A village is destroyed. And America says nothing happened

The Independent ^ | 12.04.01 | Richard Lloyd Parry

[null and void]

Awww, isn't that cute?

The New York media, close enough to the WTC to smell the rotting bodies, but not alert enough to show a single body part, finally noticed that people die in war.

[general_re]

B-52's don't carry Hellfire missiles. The AGM-114 "Hellfire" missile is carried by the Army's Apache and the Marine Corps Super Cobra attack helicopters. Neither of which is likely to be mistaken for a B-52.

Something's fishy...

[Paradox]

War is hell, and unfortunately, mistakes are sometimes made.

[wideawake]

What a smarmy, mealymouthed limey.

The DoD never said this bombing did not occur. It said that we have bombed only military targets.

The "reporter" does not even hint that he tried to determine whether or not there were military assets in this town.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

You know what - the equivalent of a pretty good-sized village of innocents was destroyed in the 9/11 attacks. When the civilian casualty total in Afghanistan gets near 50,000 (10 to 1 - a good ratio), maybe I'll give a damn. Until then, put some ice on it!

[ambrose]

Are these "peace loving" Islamic villages harboring terrorists? Nah, couldn't be possible....

[y2k_citizen]

Very Good news

[lavaroise]

Repent to liberals and their papers, they know it all so much better (sarcasm)

[donozark]

"In Vietnam we destroyed the village in order to save it..." FALSE! This statement was another one of Peter Arnet's distortions. It was actually the VC that destroyed the referenced village. See STOLEN VALOR by BG Burkett/Glenna Whitley.

Recall "TAILWIND?" Another one of Arnet's fabrications.

[Alberta's Child]

"It takes a village to destroy a village."

/sarcasm off/

[Oschisms]

I'll feel sorry for those folks as soon as the rotting flesh smell leaves the air around here.

One block from the Ground Zero,
Oschisms

[cinFLA]

The New York media, close enough to the WTC to smell the rotting bodies, but not alert enough to show a single body part, finally noticed that people die in war.

Bump

[rface]

Why should this report be believed? It reads too emotional to be objective truth-telling.

Many people pick their information sources based upon what they want to imagine to be the truth....this looks like an example of this. Maybe that "journalist" from Canada wrote this Independent article...
Taliban are 'demonized': Imprisoned Canadian offers no criticism of his imprisoners

[Darth Reagan]

Do you realize that this isn't really "reporting" at all? Read the language...it is a propaganda piece. Besides that, he never actually witnesses anything. He worries about a B-52 flying overhead. He suggests that craters could only be created by big bombs carried by B-52s. He supposes that many homes contain war relics so weaponry is not a sign of Taliban or Al-Queda presence. I've learned nothing from this except that a slipshod reporter is happy to assume American military action is very sloppy.

[knak]

who said: an eye for an eye?

[Elkiejg]

I'm not reading this article -- excuse me - but did this writer happen to see the photos of people jumping to their death from the burning WTC? Did they hear the transcprit of the flight 93 final moments? Did they read the accounts of our beloved Barbara talking to Ted seconds before her plane plowed into the Pentagon? DO I CARE ABOUT SOME VILLAGE - IN A WORD HELL NO!

[SamAdams76]

If it were up to me, the entire country would have been nuked. So I guess they are better off with President Bush.