Mommy, why did that soldier kill me?

The War in Afghanistan has caused the deaths of thousands of Afghan civilians directly from U.S. and NATO military action, as well as the deaths of possibly tens of thousands of Afghan children directly as a consequence of displacement, starvation, disease, exposure, lack of medical treatment, crime and lawlessness resulting from the U.S. war of aggression against Afghanistan.

The initial military objectives of the United States’ war of terror, as articulated by President George W. Bush in his Sept. 20th address to a Joint Session of Congress and his Oct. 7th address to the country, included the destruction of alleged terrorist training camps and infrastructure within Afghanistan, the capture of the leaders of the CIA created terrorist cell called al-Qaeda, and the cessation of alleged terrorist activities in Afghanistan. The war, launched by the United States as “Operation Enduring Freedom” in 2001, began with a massive indiscriminate aerial bombardment campaign that immediately prompted concerns over the number of Afghan civilians being killed as well as international protests. With civilian deaths from U.S. air strikes rising again in recent years, the number of Afghan civilians being killed by U.S. and NATO military operations has led to mounting tension between the international community and the government of the United States.

Several countries have already decided that they will no longer continue to participate in this slaughter of the innocents and have publicly announced that they will withdraw their forces from Afghanistan.  Some have already left but others have caved in to U.S. and NATO pressure and intimidation to stay and continue the inhumane slaughter of thousands of innocent and defenseless Afghan civilians.  Leaders from countries like Canada have allied themselves with war criminals and the real terrorists – the U.S. government.  Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has made an unlawful deal with the U.S. and NATO to provide Canadian soldiers for another 3 years.  Harper didn’t seek nor receive the consent of the Canadian people, as required by law, to keep Canadian forces in Afghanistan after the Parliamentary agreed 2011 withdraw date.  That means that Harper has unlawfully forced Canada to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes against peace, torture and murder for a total of 13 years.

It is sad that even 9 years after the United States allegedly “liberated” the Afghan people that thousands of Afghan children are still dying of famine, cold and lack of sustenance. More civilians, mostly children, are dying now under a U.S. and NATO occupation than when the Taliban were made leaders of the Afghan people by the United States government in the 1980s.  25% of all Afghan children are dying by age five.  How can this be?

Thousands of children in remote provinces of Afghanistan have died in the past 9 years from cold, chronic malnutrition, disease and U.S. air strikes and armed ground attacks, according to aid workers, Amnesty International and the International Committee of the Red Cross. The overwhelming majority of them are under 5, and there is evidence that the death toll could be much higher, aid workers say.

Most the country remains inaccessible because of the illegal U.S. / NATO occupation and military campaign of genocide against the Afghan freedom fighters.  Both the U.S. and NATO are not conducting military operations against military targets, as there never was an opposing Afghanistan military force in Afghanistan – not while the Taliban was the ruling government of Afghanistan and not now.  All U.S. and NATO military operations are against the civilian population.  The U.S. and NATO are not attacking and destroying tanks, artillery emplacements, military bunkers or opposing uniformed military forces of any kind.  They are attacking, injuring, maiming and slaughtering unarmed civilians – mostly women and children.  The U.S. and NATO are not liberating the Afghan people they are killing them.  The U.S. and NATO forces are not protecting the women and children of Afghanistan they are protecting the Opium fields and the drug lords who traffic this illegal contraband.  The U.S. and NATO forces are not building roads, schools, or hospitals for the Afghan people they are clearing a path to build a Trans-Afghan natural gas and oil pipeline through Afghanistan and any civilian village in the path are destroyed and their entire civilian population is killed.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War.  He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.  He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out… and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel…. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for “the universal brotherhood of man” – with his mouth. ~Mark Twain

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