NSC chief says U.S. won't stop Afghan airstrikes

[IDemo]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON - In a blunt rebuff of the Afghan president, President Barack Obama's national security adviser said Sunday the United States would not end the airstrikes in Afghanistan that have reportedly killed hundreds of civilians in the course war.

Most recently, Hamid Karzai said U.S. bombing and air strikes western Afghanistan's Farah province may have killed as many as 130 civilians.

Retired Gen. James Jones said American forces would continue to make military decisions based on the best intelligence available and would not rule out any action because "we can't fight with one hand tied behind our back."

Karzai has been highly critical of U.S. military missions that have killed civilians and cast a deep cloud of suspicion over the nearly eight-year-old American mission in the landlocked and deeply backward South Asian nation. After dislodging the brutal Taliban regime in late 2001, its leadership and Osama bin Laden and much of his al-Qaida structure fled across the forbidding mountains into Pakistan.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30669969/

[EFerrari]

1. Maybe their aim would be better with one effin hand tied behind their back. n/t

[Downwinder]

2. History repeats. n/t

[Alamuti Lotus]

3. Complete absence of contrition, promises to murder again..

and we give these criminal spokesbots medals and retirement packages?

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. OH good! - At least the USA is admitting that Afghanistan is NOT a sovereign nation

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rather,

that it is just another country occupied and terrorized by the USA.

"Change we can believe in"?

What change?

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[ixion]

5. god damnit... can we please stop bombing other people's lives?

Please?

[Vidar]

6. More war crimes for the US..