Facts of death

Nearly 12,000 civilians in Syria and Iraq have died under bombs dropped from over 30,000 US led air strikes since President Obama launched Operation Inherent Resolve in June, 2014. The US has killed most of those innocents but our partners in criminal war: Britain, France, Belgium, Denmark, Saudi Arabia, Canada, the UAE and the Netherlands have contributed to the carnage. While Obama began the slaughter to prevent the US from being pushed out of an area they never had an iota of business interfering with, President Trump has ramped up US air strikes, with his former defense secretary James 'Mad Dog' Mattis saying last year we've gone from a "policy of attrition to one of annihilation". When questioned about shocking civilian casualties Mattis pooh-poohed them as wartime "facts of life".

Actually, those 12,000 civilians are facts of death.