"Certainly there does have to be a better explanation of the blows that have been struck in recent weeks and months," Petraeus told The Associated Press in an interview. "It is hugely important that three of 20 extremist leaders have been killed in recent months."
Those three dead 'extremist' leaders will easily be replaced by three even more fervent warriors encouraged to battle the U.S. extremists who, on Bush, Cheney and Petraeus orders are willing to bomb civilians in violation of even the Geneva Conventions of which the United States is a signer.
The 'insurgent' leaders will be replaced! The dead children's places can never be taken up by others for their grieving families, nor in our painful conscience.
Write, call Obama, Congress and media to encourage Obama act now. It is already too late for so many!
During the nominating conventions, the international condemnations and denunciations of the U.S. for a UN verified toll of 60 children among a total of 90 dead civilians in one air strike in Afghanistan did not cause even a ripple of contrition in American media. It was good of Obama speak about this great shame of killing villagers, though still apparently feeling the need to position himself with Bush's war against the Taliban. Now, Barak is through as President-elect, and has at least spoke to a necessity of something more than just a military solution.
But before January 20th, how many more Afghani, Iraqi, Somali Pakistani and now Syrian children will die in cowardly U.S. air-strikes on 'insurgents' against the Bush foreign policies stemming from a 9/11 attack by Saudi Arabians?
Iraq? No need here to review the "Shock and Awe" pyrotechnically beautiful second U.S. destruction of the city of Baghdad from the air, the now infamous unbelievably brutal air attacks obliterating Fallujah along with so many of its inhabitants, or the general Nazi like use of air power in urban warfare in and on Iraq since April 2003.
In Pakistan, US air-strike kills at least 8, but misses target, October 23, 2008, Christian Science Monitor, "Frustration with such strikes is rising in Pakistan. On Thursday, the parliament called for making talks with militants the 'top priority.'"
BBC News, 9 January 2007, US Somali air strikes 'kill many'
"The heavily-armed AC-130 gunship can fly at night.
The US has carried out at least two air strikes in southern Somalia targeting Islamist fighters, who the US believes include members of an al-Qaeda cell"
May 05, 2008, DemocracyNow, Thousands of Somalis Protest Deadly US Air Strike
"Thursday’s air strike comes in the midst of a deepening humanitarian crisis in Somalia that the International Committee of the Red Cross described as “catastrophic.” Over one million people have been made internal refugees, and 3.5 million, or nearly half the country’s population, may need food aid by the end of the year."
Syria: U.S. Attack "Serious Aggression",
"Syria Says U.S. Helicopter Raid Killed 8, Including Children. Sukkariyeh, Syria, Oct. 27, 2008. Send this story via email E-Mail Story ..."
And as your writer posts this today is just another superpower air kill day for the U.S. pre-Obama administration of George W. Bush:
U.S. Missile Attack Kills at Least 10 in Pakistan, New York Times, Nov. 7, 2008.
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