US Marines Kill Afghan Toddler ‘Mistaken for the Enemy’

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US Shrugs Off Killing, Citing Bad Weather
by Jason Ditz, January 10, 2014


Outrage is spreading across Afghanistan yet again, after an incident early today in the Helmand Province where US Marines attacked and killed a four-year-old boy.

The US has shrugged off the incident so far, saying that the weather was “dusty” that day and they just assumed the four-year-old was probably the enemy. NATO has said it will “investigate,” but reiterated that the US had taken “all possible measures” to avoid civilian deaths, except for apparently the measure of not shooting at children.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai was quick to condemn the killing, saying they have repeatedly warned the US against military operations against civilian homes and villages.

Though the young age of the child makes this a particularly major outrage, it is not uncommon for US troops to kill random civilians in this manner, and NATO investigations, to the extent they’re ever completed and announced publicly, virtually always exonerate the killers as having acted “appropriately.”

http://news.antiwar.com/2014/01/10/us-marines-kill-afghan-toddler-mistaken-for-the-enemy/

[Aristus]

1. Shit.

If you don't like being called a 'baby-killer' then don't, you know, kill babies!

[firsttimer]

3. This administration has as much blood on it's hands as do these Marines , even more so

Before we condemn what happens in a firefight remember......all these guys wish they were home

[Ed Suspicious]

4. Firefight? Really? I read quickly, but did not see that.

[firsttimer]

8. Read the whole story not bits and pieces

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/10/22253716-us-marines-shoot-dead-young-afghan-girl-in-bad-weather-police




Marines gunned down the child, who was between 4 and 5 years old, after they were shot at and returned fire in the Nadali District of Helmand Province, Assistant Police Chief Abdullah Chopan told NBC News.


In case you missed it the link is antiwar .com

[firsttimer]

2. That is one BIG reason President Obama had to pull combat troops out of Iraq

[lonestarnot]

5. Someone is never going to get over this.

[NuclearDem]

6. Oh sure, we kill their kids, wives, husbands, and parents...

But they actually hate us because we can write curse words on the internet and wear short shorts.

[Shandris]

7. I can't count the number of times I've been in a grocery store and...

...been surprised to see TerroristToddler (tm) walking around. It's getting to be a real epidemic!

( , obviously)

[solarhydrocan]

9. Here's a possible candidate that has an answer

"How should America extract itself from Afghanistan?"

Former Governor Brian Schweitzer: "With Helicopters. Today."

Run Brian Run!

If your little boy was shot by foreign invaders what would you do?

[hughee99]

10. In the final report, the child will be called a "suspected militant". n/t

[sabrina 1]

11. Just one more dead child to the war profiteers.

Unconscionable!

[BluegrassDem]

12. In defense of the troops...

My uncle was in Vietnam and he said anything moving was a potential bomber or killer, even kids. He said kids were sometimes more dangerous than adults as they would be used to kill. It's an ugliness of war. I'm not comparing this situation to Vietnam, but just saying, that this is a by product of war.

[theHandpuppet]

14. Which is why we should get the hell out of there

NOW.

[Vattel]

18. Potential doesn't mean likely.

And killing in war doesn't get a moral pass just because it is in war.

[wildbilln864]

13. K & fucking r! WTF!?

[onethatcares]

15. would someone please remind me

Why are we in Afghanistan?

Haven't we provided enough education for the women folk there by now?

[solarhydrocan]

17. Sure. It's called

Backing Up Globalism with Military Might
By Karen Talbot from 1999 (talk about prescient)

McDonald's Needs McDonnell Douglas to Flourish

An article by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times entitled "What the World Needs Now" tells it all. Illustrated by an American Flag on a fist it said, among other things: "For globalism to work, America can't be afraid to act like the almighty superpower that it is....The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist-McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps." -snip-

Corporations will stop at nothing

To achieve maximum profits these transnationals will stop at nothing. After all, they are non-human institutions that must expand through ever-greater profits, or go out of business. In so doing they have shown willingness to violate human rights-particularly workers' rights—to throw millions out of work, eliminate unions, use sweat-shops and slave labor, destroy the environment, destabilize governments, install or bolster tyrants who oppress, repress, torture and kill with impunity...

Much Much more>
http://www.globalissues.org/article/448/backing-up-globalization-with-military-might

Joey Biden wants to tell the truth (at least to the Export-Import Bank Elite):

[Vattel]

19. This point is too often over-looked.

Globalism = economic dependency on other nations = prescription for war

[FatBuddy]

16. but, but, safety . . . freedom?

[jsr]

20. The Pentagon has a petty cash account to handle this type of incident.

[antiquie]

22. Do you actually believe what you post?

"one and only goal"