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Afghan Civilian Toll RisesPosted on Jul 31, 2009
As President Obama continues to push more U.S. troops into Afghanistan, the U.N. is reporting that civilian casualties in the war-torn country have spiked, increasing almost 25 percent above 2008 figures. In the first six months of this year, 1,013 civilians were killed.
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By skulz fontaine, August 1, 2009 at 8:19 am Link to this comment
The U.S. military has this peculiar habit of indiscriminately killing innocent civilians and then claiming to have killed substantial numbers of ‘militants’ or ‘insurgents’ or “Taliban” or “Vietcong” or whomever. After all, this is the U.S. military and killing is everything.
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