Comments on: The war rolls on http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2008/06/11/the-war-rolls-on/ Updated information on Veteran Benefits, featured Military Bloggers, the You Served Podcast and various other news and information relevant to Veterans. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:25:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DougS http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2008/06/11/the-war-rolls-on/comment-page-1/#comment-70631 DougS Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:30:45 +0000 http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2008/06/11/the-war-rolls-on/#comment-70631 Why do you automatically think it's Taliban propaganda that civilians have been killed? It's happened before, and the US has apologized for it, although it's gotten better this year: From May 9 2007 U.S. airstrikes killed 21 Afghan civilians in eastern Afghanistan late last night, just hours after the U.S. offered an official apology to the families of 19 killed in a March attack. The civilian deaths—as many as 1,000 in 2006 alone—are stirring unrest against NATO forces, even from on high, the Economist reports. After a deadly spate of attacks last week left 51 dead, President Hamid Karzai warned that the country, "can no longer accept civilian casualties they way they occur," the AP reports. Why do you automatically think it’s Taliban propaganda that civilians have been killed? It’s happened before, and the US has apologized for it, although it’s gotten better this year:

From May 9 2007
U.S. airstrikes killed 21 Afghan civilians in eastern Afghanistan late last night, just hours after the U.S. offered an official apology to the families of 19 killed in a March attack. The civilian deaths—as many as 1,000 in 2006 alone—are stirring unrest against NATO forces, even from on high, the Economist reports.

After a deadly spate of attacks last week left 51 dead, President Hamid Karzai warned that the country, “can no longer accept civilian casualties they way they occur,” the AP reports.

]]>