She's referring to Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal "The Uncounted" (THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE) which explained that the bombings of the US-led coalitions, the ones killing all those terrorists, were, in fact, killing a lot of civilians:
Around midnight, Basim heard a thump from the second floor. He peeked
out of his office and saw a sliver of light under the door to the
bedroom of his daughter, Tuqa. He called out for her to go to bed. At
21, Tuqa would often stay up late, and though Basim knew that he wasn’t a
good example himself and that the current conditions afforded little
reason to be up early, he believed in the calming power of an
early-to-bed, early-to-rise routine. He waited at the foot of the
stairs, called out again, and the sliver went dark.
It was 1 a.m. when Basim finally shut down the computer and headed
upstairs to bed. He settled in next to Mayada, who was fast asleep.
Some time later, he snapped awake. His shirt was drenched, and there
was a strange taste — blood? — on his tongue. The air was thick and
acrid. He looked up. He was in the bedroom, but the roof was nearly
gone. He could see the night sky, the stars over Mosul. Basim reached
out and found his legs pressed just inches from his face by what
remained of his bed. He began to panic. He turned to his left, and there
was a heap of rubble. “Mayada!” he screamed. “Mayada!” It was then that
he noticed the silence. “Mayada!” he shouted. “Tuqa!” The bedroom walls
were missing, leaving only the bare supports. He could see the dark
outlines of treetops. He began to hear the faraway, unmistakable sound
of a woman’s voice. He cried out, and the voice shouted back, “Where are
you?” It was Azza, his sister-in-law, somewhere outside.
“Mayada’s gone!” he shouted.
“No, no, I’ll find her!”
“No, no, no, she’s gone,” he cried back. “They’re all gone!”
That's just one example of what the reporters found. Overall?
Our own reporting, conducted over 18 months, shows that the air war
has been significantly less precise than the coalition claims. Between
April 2016 and June 2017, we visited the sites of nearly 150 airstrikes
across northern Iraq, not long after ISIS was evicted from them. We
toured the wreckage; we interviewed hundreds of witnesses, survivors,
family members, intelligence informants and local officials; we
photographed bomb fragments, scoured local news sources, identified ISIS
targets in the vicinity and mapped the destruction through satellite
imagery. We also visited the American air base in Qatar where the
coalition directs the air campaign. There, we were given access to the
main operations floor and interviewed senior commanders, intelligence
officials, legal advisers and civilian-casualty assessment experts. We
provided their analysts with the coordinates and date ranges of every
airstrike — 103 in all — in three ISIS-controlled areas and examined
their responses. The result is the first systematic, ground-based sample
of airstrikes in Iraq since this latest military action began in 2014.
We found that one in five of the coalition strikes we identified
resulted in civilian death, a rate more than 31 times that acknowledged
by the coalition. It is at such a distance from official claims that, in
terms of civilian deaths, this may be the least transparent war in
recent American history. Our reporting, moreover, revealed a consistent
failure by the coalition to investigate claims properly or to keep
records that make it possible to investigate the claims at all.
On Friday's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED (NPR), Kelly McEvers discussed the report with its co-author Azmat Khan:
MCEVERS: How many other people are there like Basim that you documented, people who had lost relatives, who are not classified as civilians?
KHAN: So in the 103 airstrikes that we found, there were 75 civilian deaths and none of them that - by any accounts we could tell matched with numbers that had been acknowledged by the coalition.
MCEVERS: Of those 75, how many had been reported as civilian deaths by the coalition?
KHAN: Zero.
In August of 2014, these bombings began under President Barack Obama.
No real objection was lodged by most.
These bombings have continued under President Donald Trump.
Maybe now we can get upset?
Maybe now we can object?
Because bombs don't bring peace.
