U.S. Planes Bring 'Inferno' Down on Kabul

Reuters ^ | 10/11/01 | Sayed Salahuddin and Anton Ferreira

[BunnySlippers]

I'm humming "Disco Inferno" right now ... "Burnin', burnin'"

[Lucky2]

Why does this not bother me? I guess it's because we have about 5,000 more to go before we even the score. God bless America, God bless George W. Bush. It takes a real man to do the job right!

[RetiredArmy]

220 dead? How many AK47s did they pick up and all these guys poor farmers instead of murders? We still trail by over 5,000 plus. Those flyboys have got to do better. Losing the propaganda war? Screw that. Bomb that dump flat.

[Loopy]

...said Western countries were in danger of losing the propaganda battle for Arab and Muslim support.

We were in danger of that the minute we decided to do ANYTHING about the deaths of our people. And I don't think Bush is doing half enough!!! My G_d, the man has shown restraint that borders on the passive. There will be NO satisfying these people. We might as well just do what needs to be done and figure out another way of operating our automobiles and power plants.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the article!

Time for all Taliban gangsters and supporters to quit wasting Oxygen and causing Global Warming when they exhale! Clear the planet of these scumbags!

[TXBubba]

But the campaign against the Islamic purist Taliban stoked growing anti-Western anger among Muslims from Jakarta to Cape Town and British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) said Western countries were in danger of losing the propaganda battle for Arab and Muslim support.

Can't lose what we never had. Obviously these folks like terrorists and like to support them.

[SCOOGIE SPIN]

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[okie_tech]

This is still a weak response.

[piasa]

A U.S. Air Force sergeant on active duty in the northern Arabian peninsula became the first American fatality of the war when he was killed in an accident.

First? Hardly- we have over 5,600 casualties already, and before that those killed in the Khobar Towers, embassies, and USS Cole, etc . We're just now getting around to responding to those initial attacks. The war didn't begin with us retaliating. It began with terrorist acts.

[itsinthebag]

"Former U.S. President Bill Clinton canceled a trip to the United Arab Emirates ``due to the current international situation,'' organizers said."

WHAT!!!?????

[dead]

What I thought was interesting is how the American company Reuters leads off with the Taliban's version of the days events, cuts to the British version of the days events, very briefly moseys on over to the American statements, then hurries back for more breathless quotes from the Afghanis about civilian deaths.

Shouldn't the Afghani press be on our side, just to even the score?

[RightlySo]

Am I too far to the right or does this Reuters stuff read like liberal tripe, intentionally beating a dead horse on the civilian deaths and the fact that Afghans can't sleep through the bombing?

[He Rides A White Horse]

U.S. PlanesTaliban Bring(s) 'Inferno' Down on Kabul

[garyhope]

Exactly. What do we expect? Accolades? It doesn't matter what the street rabble think. As Barney Fife would say, "we've got to nip it, nip it in the bud" or else next time it's nuclear weapons in our cities. Then will we care what the media, the commie, cowardly college students and the ragheads say? I don't think so. Kill em all now and turn the music up to drown out their bleating.

[aquawrench]

The rest of the world has been conditioned by eight years of Clinton's opinion-poll-presidency. They had better get used to the new president who has sent many an American to their death in spite of appeals to the contrary.
W is committed to the long haul, better wake up and smell the coffee.