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"It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers! In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late.

Accordingly, I'm readily willing to yield my command to these obviously superior intellects, and I'll, in turn, do my best for the Cause by writing editorials - after the fact."

Robert E. Lee, 1863

Labels: Anti-American, Intolerance, Responsibility, Terroism, Tolerance, World Trade Center

The New York Times

March 21, 2007
Iraq Bombers Blow Up 2 Children Used as Decoys
By KIRK SEMPLE


BAGHDAD, March 20 — Insurgents detonated a bomb in a car with two children in it after using the children as decoys to get through a military checkpoint in Baghdad, an American general said Tuesday.

Agence France-Presse, quoting an unidentified American military official, said the incident occurred Sunday. The bombers parked the vehicle across the street from a school then ran away, leaving the children inside, the official told the news agency. The blast killed the children and three other civilians and wounded seven, the official said.

The media would like us to think that all the problems, the unrest, the civilian deaths in Iraq are the fault of U.S. troops. It's not. I agree that civilians die at the hands of our troops but not specifically targeted. Yet, no one gets their pants in a wad when a homicide bomber uses civilians, children no less, to kill other civilians.

President Bush was correct in going to war, wrong in the way it was and is being conducted. Ironically, the other candidates and parties don't have any better solution.

Civilians are innocently dying because their own countrymen and women are targeting them and killing them. Hell, this has been going on for 5,000 years. Nothing is going to change the hatred. But brutality againt the innocent can if Congress lets the Generals fight the war and do the job they have been trained. To Kill the enemy.

Congress blame yourselves for this fiasco. Blame Al Queda, blame Hussein, blame the media.

Political entitlement cares nothing for civilians or democracy people here in the U.S. nor overseas.

Let's not re-elect any Congressman or woman next time around but place new blood and ideas in office for the sake of not only our country but for other nations as well.

Busch is out. Be very careful of who we vote into office. Otherwise, more civilians will die.

He or she might be you.

9 From One Family Die in U.S. Strike Near Kabul
By CARLOTTA GALL and ABDUL WAHEED WAFA
KABUL, Afghanistan, March 5 — Nine members of a family, including five women and three children, were killed in an American airstrike in central Afghanistan late Sunday during a battle with militants, Afghan officials said Monday.
The American military acknowledged that it dropped two 2,000-pound bombs on a compound on Sunday night, but said that it could not confirm the casualties.
The strike occurred 12 hours after American forces in eastern Afghanistan fired on civilians following a suicide car bombing next to an American convoy. The American fire killed at least 10 people and wounded 25, Afghan officials said. In response, protests on Sunday blocked the main highway in the area.
On Sunday night, American forces at a small base in Tape Ahmed Beg, in Kapisa Province, northeast of the capital, Kabul, came under rocket fire at 9 p.m., the United States military said in a statement. When two men with Kalashnikov rifles were spotted entering a compound, the Americans called an airstrike, which ended the engagement, it said.
“Coalition forces observed two men with AK-47s leaving the scene of the rocket attack and entering the compound,” Lt. Col. David Accetta, a military spokesman, said in the statement. “These men knowingly endangered civilians by retreating into a populated area while conducting attacks against coalition forces.”
“We did this in self-defense,” said Gen. Muhammad Eiwaz Masloom, the police chief of Kapisa Province, whose men work beside Americans at the base. “The enemy of Afghanistan is trying to use different tactics to destroy the peace and stability in our area, especially in the districts of Tagab and Nejarab, and they have repeatedly attacked our bases.”
He said that members of the Islamic Party, which is led by the renegade mujahedeen commander Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and Taliban supporters were active in the area.
But a local representative of the provincial council, Suraya Bahadur, who comes from Nejarab district, where the bombing happened, condemned it. “I condemn both the suicide attacks and the rocket attacks by the enemy of Afghanistan, and also I condemn these type of mistakes,” by American and NATO forces, she said. “We never want our civilian people to be killed.”

This article from the NY Times, dated March 6, 2007.

US forces see to enemy soldiers run into a compound after a brutal rocket attack and we return fire. Nine civilians get killed because the enemy chose to hide behind the skirts of women and children.

WELL DONE TO THE U.S. FORCES FOR DOING THE "RIGHT THING"!!

The Left Centrists of this country need to understand that in order to win a war, some civilian casualties will happen AND especially if the enemy chooses to hide within the area of civilian populations. The "Rules of Engagement" apply when the enemy fires upon your position and U.S. forces return fire. If civilians get killed. So freaking what?!

The enemy is putting their families and country men, women and children in danger. Not the U.S. military. Wars are won by military superiority and brute force and until the Liberals of our country understand this, we cannot win.

3,000 civilians killed in attacks on September 11, 2001. In one 30 minute time frame 3,000 people working in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave were slain at the hands of an unknown enemy. Piloting 4 civilian aircraft from U.S. airports, planes slammed into the WTC towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.

3,000 civilians!!

Latest figures put the civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Irag at 63,573. However, this is not the fault of the U.S. led military. It is the fault of the enemy and radical muslim faction waging war against the U.S. Coalition forces.

If we win, then there will less civilian casualties because it will be OVER! So Congress, let the military fight the war and win.

AND STAY THE HELL OUT OF IT!