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Ex-US army chief defends Israel’s Oct. 7 response: ‘Can you imagine what we would do?’
2024-05-13
[IsraelTimes] Former Joint Chiefs chairman Mark Milley tells panel an onslaught of comparative scale would have killed 50,000-100,000 in US, ‘no way around’ Gaza’s brutal urban warfare

Former US Army chief Mark Milley on Tuesday defended Israel’s conduct of the war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip after Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
’s October 7 massacre, saying that a massacre equivalent in scale in the United States would have meant "50,000-100,000 people" being killed in a single morning.

"Israel has a right to defend itself. They were the ones who were attacked, brutally, on the 7th of October. Twelve hundred people were slaughtered — not just killed in the conduct of war, they were slaughtered, beheaded, butchered, raped in front of their husbands," Milley, who ended his four-year term as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in September, said at a geopolitics panel in Washington DC.

During Hamas’s brutal incursion, 252 hostages were also taken, 128 of whom remain in Gaza, not all of them alive.

"And it was stuff that was not even a hair’s breadth removed from what the Nazis did," he continued. "And if you take the math and do 1,200 and apply it to the United States, that’d be 50,000-100,000 people dead in a morning. Can you imagine what we would do?"

Milley added that in his own experience, "war is a horrible thing" and that such a war fought in "dense urban areas" inevitably would produce "very high levels of collateral damage," appearing to reference the significant destruction in the Strip amid the military offensive against Hamas, which is taking place in densely populated Gaza.

"There’s almost no way around it, but if there’s any morality at all, you need to get into it, achieve your political objectives, get it done, get it done fast, and get it over with," he said.

The general’s comments came as Israel faces growing international pressure to bring about a ceasefire amid the mounting corpse count in Gaza. The Biden administration has also been increasingly critical of the high civilian toll.

The US president said Wednesday he would halt certain arms transfers to Israel if it launches a wide-scale invasion in the southern Gaza city of Rafah after the White House confirmed a delay in the transfer of 2,000- and 500-pound bombs over concerns that the IDF could use them in Rafah, as it has in other parts of Gaza.

Israel stresses that it is only targeting terror groups in its offensive, but faces an uphill battle in limiting civilian casualties in the conflict, and has provided overwhelming evidence that Hamas and other terror organizations use civilian areas as cover for their activities.
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Posted by:trailing wife

#4  Better late than never. At least that one can learn from his own mistakes.
Posted by: Grom the reflective   2024-05-13 10:24  

#3  If Miley was leading, we would load random unvetted people on a plain and book it.
Posted by: Super Hose   2024-05-13 09:54  

#2  9/11 showed what you would do and didn't. You don't wage war, you manage it. How did all that work out? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-05-13 07:26  

#1  In General Milley's case, I can imagine he'd have called the Palestinians to let them know we were coming.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2024-05-13 06:55  

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