UN to call for end of Afghanistan bombing

[XMan]

Story

Thoughts?

 

[dbcrossfire]

well... if they wouldn't have gone and ran a few planes into one of our countrys biggest landmarks.... then maybe we wouldn't be having problems like this.

 

[Lucky]

Well, you can look at it a couple ways:


1. We are causing the delays and shortages because the bombing raids are scaring truck drivers,

or

2. The Taliban, as noted, are deliberately stopping passage, and we should believe the US government when they say there is no cause-and-effect between food delays and bombing raids.

 

[Jarwa]

UN sources in Pakistan said growing concern over the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the country -in part, they say, caused by the relentless bombing campaign - has forced them to take the radical step

How much of a part? What percentage?

Weren't those poor people starving, anyway?

 

[worth]

Those people have been starving for the last 5 years. The bombings isn't what's causing it.

 

[LethalWolfe]

<< A series of offices have been looted in major cities, prompting French agency M&eacute;decins Sans Fronti&egrave;res to shut down its entire Afghan operation >>



Do the French ever not retreat???


Lethal

 

[UNCjigga]

isn't retreat a French-derived word? Cretins....

 

[XMan]

Do the French ever not retreat???

Don't you know why the French planted trees alongside their roads?



. . .



So the Germans could march in the shade, of course!

 

[CocaCola5]

The French have some kick@ass military hardware, the're just wussies when it comes to using it.

 

[Scouzer]

Yeah some of their armored cars own... the Leclerc is awesome too, but they ought to take the French out and put in some decent guys such as Aussies or New Zealanders!

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

I'd say call off the bombing for a day or two and have the Special Forces guys drive in the supplies. We'd get some damn good recon that way and know exactly where to hit when the bombing picks back up.

 

[notfred]

We already blew up evrything anyway, we might as well stop the bombing.

 

[beer]

<< We already blew up evrything anyway, we might as well stop the bombing. >>



I think there may be a few pickup trucks we missed.

 

[LethalWolfe]

<<

<< We already blew up evrything anyway, we might as well stop the bombing. >>



I think there may be a few pickup trucks we missed. >>



No, we got those yesterday. I think there is a starving 15yr old boy w/a slingshot on a remote mountain slope in the middle of nowhere that is our final primary bombing objective.


Lethal


EDIT: spelling

 

[Logix]

No, we got those yesterday. I think there is a starving 15yr old boy w/a slingshot on a remote mountain slope in the middle of nowhere that is our final primary bombing objective.


I believe there remains a 44-year-old donkey-raping, anorexic, cave-cowering, mass murderering coward with an inferiority complex who uses Japanese video cameras, American video tapes, and German microphones to denounce Western imperialism.

 

[VRoOMdesigns]

Not European so I don't know.. but is this a respected publication?

 

[danzig]

TO HELL WITH THE UN !

 

[Haircut]

<< Not European so I don't know.. but is this a respected publication? >>


Yes, it is respected but the guardian is known as being very left wing.

 

[AndrewR]

The Taliban have also caused problems for aid agencies. A series of offices have been looted in major cities, prompting French agency M&eacute;decins Sans Fronti&egrave;res to shut down its entire Afghan operation. There have been a number of attempts to steal vehicles from aid agencies. The Taliban have also delayed relief convoys by demanding high taxes on their passage.

But it's the bombing campaign's fault. No, really! Plus, the fact that the Northern Alliance has ramped up their assaults has NOTHING whatsoever to do with the situation, especially since they are making a MAJOR assault around the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif (that's a quote from the article, in case you missed it). I believe there is also fighting around Herat as well.

Liberals are really just amazingly stupid sometimes. Like Richard Gere last night telling a bunch of NY firefighters and police that we shouldn't look for revenge. Uh, wrong move, Dick. He recovered well from that, but I was amazed that he would even touch that subject in front of a group of people who would gladly rip UBL's arms off and beat him to death with them.

 

[ToBeMe]

Actually, Pres. Bush is already well ahead of them............

• Washington DC - In an unexpected change of tactics, United States President George W. Bush announced today that he would suspend military retaliation against Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network if bin Laden agrees to pursue ISO 9000 certification for his organization.
  
  An unnamed source within the Bush administration said that bringing the terror group?s processes into ISO compliance would ?almost certainly give US intelligence agencies the upper hand in neutralizing bin Laden?s effectiveness.? Additionally, Bush promised to provide bin Laden up to 500 personal computers equipped with the Windows 2000 operating system.
  
  A defiant Taliban representative familiar with ISO certification said, "Fire will rain from the sky and monkeys will fly from my butt before we undergo this gruesome process. We prefer bombs to ISO auditors."
  
  While military and intelligence experts hailed both moves as brilliant ploys to halt the spread of terror, human rights advocates urged caution and sought safeguards that ISO literature and Windows PC?s would not fall into the hands of Afghan citizens, already laboring under adverse conditions.

 

[Nemesis77]

From your sig:

"our infantry is trained for any climate and terrain on earth"

That reminds me of this combat-exercise that took place in Norway. It was about arctic warfare (finnish troops also participated if I remember correctly). While all other participant-troops were training arctic-warfare, american troops stayed in their tents and concentrated on staying alive in arctic-conditions .

 

[veryape]

Now I have heard everything in the book. WE are responsible for the people in Afghanistan starving? I think not, and anyone who believes that is the case is sadly misinformed in my opinion. I guess some people in this world are ridiculously naive and easily impressed with inaccurate facts.

 

[Nemesis77]

<< WE[/b] are responsible for the people in Afghanistan starving? >>



Haven't read the article, but.... I think nobody is accusing USA for being the cause of the starvation. I think the issue is that the bombing-campaing makes it next to impossible to provide humanitarian aid for the people in Afganistan. Yes, USA is providing them with food. Food that is alien to them (peanut-butter and stawberry jam?) with english instructions.

 

[SweetRobin2]

Apparently the person writing this article didnt watch the show I watched the other night on I think the Discovery Channel or the Learning Channel about what the Taliban have been doing to these people for YEARS ... long before we ever started the bombing campaign ... Yeah I can't believe Richard Gere was stupid enough to mention lack of Revenge to a bunch of NY Fire Fighters and Cops .. very bad form ... after all these men have lost friends and relatives in all this .. not to mention spent over a month helping the clean up ... very bad form... I personally think if we dropped some of our fire fighters and police over there from NY .. OBL would be a short term problem... they all want blood I'm sure.

 

[charrison]

Who gives a damn about what the UN thinks. Maybe they would feel differently if the a plane crashed into the UN buildings in NY.