Bombs target "suspected" taliban, always hit confirmed civilians..

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - U.S. warplanes hunting Taliban fighters bombed a religious school and mud-brick homes in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing dozens of suspected militants and 17 civilians in one of the deadliest strikes since the American-led invasion in 2001.

Pickup trucks ferried wounded villagers to a hospital in nearby Kandahar city. One woman, cradling her injured baby, recounted seeing “dead people everywhere” after the nighttime attack.

Taliban violence escalates each spring in Afghanistan with snow melting on mountain passes. But the scale of the assaults — and of U.S.-led coalition response — has been greater this year, as thousands of NATO forces prepare to deploy in the volatile south, the heartland of the ousted Islamic regime.



According to coalition and Afghan figures, the airstrikes brought the death toll of militants, Afghan forces, coalition soldiers and civilians to as many as 286 since Wednesday, when the recent storm of violence erupted in the south.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12909608/

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. The US doesn't have enough troops to go around, so they

simply drop bombs on "suspected" targets. It's basically war crimes.

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2. Tragedy. There is no such thing as a "smart bomb"

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. They as smart as the targeting probably. Those that recommend the targets

can bring their own personal agenda into it. It's one hell of a way to settle a personal feud.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. They may need to develop smart robots so they can get closer

and see the whites of their eyes first so to speak.. mebbe there will be less collateral warcrimes....