Words have meanings and CNN’s Reza Aslan should know better than to ratchet up the rhetoric over a reported U.S. air raid in Mosul that resulted in over a hundred civilian deaths:
Trump promised to carpet bomb cities and murder families. That's what he's doing. https://t.co/Gp8wIKAV6n
— Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) March 25, 2017
CNN — Aslan’s employer — reported that the strikes were directed at individual targets — which is NOT carpet bombing. The CNN report also said that the home might have been boob-trapped by ISIS, which contributed to the death toll. Aslan also missed that the airstrike was reportedly carried out under a policy set by … wait for it … President Obama:
Iraq airstrikes: @CENTCOM tells me authority to approve strikes was delegated to some battlefield commanders in December: pic.twitter.com/hc2ysQmOU0
— Jared Malsin (@jmalsin) March 27, 2017
Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis commented to reporters that the U.S. always tries to “do everything humanly possible to reduce the loss of life or injury among innocent people. The same cannot be said for our adversaries.”
But, hey, what’s the point in accuracy in journalism if you’re willing to literally engage in cannibalism for ratings:
Today in #NotTheOnion, CNN's Reza Aslan ate a human brain to partake in a cannibalistic ritual. Happy Friday, everyone. pic.twitter.com/6a9g6SrrNN
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 10, 2017
An investigation into the deaths is ongoing…
If you didn’t see this Times article: "U.S. Investigating Mosul Strikes Said to Have Killed Up to 200 Civilians" https://t.co/kPiNG9cFAv pic.twitter.com/YnVrCT02Df
— Philip Bump (@pbump) March 26, 2017
…and the U.S. military has stated it will not change the policy based on this incident:
More on #Mosul – US military says it does not intend to change the way it carries out strikes https://t.co/AurrRV1oIZ
— Deirdre Finnerty (@deefinnerty) March 28, 2017
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