Posted on 11/03/2001 1:09:43 AM PST by stilts
Kabul, Nov 3
"I thought I was going to die — the earth was raining from the skies," a Taliban survivor told the Sun while describing how an entire unit was buried alive in a strike by US B-52s.
Osman Rakhim, 23, said the explosions caused by the giant US bombers started a landslide on his mountainside position.
He said dozens of troops were killed when hundreds of tons of earth and rock came down on top of them.
Rakhim wandered away from the carnage in a daze and later surrendered to the Northern Alliance. He said a whole unit of fighters dug in behind him were buried.
Rakhim told the Sun: “I could not see, I couldn’t breathe. Everything was in darkness ... There were many, many bombs. The earth shook and it rained rocks and shrapnel.
“The hillside was falling on us. There were about 300 of us there dug in with sandbags. I have no idea how many were killed.
Yes. Perhaps we could put the same checks and balances that were put into the German Constitution after WW I. The German King (Kaiser) fled Germany at the end of WW I and the Wiemar Republic was formed as the German Government. It was called the Wiemar Republic because it was a republic similar to ours. The German constitution was written in the city of Wiemar. It was a Republican form of government with all the checks and balances to prevent any portion of government from attaining the power once held by the King. Hitler used the stalemate created by the checks and balances to come to power in 1933.
Hitler used the checks and balances as an excuse for the depression. He said was 1930's depression was caused by the form of government defined in the German Constitution. He said its freedoms allowed rich Jews to keep the people unemployed. Unemployment was high enough that the people bought it. They made him Fuhrer and let him kill 6 million Jews.
The German People over threw a Republican form of government to put in a dictatorship. The constitution that was done in Weimar to make a great nation in the wake of WWI was worthless when the people wanted it gone. All it took was bad times. By 1938 the German-American Bund was an organization with a large membership in the USA. It advocated teh overthrow of our constitution and the selection of an Amercian Fuhrer. It had a nation wide weekly broadcast originating in Detroit that was listened to by millions. It had as big an audience as Rush.
In all nations the people in fact rule. NO NATION can exist with out the consent of the governed. The Russian Czar's Kingdom fell to Lenin and Communism. All the power of a king could not prevent a communist government when the people wanted it. And all the power of the Soviet Union could not pervent the people from toppling it when they wanted the Soviet Union gone a decade ago.
Goverments and people who want to run governments tell you that constitutions rule. They do not. People ... ordinary people choose the government. We can not understand why an educated people would want a Hitler over a constitutional republic.. but they did.
People try to tell us our government is a piece of paper. As long as our people support what is in our Constitution it will prevail. When the don't it will not prevail.
Kinda sounds like the World Trade Center, diaperhead.
Glad you could share.
One quick refutation: Dollar bills are made out of paper. :o)
You know, just because a person wears blue and gang-bangs and deals crack, doesn't mean he is a Crip.
If he ain't no fundamentalist or terrorist, let him put down his Kalishnikov and get back to goat-herding. Otherwise, I ain't got no spare humanity left for that diaperhead.
If you can't take mohammed to the mountain,
Take the mountain to mohammed..."
When a goverment falls its paper money falls with it. Look up the origin of the commmon phrase.
Clue: It is about goverment printed paper money!
Your statement is not worth a Continental.
What is a Continental?
Wonder why Allah did not protect 'em?
All your mountains are belong to us.
Naaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh..............they don't do that. Easy out: "Allah be praised! They've been martyred and are now cavorting with 70 doe-eyed virgins apiece!! Allah akhbar!!" Great way to keep from looking for survivors, eh?
A tip of the hat to the USAF.
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