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Sunday, January 20, 2008

fortunes of war

A press group reports that last year in Afghanistan 6500 people were killed.
Here is the news.
6500 people were not killed last year in Afghanistan.
A grand total of 5800 Taliban Al Qaeda terrorists were killed last year in Afghanistan while trying to commit mass murder.
These are not people in the sense that the press group is pretending, and should not be counted as such.
They are people only in the sense that the Nazi SS were people.
While the 5800 recently deceased Taliban Al Qaeda terrorists were attempting to commit mass murder in Afghanistan, some 500 Taliban Al Qaeda Wives and Girlfriends also got themselves killed.
They did this by sitting in prominent positions on Taliban Al Qaeda convoys proceeding to commit mass murder, or outside Taliban Al Qaeda hideouts where their heroic warrior husbands and boyfriends were devising new and grandiose plans to murder air hostesses.
They're good against air hostesses.
Not so hot against the American or British armies.
But I digress.
The 500 dead Taliban Al Qaeda Wives and Girlfriends were being used by the Taliban and Al Qaeda as human shields in the belief that the Taliban and Al Qaeda would not be attacked whilst hiding behind their Wives and Girlfriends on their way to commit mass murder.
The Taliban Al Qaeda Wives and Girlfriends Club was not, as some of the more cretinous media groups pretend, composed of civilians.
The members of the Taliban Al Qaeda Wives and Girlfriends Club might only be considered civilians in the same way that Magda Goebbels and her eight kids were civilians as they crouched next to Hitler in the Fuhrer bunker at the end of World War Two.
That is to say: Not Quite Civilian Enough To Recall The Bombers And Let Hitler Win.
(Thankfully we didn't have CNN or the Associated Press confusing the Nazis as to who actually were the good guys in World War Two.
Or Michael Moore or Robert Fisk calling for the impeachment of Winston Churchill.
But of course we had Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw Haw.
So no change there.
Anyhoo.)
Casualties in Afghanistan last year.
The real total is 200 people dead.
That is 200 Afghan civilians.
The only place the Taliban and Al Qaeda are winning is on television.

1 Comments:

Blogger Schneewittchen said...

Oh, this makes me so cross!!! It is always reported as though these casualties are as a result of the military action by the allies, same thing in Iraq, and they're bloody not! They're insurgents and terrorists.
I know I have banged on about it a lot recently, but everyone on the whole planet should read Khaled Hosseini's book 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'. I would challenge anyone to read that book, by a man who actually lived through all these vile times in Afghanistan, and not want to personally lead the attack on the Taliban. These are seriously sick individuals. How they can THINK that their horrific crimes can have anything to do with any god is completely beyond me.

The only thing I would say after reading that book James, is that under the Taliban, women generally don't get to choose whose wives and girlfriends they are, they are just used, not even like animals, because in the west we accord even research animals more dignity than men under that rule accord the humans who produce the next generation.
Actually, I'm struggling to think of even an inanimate object in everyday life that we treat with such disrespect.

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