Bombing Afghanistan: Where Have All the Photos Gone? Should The Photos Be Shown?

[Orwellian_Ghost]

Bombing Afghanistan: Where Have All the Photos Gone

Mounting Civilian Casualties …Silently

The latest bombing in Afghanistan killed at least nine Afghan civilians, including six children. Here are a few excerpts from the http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jkkhn-Ewqy3IuI-6sUY1-JISbAyg">report:

“Nine civilians including six children were killed in a NATO air strike targeting a Taliban position in restive southern Afghanistan, the provincial governor's office said on Thursday.”Six children and three women were killed and another three civilian men were wounded," he said.”

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“Ehsanullah, an elder from Khoshal village, where the strike took place, earlier told AFP that Haji Kot Aka's house was hit late Wednesday."They had four guests at home when the bombing took place. The bomb killed Aka, his wife, four children and three of the guests. One of the guests was wounded," he said.

Civilian casualties are a sensitive issue in Afghanistan, creating a rift between President Hamid Karzai's government and international forces as well as resentment on the ground against foreign troops.”

Here is a section from my http://justacitizen.com/OpEd/Two%20Sides%20of%20The%20SameCoin-May22-09.htm">op-ed piece last May on Mr. Obama’s presidency and the mounting casualties in Afghanistan:

Here is the first paragraph in a New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/world/asia/15farah.html?_r=1">report on May 15, 2009:

“The number of civilians killed by the American air strikes in Farah Province last week may never be fully known. But villagers, including two girls recovering from burn wounds, described devastation that officials and human rights workers are calling the worst episode of civilian casualties in eight years of war in Afghanistan.”

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http://123realchange.blogspot.com/2009/10/bombing-afghanistan-where-have-all.html

[Orwellian_Ghost]

1. Where have all the photos gone?

http://rethinkafghanistan.com/

[Mari333]

2. yes, where are the reporters.

[vadawg]

3. my question is where have all the anti war protests in DC gone

i need the OT, and since january the troops are still in the afghan and iraq but the protesters are no where to be found.

[Orwellian_Ghost]

4. Here are a few leads on that

How Obama Took Over the Peace Movement
Submitted by John Stauber on March 27, 2009 - 1:00pm.

John Podesta's liberal think tank the Center for American Progress strongly supports Barack Obama's escalation of the US wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This is best evidenced by Sustainable Security in Afghanistan, a CAP report by Lawrence J. Korb. Podesta served as the head of Obama's transition team, and CAP's support for Obama's wars is the latest step in a successful co-option of the US peace movement by Obama's political aides and the Democratic Party.

CAP and the five million member liberal lobby group MoveOn were behind Americans Against Escalation in Iraq (AAEI), a coalition that spent tens of millions of dollars using Iraq as a political bludgeon against Republican politicians, while refusing to pressure the Democratic Congress to actually cut off funding for the war. AAEI was operated by two of Barack Obama's top political aids, Steve Hildebrand and Paul Tewes, and by Brad Woodhouse of Americans United for Change and USAction. Today Woodhouse is Obama's Director of Communications and Research for the Democratic National Committee. He controls the massive email list called Obama for America composed of the many millions of people who gave money and love to the Democratic peace candidate and might be wondering what the heck he is up to in Afghanistan and Pakistan. MoveOn built its list by organizing vigils and ads for peace and by then supporting Obama for president; today it operates as a full-time cheerleader supporting Obama's policy agenda. Some of us saw this unfolding years ago. Others are probably shocked watching their peace candidate escalating a war and sounding so much like the previous administration in his rationale for doing so.

http://www.prwatch.org/node/8297

Here's what Nichols says:

There is significant discomfort with the expansion of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, and opposition has been expressed by political leaders abroad and at home (including Democrats and Republicans in Congress). This is a time when genuine anti-war groups could be expected to harness that discomfort and build a stronger movement to shift U.S. policy.

As such, it is a time of testing for organizations that came to prominence opposing not just George Bush and Dick Cheney but the wrongheaded war-making of the White House -- no matter which party happened to occupy the Oval Office.

Afghanistan is a complicated situation, but I think Nichols point is right on, and actually bigger than any one issue. On many issues that the Obama administration tacks to the right on, the progressive movement will have to decide whether it is going to be a propaganda machine for the administration, or whether it is going to be an independent movement.

http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=12558

[Mari333]

7. our little group of antiwar protesters still meet here on Friday

been doing so since 2003. Doesnt matter who is in office.

[vadawg]

11. i just notice that compared to last year im not getting called out

i judge the marching season by the number of overtime days i get, my bank balance needs bush back in office if the marches dont start soon (sarcasm)

[bvar22]

9. There was a WAR protest at the White House last week.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/05/cindy-sheehan-arrested-at-white-house-anti-war-protest/

I think most people were willing to give this White House a transitional period to institute new policy for the WARS.
After 10 months, it is becoming increasingly obvious that any changes are going to be in the wrong direction.

It was WRONG when Bush did it.
Its STILL wrong.

Out Now.

[annm4peace]

12. does this help ?

We have not stopped. Did you not see the G20 summit police state photos?

We have been flooding the offices with calls, visits, emails and faxes.

There was 62 arrested in front of the White house last week. It isn't a fun time getting arrested and it is a major hassle with the court follow up.. especially if you are still working and not retired or self employed. It is even worse if you are from out of town.

Some cites had protests to stop funding the occupation in Afganistan last week, some this week. and some next week.

Just cause the main stream media doesn't show us.. doesn't mean we aren't out here.

Pictures from DC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YliaBZ3V0Ls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2NA1t3esZE&feature=related

http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/147782/index.php

http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/147798/index.php

[leftstreet]

5. K&R

[timtom]

6. Should the photos be shown?

You bet your boots they should! America needs to own the havoc she has wrought on weaker nations in her illegal and savage "wars".

[Quantess]

8. There's rec #5

Despite there not being any photos in your OP. ;)

[bvar22]

10. Wrong when Bush did it.

Still Wrong.

K&R

[datasuspect]

13. afghanistan is the GOOD war

jeez, don't you people read the PR in the newspapers?