from:
"By NOOR KHAN, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 11 minutes ago
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."
You can read rest on yahoo news.
How can any war plan be moral, where we have the force to enter villages with superior firepower on the ground and judiciously fight any insurgents; but instead just bomb the hell out of the whole village, women and children included.
This outrage lies squarely with Bush and Rumsfeld who have done everything in their power to fight these two wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, in the worst way possible. The poor, and unmoral, ways America has fought both of these wars is shameful. Is it okay to kill 50 innocents to eliminate 50 insurgents? Is it okay to kill even 10? or 5? I would say it isn't okay. Every effort must be made during war to avoid innocent loss of life. But these jokers running the show right now, could care less, though I'm sure that if it were our cities were being bombed in a similar way, they might then feel the outrage. It just isn't moral to kill innocents indiscriminately to get a few bad guys. Sure fight a war in a moral war makes it harder to win, but if you don't have a moral point of view, can you ever really say you are winning?
I've long thought that just as we lost the last election in 2004 because the gays pushed gay marriage 6 months out before the election, we could also possibly lose this election from pursuing impeachment too strongly. But stuff like this, torture, the NSA spying, and the congressional corruption, and cronyism, and lobbying/earmarks, shredding of the entire constitution of the United States, makes me think a good campaign platform might be that ALL the Republicans need to be impeached. Bush should be impeached for all his (and Rumsfelds, and Gonzales) crimes, and the Republicans in congress should be impeached en-masse for sitting on their hands during these outrages. It is time we save the women and children, in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and also in America. The moral arguments Democrats could carry into the next national election should be pursued vigorously at every level.