July 10, 2017
This is the state of war in the United States in July
2017.
The US bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria is now the
heaviest since the bombing of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in the 1960s-70s,
with 84,000 bombs and
missiles dropped between 2014 and the end of May 2017
That is nearly triple the 29,200 bombs and
missiles dropped on Iraq in the “Shock and Awe” campaign of
2003.
The Obama administration escalated the bombing
campaign last October, as the U.S.-Iraqi assault on Mosul began, dropping
12,290 bombs and missiles between October and the end of January when President
Obama left office. The Trump administration has further escalated the
campaign, dropping another 14,965 bombs and missiles since February
1st. May saw the heaviest bombing yet, with 4,374 bombs and missiles
dropped.
