Saturday, August 30, 2008

Where is our shame?


“So how, exactly, did the United States come to slaughter nearly a hundred Afghans, two-thirds of whom were children aged three months to sixteen years, while they slept?”

Yes, how did we come to slaughter so many children for no reason? Where is our shame? All the evidence points to 60 children killed, along with 30 adults, by a US bombing run on August 23, 2008. Please note - they live in MUD huts. How could these people be any threat to us?

Where is our shame? Meanwhile, the women are still wearing burqas, the poverty is immense, and the entire country is protesting the presence of foreign troops. Mission accomplished for the asshole in the White House. Where is our shame? Why haven’t we impeached these mass murderers?

Photo: A woman wearing a burqa begs for alms in the streets of Kabul in late June. Five million Afghans face serious food shortages with winter drawing near, but donors have put forward less than a fifth of the money needed to cope, development charity Oxfam has warned. (AFP/File/Shah Marai)

Photo: Afghan women stands next to the remains of her home which was destroyed in a US airstrike at Azizabad village in Herat province. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) says it has has found "convincing evidence" that 90 civilians -- including 60 children -- were killed in US-led air strikes last week. (AFP/Reza Shirmohammadi)

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