Maybe you missed it, but on Sunday, our brave men and women fighting in Afghanistan killed 47 civilians. US folks said they were militants--locals said they were wedding guests. Everyone seems to agree that 39 of them were women and children.

For the whole story, see
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7501538.stm

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Some is suspect about this story. America has no interest in killing civilians.

Which of course means no civilians are ever killed in combat .

I doubt these soldiers will be tried in court for their crimes, although I see no difference between them and murderers.

I would be willing to bet alot of money that no one will care enough to actually punish anyone for this. So alot of people will pretend it basicly didn't happen.

If they did Iraq wouldn't have been invaded in the first place.

I really don't believe the US intelligence is so bad that we bombed a house of civilians.


Maybe the terrorists ran into the wedding to hide, that's what they usually do. Hide behind women and children that's their favorite things to do.

Now that you mention it the only major U.S. news sites I've seen this story on were Yahoo and Fox. But even with them I had to google search to find their articles, they weren't displayed on the front page as an atrocity of this sort should be.

Wow, it's not like this has never happened in any other war...

Stop making such a big deal out of a common occurrence.

1) They weren't soldiers, they were pilots. Thanks for reading the article, fucktard.
2) Pilots can't tell the difference between civilians and soldiers. They are all little specs on the ground. The pilots are told to drop a bomb, and they do it. Or they get court marshaled and hanged.
3) No one said it was a crime. There's this thing called bad intelligence. When a source tells you there are 50 enemy combatants walkin around, you don't have time to interview these 50 people to make sure they are the right people. The call it the Iraq War for a reason.

"All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers"

-Francois Fenelon

So a white Norwegian is the brother of a black Nigerian, despite the fact they're a complete different race?