For the same reason that many public schools aren't allowed to talk about the way natives were treated in detail. The government doesn't want the people knowing bad shit current or previous versions of itself have done.
How could he? This person has backed him up in tough times in life, or maybe he was just a random a client. It might not have even been him, his car could've been stolen for a joyride, or his son may have been behind the wheel instead of the man himself.
He could have very easily seen that this person had a record of this shit from the many times he'd been found accused of and found to have committed such actions in the past.
I actually had a similar discussion about this on different forms of magic. If I sell you a car, there is an actual use for this car. You can drive it to work, take your kids to school, or go buy food.
If I sell you a missle, then I know exactly what you plan to do with that missle. There is only one thing a missle is made to do. The intention of the creator, seller, and the buyer is to murder people. There is no ambiguity here.
Not so apt a comparison. Picture a room full of repeat murderers that all have huge gun collections, it’s more like one of those murderers selling another murderer another gun for their collection, and then having them kill someone with that gun instead of one of their other guns. Which is puzzling to me... Sweden is the worlds #5 largest arms exporter, they export to countries like China, Iran, and numerous other military regimes on human rights lists- yet in most debates the United States (which doesn’t make the top list of exporters), is the focus- but by this logic, Sweden is just as culpable in global death aren’t they? Their weapons are used by groups like el-shabab in Somalia, and they’ve set up missile factories in belligerent states. Does it make it worse that much of that money is Nazi blood money? I’m not using them as a straw man, I’m saying that we live in a world where everyone is dirty- that cries of higher ground from people standing on top of others necks don’t...
... ring quite as true. Because in the end- if you want to be innocent you can be the one on the bus. If you don’t want to be the one being stepped on, you are culpable. When people talk about leaving their “evil” country for a better one they invariably talk about moving to another oppressive entity. America, The EU, Canada, Sweden, and so on. Places that are comparable in quality of life and for a reason. Because they too were not and are not too enlightened to step on others in order to keep their place. If it were my place to judge most governments of the world I could not rightly say any were good, and few are much better than the others, only different in how they are terrible. History has shown time again that those countries that are least guilty of these behaviors are usually only so until they have the ability and opportunity to turn power to their favor, or haven’t been pressed yet. We must change ourselves to change the world.
Jim Carrey has turned into a full on conspiracy nut, everything from antivax to chemtrails, so I would absolutely take ANYTHING he says/posts with a healthy dose of scepticism.
40 kids were killed and 56 were injured in a bombing by the Saudi coalition using a bomb made by american defense contractor lockheed martin given to them by the US government. The site at which the bus was struck was in the middle of a busy market
There's also the chance that it was collateral, that the fragments were collected from a legitimately destroyed target and planted at the site, a computer error, false flag, or maybe the bus was even a legitimate military target.
anyone who decides that a bus full of children is a legitimate military target need to go kill themselves.
The Saudi admitted it was them and said they don't have computer targeting for it. meaning they manually dropped it on that target.
The bus could easily be a military target. Think about it.
And the missiles are fucking expensive. As much as I dislike the Saudis, they aren't the sort to waste resources and goodwill just to kill seamlessly.
What if the bus was carrying chemical weapons? What if the "civilians" were insurgents trying to blend in? Maybe the square just so happened to be where the enemy established a strategic stronghold.
The kids could've been soldiers in training, the Houthis are hardly opposed to such tactics.
Or maybe it was a simple case of someone flicking the pickle too soon or too late.
Killing civilians is always inexcusable. I don't give a shit what fucking "what if" scenario you pull out your ass the facts are confirmed civilians died for naught.
If insurgents are trying to blend in you'll still have at least 5/1 civilian deaths. The bus was not carrying chemical weapons. The square was not an established strategic location.
Collateral is a reality of counter-insurgency and urban operations. Error is a reality of human presence.
And worst of all, we either tolerate the Saudis, or watch as someone far worse overtakes the region. Unless you'd prefer either imperialism making a comeback (US taking direct control of the region) or our enemies gaining the strength to destroy us and our way of life (Iran's stated goal is "Death to America", and the Saudis and Israelis are the only regional powers that can and will oppose them).
How does their committing the bombing make it the fault of the US, which is the claim of this post. As has already been stated, MULTIPLE times, it was hardly that simple. The missile was sold in good faith to long standing allies. A lot has changed since the sale, but that doesn't make it the USs fault and the US sure as hell didn't order the strike, which is what Carrey claimed, which just serves to prove my statement about doubting his accuracy. No one is saying it wasn't a tragedy, we ate saying it wasn't the USs fault. Thats like suing Ford every time a drunk driver hits someone in a Ford vehicle.
