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March 2, 2011 at 9:26 pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/world/...TE&ei=5043
Quote:Petraeus Apologizes for Deaths of 9 Afghan Boys
By ALISSA J. RUBIN and SANGAR RAHIMI
KABUL, Afghanistan — Nine boys collecting firewood to heat their homes in the eastern Afghanistan mountains were killed by NATO helicopter gunners who mistook them for insurgents, according to a statement on Wednesday by NATO, which apologized for the mistake.
The boys, who were 9 to 15 years old, were attacked on Tuesday in what amounted to one of the war’s worst cases of mistaken killings by foreign-led forces. The victims included two sets of brothers. A 10th boy survived.
The NATO statement, which included an unusual personal apology by the commander of the NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. David H. Petraeus, said the boys had been misidentified as the attackers of a NATO base earlier in the day. News of the attack enraged Afghans and led to an anti-American demonstration on Wednesday in the village of Nanglam, where the boys were from. The only survivor, Hemad, 11, said his mother had told him to go out with other boys to collect firewood because “the weather is very cold now.”
“We were almost done collecting the wood when suddenly we saw the helicopters come,” said Hemad, who, like many Afghans, has only one name. “There were two of them. The helicopters hovered over us, scanned us and we saw a green flash from the helicopters. Then they flew back high up, and in a second round they hovered over us and started shooting. They fired a rocket which landed on a tree. The tree branches fell over me and shrapnel hit my right hand and my side.”
Time to end this madness, too. The Shitwit may have started it but Obama had the chance to end it and failed.
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March 2, 2011 at 11:06 pm
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The Cleptoplutocorporatocracy will not allow Obama to pull out. If he even acts like he will pull out..*BAM*..just like Kennedy. And for the same reasons.
Cleptoplutocorporatocracy = Rule by the richest corporate elite who generate more money by stealing it from the citizens...we are nothing but a limitless credit card to them.
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March 2, 2011 at 11:16 pm
I think it is even simpler than that. Far too many Americans expect their President to be fucking with somebody somewhere. Even Clinton sprinkled bombs about willy-nilly.
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March 3, 2011 at 10:08 am
In war, shit happens.
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March 3, 2011 at 11:05 am
(March 3, 2011 at 10:08 am)Dotard Wrote: In war, shit happens.
Shame we never actually, you know, declare war on anyone. We just do whatever the hell we feel like, rule of law be damned.
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March 3, 2011 at 11:55 am
(March 3, 2011 at 10:08 am)Dotard Wrote: In war, shit happens.
Especially when you have armed helicopters flying around looking to exterminate people on the ground.
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March 3, 2011 at 4:56 pm
Is all of afghanistan really worth fighting over? I don't think so. Protect only the things you want out of the place, and shoot anyone that tries to get into that area. There is no good reason they would be there  Fighting over a territory that isn't "yours" and that you don't even intend to annex is... really stupid.
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March 3, 2011 at 8:24 pm
(March 3, 2011 at 4:56 pm)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: Is all of afghanistan really worth fighting over? I don't think so. Protect only the things you want out of the place, and shoot anyone that tries to get into that area. There is no good reason they would be there Fighting over a territory that isn't "yours" and that you don't even intend to annex is... really stupid.
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March 3, 2011 at 9:39 pm
Shoot the people making the contract with you... you already have control over the relevant area. If they claim to own it: shoot them. Now you own it.
Contracts are only relevant so long as the people holding the contract see good reason to continue doing so.
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March 4, 2011 at 11:34 am
(March 3, 2011 at 4:56 pm)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: Is all of afghanistan really worth fighting over? I don't think so.
Even the Russians finally came to that conclusion.
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