mike clarkJul 1st, 2007 - 16:27:22

If someone shoots at me they had better kill me because if they don't I will kill them and it dosen't make any diffrence who or what they are,if they don't want our milatary there just say so no one will mind going home, we can also take our money back and burn the popie fields as we leave that way just maybe there will not be money for there little friends to use for arms and less children using there drugs.

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Avi ElenkoJul 1st, 2007 - 18:32:32

Using excessive force where there is a known likelihood of hurting civilians during the military, is categorized as War-Crime.

In the early days of Afghan attack, a few Canadian refused to drop bombs unless their superiors absolutely established and determined that the area is completely free of civilians.

These civilians have no way of stopping armed Talibans from entering their village, neither can they defend themselves from air-strikes. They are being killed only because they are Afghans and their lives are considered cheap by the allied forces.

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aidworkerJul 1st, 2007 - 19:10:47

The Taliban deliberately use every possible opportunity to provoke civilian deaths, including placing civilians where opposing forces would not reasonably expect them.

Read the article. Dead civilians were found in a trench, alongside Taliban in firing-line positions. There'd have been almost no way to avoid killing those particular civilians.

It's hell for the innocents. They can't disobey the Taliban who hold them, they'd be shot without hesitation. They're often doomed.

If all civilian deaths are to be avoided, the only alternative NATO has is to NOT FIGHT THE TALIBAN. Which is precisely the conundrum these brutal criminals seek to create.

Well, in my view, they're only confirming the necessity to fight them all the harder. In the long term, it's completely necessary for the sake of all to have them collectively rotting in their graves.

Karzai, for his part, has no choice but to object, he's a politician who needs popular support. Even when the provincial authorities, some of them Taliban sympathizers, lie about the casualties, their lies can't be proven in the short term. Karzai must lend them credence in the interim and 'condemn those responsible for the tragedy.'

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ThoiJul 1st, 2007 - 21:08:23

' a few Canadian refused to drop bombs '
Typical Canadian lies . We Canadians endlessly kiss our own ass*s while we deny our 100 year history of slaughtering civillians . We Canadians are not superior as we like to think we are .
We Canadians are just as guilty as those we point out arrogant self-righteous fingers at .

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lanceJul 1st, 2007 - 23:12:09

Afghanistan is the perfect place to have a war. Plenty of bad people to kill and no one likes them. The problem is: The U.S. strategy is a complete blunder. The worst military morons couldn't do any worse than what has been done. Add to that the fact that all resources that should have gone to fighting bad guys in Afghanistan are being bled off into pilfering Iraq cronies and you have the perfect storm where the bad guys look like the winners. And the good guys look like losers in every sense of the word, and their commander in chief looks like a clown. What a shameful debacle.

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bubbaJul 1st, 2007 - 23:50:57

it really is sad that civilians have to be killed because, in reality they themselves allow these coward Muslims to hide among their women and children..and really are too coward to do anything about it themselves...however they are very very good at holding out their hand for 'freebies' 'money' and 'sympathy'

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