12:17 a.m. 2004-07-03
The Bitch says: remember this?
You have all been patiently reading my tirades about the US and Iraq, or maybe not, but that will change tonite. I promise to not rant on and on about what we are doing to the Iraqi people. Because, I'm going to take you back to Afganistan. Yes, where it all supposedly started. Where we bombed and killed and bombed and killed and still couldn't find one man. I ran into some really sad facts about our little campaign in Afganistan. We went there to find the al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden but, instead, we killed thousands of innocent people....sound familiar? When U.S. warplanes strafed [with AC-130 gunships] the farming village of Chowkar-Karez, 25 miles north of Kandahar on October 22-23rd,killing at least 93 civilians, a Pentagon official said, "the people there are dead because we wanted them dead." The reason? They sympathized with the Taliban. When asked about the Chowkar incident, Rumsfeld replied, "I cannot deal with that particular village." He couldn't deal with a village where civilian population was killed? On October 10th, the Sultanpur Mosque in Jalalabad was hit by a bomb during prayers, killing 17 people. As neighbors rushed into the rubble to pull out one injured, a second bomb was dropped reportedly killing at least another 120 people. And we "never" would deliberately hit a religious building would we? Oct. 27: Television photos taken by Britain's Sky News showed footage of the F-18 dropping bombs, hitting a mud and timber family home. The TV report said ten members of a family were missing under the rubble and another twenty were injured. A five year-old girl lay in a wheelbarrow with a bloodied face. Looks like the government missed that one. They spent alot of money buying up satelite footage of their bombing runs so it wouldn't be released to news agencies. The tabulation for October 31st enters a figure of 15 civilians dying in a bombing attack of a Red Crescent hospital in Kandahar. Three different assessments were made in the aftermath: 1. The Taliban claimed the raid killed 11 people; 2. The Pentagon said the strike missed both the hospital and another Red Crescent building nearby, and commented "it was a legitimate terrorist target, intentionally struck.." 3. Journalist later saw a large crater in the center of the clinic and hospital vehicles crushed by collapsed masonry. One doctor reported 15 dead and 25 seriously injured. We bombed a Red Cross hospital and then denied it and said it was a terrorist target. There were many other incidents recorded in the article I read: the bombing of the UN building and saying it was too near a legitimete(sp?) target...one which hadn't been used in years; the bombing of refugees on the road and then saying they thought they were military convoys; it goes on and on. Our behavior didn't start in Iraq.....it is just focused there now. Bush is on a world domination track......he wants that elusive, invisable crown on his head and he doesn't care who dies in the process of him getting it. That's all for now.
LATERZ
