CNN Breaking: 13 US Soldiers killed in suicide attack in Kabul

[Dennis Donovan]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/29/world/asia/afghanistan-nato-attack/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 <-this link doesn't mention nationalities... yet.

[boston bean]

1. Can we please get the hell out of there! nt

[asjr]

2. Bush/Cheney actually killed them!

[inna]

6. uh, it's Obama's war now

[asjr]

8. No, it is still Bush/Cheney. They sent them

in there on a lie and that lie is still there.

[MissDeeds]

27. Yes it is

He's been in office for well over two years. He owns it.

[mod mom]

3. Bring our troops home. The Afghan government is corrupt and dysfunctional

and our troops are worth way more than protecting oil pipelines.

[spanone]

4. for what?

[Bonobo]

5. It has been 3 years. The blood is on Obama now.

When Bush blamed Clinton 3 years into his presidency, we laughed.

[Tsiyu]

7. This is horrible

My heart goes out to all of the family and friends of these soldiers.

[JohnnyLib2]

9. Damn.

Damn, damn, damn.

Because of Ft. Knox and Ft. Campbell here in Kentucky, we're constantly reminded of the hundreds of family members and friends affected
by each loss.


RIP: cry:

[bigtree]

10. .

[Bonobo]

11. Deafening silence at DU.

Well I understand. With elections coming up, it really shouldn't get too much attention.

After all what are 13 dead soldiers compared to 1 marine with a head injury.

10 years into the undeclared war, 3 years into Obama's presidency and this is just another "ho hum" event.

Sad to see that it has become the new normal and is excused so easily.

At least Gaddafi and Bin Laden and Alwaki and son are dead. That's 4 compared to just 1 for Bush by my count!

[bluestate10]

12. I favor bringing troops home. Long range Drones can do the business of

killing people that are a threat to innocent americans at home and abroad.

[Bonobo]

13. That's not a foreign policy that will achieve security.

Killing will always create more enemies than security.

Yours is merely a recipe for further govt. subsidies to the military industry and a future of danger and self-created enemies for our children. It seems that is all America really has now.

[Boojatta]

14. "After all what are 13 dead soldiers compared to 1 marine with a head injury"

I suppose that there could be a surprise here if you believe in the "peace is our profession" stuff, but death is an occupational hazard of a military career. On the other hand, taking part in a peaceful protest on American soil isn't supposed to involve a hazard of being injured by agents of the US government. Why do you compare the thirteen dead to the one injured? The circumstances are quite different.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[Bonobo]

15. I am comparing them to make a point only.

You can argue that it is an unfair comparison, but the point that this is considered ho humm old news still stands.

[Boojatta]

18. "the point that this is considered ho humm old news still stands"

You wrote earlier: "10 years into the undeclared war."

Whether or not it's old news depends on what you mean by "old." Does the war in Afghanistan need to continue for twenty years before it can be considered "old" news?

[tosh]

16. For many here, not ho-hum...

but simply that there are no words to express the sadness and the outrage.

[Bonobo]

17. I know, I really do....

Some people here are still awake and I know that... :cry:

[JohnnyLib2]

19. Kick; it's important.

[Mimosa]

28. ^ "The new normal" ^

Yes.

If Obama pulled out our troops then he would become 'the President who lost Afghanistan'. So he will not.

Besides there's all that lithium and rare earth. For every 12 of ours they kill 'we' will kill 144 or more of their's. That's clearly the strategy. We have drones.

[Magoo48]

20. We all own a part of this...

Money flows from us into government, then into the MIC. Our money. The end product is war, death, and suffering. Corruption, lies, and greed slather the machinery of this nasty business. Let's place responsibility correctly: it's on us. If we are stupid enough, as a people, to finance this horseshit, well, WTF. Remember, we the people pay for this; we sign off with our green. It's done in our name. Most people around the planet say, "Look what America is doing." it's all of us, because we all pay.for it.

The blood and waste break my heart...
The deception and lies really piss me off...

Nevertheless, still paying for my part...

[Rhiannon12866]

21. It seems to be getting worse and worse. These guys need to go home, too...

;(

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

22. More cannon-fodder sacrificed in a lost war fought for PR.

[spanone]

23. update: Suicide bombing of NATO convoy kills 17

KABUL, Afghanistan — A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into an armored NATO bus Saturday, killing 17 people, including 12 Americans and a Canadian in the deadliest attack on the U.S.-led coalition in Kabul since the war began. It was a major setback for the alliance as it begins to draw down combat troops.

The explosion sparked a fireball and littered the street with shrapnel and twisted metal hulks. Heavy black smoke poured from burning wreckage at the site along the four-lane highway frequently used by foreign military trainers in the southwestern section of the city.

Underscoring the difficulties ahead, the brazen assault occurred on the same day that top NATO and Afghan officials were meeting elsewhere in Kabul to discuss the second phase of shifting security responsibilities to Afghan forces in all or part of 17 of the country's 34 provinces.

It also was a blow to efforts by the U.S. and President Hamid Karzai to forge peace with the fundamentalist Taliban movement as NATO plans to withdraw all its combat troops from the country by the end of 2014, with support for the costly war reaching new lows in the West.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45077998/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/#.Tqxls2Dtjf8

[Rhiannon12866]

24. Yikes! What a tragedy. I think we should regard this as a clear signal.

We need to bring our troops home now.. ;(

[inna]

25. 12 Americans killed? wow, why is it not all over the news?

[malaise]

26. Leave

Bring them home :cry: