An Amazing Confession by General Stanley McChrystal

[spiritual_gunfighter]

An Amazing Confession by General Stanley McChrystal
May 2, 2010, 7:10PM

The New York Times ran this story in two slightly different versions, on March 26, 2010...

"We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat," said Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who became the senior American and NATO commander in Afghanistan last year.

And then on April 12, 2010...

"However, to my knowledge, in the nine-plus months I've been here, not a single case where we have engaged in an escalation of force incident and hurt someone has it turned out that the vehicle had a suicide bomb or weapons in it and, in many cases, had families in it."

I don't know exactly what to think about General McChrystal's amazing confession, and it quickly disappeared in the usual hurricane of media noise about nothing...

But it somehow reminded me of another summation which was almost entirely overlooked by American media.

US forces were reported to have killed 106 Afghan civilians when they dropped bombs on the village of Qalaye Naizi, in eastern Afghanistan.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/r/u/rutabaga_ridgepole/2010/05/an-amazing-confession-by-gener.php

And of course...

Military authorities denied having mistakenly bombed a village, and said the warplanes had targeted a compound used by al-Qaeda.

And it would have been just another story like so many others, except that was the day when...

The number of Afghan civilians killed by US bombs has surpassed the death toll of the 11 September attacks.

We passed that milestone on January 2, 2002.


It is time for the Obama Adminstration to cut their losses and gets the hell out of Afghanistan!

[VMI Dem]

1. Obama's War needs to end now.

The Bush Doctrine is a failure.

[zipplewrath]

2. There was a flurry of that stuff

Right about that time we saw a bunch of small, almost unnoticed, set of statements from inside and outside of the administration. And Karzai went on one of his tirades in there too. It was the basis of me stating that I suspected the tide was turning inside the administration and that they were preparing to get out any way they could. Too much effort, not enough results. I suspect they are done and just going through the motions of finishing.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. However, we DO continue to do a great job of terrorizing the people in the Middle East.

So I guess we are winning the war " on terror".

Which we seem to have expanded nicely into part of Africa.
The oil and ports parts.