Posted on 10/03/2015 9:32:56 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
An airstrike hit a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday, killing at least 16 people in what the U.S. military called possible "collateral damage" in the battle to oust Taliban insurgents.
Frantic MSF staff phoned military officials at NATO in Kabul and Washington after the attack, and bombs continued to rain down near the medical facility for nearly an hour, one official from the aid group said.
At least 37 people were wounded and many patients and staff still missing, it added.
The U.S. military promised to investigate the incident, which could renew concerns over the use of its air power in the conflict.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Sorry to hear of this for the loss of life. It will also inhibit the Obamanation still further.
OMG.....
What serendipity...
Bammy whines about “smart weapons” and then God confounds him by making the smart ones go dumb and do exactly what he accused the Russians of!!
God is Great, need some popcorn...
Watch and See...
Obamacare?
While Putin is killing member of ISIS, Obama is killing doctors.
“If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor......Oooops.
I haven’t heard one word about this on TV....WHY NOT??? Because it makes Obama look ever worse than he did. Sad.
At least ot wasn’t a baby aspirin factory. That would have been really bad.
War is hell, prepare accordingly, and accept the damage done.
Operating in a war zone is a crap shoot with your life, always has been.
Did you hear that those igner’nt Ruskies are using old fasion dumb bombs in Syria?
They sure are behind the times.
Let me set this Correct, If you are at War then Death and Destruction are part and Parcel. IE there is really no such thing as collateral damage of the enemy, which is why War is the very last card to play, but once the deck is open then the object is to Destroy and Decimate the enemy until they are Gone or Unconditional surrender PERIOD...
Now riddle me this why are we always hearing of this when America or Israel use force??? Are you telling me this has not happen with others like Russia, Iran, Turkey... Clue to the answer, Agenda just like the lease that has been put over our military for so many years. You either unleash the Dogs of War or you do Not that should have been the lesson learned in Vietnam(actual before that but that is the freshest in American memory)!
Get Our Troops out of the Middle East at least until your ready to Identify the enemy, Name its Evils, and are ready to DESTROY that EVIL! Oh you better make sure you return to a Moral and Godly People First!
The Enemy is within and until we deal with that Enemy we will Never be able to Deal with the Enemy’s outside the Nation!
In a week where Putin obliterated hundreds of Muslim terrorists, Obama sent out 15 tweets and killed nine doctors. Nice.
Reading the details, it’s really stupid.
MSF repeatedly approached NATO authorities and gave them their GPS coordinates to prevent this very thing; they knew the dangers and took all the precautions to make sure this would not happen. Everyone knows this facility.
Yet they still actually get bombed, and even during it contacted the U.S. military to ask them what they hell they were doing, but the air force preceded to bomb them for another thirty minutes, with multiple direct impacts.
So much for the whole smart bomb “minimum collateral damage, high-precision weapons and hitting only terrorists” line.
I'm sorry for the loss of life...but these people can always be found in political hot spots and war zones in Africa, Asia, wherever, around the world...and they think their ardent ideology and good deeds make them immortal and immune to life-threatening attacks.
Leni
Karma’s a beech - just sad that good innocent people were caught in the crossfires. I think they’d better bury that “collateral damage’ remark quick. _ “ the U.S. military called possible “collateral damage” in the battle to oust Taliban insurgents.” -
Collateral damage means innocents killed that could be expected but sacrificed to get important target. And shouldn’t someone ask just who the Taliban Insurgents were? Does it seems plausible that the hospital would be set up in the middle of the? Or was he after some Afghans that were fighting his brothers/
White Hut strangely silent...
The White Hut, Russia’s first day of bombing, accused them of killing civilians - however, someone jumped the gun and the story was on the wires before Russia’s planes left the ground.
And BECAUSE of o’bumma’s blathering on about Russia’s operation in Syria - the world is watching. Now he’s the headline buffoon across the planet.
I wonder who’s in charge of keeping the narcissist tied down this morning.
If YOU were the head of other countries in Europe right now, who would you look to to help stop ISIS - in theri headlong goal to take over Syria and move out from there - across Europe - where they now have 100’s of thousand of new fighters flooding the countries, getting them in place?
Putin’s goal is to stop them NOW - and for certain, making sure the 2.600 newly trained Chechen ISIS don’t get back to Russia.
Nice to see at least ONE world leader willing to stop the onslaught and the re-establishment of the Caliphate.
GUN Contol Scream?????? For this mass shooting?
When you lie down with dogs...
This is the same Obama that wants to take away MY right to have a gun, the same guy that kills doctors by blowing them up..Hey Obama, maybe we need to ban idiot Presidents who kill doctors..and notice NOT a peep about this in the media, total blackout, anything that makes Saint Obama look bad they block
The US media may be ignoring it, but the rest of the world’s media exploded with it beginning about 2:10am East coast time.
Quick, send him another Nobel Peace Prize.
Yes - Afghanistan was the “good war” according to Obama....
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