History Forum / General / General Topics / October 2007

1.  Oct. 27 airpower summary: Unmanned Reaper vehicle conducts
first illegal strike and kills many Afghans in their own
country  http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123073618

99 horrible bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today x avg 4 =
over 396 killed in one day in their own countries.
This does not include the many more killed by cannon fire or
missiles from helicopters and helicopter gunships and
now by missiles from robot killer airplanes.
So the occupiers kill at least 500 a day, but it is never
even mentioned in the press. All we hear about is
suicide bombers, and that news of course is designed
to hide the much bigger crimes and scandalous killing
by the illegal occupiers.

2.  Originally set up as a small 'high-value' detention site -
Saddam Hussein was kept there - the prison outside Baghdad
now has 2,000 inmates. US forces have around 60,000 people
detained in Iraq, compared with 27,000 a year ago
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/gallery/2007/sep/21/iraq.internationalnews?pictur
e=330787966

3.      A remarkable article about  bombing non-Christian people
to smithereens in their own countries:
DEATH from ABOVE

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IG12Ak01.html

and Afghanistan's tribal villages, the US military has been
"HOOKED ON AIRPOWER".

That addiction will only grow stronger as US ground troops
gradually withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, increasingly
leaving  civilians to continue to take the heat.
- by Tom Engelhardt (Jul 11, '07)
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4.  A FALLACY that BOMBS - literally
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IG12Ak06.html
US and Israeli reliance on air power to fight urban guerilla warfare
has unintended consequences. Dead civilians, decimated homes,
schools and hospitals strengthen and unify opponents and portend
an ominous future for US geopolitical goals.
By Khody Akhavi  (Jul 11, '07)
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4.      http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/29/opinion/edinderfurth.php
Losing the 'other war' in Afghanistan?
By Karl F. Inderfurth
Published: May 29, 2007
WASHINGTON:
Controversy rages over the war in Iraq, but what about the so-called
other war in Afghanistan, for which there is immoral bipartisan
support  in the United States and in the international community?
Is there a danger of losing in Afghanistan? The answer is yes.
My question: A 'danger'?  What silliness:

It is not a 'danger', it already is a fact:

This colonial war was lost a long time ago. As it was never about
winning the hearts and minds, but always about oil and gas and
pipelines and new military bases and access to Central Asia's
resources, i.e., about geo-political power and pure greed.

It is just a matter of time and the Western colonial invaders can no
longer sustain the slow but permanent and persistent bleeding in
money and casualties and will be forced  to leave.

First, however, I'm sure they will kill many tens of thousands more.
We have seen immoral bombing wars and millions of dead before:
In Vietnam, another ill-conceived, immoral and illegal colonial
bombing war on darker skinned non-Christians in their own country.
3 - 4 million perished in the American orgy of colonial violence
in Asia.  And a new horrible and racist orgy of violence by western
nations is happening again, now even in two countries in Asia
simultaneously.

There is no question whatsoever about who or what the real
'axis of evil'  is here: Rich Western 'Christian' nations bombing
poor Muslim people to smithereens in their own countries
in Asia.

And we know why.

UTTER CONTEMPT and TOTAL CONDEMNATION

Michael McKinley - USA