Bombing without regrets
CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff
05/25/06
US A-10 attack planes earlier this week bombed an Afghan village in the dead of night for several hours, killing nearly 100 people, at least 16 of them acknowledged to have been innocent men, women and children.The Pentagon is claiming that 20 of the dead were Taliban fighters ... in a version of the notorious brutal cop's claim that the victim of his abuse 'kept ramming his head into my baton,' Pentagon spokesman Col. Tom Collins says, 'The ultimate cause of why civilians were injured and killed is because the Taliban knowingly, willfully chose to occupy homes of these people.' Notice that he's not even saying that the victims invited or allowed the Taliban into their homes. In fact, according to reports, it appears that the Taliban forced their way into civilian homes in order to try to escape U.S. attacks. What were people supposed to do? Tell these desperate armed men to please go away? Isn't this kind of what the British were saying to justify their massacres of American colonists?
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff05252006.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Dave Lindorff
05/25/06
US A-10 attack planes earlier this week bombed an Afghan village in the dead of night for several hours, killing nearly 100 people, at least 16 of them acknowledged to have been innocent men, women and children.The Pentagon is claiming that 20 of the dead were Taliban fighters ... in a version of the notorious brutal cop's claim that the victim of his abuse 'kept ramming his head into my baton,' Pentagon spokesman Col. Tom Collins says, 'The ultimate cause of why civilians were injured and killed is because the Taliban knowingly, willfully chose to occupy homes of these people.' Notice that he's not even saying that the victims invited or allowed the Taliban into their homes. In fact, according to reports, it appears that the Taliban forced their way into civilian homes in order to try to escape U.S. attacks. What were people supposed to do? Tell these desperate armed men to please go away? Isn't this kind of what the British were saying to justify their massacres of American colonists?
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff05252006.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 26. Mai, 18:01
