Reply #2: "US and NATO troops killed more noncombatants ... [View All]

[bread_and_roses]

...in the last six months than did Taliban insurgents, several tallies indicate."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/
la-fg-civilian6jul06,0,4449979.story?coll=la-home-center

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — After more than five years of increasingly intense warfare, the conflict in Afghanistan reached a grim milestone in the first half of this year: U.S. troops and their NATO allies killed more civilians than insurgents did, according to several independent tallies.

...Still, Western military leaders argue that any comparison of casualties caused by Western forces and by the Taliban is fundamentally unfair because there is a clear moral distinction to be made between accidental deaths resulting from combat operations and deliberate killings of innocents by militants.

This has been going on from the start. Remember the bombed wedding? The mother holding her headless child?

Some of us have opposed this war from the start too.

War is not the answer.