Afghan Attacks Kill U.S. Diplomat, Soldiers, Others

[Hissyspit]

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Source: Reuters

Afghan attacks kill U.S. diplomat, soldiers, others

Sat Apr 6, 2013 4:21pm EDT

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A car bomb blast killed five Americans, including three U.S. soldiers and a young diplomat, on Saturday, while an American civilian died in a separate attack in the east.

The diplomat, whose name was not given, and other Americans were in a convoy of vehicles in Zabul province when the blast occurred, Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement.

The soldiers and the diplomat died in the blast along with a civilian employee of the Defense Department and Afghan civilians, Kerry said. His statement gave no overall death toll.

Local and international officials in the region said earlier that six people died in the blast: three U.S. soldiers, two U.S. civilians and an Afghan doctor.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE93506820130406

[Frustratedlady]

1. Bring our people home! Enough! eom

[School Teacher]

2. It's All About the Resources: Must Grab them for the MIC, No Matter the Human Cost

Yes. The MIC will bamboozle soldiers and diplomats to fight hard for that fortune in minerals that are the treasure of Afghanistan.
As I told an American diplomat who was home visiting: "You said things are getting better in Afghanistan, you mean they are all dead so we can get at the minerals? Don't think we are too dumb to know what you are really doing over there. And get out, just get out!
If you were a moral person you would quit your job and just get out!" What a sickening moral disaster over there!

But Americans deep down know that what is going on over there is Evil. They distract themselves with sports, booze, drugs, shopping and overblown holidays. This distracts them from their poverty and they enjoy the banal offerings of popular culture.

Last night I saw crowds swarming into our now privatized soccer stadium to pay a rich man to see a game in the cold rain. If only I could get those crowds to an anti war demonstration! The crowds that show up at a Fun Run, if only they were marching for something that really mattered.

I had just come from a play entitled The Arabian Nights and at the end of this delightful set of folk tales, the characters laid down and the sound of jet bombers over Baghdad was heard overhead. I raised my fist in the air. Others in the audience did not seem to notice what that represented. Am I alone?

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3. They were delivering textbooks to children

How very resource-grabbing of them.

[aandegoons]

4. Ah yes they should be thanking us for raping their country.

Killing their families and forcing our set of corrupt mores on them.


You fuckers did that to my people too. We too did not learn to thank you enough, the ungrateful savages that we were.

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5. I know several Afghans who are glad we invaded. I don't know any Iraqis who are.

Then again the set of people I know from both countries is only a few dozen each.

[Tx4obama]

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