Y'all keep comparing it to a consumer supplier selling to someone they have no knowledge of any previous standings. The saudi have been committing war crimes for far longer than when the bomb was sold. There is previous precedent that this kind of thing would happen and there has been long enough that at the time of the sale they should have understood that this kind of thing was likely.
The post very specifically states that It was our bomb dropped by our ally. Never says that we ordered it only said that our government should have fucking known better.
You heard it from @famousone everybody. Pick up your guns, go to the nearest school, and open fire. Maybe one of those kids are a lizard person sent by the Illuminati. It's worth killing all those innocents according to @famousone.
I have to wonder what he would think if his own children would have been on that bus. I'll show him some respect by believing that he doesn't really think this bullshit he's spouting is true.
@bethorien, yes, because the everyone knows the military employs psychics to see every possible outcome of every single deal. The sell was over 3 years ago. There have been MASSIVE political shifts just in the last year. Seriously, get a grip. That's how diplomatic relations works, its based on trade and military support. They have sold weapons to plenty of other countries. Sure, its supposed to be for defensive purposes but its not like they can enforce that. I'm sure other countries have sold them missiles as well, where are the inflammatory comments on them. This isn't the USs "crime", they aren't culpable, and to say they are removes the blame from those who actually ordered the strike, which you should notice aren't even mentioned in the post.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/19/us-supplied-bomb-that-killed-40-children-school-bus-yemen
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The Saudis are also allies of the U.S. and diplomatic relations were established well before those with Yemen and have been more stable. While that in no way justifies what the Saudis did, it does make it obvious as to why the US sold them missiles, its part of what the whole "allies" thing means. I'm sure they have also sold Yemen weapons.
According to the article, it seems we were under the impression that selling them these more advanced guided munitions would lessen civilian tragedies as long as the Saudis took enough care to avoid hitting non-military targets. The sales were halted in October of 2016 when the Saudis made it very apparent they were not taking care to avoid hitting civilians. For the bus incident, they traced the bomb back to a shipment from back in 2015, before we stopped selling to them. In short, we sold these to them hoping that the increased accuracy may prevent some civilian casualties, but the Saudis proved they didn't care so we cut them off. The bomb used for this particular crime was back before we cut them off. This is all information from the article though, I can't vouch for it's credibility.
They said the wouldn't do dynamic targeting for them, but still said they do provide support to improve targeting. It doesn't really go into much detail about this support, but supposedly it was supposed to be more accurate to the alternatives. All they really had to do was take a bit of care to not strike non-military targets and they could have spared civilian lives, but they don't care so we cut em off. Unfortunately the article does go on to talk about us selling to them once again. Hopefully their will be enough opposition to prevent that.
If I sell you a missle, then I know exactly what you plan to do with that missle. There is only one thing a missle is made to do. The intention of the creator, seller, and the buyer is to murder people. There is no ambiguity here.
The Saudi admitted it was them and said they don't have computer targeting for it. meaning they manually dropped it on that target.
And the missiles are fucking expensive. As much as I dislike the Saudis, they aren't the sort to waste resources and goodwill just to kill seamlessly.
The kids could've been soldiers in training, the Houthis are hardly opposed to such tactics.
Or maybe it was a simple case of someone flicking the pickle too soon or too late.
If insurgents are trying to blend in you'll still have at least 5/1 civilian deaths. The bus was not carrying chemical weapons. The square was not an established strategic location.
And worst of all, we either tolerate the Saudis, or watch as someone far worse overtakes the region. Unless you'd prefer either imperialism making a comeback (US taking direct control of the region) or our enemies gaining the strength to destroy us and our way of life (Iran's stated goal is "Death to America", and the Saudis and Israelis are the only regional powers that can and will oppose them).
The post very specifically states that It was our bomb dropped by our ally. Never says that we ordered it only said that our government should have fucking known better.
I have to wonder what he would think if his own children would have been on that bus. I'll show him some respect by believing that he doesn't really think this bullshit he's spouting is true.
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The Saudis are also allies of the U.S. and diplomatic relations were established well before those with Yemen and have been more stable. While that in no way justifies what the Saudis did, it does make it obvious as to why the US sold them missiles, its part of what the whole "allies" thing means. I'm sure they have also sold Yemen weapons.