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The Laws of War, US-Style: --More than three hundred Iraqi civilians died on 13 February 1991 when two US F-117 stealth bombers targeted the al-Amiriya bunker in Baghdad. Photographs of the charred and twisted bodies of women and children shocked a world which, thanks to Norman Schwarzkopf and CNN, had seen little of the horrors of the Gulf War. Pentagon officials, who claimed to have intelligence indicating the bunker was a command and control centre, denied knowledge of the civilian presence. Had they known, the attack would probably have been classed as a war crime.-- http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n04/byer01_.html
The list goes on. I could copy & paste for hours. Here is the pattern:
1. The U.S. bombs and kills civilians. 2. The military reports casualties of enemy combatants, but not civilians. 3. Third parties then report the civilian deaths. 4. U.S. Army denies it knew civilians were present. 5. Repeat ad infinitum.
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