Wedding Bell Blues

According to the records, the US forces in Afghanistan have wiped out at least 4 wedding parties since December, 2001. The damage included brides, grooms, guests, wedding singers, musicians, children, and anyone else unluckily enough to be in the way. In fact, Hamid Karzai's government has just conlcuded an investigation in to the latest incident of wedding party mistaken for Osama and company. This incident occurred on July 6, 2008, and for two days the US Army insisted the people targeted were insurgents and Taliban, not a wedding party. Now they admit the mistake. Remember how we reacted to 9/11? I'm sure the Afghanis are reacting the same to the bombing of innocent people. Heck of a way to wage a War against Terror. It seems more like a War to Encourage Terror. Read about it all at TomDispatch: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174954/collateral_ceremonial_damage and the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7504574.stm

ps: Wednesday, 10 April, 2002, 16:48 GMT 17:48 UK Afghan bombing 'most accurate ever' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/south_asia/1921614.stm ...Despite the claims of extraordinary accuracy the US bombing campaign did produce a number of high profile errors in which Afghan civilians and US troops were killed.