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Monday, February 22, 2010

A Controversy of Films



There is a major motion picture right now that critics say is anti-military and anti-American possibly, because of the story's slant against the type of military slaughter of aboriginal inhabitants of a far-away civilization.
Right-wing critics see a conspiracy against the best of America, though how such slaughter came to be considered our best is somewhat hazy.

The story is...Afghanistan:


Page last updated at 08:07 GMT, Monday, 22 February 2010
Nato strike kills a number of Afghan civilians
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8527627.stm

Nato has confirmed that a number of civilians were killed in an air strike in southern Afghanistan on Sunday.Twenty-seven people died and 10 were injured in the raid in Uruzgan province, the governor told the BBC.
 Nato said it hit a suspected insurgent convoy, but ground forces later found "a number of individuals killed and wounded", including women and children...

1 comment:

Unknown said...

You are right. I wonder if McCrystal and Gates have a taped confessional spiel already done so they can just trot it out when the US kills another 20 or so innocent civilians.

Question: how much better do the relatives of the slaughtered feel after the apology?