Civilian deaths rise as Afghan fight intensifies

[saigon68]

Source: Canada Com Via Reuters

KABUL, July 10 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Afghans took to the streets of Mazar-i-Sharif on Saturday to protest against mounting civilian deaths, while five U.S. and NATO troops died in separate insurgent attacks on a bloody day of fighting across the country.

Protesters chanted slogans against foreign forces and Afghan President Hamid Karzai after U.S. troops killed two civilians in a pre-dawn raid on Wednesday in the northern city’s outskirts.

NATO also admitted killing six people with stray artillery on Thursday, a day after an airstrike accidently killed five Afghan soldiers.



Afghan policemen walk past a burning U.S. armoured vehicle after a suicide bomber attack in Nangahar province

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Winning hearts and minds ONE DEAD GRANDMOTHER AT A TIME

[Jayendra Sandeep]

1. Reuters says "hundreds" protested, but AP says "thousands"

"In the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, thousands of Afghan's staged an anti-U.S. protest over another night raid that killed two security guards."

AP: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hvWEqwq3CrRvaQCmt21MfoYhjZJQD9GS91B00

[Oregone]

2. Well, for the "win-this-war" crowd, its not terrible news

Its one step closer to the only strategy that can possibly succeed: genocide. McChrystal was standing in the way of that, prick that he was.

[Goldstein1984]

3. Yes, but one day...

There will be a beautiful war memorial to the thousands of disposable citizens who lost their lives in The Perpetual War that began in Afghanistan and spread to Iraq, Pakistan and Iran before jumping around the globe to Venezuela. And because the war is perpetual, the names of the dead will be stored digitally and displayed in scrolling fashion along an LCD screen in the center of the memorial. We'll all be able to leave teddy bears, baby shoes, Barbie dolls and ball gloves in a place labeled, "The Vault of Memories," which will be referred to behind closed government doors as "the memory hole."

[Angry Dragon]

5. The picture you paint with your words

brings a rosy glow to my heart.........

The rivers and streams will flow red
Oceans and gulfs will turn black
The color green will not exist
On this orb called Earth
Except in the bank accounts of
The Overlords

[saigon68]

6. Coming to a city near you

[azurnoir]

4. W(hy)TF are we still there?

no one has ever won against Afghanistan ever and for a reason, when there was some some or a chance of getting OBL perhaps but that was blown IMO on purpose and now it's endless we should leave and leave NOW the civilian deaths are unconscionable

[bemildred]

7. So we're nine years into the big muddy and we've gotten essentially nowhere?

I mean we ARE still fighting the Taliban and al Qaeda, right? So what's new?

[Jefferson23]

8. Another bloody day, another bloody dollar, but who cares..perpetual war

is so USA!

[Lost4words]

9. perpetual war for perpetual profit!