gfiero48 06:33:08 PM Jul 06 2008

I find it amazing that our weapons are so smart that "NO' innocents were killled, only militants. Sound like the propoganda machine is working overtime, just like in Viet Nam when kill ratios were manipulated by our military.

spacificgrove 03:57:16 PM Jul 06 2008

OOPS!! Now there's a good way to win the minds and hearts of the Afghani people....The undermanned US and NATO Afghanistan force is just another example of this administration's poor planning and execution of a war that should have been over years ago......What a disaster.....

mra90 03:16:11 PM Jul 06 2008

if you listen to the gop were making headway in iraq, nobody told them that they have been fighting amongst themselves for the last 2000 years and will continue. its all going to flair back up as soon as we stop pouring billions of dolllars into a country run by fiefdoms. they dont believe in democracy, they believe in money and power, ours.

kingnus 02:54:31 PM Jul 06 2008

What are the afgains complaining about, Don't they know we americans can kill anyone we want. After all we destroyed Bin Laden and Al Qaeda in afganistan didn't we.

ccd718 02:11:19 PM Jul 06 2008

It would be delusional to believe there exists any need to kill their own in this theater. It's shown time and time again technology has limitations, powerful but not perfect. We kill plenty, intentionally and otherwise. There is also the fact that yes, this enemy uses all available resources, including the population they live among. Just like America, when we were the terrorists to England, when we hid behind trees rather than march in lines toward each other firing. The rules of war for the time did not allow such actions, but when your perceived reality, and the pursuit of it is threatened, people will do amazing things.

inspiringangela 01:10:20 PM Jul 06 2008

Have there been civilian deaths in Afghanistan? Absolutely. Collateral damage is unavoidable in war, but with diligence, and using bona fide sources cultivated for dependable intel, they are kept to a minimum. I agree with 1st Lt. Nathan Perry in that the truth about civilian deaths is never honestly forthcoming. But I would go further to add this dilemma includes all entities involved in the war, even our own military efforts and errors. And it is not unheard of in times of war for an enemy source to kill their own innocent civilians, and blame it on the opposition, because nothing creates more powerful propaganda than the deaths of civilians. Who is more to blame when townspeople have been warned in advance to leave because a Coalition airstrike is pending, and the folks just saunter down the road when they get good and ready, heading to a wedding? I have no doubt deadly insurgents were purposely mixed in with the wedding party. The tactics of war are ugly, indeed.