Petraeus Apologizes for NATO's Killing of 9 Afghani Children.

[Liberty_Mike]

NATO forces bombed a village the other day in Afghanistan killing 9 children collecting firewood who they mistook for insurgents. However, Petraues apologized to Afghani leadership so I guess everything is all good!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kzmxdjWTq0&feature=channel_video_title

[Lucille]

That's nice.

According to insurgent math (http://original.antiwar.com/paul/2010/08/09/the-cycle-of-violence-in-afghanistan/), we just created 90 more "terrorists."


Our battle in Afghanistan resembles the battle against the many-headed Hydra monster in Greek mythology. According to Former General Stanley McChrystal’s so-called insurgent math, for every insurgent killed, 10 more insurgents are created by the collateral damage to civilians. Every coalition attack leads to 6 retaliatory attacks against our troops within the following six weeks, according to the NBER report. These retaliatory attacks must then be acted on by our troops, leading to still more attacks, and so it goes. Violence begets more violence. Eventually more and more Afghanis will view American troops with hostility and seek revenge for the death of a loved one. Meanwhile, we are bleeding ourselves dry, militarily and economically.

[Anti Federalist]

"Ooops, my bad." - The Empire.

[Lucille]

LRC: “We Are Deeply Sorry” (http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/81427.html)


Note also that although 9 boys were killed, more than 200 “terrorists” were created (http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/81427.html):


More than 200 people gathered in Nanglam on Wednesday to protest the boys’ deaths, witnesses said. Waving white flags, they shouted “Death, death to America!” and “Death to Obama and his colleagues and associates!”

[doodle]

I think I heard a news that Obama was outraged but not sure if it was this or another act of violence.

[tsai3904]

LRC: “We Are Deeply Sorry” (http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/81427.html)

Video of the gathering (WARNING - some of the images may be graphic):

http://english.aljazeera.net/video/asia/2011/03/2011339502683263.html

[Lucille]

Video of the gathering (WARNING - some of the images may be graphic):

http://english.aljazeera.net/video/asia/2011/03/2011339502683263.html

Petraeus blaming the parents for the kids' burns was a true winning hearts and minds moment.

[Lucille]

Video of the gathering (WARNING - some of the images may be graphic):

http://english.aljazeera.net/video/asia/2011/03/2011339502683263.html

Petraeus blaming the parents for the kids' burns was a true winning hearts and minds moment.

[civusamericanus]

Yet our propoganda news wants us to believe "Sex Crazed" Muslims carry out "martyrdom operations" as suicide bombers because they will be rewarded with 72 virgins.

[Stary Hickory]

Whew what a relief I am sure the families of those children are just joyous now. Let me tell you what I would do if some foreign government accidentally dropped a bomb on my children....you make an enemy for life.

[Jack Bauer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4PGBSptYCI

[civusamericanus]

Whew what a relief I am sure the families of those children are just joyous now. Let me tell you what I would do if some foreign government accidentally dropped a bomb on my children....you make an enemy for life.
I hear you... And most parents would go to the ends of the earth for justice.

[HOLLYWOOD]

When's Petraeus & company going to apologize to the American Taxpayers, the US families members killed by American Empire Wars, and for the US military/US government for creating Terrorism, both across the planet on foreign nations and against the American people?

General Petraeus: 'I apologize for crimes against humanity."

[amy31416]

I wonder what those who actually pulled the trigger think about their results. We rarely, if ever, hear from them.