"http://tfstevenson.com/2011/09/08/unremembered-afghanistan/" " But what of the Afghan civilians killed in this war; what are their stories? When US General Tommy Franks was asked this question, at Bagram Air Base in March 2002, he replied: “we don't do body countsâ€. To a degree he was right. The British army, like its brother across the Atlantic, does not count the bodies of its victims. But Marc Herold, University of New Hampshire Professor, does. His research is startling. In the first three months of the war (codenamed Operation Enduring Freedom), NATO's bombing campaign killed 3600 Afghan civilians. That means that by December 7th 2001, NATO had surpassed the death toll of al-Qaeda's 9/11 atrocity. For every 10,000 tonnes of bombs that were dropped, 2,643 Afghan civilians were killed – one of the worst civilian death ratios in history. By 2002, the war had pushed millions of people into extreme poverty, and as the aid agencies fled the death toll rose. “The bombing prevented supplies from reaching the refugee campsâ€, Professor Herold explains. How many died? In 2002 alone he “estimated this number as between 10 and 20,000″. A total estimate of Afghan civilian deaths since 2001 is difficult, but a cautious composite exceeds 40,000. The name of every British soldier killed in Afghanistan is known, yet estimates of the innocent Afghan dead vary by the tens of thousand. Take Karam village, 18 miles west of Jalalabad in Nangahar province. On October 14th 2001, a NATO bombing raid killed 160 of its civilians. Or the family of 4 in Kabul who, on October 15th 2001, were killed as an American F-18 released its 2000lb cargo, also leaving 12 year old ‘Nagina' severely injured. What passing bells for these who die as cattle? " Every life lost is one too many....
who cares about the sand people? as long as they're not American, fuck em. America rulesss yeahhhh babyyyy! ahhhh ignorance is strong with this one... there's no need for comments like this here.