U.S. Keeps Bombing Weddings

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Posted on Jul 15, 2008

Apparently, the Bush administration is also against straight marriage—if you live in the desert under U.S. military occupation. Tom Engelhardt details seven years of wedding crashing in Afganistan and Iraq, and the notable lack of remorse on the part of the Pentagon.

TomDispatch.com:

All these “incidents” have some obvious features in common: the almost immediate claims by the U.S. military, for instance, that those who have been hit were adversaries, not wedding parties; the ultimate dismissal of the killings as the usual “collateral damage” in wartime; and, above all, the striking fact that, for none of these slaughters of celebrating locals, did the U.S. ever offer a genuine apology.

The mainstream media tends to pick up such stories as he said/she said affairs. Of course, “she” never actually “says” anything, being dead. But you get the idea. As with the most recent Afghan wedding-party slaughter, such pieces—generally wire service stories—are to be found deep inside American newspapers where only the news jockeys are reading. In fact, your basic wedding party wipe-out report is almost certain to share at least some space in the story with a mini-round-up of other kinds of recent death and mayhem in the region in question. The language in which such stories are written is generally humdrum and, in the military mode, death is sanitized

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By jack, July 16, 2008 at 8:41 am Link to this comment
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At this rate, The Global War of Terror may well rage for 100 years, as has been projected. It’s well documented that the chaos and failed-state conditions of the Middle East is the intent of this Gladio-style, long-term black-op/psy-op - the ultimate goal is to bring the world to its knees begging for “protection” - oldest game in the book. We see this being played out wherever in the world the control of valuable resources is at stake.

Under the cover of incompetence and blowback, the global intelligence nexus [CIA/MI6/MOSSAD] manipulate geopolitics through elaborate schemes of state-sponsored terrorism and pseudo-gang, false-flag provocations. Virtually nothing is what it seems - 2 things to never forget:

1. “Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the state.” - James Jesus Angelton - Director of CIA Counter Intelligence (1954-74)

2. “The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” - William Colby - Director of the CIA (1973-76)

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By Fadel Abdallah, July 15, 2008 at 8:35 pm Link to this comment

Few days ago, under different thread, I offered my educated explanation about why the U.S. pilots keep bombing wedding parties. It’s worth repeating below! 

Those macho pilots are, in fact, a bunch of cowards and murderers who hide behind their superior weapons of mass destruction. So when they see a crowd, any crowd, they panic, and they react to this panic with the trigger-happy attitude they were trained to use. Every moving thing they see as an enemy, and more so when this moving thing is a crowd in a country where they are as marauders occupiers!

Though marauders occupiers go out of their way to project macho power against the powerless natives, in reality, they wet their pants when they are caught unprepared to face any number of natives, big or small! Those called military pilots, are in my book, the most coward murderers; for they bomb their innocent victims from the safety of their distance, under the cover of their deadly weapons of mass destruction!

For those who might be inclined to vote for McCain, the so-called former pilot-hero, remember that you’re in fact voting for a potential coward-murderer who will always try to demonstrate his pretended machismo by shooting from the safety of his weapons of both mass destruction and mass deception!

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By purplewolf, July 15, 2008 at 4:48 pm Link to this comment

Gives a new meaning to the term, “Wedding Crashers”.

Felicity, the Pentagon and the media never had souls to begin with, same goes for the Bush’s and their depraved indifference toward all others who are not in their inner circle of the elitist rich.

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By felicity, July 15, 2008 at 2:50 pm Link to this comment

I quote from the Bugliosi book, “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder.”  In January, ‘05, “right in the midst of the hell on earth Bush created in Iraq - when the carnage there was near its worst and American soldiers and Iraqi citizens were dying violent deaths every day - Bush, referring to himself and his wife, told thousands of partying supporters at one of his nine inaugural balls, ‘We’re having the time of our life.’”

The suffering George Bush has caused thousands of human beings obviously means nothing to him, in fact he advertises his imperviousness at every chance he gets.

In a way, assuming that the Pentagon and the media still have souls, their excusing, justifying, glossing over the wedding bombings is even more malignant.

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