[dissident]

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/01 ... tion-Daesh

UN slams airstrike on water plant in Syria's Aleppo

The United Nations has censured the bombardment of a water treatment plant in northwestern Syria.

The Syrian state news agency SANA reported that the US-led coalition conducting airstrikes against purported positions of the Daesh Takfiri terrorists in Syria had bombed the water plant.

"In Syria, the rules of war, including those meant to protect vital civilian infrastructure, continue to be broken on a daily basis," said Hanaa Singer, the UNICEF representative in Syria, in a statement on Tuesday.

US is the same country that comes up with all sorts of retarded excuses why it couldn't bomb ISIS oil transport infrastructure. Lines of oil tanker trucks stretching for 50 km are a real difficult target. You know the environment could get hurt or some ISIS truck drivers. But bombing vital civilian infrastructure (e.g. water plant in a desert country) is just dandy.

Sick.

[Sixstrings]

Per the Reuters article, it's not yet known who bombed the water plant:

Singer did not say who was responsible for the air strike. In addition to fighting between Syrian government forces and rebel groups, the United States, France and Russia have been carrying out air attacks on targets in Syria.

The Syrian state news agency SANA reported that the U.S.-led coalition had bombed the water plant, while the Syrian Network for Human Rights blamed Syrian government warplanes. Neither gave any evidence for their assertions.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/12/01/us-syria-crisis-aleppo-water-idUSKBN0TK4F020151201#bSFagSzwAqvcCiMi.97

[Newfie]

Seems we have been bombing the electric system as well?

WTF?

[AgentR11]

You weren't under the mistaken belief that we were the good guys, now were you?

[Cog]

Iranian news source. Always good for a few laughs.

[AgentR11]

You're free to believe as you wish of course, but the water plant was destroyed, and the Russians/Iranians need that water plant, and will have to rebuild it now once they capture Aleppo, which they are reasonably close to doing (1-2 weeks I think).

It doesn't make sense for Assad to blow it up at this point. If he wanted to use the water supply cut off to depopulate Aleppo; he would have done it a couple weeks ago. Now, its destruction will just slow SAA down.

[Cog]

Things happen in war. How unfortunate for our Russian friends. I'm besides myself with grief over the whole affair.

[Cid_Yama]

Syrians would not destroy their own water plant. At some point, critical thinking should kick in, right?

[SeaGypsy]

If it was the Yanks it was fin stupid. How to make sure everybody hates the US, just in case they didn't already.

I'm starting to agree with 6 on one thing, there should be a no fly zone in the IS, but enforced by Russia. He's wrong on just about everything else.

Syria is going to be the next Lybia seems to be the NATO agenda, what a spiteful outcome to deliver the common people on both sides.

[Cog]

Accidents happen. I'm sure if the Americans can accidently bomb things, the Russians are perfectly capable of the same thing. Not to even mention the quality of Syrian pilots coming into play. I understand the theme on this board is to blame everything bad that ever occurs in the world on America.


The source is Iranian news agency. Not exactly what you would call an unbiased news source.

[Cid_Yama]

It was also in the Western news if you cared to look. It happened November 26th.

[Cog]

Was the western media there to identify the plane that dropped the ordnance or were they simply parroting what Syria or Iran told them happened?

Use some of those critical thinking skills Cid.

[Newfie]

Critical thinking Cog would allow you to take a fair and balanced look at the world, not just be USA cheerleader #1.

Come on, when pushed you've got a great head and a good heart.

USA is quite capable of doing stupid shit, there is a loooong history of it.

This is just one more particularly stupid example. It helps no one and hurts many, including the USA.

So, unless you agree with IS that we really need to have a war to the finish think this thru, from a strategic point of view. What would the USA have to gain and loose by this action. What are the pros and cons?

[Cog]

There was no reason for the USA to bomb the water plant and I don't believe they did. I can see a lot of reasons why the Iranians, Syrians, and Russians would want to blame their screw-up on the USA instead of themselves.

Course that is just my red-neck opinion on the matter.

[Cid_Yama]

Rah Rah. Don't forget your pom poms.

[AgentR11]

Cog... SAA have had at least a couple years to blow up that plant, its a trivially easy to identify and hit target. It doesn't strike you as odd that they would do it a couple weeks before it would become their property? A million or few bucks in infrastructure?

come on....

[Cog]

Accidents happen in bombing. Didn't the US bomb a hospital not long ago that you guys made a big deal about? The USA owned up to doing it. So somehow Russian, Syrian, and Iranian pilots are somehow 1 minute of angle bomber pilots immune to mistakes?

I don't blame America first like some here. That doesn't make me a cheerleader. Just makes me realistic about propaganda.

[Cid_Yama]

[Satori]

can you imagine civilian targets not being hit during WW2 ?

hell
we'd still be fighting

who produces the weapons for the soldiers to keep fighting ?
who produces the food?
who produces all the military hardware?
are the roads that the supplies are sent on separate for military and civilian?

if you are going to fight a war
then damn it FIGHT A WAR !
and end it as soon as possible

[AgentR11]

Just makes me realistic about propaganda.

There's no propaganda here.
There is a simple fact. Water plant went boom.
And there is speculation as to who and why.
You're suggesting the Russians goofed, destroying a large asset right before they would need to use it. Possible, no doubt.
I'm suggesting the US blew it up in order to slow down SAA and inflict a few million bucks in cost on Russia.

I think my suggestion has the higher probability of truth.