to bail them out. They deserve nothing after 911.
"Many women protesters wore traditional burqas and raised anti American slogans"
The entire story has never sat right. or one thing, it's too much like the other Darwin Award winning Afghan wedding. The locals are too stupid to realize that we freed them from the Taliban through war?? Oh, come on. These people have lived in a war zone for twenty years. THEY SHOULD KNOW BY NOW THAT YOU DON'T FIRE MORTARS IN A WAR ZONE WITHOUT HAVING SOMEONE FIRE BACK.
The loss of innocent life, ANY innocent life, is unconcienable, even when one person's stupidity gets their neighbors killed. It's the neighbors killed by the stupidity of others that we should mourn.
There are too many things wrong with the scenario the Afghans have given us. Too little blood. No bodies. No graves. The Afghan witnesses didn't mention bullet holes, but when the presence of bullet holes caused by a rocket attack were questioned, they accused British special forces of having been firing guns somewhere in the vicinity... and those EXTRAORIDINARY casualty numbers! Oh, and the number of wounded the hospital allegedly transferred to Kandahar without having the facilities to do so, and the fact that the numbers of wounded allegedly transferred exceeds the new total casualty count. I can't shake the feeling that some Afghans, perhaps those who wear burqas and their men, are taking advantage of a tragic error, the truth of which we are desperately trying to find, in order to further their own agendas.
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| Villagers stand by a hole they say was caused by U.S. bombing during a raid on several villages close to Deh Rawud in central Afghanistan, in television footage taken earlier this week. U.S. General Dan McNeill promised a formal probe into the bombing which occurred on July 1, after preliminary investigations established there had been civilian casualties. Photo by Pool/Reuters
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