News comes from Afghanistan today of the deaths of 60 civilians in a NATO attack.
Major Luke Knitig, a spokesman for the international security assistance force, said 60 dead bodies had been discovered, but it was "very unclear" whether they were civilians or insurgents.
"It was late at night - that might be the reason they didn't know where to bomb," Agha Lalai, another member of the provincial council, told Reuters. "They have bombed residential houses.
Then another news report this morning caught my attention. The news report stated that the proceeds of opium sales was funding the Taleban. If memory serves me correctly the Taleban who were there before 2001, the ones that Bush met with, had eliminated the poppies.
What is going on in Afghanistan, two German journalists have died there. What is the truth?
The drum beat remains the same as Iraq, a quagmire, and more dead people.
The more civilians dead, the more mothers dead and the more orphans produced by this conflict will only deepen the resolve of the Afghan people to fight on.
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