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2007-06-25 Afghanistan

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Posted by Bobby 2007-06-25 06:23|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 Militants = terrorists. It is the fault of the terrorists who are causing civilians (if they are really civilians) to get killed. The MSM and human rights organizations should take this up with the terrorists---hah hah hah. As if that is going to happen.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-06-25 06:46|| 2007-06-25 06:46|| Front Page Top

#2 So, when Talibs blow up busses, that's not "civilian deaths". But when NATO goes through Talibs human shields....

Posted by gromgoru 2007-06-25 06:53|| 2007-06-25 06:53|| Front Page Top

#3 when a Taliban presence gets a civilian killed, they caused the death, HRW Assholes

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-06-25 07:36|| 2007-06-25 07:36|| Front Page Top

#4 If you are shot at from a place where there might be civilians around, you must not shoot back. Same thing if they run to somewhere civilians might be. If those are now the rules, I hope Karzai is ready to fly solo, because we have to leave.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-25 07:38|| 2007-06-25 07:38|| Front Page Top

#5 The enemy are civilians. They are not a uniformed, structured army, just gangs of gunmen attacking everything under civilian control so they can take control.
Karzai better wake up, because Glenmore is right. If NATO leaves, he better fly solo, and never land.

Posted by wxjames 2007-06-25 07:58|| 2007-06-25 07:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Karzai is beginning to make me sick.

His failure to denounce the Taliban use of human shields is compounded by his posturing about NATO.

This from a guy who owes his position to foreign fighters.

Maybe instead of withdrawing from Iraq we should withdraw from Afghan. Let the Talibs and others slaughter each other to their hearts content.

Posted by mhw 2007-06-25 08:10|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2007-06-25 08:10|| Front Page Top

#7 "If someone's firing at me, he's a combatant," said Maj. John Thomas, a spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force.

Words to live by...

Posted by tu3031 2007-06-25 09:07|| 2007-06-25 09:07|| Front Page Top

#8 The guy firing at you is a combatant, but his wife is loading mags for him and his 8-year old kid is spotting for him, and his mother is cooking for him, all within a single 10' square room. That means if you call in an air or arty strike, or even just fling a grenade into the room or do a 'Haditha', you are going to kill 3 'innocent' civilians as well as the guy shooting at you. According to the desired new ROE, that is unacceptable, which leaves two choices: sit there quietly and get shot at or leave.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-25 09:12|| 2007-06-25 09:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Yeah, but I think this is a HRW story, with a Karzi quote taken out of context. If so, that's just what Harry Reid and the MSM want - encourage us to run away and make him a prophet.

Posted by Bobby 2007-06-25 09:25|| 2007-06-25 09:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Helmand district Pashtos revere Taliban/al-Qaeda as protectors of the heroin trade. Karzai is depraved for treating drug lords and their workers and families, as "civilians." There are alternatives to nation-building in Afghanistan; Karzai wouldn't like them.

Posted by McZoid 2007-06-25 18:10|| 2007-06-25 18:10|| Front Page Top

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