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U.S. Army Starts Targeting Children
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Obama and the American military label all young men – between the ages of say 15 and 35 - who happen to be in battle zones as suspected insurgents who they can target and kill.
Under the Bush administration, children were tortured.
Now, the U.S. military is starting to target children for assassination in battle zones. As the Nation reports:
In a despicable article in Military Times, the US military says that children are legitimate targets in the war in Afghanistan because sometimes the Taliban and other insurgents use kids.
In the original incident, which I cited in October, The New York Times reported it this way:
The…case of three children allegedly killed in a coalition strike was reported by local officials in Helmand Province’s Nawa district. The officials said that the children were killed in a NATO strike on Sunday afternoon as they were gathering dung to burn as fuel, a common practice in the desert reaches of southern Afghanistan where there are few trees.
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The Marja governor said that NATO forces watched as improvised explosive devices were being planted, and targeted the insurgents planting them. “As a result two I.E.D. planters were killed and the shrapnel killed the three children who were wandering nearby,” he said. Other reports said that three insurgents had been killed.
A spokesman for the international forces, Maj. Adam Wojack, said that the coalition forces were aware of the allegations and that the episode was being investigated. “I.S.A.F. did conduct a precision airstrike on three insurgents in Nawa district, and the strike killed all three insurgents,” he said.
“None of our reporting shows any civilian casualties or any children.”
But on December 3 Gannett, which owns Military Times, ran an article headlined: “Some Afghan Kids Aren’t Bystanders.” It said:
When Marines in Helmand province sized up shadowy figures that appeared to be emplacing an improvised explosive device, it looked like a straightforward mission. They got clearance for an airstrike, a Marine official said, and took out the targets.
It wasn’t that simple, however. Three individuals hit were 12, 10 and 8 years old, leading the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul to say it may have “accidentally killed three innocent Afghan civilians.”
But a Marine official here raised questions about whether the children were “innocent.” Before calling for the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System mission in mid-October, Marines observed the children digging a hole in a dirt road in Nawa district, the official said, and the Taliban may have recruited the children to carry out the mission.
Shockingly, the article quotes a senior officer saying that the military isn’t just out to bomb “military age males,” anymore, but kids, too:
“It kind of opens our aperture,” said Army Lt. Col. Marion “Ced” Carrington, whose unit, 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, was assisting the Afghan police. “In addition to looking for military-age males, it’s looking for children with potential hostile intent.”
War crimes? It would appear so.
But the U.S. government exempts its own acts from the definition of terrorism, even as it labels others as terrorists for doing the exact same things.
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RichardP said:
Calling in air strikes on eight-year-olds gathering dung for fuel? Such bravery in combat deserves medals for valor.
Onward Christian soldiers.
It seems like you also will have a hard time figuring out what to do when the hoards are advancing on your survival stash as well. Oh, wait ... that will be different, won't it. Because it will be your survival that is at stake. Either you will do whatever is necessary to survive then, principles be damned, or you will not survive.
Did you ever wonder WHY they want to kill you? Think it might have something to do with murdering their women and children?
and is your "survival stash" in their country? in their wedding parties? do their children have yer stash?
or maybe THEY are defending THEIR survival? in their own lands. . .
Tom Cook knows that one doesn't simply walk into an argument with droney. And, after all, some folks were born, no-MADE to wave the flag, oh they're Red White and Blue; and when the band plays 'hail to the chief'...
"so how do we know when we've protected freedom enough?"
love TomTomorrow - thanks for that, Droney's face. . . priceless.
Np.
and of course I meant 'Tomorrow' ./
In the coloured graphic image of the hunted young boy above, his trouser belt and buckle have the shape of a knife and handle ... a pattern sufficient to make an American cop shoot
Like in that incident the other month, where a US cop shot and killed a man in a wheelchair with only one arm and one leg, because the disabled men was waving a pen around, and the cop felt 'threatened' ...
The killing and harming of children, sadly, is one of the pleasures of those with demonic - satanic - luciferian fetishes ... unfortunately the rulers of America have such people in their inner circle
If he wasn't "guilty" he wouldn't be running.
If he runs, he's a VC. If he doesn't run, he's a well disciplined VC.
"do you ever shoot women and children?"
"sometimes."
"How can you do it? I mean, how can you shoot women, and children?"
"Easy. Just don't lead them so much."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&v=S06nIz4scvI
booger gets the best fucking comment award of the century...!
Palestinian kids have been targeted for decades... past few decades that was expanded to Muslims or brown people generally.... up next.... your average white Christian.
British Royalty have been targeting kids on the Channel Islands for centuries. I'm certain I would not trust any of the Bush family or Hillary Clinton around my dog.
"I'm certain I would not trust any of the Bush family or Hillary Clinton around my dog.>
Touche, and I wouldn't trust Obama around my dog (although the're getting old and would prolly be a bit stringy)!
Obama is also related to the European royals and bush. All one big inbred satanic family.
The next thing you know, they will attack women who are placing IEDs...
Women!
Surely you know that women would never do such a thing. Planting an IED could take the life of someone's child!
"could take the life of someone's child!"
LOL
Du-fucking-h
Oh, that one? Nah, he wasn't anybody's child. Just a chimera loose from the Yerkes Primate Research Center's Kabul Laboratory.
ACGT TCGA GACT GCAT GATC TGAC AGTC AAAARRRAAAGGCCCH.........
Like in Vietnam.
Nothing new.
once you accept that the US is run by sociopaths, everything starts to make sense -
Sociopaths who don't want any form of positive U S image. so look out whoever you are. Escalate at random till they get the message that we bad.
