Bjorn Tipling

unapologetically uninformed, unthoughtful and unimaginative

Oh that makes it ok!

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The US Military, according to the New York Times says:

For two weeks, the United States military has insisted that only 5 to 7 civilians, and 30 to 35 militants, were killed in what it says was a successful operation against the Taliban

Ah, only 5 to 7, not the 90 civilian deaths that “the Afghan government, human rights and intelligence officials, independent witnesses and a United Nations investigation” claim. Great! Personally, I don’t think any loss of innocent life is acceptable, but I must be some kind of left wing extreme wacko nut job to think life is precious. If so, I don’t mind. Hell, label me whatever you want. I don’t give a shit anymore.

Written by Bjorn

September 8th, 2008 at 9:14 am

Posted in opinion

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    I have it on repeated anecdote from people who's come back from the other theatre that all the numbers are hugely underreported. I don't find that hard to believe.
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    There's a definite conflict of interest in the who is doing the reporting. Large numbers of casualties will reflect badly on the military and the federal government and I wonder how much pressure they're willing to exert even at the risk of being exposed for hiding the truth. If you're killing innocent people it is a pretty bad thing, it doesn't get much worse, even if you're trying to cover it up, so why not attempt to cover it up? I want to suggest an independent over-seerer to count the bodies, but why not use that political will to just get us the fuck out places where we end up killing children and people just trying to live their lives.
 
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