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64. do you think this horrible mistake means the US should not fight ISIS?

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Mon Oct 5, 2015, 03:42 PM

Oct 2015

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�Unspeakable�: An MSF Nurse Recounts the Attack on MSF�s Kunduz Hospital [View all] Octafish Oct 2015 OP

And we will have "an investigation" that leads nowhere, and keep on doing the same damned thing. djean111 Oct 2015 #1

Working as we speak to blame the doctors for harboring terrorists. Octafish Oct 2015 #5

It sounds like he is accusing MSF of being complicit with the Taliban. MH1 Oct 2015 #16

Right. Guess he has to, otherwise they'd have picked somebody else for the job. Octafish Oct 2015 #20

I agree with the MSF statement, but I think there is a place for US investigation. MH1 Oct 2015 #24

A US investigation that's already been determined!!! atreides1 Oct 2015 #26

truth n/t questionseverything Oct 2015 #27

To determine how it happened, in detail, to prevent it in the future, MH1 Oct 2015 #28

Got news for you atreides1 Oct 2015 #77

Whom u going to believe, MSF or a bunch of homicidal KingCharlemagne Oct 2015 #50

so you're calling NATO "homocidal thugs and their puppets"? uhnope Oct 2015 #109

NATO are homicidal thugs. WTF is NATO doing in central KingCharlemagne Oct 2015 #121

he might just be trying to explain the error. US military will not bomb in this situ unless there uhnope Oct 2015 #58

"Don't get me wrong" Jesus Malverde Oct 2015 #91

that's rich coming from a Kremlin fan uhnope Oct 2015 #94

Sorta sounds like the Afghani people called in the airstrike, maybe. dixiegrrrrl Oct 2015 #35

People in the hospital phoned US and Afghan authorities while attack went on. Octafish Oct 2015 #46

It was a horrible mistake. uhnope Oct 2015 #57

do you think this horrible mistake means the US should not fight ISIS? uhnope Oct 2015 #64

I hope the president is very proud. cwydro Oct 2015 #2

He's become used to killing from a swivel chair. Octafish Oct 2015 #10

I think Obama is easily led. cwydro Oct 2015 #33

We will get a status quo-politician, ronnie624 Oct 2015 #98

This is horrifying on so many levels. Please donate to their organization flamingdem Oct 2015 #3

Thank you! Octafish Oct 2015 #11

Phenomenal organization FlatBaroque Oct 2015 #13

The asshats and emoticon brigade have soiled their Depends at the thought of peace. Octafish Oct 2015 #15

Some will certainly survive FlatBaroque Oct 2015 #17

Frank Carlucci, BFEE, has gone into the luxury lifeboat line... Octafish Oct 2015 #19

Carlucci must be a wild eyed conspiracy theorist FlatBaroque Oct 2015 #23

funny, I recall you justifying Russia's war on the Ukraine quite a bit. uhnope Oct 2015 #60

Yeah? Show where. Octafish Oct 2015 #63

are you also strongly opposed to Russia's war on ISIS? yes or no? uhnope Oct 2015 #65

So, you can't show where I wrote what you accused me of saying? Octafish Oct 2015 #68

LOL. So you oppose war when the West does it. uhnope Oct 2015 #70

I remember when posts like yours would lead to getting banned. Octafish Oct 2015 #72

yeah, banning dissidents who ask inconvenient questions sounds like something you'd favor uhnope Oct 2015 #74

No. Banning disinformationists who work to smear DUers. Octafish Oct 2015 #75

emoticon brigade Jesus Malverde Oct 2015 #92

Why is anyone surprised? Remember how we bombed Al Jazeera librechik Oct 2015 #4

Remember when we bombed CNN? Their boss got fired for saying it looked on purpose. Octafish Oct 2015 #12

exactly. The US is not a heroic force of the people anymore (if it ever was) librechik Oct 2015 #14

''War is a Racket.'' -- Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC Octafish Oct 2015 #18

^THIS^ n/t malaise Oct 2015 #22

The US (North) was a heroic force of the people in the US Civil War. That's probably the KingCharlemagne Oct 2015 #122

I can't find the words to express how disgusted I am by this. n/t demmiblue Oct 2015 #6

The accounts are unimaginable for a good person. Octafish Oct 2015 #25

I remember that Obama said no more war. cwydro Oct 2015 #107

It gets easier every year to say you were dreaming. Octafish Oct 2015 #110

There was some promise about closing Gitmo too. cwydro Oct 2015 #111

I heard him tell a room that he was ''Left of Center.'' Octafish Oct 2015 #113

He lost me during the BP spill. cwydro Oct 2015 #115

Stay away from Pacific seafood, too. Octafish Oct 2015 #123

we're still winning hearts and minds. still being greeted as liberators Doctor_J Oct 2015 #7

Weird how that works. Octafish Oct 2015 #29

But patients who were unable to escape burned to death as they lay in their beds.' CrispyQ Oct 2015 #8

