Afghans fear more US air attacks with more troops - 18 Feb09

As Barack Obama, the US president, signed his economic rescue plan into law on Tuesday he also approved an additional 17,000 US troops for Afghanistan.

They'll join the 38,000 already battling the Taliban in the country.

Obama said the extra troops are necessary to "stabilise a deteriorating situation".

But all this came as residents in one Afghan village told an increasingly familiar story - one of US air attacks, and civilian casualties.

Hamish MacDonald reports.

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[linkin622]

how many civilians died on 9-11....how many civilians die in taliban car bomb attacks...and roadside bombs..how many were killed or maimed for voting ?...dont even try this BS cause it doesnt work anymore

[FigthForFreedom]

lol i love how people wine about civilians geting killed in war ever heard of casulties learn it.

theirs no murders in war just death.

and note if we dont figth this war afgan wil be controlled by the taliban then pakistan and maybe iraq we must kill the taliban now or they will be back in the future to bomb soft tragets like school and hospitals.

[shadowofears]

Operation "Odyssey Dawn"

[defined (Merriam-Webster), means: "The beginning of a long and wandering journey or quest marked by many changes of fortune".]

An agenda to topple 7 countries in 5 years. "....starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off Iran." Quote: General Wesley Clark (ret). 2007 interview

FAST FORWARD: April 2nd, 2011 interview: Sen. Joe Lieberman discusses bombing SYRIA, "

[rencrow]

@FigthForFreedom

Thats easy to say when your family and home isn't being bombed by a large army.

[Thebadman333]

Obama is a dumb ass we have terror cells in the u.s. and dont say a word to them or stop them from planing more attacks on us. if we do speak out they love playing the profie and race card. ya know what if that is going to save my family friends and other pepole who still want america to be a great place to live free and safe i'm all for it it needs to be done otherwise we are sitting ducks asking for trouble then when somthing does happen the pepole who bitch the most about it want help

[Cressx]

If the civilians don't wanna get bombed they should get the fking taliban out of their village.

Instead they let two of them stay the night and they paid the price for it.

[vr4evo]

@hanros98

those who oppose democracy have to be neutralized (not necessarily killed) some way in order to successfully implement democracy(although I prefer they be be killed)... but that cannot happen with these cowards running around looking like there own people... IF you think war will ever happen without one civilian casualty you are being very naive... wars usually start because of oppression amongst civilians.

[hanros98]

@vr4evo NATO are in afganistan to give them democracy and you think this is the right way

[SaLCaPoNe100]

@TheMaraudingGuy How do you know that our media tells us the truth? Our media is the most corrupted in the world. I watch CBS and I see B.S.

[whatthehell81]

@linkin622 You don´t really believe some people in afghanistan, living in caves have the ability to penetrete the security grid of the us? Just follow the money financing 9/11 and you will find out that it was Saudis and Jews that did 9/11, with the help of people in key positions, that let it happen.

Since 9/11 nothing happenend in the us anymore! Not even a Iraqi living in the us, getting all his family in Iraq killed, blowing up his car in a suicide attack, for example...

[vr4evo]

Fuck them all, Im sick of their fucking whining... If we bombed that location it must have meant that Taliban were in that village, therefore most likely being helped by those villagers so they should burn in hell with the taliban ragfucks too....