretend to care if we were relying on the TALIBAN for our "over the horizon" intel.
PS, I'm betting we were, because we had zero military or intel there ourselves at the time.
We did not know it was a suicide bomber and err'd on the side of expediency. That cost 7 children their lives.
McKenzie needs to man up and resign.
He. Killed. SEVEN INNOCENT CHILDREN WITH A HELLFIRE MISSILE.

No one should EVER trust that man again. There's no coming back from what he did.

I don't give a good Goddam about what he thought he knew.
Look at you with your faux outrage. Stop pretending that you didn't give a shit about about brown Muslims from a 'shithole' country until their tragic deaths in the fog of war caused some bad publicity for Biden. Because other than that you wouldn't have ever given two shits about any of them.
 
Collateral damage is generally secondary to an actual target. You bomb a terrorist and family members get caught in an explosion. An enemy builds a headquarters next to a church, and people get caught in the crossfire.

In this case, we bombed the wrong person. We intentionally targeted someone as the enemy, who wasn't. Someone who was actually our ally. And we killed their kids - as collateral damage.
This isn’t the first time American forces have killed the wrong people on accident or intentionally. Regardless, you are simply playing a game of semantics.
 
Look at you with your faux outrage. Stop pretending that you didn't give a shit about about brown Muslims from a 'shithole' country until their tragic deaths in the fog of war caused some bad publicity for Biden. Because other than that you wouldn't have ever given two shits about any of them.

How about slamming Biden for receiving bad intel? For poor decision-making?
How about wondering whether the drone strike was for political purposes?
 
So, it cannot be discussed that people are acting like they care now that Biden is president when they didn't give a damn before? yeah, no you don't care about dead kids...the only thing you care about is trashing Biden.
Says the yahoo who spent the last 5 years trashing Trump. At least Trump didn't come out and brag about killing kids.
 
Look at you with your faux outrage. Stop pretending that you didn't give a shit about about brown Muslims from a 'shithole' country until their tragic deaths in the fog of war caused some bad publicity for Biden. Because other than that you wouldn't have ever given two shits about any of them.
Oooh, look at you getting all ad-hom raging!
The last bastion of incompetent and uninformed interlocutors.
 
He's talking about the RX9 Hellfire missile. It's 'warhead' is said to weigh about 20 pounds and contains no explosive material. It relies upon kinetic energy and 6 blades that deploy just before impact to destroy it's target. The photos of the damage in Kabul don't appear to match up with photos where it had previously been allegedly deployed in that there seems to be a lot more shrapnel and blast damage than in those previous examples. But that could possibly be attributed to the attack occurring within a pretty confined space.
How do you account for an explosion and shrapnel?

 
Says the yahoo who spent the last 5 years trashing Trump. At least Trump didn't come out and brag about killing kids.
Or call it "righteous".
 
Says the yahoo who spent the last 5 years trashing Trump. At least Trump didn't come out and brag about killing kids.
No one in this administration bragged about killing kids..and they owned up to it...something your Orange buffoon was unable to do...he never owned up to anything in his life....he would say kids? What kids...and you would insist that it was all fake news...that no kids died while Trump was president...
 
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