Unable to move, ICU patients burned in their beds. Octafish Oct 2015 #32

So horrible. polly7 Oct 2015 #9

Not collateral. They targeted hospital. Octafish Oct 2015 #42

BS. So now NATO, the US & Afghan forces are "terrorists" who want to bomb hospitals? uhnope Oct 2015 #66

This is someone who thinks a former US President helped organize another President's assassination YoungDemCA Oct 2015 #96

really? thanks. uhnope Oct 2015 #97

I saw it was an AC 130 Jesus Malverde Oct 2015 #93

It just makes me want to cry. Aerows Oct 2015 #67

It's only unspeakable when others are the perpetrators malaise Oct 2015 #21

...^ that 840high Oct 2015 #30

What they do overseas, they bring home. Octafish Oct 2015 #43

And that is why empires collapse malaise Oct 2015 #47

My neighbor's eyes got big as saucers when I mentioned the difference in warmaking effectiveness. Octafish Oct 2015 #55

One logical conclusion is that the Pentagon has been hijacked by warmongers malaise Oct 2015 #56

I'm so sick of war. This is just azmom Oct 2015 #31

Mom, they make big money off war. Octafish Oct 2015 #45

My BIL, pecwae Oct 2015 #34

Thank you! Octafish Oct 2015 #49

When will people understand...the MIC lives way way way way way above the law. Rex Oct 2015 #36

Privatizing the Unspeakable Octafish Oct 2015 #51

War is the ultimate racket. Rex Oct 2015 #59

War crime riderinthestorm Oct 2015 #37

That's what Doctors Without Borders said, too. Octafish Oct 2015 #53

all you people who thought the escalation was a grand idea Skittles Oct 2015 #38

Well said. Octafish Oct 2015 #54

Greenwald is predictably euphoric over the whole incident Blue_Tires Oct 2015 #39

Greenwald notes the irony. I don't see anything about sex in his tweet. Comrade Grumpy Oct 2015 #40

or, maybe he was just right all along Skittles Oct 2015 #41

He was right malaise Oct 2015 #48

Or maybe he's been in bed with Putin all along Blue_Tires Oct 2015 #99

Telling what your reaction to this horror is Fumesucker Oct 2015 #44

A Limbaugh-esque reaction for sure - getting your underwear in a twist about bullwinkle428 Oct 2015 #52

Please explain how this horrible mistake reflects on your view of the war against ISIS uhnope Oct 2015 #61

Way to conflate things. Octafish Oct 2015 #69

I'm not conflating. I'm asking if you think the US should not fight ISIS/Taliban. Simple question. uhnope Oct 2015 #73

Time Waster. Octafish Oct 2015 #76

LOL. Seems that you love the fact that this mistake makes the US military look bad. uhnope Oct 2015 #78

First, I prefer the term "war crime" instead of "mistake." mike_c Oct 2015 #79

of course it was a mistake uhnope Oct 2015 #80

mistaken or intentional, it's clearly a crime against humanity to bomb a civilian hospital.... mike_c Oct 2015 #81

you admit targeting the hospital might have been in error uhnope Oct 2015 #82

yes, it is still a war crime.... mike_c Oct 2015 #83

you keep making contradictory statements uhnope Oct 2015 #84

Amazed at how little attention this has got. Puzzledtraveller Oct 2015 #62

Thank you for putting it to words, Puzzledtraveller. Octafish Oct 2015 #71

Thank you Octafish. Puzzledtraveller Oct 2015 #85

The murdered and the injured.... Dont call me Shirley Oct 2015 #86

Agree 100-percent. This is Year 13 in Afghanistan. Octafish Oct 2015 #87

Chronic war criminals are fearful people who feel they must prepare for the backlash from the Dont call me Shirley Oct 2015 #88

People need to go to fucking prison over this. bullwinkle428 Oct 2015 #89

The Radically Changing Story of the U.S. Airstrike on Afghan Hospital: From Mistake to Justification Octafish Oct 2015 #90

Glenn Greenwald. uhnope Oct 2015 #95

It was GREENWALD who called out Bush and Cheney on ILLEGAL N.S.A. Spying back in 2007. Octafish Oct 2015 #100

pls tell us more about history uhnope Oct 2015 #103

Ask George HW Bush about that. He told the FBI he was in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Octafish Oct 2015 #104

thank you. Also, is there a UFO coverup going on? uhnope Oct 2015 #108

That should be obvious, even to an ignoramus. Octafish Oct 2015 #112

thank you for the info. Can you tell us about vaccines and whether children should be vaccinated? uhnope Oct 2015 #114

So now you want to denigrate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.? Octafish Oct 2015 #116

thank you. Can tell us if the moon landings were faked or, alternately, there are secret moon bases? uhnope Oct 2015 #117

You sound like the people who stalk me from the conservative websites. Octafish Oct 2015 #118

why do you spend so much time on conservative websites? uhnope Oct 2015 #119

Like a teeny, tiny echo Dude. Octafish Oct 2015 #120

Those are the FBI's own documents. Octafish Oct 2015 #105

Merchants of Death Octafish Oct 2015 #106

Horrifying! AuntPatsy Oct 2015 #101

Death, misery and destruction from a war built on lies. Octafish Oct 2015 #102