Your Centcom Blood Lust Channel Is Now Available

Up until this latest social media spree, CENTCOM’s YouTube channel was the kind of military propaganda we’re used to—recruitment-style videos and smiley troop fare like “Faces of Freedom,” featuring a sergeant and his bomb-sniffing dog. It hasn’t been quite up to the level of the Israeli Defense Forces’ social media PR blitz, but these new videos [showing US airstrikes in Iraq], and the detailed descriptions of strikes (being compiled here by journalist Chris Woods), seem to mark a new effort.

The quick release of stats and imagery may reflect the need to drum up public support for the campaign against the Islamic State. CENTCOM’s public affairs office declined an interview on their newfound media enthusiasm, saying only that there was a lot of media interest in Iraq and they know we—the press, that is—want images.

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Over the past year or so there’s been an increasing demand for transparency in the secretive drone war in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia from former administration officials, rights groups, congress, and journalists. But these shots of grainy slow-motion explosions in Iraq are more propaganda than transparency, and the kill videos are tough to take when one considers that they are being deployed against a group that’s gotten the world’s attention through horrific videotaped executions.

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If the U.S. continues the bombardment, it’s almost certain that the same questions will eventually arise. And if there are civilians killed, its unlikely CENTCOM will tweet about the videos.

  The Intercept

Unless they get enough American support for it, that is.

And the world becomes more barbaric by the day.

The United States military says it’s launched airstrikes around Iraq's Haditha Dam to prevent the area from being captured by Islamic State militants.

The dam in western Iraq’s Anbar Province, a major source of water and electrical power, is currently in control of the Iraqis, but there have been attempts by the militants to take over the vital facility.

The Sunday airstrikes on the area around the dam were carried out at the request of the Iraqi government, according to US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who is currently on a trip to Georgia's capital, Tbilisi.

  RT

 Yes, that Haditha.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.