Yea I know George B. started it.
virtually all U.S. presidents have been blood relatives of European Royalty... the same clique of soul-less monsters have been in control of a large portion of this planet for a long time... now it is increasingly in the open, and they no longer care to hide their evil.
they never did
http://vigilantcitizen.com/sinistersites/sinister-sites-israel-supreme-c...
http://vigilantcitizen.com/tag/sinister-sites/
the US should no longer be in Afgh period
Agreed! But there is opium that needs to be harvested and protected.
And the CIA needs it to finance its black budget.
Anyone who questions the ongoing drug trade is obviously not a patriot and should get the hell out. Kharzai and his family may be ruthless double-dealing shits. OK. But STFU you bleeding hearts, they are our double-dealing shits, and that's what counts, now and always.
http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2011/05/11/jp-morgan-hunt-afghan-gold/
All you need to know about why we're in Afghanistan.
don't forget the rare earths
Nothing to win there. Bunch of tribes. No center.
Seriously Obama should have pulled the plug immediately. Oh thats right, if you run it up for 4 years, then look at the savings you can call now.
Unbelievable, Yea we have plenty of money now that we can cut and run
The big governments don't like tribes; it goes against their belief system that small units can function. The big governments look at people living in a tribal or small unit society as a void that they have to fill usually with pain and suffering.
It's just inherent with being large which is also why only megacorporations do well with megagovernments.
Tribes can function and are threat to big government? When's the last time some primative tribe did anything other sodomize livestock and raid the next valley for slaves?
The Graveyard of Empires.
+1 million
All true, but where would I get that wonderful opium? Wal-Mart?
You forget, we HAVE to be there. Not only for the production and sales of opium that funnels to the major banking systems in the west but the added value of another modern day Roman Empire fiat currency country that will only support the USD.
The added future gas/oil pipelines are bonus...
as you said, nothing you said changes knuckles accuracy
Pride goeth before the fall - Herdodotus
America (like all other empires) thinks it's history's exception. Will soon learn they're wrong
Shit. Then I picked a fine time to take up shooting H...
This is BS propaganda....
Ha, Ha
Filed under: Things we don't like to think about.
Been there? I have. You don't know jack shit and neither does GW....
And filed further under 'Ignor Idiots', folder C5253, stack 53254, upper shelf 10.
henceforth all all young men – between the ages of say 15 and 35 - who happen to be in battle zones as suspected insurgents shall be classified as
Non-Politically Viable Human Resources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeBauKZMORo
-Just Us Dept., NWO, Inc. LLC
Once again I read posts on how a person should conduct ones self when faced with death or to kill. So once more I'll tell all of you to stop deceiving your self as to how you would react when faced with death. I'm a VietNam combat vet. I've seen many get into a fetal position, and hid their face. I pissed my pants at one point, and I killed some enemy combatants who looked like they might not have ever shaved (made the mistake of looking after the sun came up). They were armed and or were with those who were. This is not Hollywood, no drama. It's he who acts first. Oh; I was wounded twice. The second time it got me back home, and out of the Army. All combat vets feel free to post!
you are strawmanning the fuck out of other peoples comments without a clear understanding of exactly what thier views are on the issue or who they are
for instance, i completely agree with what you are saying - moreover, i have elsewhere extolled the very instinct - because i understand, as someone who has dodged bullets, the vital neccessity of not only having a killer instinct but also of not being too hard on yourself about what has to be done after the fact
but i dont kill for bankers
Well, come on Wall Street, don't move slow,
Why man, this is war au-go-go.
There's plenty good money to be made
By supplying the Army with the tools of the trade,
Just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,
They drop it on the Viet Cong.
And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn
they knew even back then, and yet, still the cheerleading. . .
People are just like computers. Garbage in, garbage out. Fault the MSM of that one.
Fault the MSM? My god -- can't you see they're the enemy too? They're on the Other Side, doing their job to see the Other Side wins.
You're wasting time sir. Me too, but I couldn't fucking hold it in any longer. These spoiled little basement dwellers heat up their microwave pizza bites and sit around, disparaging those who served. For the simply reason of inflating their own little pathetic sense of self worth.
You know. My father knows (65-67) I know. Millions of others know what's real. But these goddamn parasites don't, they've never had the shakes an hour later, when it got quiet finally. Pissants that take for granted everything that was earned by others for them.
I'm hoping this all comes to a point soon, so I can at least try to straighten it out while I'm still young enough to do something about it. I don't want to hand it like this to my kids.
They sat in a bunker and fired rockets at children 8, 10 and 12 years old. They deserve to burn in Hell. Or is this one baby killer defending another?
If one volunteers to go fight it's one thing, but not being able to op out is something else. I don't get a say in what happens with my tax money ether. It's all or nothing on things like this. Live here and pay, or move to some were else.
I'm hoping this all comes to a point soon, so I can at least try to straighten it out while I'm still young enough to do something about it.
You can start by getting rid of the bullshit belief you "served your country".
Nobody after WWII "served their country". You were mercenaries for an imperialistic warmongering psychopathic genocidal govt.
Don't kid yourself Old Man, ALL wars involve mercenaries for an imperialistic warmongering psychopathic genocidal govt. All of them...
But the broader question is: What are you going to do about it now, and in the future?
BTW, 'Nam Vet '71-'73 MACV-SOG
I've seen and done things, for better or worse, for self and country, and will quietly take them to the grave with me. Peace gets buried with the dead.