If any other Country on the planet did something this, the U.S. News Media and all of us would regard them as tyrants, murderers, terrorists, etc., and the leader of such a Country deserving of being forcibly removed from power.
Today's headline folks:
After US Strikes, Afghans Describe 'Tractor Trailers Full of Pieces of Human Bodies;' Meanwhile, Obama Readies 21,000 More Troops
As rage spreads in Afghanistan after US bombing that killed up to 130 people, unnamed Pentagon officials are spinning another cover-up. Defiant Obama moves ahead with troop increases.
by Jeremy Scahill
RebelReports
It never ceases to amaze me this profound double standard that we blindly have towards our own Country and our own violent, lawless government, compared to our attitudes that we apply towards other Nations (even anti-War, peaceful ones such as Venezuela).
The full report is located here: U.S. Massacre of Innocent lives
Everyone should go and read this article to understand and see the depth of horror that is still continuing on today, which you will not, of course, hear the full truth of from in our U.S. News Media or from any of our government officials.
"As of this writing reports indicate some people remain buried in rubble.
The US airstrikes happened on Monday and Tuesday. Just hours after Obama met with US-backed president Hamid Karzai Wednesday, hundreds of Afghans—perhaps as many as 2,000— poured into the streets of the provincial capital, chanting "Death to America." The protesters demanded a US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The US airstrikes hit villages in two areas of Farah province on Monday night and Tuesday. The extent of the deaths only came to public light because local people brought 20-30 corpses to the provincial capital. If the estimates of 130 dead are confirmed, it would reportedly be the single largest number of deaths caused by a US bombing since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001."
UPDATED: MORE PHOTOS
Where is the outrage?
Let take stock of what has happened in our Country. We say that we were victims in Sept 2001 (nonwithstanding our own Militarily aggressive and violent policies over decades that clearly motivated retribution or "blowback") and we decry anyone (i.e. "terrorists") who would kill innocent life. The total was approximately 2900 people (much of which could have been avoided had just the standard Pentagon Defenses, and the standard NORAD responses operated according to the normal protocol).
Since then, we have Invaded, Bombed, Occupied, and Economically Ruined Two+ Nations for 7 straight years with no serious or committed actions to end or reject any of it in sight (despite U.S. elections predicated on the very point of stopping all of this madness).
So we have by these actions killed approximately 6000 Americans, crippled or mamed another 120,000 Americans, and recklessly murdered over 1,500,000 innocent lives, including little children, mothers, kids, over a sustained period of multiple years (rapidly approaching one decade). And we have left behind a wake of death, murder, destruction, economic ruin, pollution, and chaos. In the process, we have also financially bankrupted our own Country, inflamed hatred of America like never before, and yet we say, with a straight face, that this all is somehow a policy that is "strong (?)".
Now, who are the terrorists again?
How are these numbers justified?
How is all this perpetual death, destruction, and horror justified?
If it was wrong under Bush,Cheney,Rumsfeld, why isn't it also wrong under Obama,Gates?
What would we say, if any other Nation on the planet ever acted the way that we do?