When "we" killed nine children in Afghanistan on Dec. 6, "we" were hunting a suspected Taliban leader with an A-10 Warthog attack jet.
Forget, for a moment, the bad intelligence that resulted in nine small raised gravesites adorned with children's clothing pushing out of the rocky earth of southern Afghanistan, and simply consider the magnitude of overkill involved in this mission, and how it is a microcosm of the entire 'war on terror'.
In order to take out Mullah Wazir, described as a 'junior mullah' and sought in connection with two killings and for "bragging loudly" about his terrorist ties, "we" dispatched a plane that could carry up to 16,000 pounds of ordnance, including Maverick and Sidewinder missiles, and was mounted with the GAU-8 Avenger seven-barrel cannon, an air-toground 'soft target killer and tank buster' with depleted uranium tipped ammunition.
This was all to rid planet earth of a single human being. He may or may not have been where he was supposed to be on Saturday morning, the carnage was so great, "we" don't know for sure if "we" got him, but "we" do know nine children were foolish enough to be playing in the vicinity, so "we" rid the world of them.
There are no ongoing tally of Afghan civilian dead since "we" invaded the country, but our war games in Iraq thus far have netted a tally of between 8,000 and 10,000 civilian dead, according to Iraq Body Count. And these are just the dead directly attributable to military action; there aren't even estimates for the number of casualties from, for instance, curable and war-related diseases.
Nor are there estimates of how many people's attitudes in the occupied countries have been hardened against us, due to rage, grief and ongoing humiliation.
When "we" killed nine children in Afghanistan on Dec. 6, "we" were hunting a suspected Taliban leader with an A-10 Warthog attack jet.
Forget, for a moment, the bad intelligence that resulted in nine small raised gravesites adorned with children's clothing pushing out of the rocky earth of southern Afghanistan, and simply consider the magnitude of overkill involved in this mission, and how it is a microcosm of the entire 'war on terror'.
In order to take out Mullah Wazir, described as a 'junior mullah' and sought in connection with two killings and for "bragging loudly" about his terrorist ties, "we" dispatched a plane that could carry up to 16,000 pounds of ordnance, including Maverick and Sidewinder missiles, and was mounted with the GAU-8 Avenger seven-barrel cannon, an air-toground 'soft target killer and tank buster' with depleted uranium tipped ammunition.
This was all to rid planet earth of a single human being. He may or may not have been where he was supposed to be on Saturday morning, the carnage was so great, "we" don't know for sure if "we" got him, but "we" do know nine children were foolish enough to be playing in the vicinity, so "we" rid the world of them.
There are no ongoing tally of Afghan civilian dead since "we" invaded the country, but our war games in Iraq thus far have netted a tally of between 8,000 and 10,000 civilian dead, according to Iraq Body Count. And these are just the dead directly attributable to military action; there aren't even estimates for the number of casualties from, for instance, curable and war-related diseases.
Nor are there estimates of how many people's attitudes in the occupied countries have been hardened against us, due to rage, grief and ongoing humiliation.
