alt.war.iraq

In article < @ >,
m9mckinley@ wrote:

> 1. Oct. 2 airpower summary: Air mobility sets record
> /news/ ?id=123070541
> 133 bombing raids on Afghans and Iraqis today
> x an avg of 4 = 532 killed by western invaders
>
> 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)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> 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)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> 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

And you're whining about this, why?