US war, terrorism similar in killing innocents: Pundit

Press TV has conducted an interview with Leah Bolger, with the Veterans for Peace from Oregon, for her insights into the killings of dozens of people in northern Iraq during a US airstrike under the pretext of hitting ISIL hideouts there.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: How do you feel about this news of the US “fight against ISIL,” now the civilians are being killed, certainly that doesn’t really work to help it, does it?   

Bolger: No, civilians are always killed in war and that’s what makes it so immoral. The United States never seems to take account of the number of innocent lives that it takes in warfare. So, it wouldn’t matter to the United States that the civilians were killed in this attack, because they’d say it was a huge bomb-making factory and that the damage we did to that bomb factory outweighs the negavtive side for the innocents.

Press TV: From where I’m standing, there’s a lot of suspicions about US intentions, when it comes in this, what it has called fight against ISIL, when it talks about Ramadi and the fact that the US did not help although the base was close-by and it could have helped the Iraqis at that time. How do you feel about US intentions?

Bolger: It’s hard for me to know exactly what my government is thinking, but the thing is that the military intervention in Iraq is not the business of the United States. When we intervened in 2003 and completely destabilized this sovereign nation for no reason, that’s led to where we are now, it just shows me that military action does not come to a good conclusion and we should never have attacked Iraq in the first place.  

Press TV: And so, what about the supporting the Iraqis themselves, because there’s been some criticism leveled from the Iraqi leadership towards the US as far as arms delivery etc go, which would help in the fight against this terror group, because certainly I would imagine, everybody agrees that it does need to be expelled?

Bolger: Well, yes, I mean we need to stop terrorism, but in my view, war is terrorism as well. I don’t really see the difference between a suicide bomb car and a missile coming down from above. I mean people are killed, innocent people are killed by both ways. So, to try to enact some kind of political progress or stable situation through the use of violence is ineffective and right now we are just going around in this vicious circle. You need to be taking out well on revenge and retribution. It’s going nowhere. And it’s just going to keep spiraling.

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