History Forum / General / General Topics / January 2008

Death and Destruction from Above in Neo-Colonial wars,
a clear sign of modern Western brutality and greed and
uncaring technological arrogance.

Bombing and killing by American, Canadian, British/French/
NATO, Australian, mostly white Anglo-Saxon invaders,
the illegal conqueror/occupiers of two sovereign Muslim
countries in Asia, is continuing unabated.

Still trying to conquer two countries and squash the
legitimate rebellion of darker skinned,
poor, non-Christian people in their own countries.
As in so many other horrible colonial wars in the past.

The invaders keep bombing Afghanistan and Iraq
and so continue to kill large numbers of Afghan and Iraqi
citizens in their own countries every day:

One would never know it from the mass media:

1.  Jan. 1 airpower summary: Invader A-10 Thunderbolt II
delivers weapons in order to kill more Muslim partisans
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123080849
41+57 = 98 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today

2.  Jan. 2 airpower summary: Invader unmanned Predators on
the brutal prowl in colonized Muslim countries
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123080926
42+62 = 104 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today

3.  Jan. 3 airpower summary: Invader C-17s keep
colonial war supplies moving
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123081074
40+63 = 103 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today

4.  Jan. 4 airpower summary: Invader A-10s support
invader/occupier ground forces
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123081167
34+58 = 92 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today

5.  Jan. 5 airpower summary: Invader B1-B conducts precision
killer strikes on resistance fighters in their own country
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123081176
19+50 = 69 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today

6.  Jan. 6 airpower summary: Invader F-16 supports
illegal Iraqi bombing missions
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123081223
45+43= 88 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today

7.  Jan. 7 airpower summary: Invader C-130s deliver
occupier troops, and illegal supplies where not wanted
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123081383
6+69=75 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today

8.  Jan. 8 airpower summary: Invader C-17s fly
aeromedical evacuations
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123081531
38+65=103 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today

9.  Jan. 9 airpower summary: Invader Arial refuelers,
negative killer force multipliers
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123081737
35+62 = 97 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today

10.  Jan. 10 airpower summary: Invader Weapon crews
ensure colonial war success
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123081913
33+58 = 91 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today

11. Jan. 11 airpower summary: Invader F-15E Strike Eagles
hit Iraqi resistance positions
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123082045
42+30 = 72 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today

12. Jan. 12 airpower summary: Invader B-1B bomber conducts
illegal and immoral precision killer strikes in occupied
Afghanistan
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123082054
39+61 = 100 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today

13. Jan. 13 airpower summary: Invader C-17s on the move
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123082094
39+59 = 98 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today

14.  Jan. 14 airpower summary: Invader A-10 shows brutal
colonial killing force
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123082236
41+59 = 100 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today

15. Jan. 15 airpower summary: Invader Fighting Falcons
fly unsuccessful illegal missions
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123082496
16+48 = 64 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today

16. Jan. 16 airpower summary: Inavder Tankers fuel the
killer fleet
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123082701
2 (clearly a lie) +65 = 67 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today

17.  Jan. 17 airpower summary: Invader A-10s provide
immoral colonial air support
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123082915
35+66 = 101 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today

18. Jan 18 no data, estimated 100 bombing raids
19. Jan 19 no data, estimated 100 bombing raids

20. Jan. 20 airpower summary: Invader E-3s provide
conqueror's eye in foreign countries' sky
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123083053
43+63 = 106 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today

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Total = 98+104+103+92+88+75+103+97+91 +72+100
+98 +100 + 64 +67+101 + 306 = 1827 bombing raids in the first
20 days of 2008  x an average of 4 dead per raid (wich is a
very conservative estimate as many bombs are 500lbs,
1000lbs or even 2000 lbs) =

7308 (!!!!) Afghans and Iraqis bombed to death in their own
countries in the first 20 days of 2008.

And this bombing and killing continues day in, day out,
with no end in sight.
Since October 2001 = now over 6 years in Afghanistan!
Since March 2003 = now nearly 5 years in Iraq!

A rough estimate of 2500 dead per week gives a gruesome
total death toll of over 130,000 resistance fighters bombed
to death in Afghanistan and Iraq ---- EVERY YEAR ---- !

