US rockets slam into Afghan home, killing 12

[RyboSlybo]

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MARJAH, Afghanistan (AP) - Two U.S. rockets slammed into a home Sunday outside the southern Taliban stronghold of Marjah, killing 12 civilians after Afghanistan's president appealed to NATO to take care in its campaign to seize the town.

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"Our children are very scared by the explosions. When will it end?" asked Zaher, a 25-year-old poppy farmer who like many Afghans goes by one name.

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The rockets were fired by a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, at insurgents who attacked U.S. and Afghan forces, wounding one American and one Afghan, NATO said in a statement. Instead, the projectiles veered 300 yards (meters) off target and blasted a house in the Nad Ali district, which includes Marjah, NATO added.

The top NATO commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, apologized to President Hamid Karzai for "this tragic loss of life" and suspended use of the sophisticated HIMARS system pending "a thorough review of this incident," NATO said.


Linkage... http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100214/D9DS7H982.html

[upi402]

1. Media says "went off target", I say bullshit

It went where it was aimed, IMHO

I just don't buy anything the TV News is selling anymore.

[Echo In Light]

2. Yes, but it's not the M$M, it's who prepares the scripts the pundits read

[upi402]

6. Unity is not a liberal trait

but the elites sure have that down.

[Echo In Light]

14. Hence the media consolidation efforts of recent yrs: streamline the LIES

[RyboSlybo]

3. 300 Yards off target!

Now those are some very accurate missiles we have there... :-(

[Duckhunter935]

9. Most new missiles use GPS

I would say they put in 1 wrong number and the missiles hit right where they were progammed to go.

[wtmusic]

4. No photos, of course.

Dead brown people just disappear into thin air. Poof!

[RyboSlybo]

5. Well with those missiles thats probably not too far from the truth...

Disintegrating civilians.... No problemo.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Why does Obama hate brown people so much?

[upi402]

10. um, i'm kinda hungry

:popcorn:

[wtmusic]

11. He doesn't hate them.

He just doesn't give a crap. They're the poor, third-world variety.

[upi402]

8. Yeah, now who's winning the big game?

I agree. We are blind, or numb, or distracted. Sports, movie stars, or missing hot chicks -no other issues are newsworthy.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. 5 more Afghan civilians killed by NATO missile. BBC

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7719887

[RyboSlybo]

15. This is in addition to the 12 on Sunday?

[gratuitous]

13. Slap on the Opposite Test

Someone else's missiles, launched with the best of intentions at the worst members of our society, both veer off course (or so we're told) and annihilate a dozen people whose transgression was to get in the way of two errant rockets. I am confident that every American would be perfectly content with the apology, no one would get angry (only sorrowful), and we would have no one harbor any designs of revenge against the offending missile shooters.

Right?