Posted by Wymark on 10/4/2009, 7:38 pm
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From an article in todays Washington Post about The Battle of Wanat, which took place in Afghanistan in July 2008, and which demonstrates the hard bitten contempt for Afghan lives that a lot of U.S. soldiers must have. I.E. 'They're all f*ckin' Taliban'. Or as their predecessors in Vietnam might have said, 'Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out':
'Before Brostrom moved to Wanat, he went home on leave to see his parents in Hawaii, where they had settled after his father retired from the Army. One evening, he showed his father videos from Afghanistan. Most of the clips were of Brostrom and his troops under fire at the Bella outpost.
In one video, Brostrom's battalion fired artillery and white phosphorus, an incendiary weapon, at a distant campfire in the mountains where it had killed insurgents earlier that day. Someone had come to collect the bodies. The soldiers were determined to kill them.
"Here comes a mighty big explosion on this little candlelight ceremony that the Taliban is having for their buddies that died there earlier," one of the soldiers says on the video. "This is going to be glorious. It is going to be a bloodbath."
A few seconds later, the mountainside exploded with fire, and the soldiers let up a raucous cheer.
Human rights groups have criticized the United States for employing white phosphorus to kill enemy fighters, but this type of use is permitted under military rules. The elder Brostrom weighed his words carefully before he spoke. "How do you know those people dragging the bodies away weren't villagers coming to get their relatives?" he asked.
"They are all [expletive] Taliban up there," the son replied'.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/03/AR2009100303048_pf.html
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