This does not even include all the civilians burned to death
when the terrible bombs pulverize thousands of buildings
and houses.

This slaughter is  much worse than the Russian slaughter
in their invasion/occupation in the eighties. With the 'modern'
and now much more lethal firepower the scale of the mass
killing is at least triple. And all that in two illegal immoral
and shameful Western neo-colonial resource wars.

You would never know it from the mass media, all owned
by huge corporations profiting from permanent wars.
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The usual lies, omissions and distortions from the BBC:
Musa Qala  - Calm after fight for Afghan town
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7146440.stm

And what really happened: The British bombing an Afghan town
with mortars and driving the people out, and that will win the
hearts and minds? It is clear the invaders have learned nothing
in more than 6 years.

British 'success' under siege in Afghanistan
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IL15Df03.html

The war on Afghanistan is illegal; the attack, invasion and
6-year occupation are all illegal under international law
and totally out of proportion with the WTC mass murder
by stateless terrorists. There were no Afghans on the
airplanes on 9/11.  The attack and permanent
occupation and continuous bombing of this dirt-poor
country is total overkill. Punishment yes, 6 years
of occupation, conquest and bombing is immoral,
illegal and ill-conceived as it will never win
the hearts and minds of a proud and fiercely
independent Asian nation. So the Western conquerors
will bleed and bleed, a small trickle at a time,
but finally the invaders will not be able to stomach the hate,
the dead and the cost any longer.

Around a 100 bombing raids per day, day in, day out.
It is never even mentioned in the mass media. Every day
we are told about sectarian violence or suicide bombings
by Afghans or Iraqis. Never about the much larger killing we do
every day. So the masses are kept ignorant and so have no
idea of the daily human carnage and the wide-spread destruction
by our aircraft and bombers.

Did you notice we never see the bodies, never the effects of
our bombs, never the real horrors of war, never the destroyed
cities, never the destroyed houses, never the wounded,
never anything caused by our own gory and immoral violence?

Of course the Pentagon has thousands of photographs,
records and satellite pictures, but none of them will ever be
shown by the always collaborating corporate mass media.

The number of dead does not even include the many
resistance fighters and civilians killed each day by other occupier
violence, such as by cannon fire or missiles from helicopters,
by helicopter gunships, by mortars, by machine guns and snipers,
and maybe even by the always ongoing torture in prisons.

Of course one must always claim these are thugs and terrorists, one
can never call them resistance fighters or partisans (who have every
right to throw the conquering Western invader/occupiers out).

It is their land, it is as simple as that.

2.   60,000 Iraqi resistance fighters - men, women and children - now
in US concentration camps in Iraq ('Guantanamos' in Iraq itself):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/gallery/2007/sep/21/iraq.international...
http://tinyurl.com/2lvxe5

This does not even include all the ones in Iraqi-controlled jails, in
US camps in Afghanistan, and in Afghan-controlled jails.

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
From Dresden and Tokyo to Hanoi, and now Iraq's Baquba
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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5.      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'?  That's 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 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 who or what the real
'axis of evil'  is:

American and European and Australian, so-called 'Christian',
mainly Anglo-Saxon nations attacking, then illegally
occupying two dirt-poor foreign Muslim countries in Asia,
10,000 miles away from our shores.

Invaders who after more than 6 years of bombing Afghanistan and
more than 4.5 years of bombing Iraq still continue to bomb more
Muslim people to smithereens in their own countries.

And we know why.

UTTER CONTEMPT and TOTAL CONDEMNATION

When will we finally stop visiting so much horror on Iraq
and Afghanistan?  A horror of now up to one million dead,
333 times the number of dead on 9/11.

9/11 being the liars' fabricated excuse for two senseless,
racist, illegal and immoral neo-colonial resource wars.

What a mass murder, what a shame, what a disaster,
what a misery, what a waste, what a crime.

"IMAGINE ALL THE PEOPLE.................
LIVING LIFE IN PEACE.........................."

We miss you, John, and we are very sad, you could have
galvanized many hundreds of millions all around the world
to stop the warmongering bastards.

Michael McKinley - USA