The day the newspaper prints the worst, most embarrassing stories to the power structure they defend because it is the least read and circulation day for the paper -- another reason government releases bad news late on Friday afternoons. By the rime Sunday rolls around, the embarrassment has missed the news cycle and your fat Sunday paper presents the predetermined (on Thursday the Sunday paper is put together) agenda-pushing for that day (Sunday a big readership day as elitist folk sit around the house with a fat paper all day).
Voila!
"Gates urges end to Afghan casualties; Civilian deaths 'defeats,' he says" by Anne Gearan, Associated Press | June 13, 2009
BRUSSELS - The United States and its allies must reduce the number of civilians killed in the hunt for the Taliban in Afghanistan, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday. He called the deaths "one of our greatest strategic vulnerabilities."
"Every civilian casualty, however caused, is a defeat for us and a setback for the Afghan government," Gates told reporters.
And a PRECIOUS SOUL LOST, right, Bob?
Just about the MISSION, isn't it, you heartless SOB?!
American officials say that Taliban militants purposely try to cause civilian deaths that can be blamed on US forces in order to turn ordinary Afghans against the international military effort.
This kind of crap turns my stomach and doesn't do the s*** MSM any favors.
Yeah, BLAME the VICTIMS, you LYING F***S!!!!
Gates said little about the latest high-profile killings, a disputed incident in a western province in which Afghan officials have said that the civilian death toll was 140. US commanders have said they believe no more than 30 civilians were killed, along with 60 to 65 Taliban insurgents. "We can do better," Gates said.
What's that mean, we can KILL MORE?
Gates said preventing civilian deaths is a primary assignment for the American general he picked to turn around the stalemated Afghanistan. As he headed to his first day on the job in Kabul, General Stanley McChrystal paid a courtesy call yesterday on NATO defense chiefs, a gesture meant to acknowledge the alliance's help even as the United States shoulders an ever-larger share of the fighting.
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The alliance has declared the Afghan war its highest military priority, but the fight against Taliban-led insurgents is unpopular in many European nations, and several alliance countries are reducing or eliminating their forces.
I'm ALWAYS for THAT, folks!!! LESS DEAD PEOPLE!
Gates fired his last commander, and has said the war effort lacked focus and resources. He hand-picked McChrystal and named his own top military aide as the general's deputy in one of the clearest signs yet that the Obama administration is gravely worried about the course of the eight-year war.
How they can keep it going is what they are worried about.
Gates was in Europe for three days of consultations with NATO allies.... The United States is trying to ally NATO concerns about creeping "Americanization" of the war's direction, but will nonetheless install a new hierarchy that more closely resembles the US military machine in Iraq.
Ah, the U.S. MILITARY MACHINE, huh?
Can you say EMPIRE, readers?
