The family were killed during a US airstrike in Somalia. According to a Guardian investigation, at least 12 civilians, including eight children, died during the attack.

It is the deadliest US operation for civilians in Somalia during either Trump administration. The US had not killed so many innocent people in a single incident in the east African country for 18 years. The previous highest confirmed toll was the bloody, botched US military operation in the capital, Mogadishu, that became known as the 1993 Black Hawk Down incident.

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    This is reminiscent of Clinton’s “peacekeeping operations” or Obama’s “surgical strikes”. They keep inventing these lukewarm-sounding euphemisms so they don’t have to declare war and can just bomb people haphazardly without any accountability. That doesn’t change the fact that these are fucking war crimes.

    Also why I oppose any war that isn’t purely defensive in nature.

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      I don’t remember a single war of agression or american foreign interventions Hillary did not support. She is the ultimate war monger

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        She still is. I bet if given the chance she’d kill more than the others and spin it because that’s what she’s good at…