alt.war.iraq

1. Nov. 25 airpower summary: F-16s provide overwatch
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123077009
84 US/UK bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today

84 x an avg of 4 dead per raid = over 336 Afghans and Iraqis
killed in another day of horrible US/UK bombing violence.
It is never even mentioned in the mass media. So the
ignorant masses really have no idea of the daily human
carnage and the wide-spread destruction in their name.
Of course the Pentagon has thousands of satellite pictures,
but none of them will ever be shown by the lapdog media.

The number of dead does not even include the many
resistance fighters and civilians killed each day by other occupier
violence, such as by cannon fire or missiles from helicopters
and helicopter gunships, by mortars, by machine guns and snipers,
and maybe even by the ongoing brutal torture in prisons.

Of course one must always claim these are thugs and terrorists, one
can never call them resistance fighters or partisans (who have every
right to throw the conquering Western invader/occupiers out) .

2. 60,000 Iraqi resistance fighters - men, women and children - now
in US concentration camps in Iraq ('Guantanamos' in Iraq itself):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/gallery/2007/sep/21/iraq.international...
http://tinyurl.com/2lvxe5

This does not even include all the ones in Iraqi-controlled jails, in
US camps in Afghanistan, and in Afghan-controlled jails.

3. A remarkable article about bombing non-Christian people
to smithereens in their own countries:
DEATH from ABOVE

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IG12Ak01.html
From Dresden and Tokyo to Hanoi, and now Iraq's Baquba
and Afghanistan's tribal villages, the US military has been
"HOOKED ON AIRPOWER".

That addiction will only grow stronger as US ground troops
gradually withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, increasingly
leaving civilians to continue to take the heat.
- by Tom Engelhardt (Jul 11, '07)
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4. A FALLACY that BOMBS - literally
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IG12Ak06.html
US and Israeli reliance on air power to fight urban guerilla warfare
has unintended consequences. Dead civilians, decimated homes,
schools and hospitals strengthen and unify opponents and portend
an ominous future for US geopolitical goals.
By Khody Akhavi (Jul 11, '07)
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5. http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/29/opinion/edinderfurth.php
Losing the 'other war' in Afghanistan?
By Karl F. Inderfurth
Published: May 29, 2007
WASHINGTON:
Controversy rages over the war in Iraq, but what about the so-called
other war in Afghanistan, for which there is immoral bipartisan
support in the United States and in the international community?
Is there a danger of losing in Afghanistan? The answer is yes.
My question: A 'danger'? That's silliness:
It is not a 'danger', it already is a fact:

This colonial war was lost a long time ago. As it was never about
winning the hearts and minds, but always about oil and gas and
pipelines and new military bases and access to Central Asia's
resources, i.e., about geo-political power and greed.

It is just a matter of time and the Western colonial invaders can no
longer sustain the slow but permanent and persistent bleeding in
money and casualties and will be forced to leave.

First, however, I'm sure they will kill many tens of thousands more.
We have seen immoral bombing wars and millions of dead before:
In Vietnam, another ill-conceived, immoral and illegal colonial
bombing war on darker skinned non-Christians in their own country.
3 - 4 million perished in the American orgy of colonial violence
in Asia. And a new horrible and racist orgy of violence by western
nations is happening again, now even in two countries in Asia
simultaneously.

There is no question whatsoever who or what the real
'axis of evil' is:
Rich Western so-called 'Christian' nations attacking, then
occupying two dirt-poor foreign Muslim countries in Asia
10,000 miles away from our shores, and even after 6 years
in Afghanistan and 4.5 years in Iraq still bombing more
Muslim people to smithereens in their own countries.

And we know why.
It is illegal, it is immoral, it is a crime.
UTTER CONTEMPT and TOTAL CONDEMNATION
Michael McKinley - USA