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2007-07-07 Afghanistan

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Posted by gorb 2007-07-07 04:33|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 Both a U.N. and the AP count of civilian deaths this year show that U.S. and NATO forces have caused more civilian deaths this year than Taliban fighters have.

Based on what? The civilians the Taliban admit they killed? Or do the AP and UN divvie them up - "Two for the infidels, one for the Freedom Fighters"?

Posted by Bobby 2007-07-07 08:20|| 2007-07-07 08:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Hopefully the locals will soon realize that having Taliban around is a death sentence, so it is always better to drive them away.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-07-07 10:35|| 2007-07-07 10:35|| Front Page Top

#3 More than 1,000 people were killed in insurgency-related violence in June alone, including 700 militants and 200 civilians.

Who the hell were the other 100+? Aliens?

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-07-07 11:40|| 2007-07-07 11:40|| Front Page Top

#4 IIRC if we kill a civilian, NATO will give the grieving family money. This creates a built in incentive to claim civilian deaths whenever there's any combat.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-07-07 11:51|| 2007-07-07 11:51|| Front Page Top

#5 If them civilians wouldn't shoot at our boys they wouldn't end up dead.

Posted by Elmereter Hupash6222 2007-07-07 11:54|| 2007-07-07 11:54|| Front Page Top

#6 If you read the ISAF website, you'll see that many of the civilian deaths are due to tailgating or some such. I would respectfully suggest, based on reviewing press releases over there for a long time for Terrorist Death Watch that NATO forces can be quick on the trigger. They may also not take as much care in calling in airstrikes or arty as our troops do. The Afghans have a little bit of a beef with NATO.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2007-07-07 11:57|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2007-07-07 11:57|| Front Page Top

#7 The radio 'forgot' to mention all the dead gunnies. Only shepherds and subsistence opium farmers die in Afstan, it seems.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-07-07 12:19|| 2007-07-07 12:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Hopefully the locals will soon realize that having Taliban around is a death sentence, so it is always better to drive them away.

If we would stop being so precise and start inflicting some collateral damage, this might actually come to pass.

Posted by gorb 2007-07-07 14:11|| 2007-07-07 14:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Our people are worth their weight in gold - Afghanis are worth their weight in sand. We're not in Afghanistan to please the "civilians", but to put a stop to the taliwhackers. If the civilians don't want to be whacked along with them, stay away from the taliwhackers. We're at war, and it's about da$$ed time we started acting like it. Otherwise, we're going to end up losing, which is a very bad thing.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-07-07 15:01|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-07-07 15:01|| Front Page Top

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