Up to 27 Iraqi civilians may have been killed in Canadian airstrike, Pentagon document reveals - Polidicks

[QUOTE]An internal Pentagon document obtained by CBC's the fifth estate raises questions about the quality of the investigation conducted by coalition forces into an allegation that as many as 27 civilians were killed in Iraq by a Canadian airstrike. The Department of National Defence acknowledged last week that an investigation looked into allegations that a Canadian airstrike had killed civilians in northwestern Iraq in January of this year. It was part of an important battle for a key highway near Mosul.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/up-to-27-iraqi-civilians-may-have-been-killed-in-canadian-airstrike-pentagon-document-reveals-1.3213917[/url]

Keep bombng ISIS! We need to keep blowing more people up because they're bad guys and deserve it!

We're sorry eh

[QUOTE=Explosions;48609356]Keep bombng ISIS! We need to keep blowing more people up because they're bad guys and deserve it![/QUOTE] I love how nobody will understand the point of your comment.... Spot on

There was always going to be collateral damage. I'm not sure how anyone can be surprised.

[QUOTE=Explosions;48609356]Keep bombng ISIS! We need to keep blowing more people up because they're bad guys and deserve it![/QUOTE] 27 casualies =/= the things ISIS is doing.

[QUOTE=Explosions;48609356]Keep bombng ISIS! We need to keep blowing more people up because they're bad guys and deserve it![/QUOTE] Right! Let's just leave them alone to rot the middle-east from the inside out!

[QUOTE=Cutthecrap;48609982]I love how nobody will understand the point of your comment.... Spot on[/QUOTE] Which is...?

I'm sorry :(

[QUOTE=RichyZ;48611043]you don't solve an insurgency by throwing out bombs left and right, it only causes more collateral damage and creates more enemies[/QUOTE] This isn't exactly an insurgency though. This is the establishment of an actual state, who is willing to fight a war to get what they want. They aren't just some guerilla group, they are very well organized. Not to mention, the people under ISIS rule either actively hate ISIS or at the very least fear them and wish them to be gone. Not to mention, there are a lot of ISIS fighters who aren't even from the Iraq-Syrian area. This isn't just some group with a very loose organization structure.

ISIS is far from an actual state. if they had a parliament or any kind of castle or whatnot it would get swiftly bomed into the ground. theyre too weak to do anything offical so they do everything underground. additionally they have absolutely no legal jurisdiction or anyone. they're basically just a guerilla group forcing their views onto the groups around them.

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;48611177]ISIS is far from an actual state. if they had a parliament or any kind of castle or whatnot it would get swiftly bomed into the ground. theyre too weak to do anything offical so they do everything underground. additionally they have absolutely no legal jurisdiction or anyone. they're basically just a guerilla group forcing their views onto the groups around them.[/QUOTE] Lol this is patently false, IS controls (unofficially administrates, in all capacities) Raqqah in a functional capacity, and is not known to commonly practice guerrilla warfare in recent times as far as I know??? I mean they're basically fighting in the open in complete head to head warfare against Syria's government forces. I don't see how that can be considered underground the issue is that bombing things doesnt really mean much when you cant just bomb everything with a roof and there exists no adequate force to stand up to IS aside from the Syrian Arab Army, which has really no international support and is atrociously under-supplied and probably under-manned too at this point

[QUOTE=Milkdairy;48611287]Lol this is patently false, IS controls (unofficially administrates, in all capacities) Raqqah in a functional capacity, and is not known to commonly practice guerrilla warfare in recent times as far as I know??? I mean they're basically fighting in the open in complete head to head warfare against Syria's government forces. I don't see how that can be considered underground the issue is that bombing things doesnt really mean much when you cant just bomb everything with a roof and there exists no adequate force to stand up to IS aside from the Syrian Arab Army, which has really no international support and is atrociously under-supplied and probably under-manned too at this point[/QUOTE] It's like the 80's all over again! Nostalgia is rushing over me, despite me not having been born for over a decade! Oh, god, help me!

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;48611738]It's like the 80's all over again! Nostalgia is rushing over me, despite me not having been born for over a decade! Oh, god, help me![/QUOTE] I mean they'll go underground if the West forces them to but as it is it's not happening

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;48611177]ISIS is far from an actual state.[/QUOTE] They collect revenues and enforce laws. I'd consider them a state. Any government in a state of total war would probably move itself underground.

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;48611843]They collect revenues and enforce laws. I'd consider them a state. Any government in a state of total war would probably move itself underground.[/QUOTE] This is exactly what I meant. For all intents and purposes IS operates like a national government would in its controlled territories. If official recognition or something is what makes or breaks an actual state, then look at the actual Syrian government which isn't internationally recognized by almost anyone.