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Killing Civilians

By TChris, Section War on Terror
Posted on Sat May 12, 2007 at 01:20:30 PM EST
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It's good to see a headline recognizing this reality:

Civilian Deaths Undermine Allies’ War on Taliban

From the story:

What angers Afghans are not just the bombings, but also the raids of homes, the shootings of civilians in the streets and at checkpoints, and the failure to address those issues over the five years of war. Afghan patience is wearing dangerously thin, officials warn.

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    Remember how (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by Che's Lounge on Sun May 13, 2007 at 03:45:08 AM EST
    the press jacked off over smart bombs in '91?

    The bombs are only as smart as the people who deploy them. So we're back to square one. Unnacceptable civilian casualties. Just like the Soviets. Different day, same BS. Putin must be shaking his head in wonder at the stupidity.

    More lessons ignored. But I'm not supposed to dwell on the past, according to the enablers of this disaster.

    Of course you're not supposed to dwell on the past (none / 0) (#2)
    by Edger on Sun May 13, 2007 at 04:30:01 AM EST
    if you did how could you ever forget who the enablers were? And how could they evade their responsibilty if people keep reminding everyone?

    Civility, and decorum. It's be nice to psychotics week, or something...

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    As soon as the (none / 0) (#3)
    by Edger on Sun May 13, 2007 at 06:23:34 AM EST
    great achievements made delivering freedom and democray to Iraq are equaled in Afghanistan the Afghanis will start throwing flowers.

    The next six months are crucial to civility, or decorum, or something.

    they are throwing flowers (5.00 / 1) (#4)
    by Jen M on Sun May 13, 2007 at 07:31:13 AM EST
    or at least strewing the roads with them.. the military calls them IEDs

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    How silly of me. I forgot about those ones. (none / 0) (#5)
    by Edger on Sun May 13, 2007 at 08:23:48 AM EST


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    go figure. (none / 0) (#6)
    by cpinva on Sun May 13, 2007 at 09:33:29 AM EST
    those ungrateful wretches! whining about a few civilian casualties, in the great war against islamodemocratfeminaziliberalfascism9/11. how crass. don't they know that "dear leader" and his wife just worry themselves sick every night over this? they suffer, oh how they suffer!

    in every great endeavor, a few eggs will, of necessity, be broken. just because it happens to be your egg is no reason to whimper and moan about it dammit.

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