CENSORED QUOTE:
"A regime which displays such a total disregard for basic human rights, democracy and freedom.... You've got a dictator up there now who doesn't want to listen to anybody else other than himself"
George W. Bush, readers? I'll guess we'll never know.
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-- Your friends at Boston.com"Not the first time it's happened!
See: The Ole Sunday Switcheroo
Boston Globe Covers For Drunk Connecticut Judge
Boston Globe Censors Geithner's CFR Appearance
Boston Globe Says NCLB Worked
And am I tired of it? Yeah, I am.
Especially when it concerns such an abominable crime:
US, Afghans differ sharply on Garani strike's civilian toll
Except when I clicked on the link I found this:
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Had to go to the web to dig it out!
"U.S. probe finds 20 to 30 civilians may have been killed in Afghanistan battle; Figure is much lower than Afghan officials' estimates" by Laura King, Los Angeles Times | May 21, 2009
Kabul, Afghanistan — Disagreement over the civilian death toll in a battle this month in western Afghanistan sharpened Wednesday when the U.S. military estimated that 20 to 30 noncombatants were killed in the fighting. Afghan officials say 140 civilians were killed.
The incident in the village of Garani, in Farah province, has triggered a huge outcry here.
Related: Afghans Riot Over Air-Strike Atrocity
Underscoring the danger to civilians as the summer "fighting season" gets underway in earnest, the NATO-led force on Wednesday reported that eight civilians were killed in Helmand province a day earlier. As in Garani, the deaths occurred after Western-led forces called in airstrikes.
Need I comment?
We just waste 140 souls and we are right back at it, huh?
Related: The Farah Fatalities
What is a Dead Afghan Baby Worth?
Farah Fallout
Helmand, adjacent to Farah, is a hot zone for the insurgency, and is where many soon-to-arrive American troops are expected to be deployed. Danger is increasing in other parts of the country as well. Near the capital, Kabul, a U.S. soldier and a contractor died in a roadside bombing Wednesday, the military said.
The CENSORSHIP, CONCEALMENT and OMISSIONS just go on and on!!!!
The only independent group to have reached the scene of the Garani fighting, the International Committee of the Red Cross, has said the dozens of dead included women and children.
You can see why the Zionist War Daily scrubbed this article from their site now, can't you?
Details about the Garani battle have been slow to emerge because of the village's inaccessibility and the continued heavy presence of insurgents, who have a stronghold in the neighboring village of Shewan. Afghan security forces and even many locals consider the area a no-go zone, rife with banditry and ambushes.
I'm tired of the excuses as to why they can't verify the civilian slaughter and have to equivocate. They never do that with the "suiciders" -- they just say it, and you are supposed to accept it as fact from their lying, war-promoting, Muslim-hating mouths!
We GOT PHOTOS, s***ters!!!!
The still-emerging picture points to a ferocious battle. On Monday, two weeks after the fighting took place, U.S. forces acknowledged that two 2,000-pound bombs and other explosives were dropped during a series of airstrikes around the village. Afghan police and soldiers, backed up by U.S. Marines, had fought a daylong battle during which they were outnumbered by well-equipped Taliban forces, American officials have said in previous accounts.
I find it very interesting that the Globe also ignored this story (from their parent, no less):
Arms Sent by U.S. May Be Falling Into Taliban Hands
Have I made my point, readers? I can't believe a thing the Globe says!
Part of the dispute over the toll stems from the fact that relatively few bodies were left intact, according to villagers' accounts. They said many people were torn apart by the blasts, in some cases reduced to unidentifiable scraps of flesh.
Oh, words fail me. There is nothing I could ever type or say that would in any way make up for the atrocity of this event. All I can say at this point -- through my welling tears -- is how deeply, deeply sorry I am for what my nation has done to you.
Most of the structures in the village, including the compounds that were hit, are made of mud brick, which offers little protection against heavy weaponry.
Oh, the ABSOLUTE TERROR!!!!!!
The Afghan commission made its casualty count based on an on-site visit two days after the fighting, during which it inspected damage and fresh graves. It also relied on a list of names compiled by villagers. The Afghan government last week paid out compensation to the families of the dead after they provided certain information about their relatives, such as names and ages.
Yeah, I heard about $2000 a head.
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Btw, this is the crap the Globe replaced it with (they pick up this Times peace?):
"Taliban said to be in talks with intermediaries about peace; US withdrawal is called a focus" by Dexter Filkins, New York Times | May 21, 2009
KABUL, Afghanistan - Leaders of the Taliban and other armed groups battling the Afghan government are talking to intermediaries about a potential peace agreement, with initial demands focused on a timetable for a withdrawal of American troops, according to Afghan leaders here and in Pakistan....
There is always an article like this from time to time; however, after seven years I dismiss such talk. Until I ACTUALLY SEE SOME ACTION it is just fart mist!
Indeed, with 20,000 additional troops on the way, American commanders seem determined to inflict greater pain on the Taliban first, to push them into negotiations and extract better terms. And most of the initial demands are nonstarters for the Americans in any case....
The talks have been underway for months, they have accelerated since Obama took office....
Then why have we barely heard a word about them, war press, and why no action on them?
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