Group: alt.war.iraq
From: m9mckinley@yahoo.com
Date: Monday, October 08, 2007 11:04 PM
Subject: Neo-colonial wars: Death from Above and more Afghans and Iraqis die

1. Oct. 6 airpower summary: Invader Refuelers provide
global killer reach
/news/ ?id=123071023

129 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis
today x an average of 4 killed per raid = 516
bombed to smithereens in their own country by western
invaders/occupiers, and this happens every day, day in, day out.

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

/atimes/Middle_East/
>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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3. A FALLACY that BOMBS - literally
/atimes/Middle_East/
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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4. /articles/2007/05/29/opinion/
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'? What 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.
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 in two countries in Asia simultaneously.

There is no question whatsoever who or what the real
'axis of evil' is here: Rich Western nations bombing poor
people to smithereens in their own countries in Asia.
And we know why.

UTTER CONTEMPT and TOTAL CONDEMNATION
Michael McKinley - USA