Verbosities

Funny how you ignore this part of the article.

"We are truly sorry for the innocent lives lost in this attack," said Army Major Chris Belcher, a coalition spokesman, in a statement. "We had surveillance on the compound all day and saw no indications there were children inside the building."

The statement said children who survived Sunday's raid said insurgents had forced pupils to stay inside the madrasa. The White House accused the Taliban of using human shields."

I didn't ignore that part of the article at all. In fact, I had a good laugh at its absurdity.

Let's begin.

A "coalition spokesman" wholly smacks of PR rep, even though you obviously view such mouthpieces as bastions of truth and integrity. Perhaps you don’t think it’s possible that a Major’s job would be PR spin, or that the military in general engages in that sort of thing.

(Let’s ignore for this rebuttal the fact that “the coalition” has come out and admitted “at least seven”--which likely means a great many more—were killed. There would be independent verification, except these types of things aren’t often allowed or physically possible in Free and Democratic and Under Control Afghanistan.)

The honest and forthright Major is telling us that they had no idea (“indications”) that there might be kids in the building; the one that had surveillance on it “all day”.

Such a patently idiotic assertion.

There was surveillance on the compound* all day, and they could tell that there were “terrorists” inside, but not kids? What, their equipment can only detect organisms over the age of 18?

*The Major must not know that madrasa (mentioned conveniently following his statement-you never get a second chance to make a first impression) means “school”. After all, his position as “spokesperson” couldn’t mean that he would possibly refer to it as “the compound” on purpose. I’m sure it is purely coincidence that he makes use of words that naturally conjure images of crazy cult-people battling it out with the pure and noble occupying force dutifully following the orders of their wise, pure, and oh-so-just leaders. In the interest of simplicity, we'll stick to the more benign explanation that he doesn’t realize or know that madrasa and “the compound” give two very different impressions. It's probably due to the horrific lack of competent translators, who we would have in greater numbers if not for those slow-to-fund-the-occupation Demo-pussies. At least they got rid of the homo-translators, who were surely reducing morale and hindering the war liberation effort.

Perhaps the kids just got to school REALLY early, before the surveillance team arrived, and then the “terrorists” (who we knew were there, hence our decision to bomb “the compound”) kept the kids inside and quiet all day, helping them avoid the surveillance that they themselves could not.

Perhaps it was that we thought that the kids would be on holiday, which was the reason we thought that the “terrorists” were in there. Maybe our intelligence got word that they had it booked for “hiding out” purposes while the kids were home celebrating International Panic Day.

Perhaps the super sneaky advanced propaganda plans and intelligence of the “terrorists” gave them warning in advance that the US was going to come after them in their school hideout, and preemptively forced the kids inside, holding them prisoner and using them as human shields**. After all, the US wouldn’t have accused them of doing so if it weren’t Scouts Honor truth. Our Leaders have never lied to us, have they?

**And touching on the accusation that they were being used as human shields…what we are evidently expected to believe here is that the “terrorists” were cunning enough to leave us no knowledge of children anywhere inside or around “the compound”, but they were stupid enough to think that children could shield them from massive explosive ordinance. Furthermore, if one were enough of a sick fuck to actually use children as shields to stop an incoming attack, wouldn’t that person or people make it well known to everyone around that they were using this manner of shield? After all, if your attackers don’t know you have human shields, what’s to stop them from thinking twice before attacking you? Again we are to believe that the “terrorists” are both diabolical genius and bumbling retard at once.

Or, Maybe they have cloaking devices (most likely sold to them by Ahmadinejad himself).

Considering the Major's swill as it is presented, it is in no way believable that they had no idea there were children around. It is in no way justifiable and is absurd on its face.

How do you justify this propaganda BS? By convincing yourself that the “terrorists” were "high value" targets and therefore worth the price of a few brown kids who are never going to be educated and contribute anything to modern society that's worth anything because they're just going to grow up to be "terrorists" like their parents and unjustly hate the US for its imposed benevolence and freedom? "Worth the price", like Madeline Albright's view?

And did I ask yet, just what the fuck are we doing bombing a SCHOOL??? (Winning Hearts and Minds, duh)

(Hard to claim at this point that it was an accident, an errant bomb. Again, the place was under surveillance “all day”.)

I will not take any of the words of a lying and corrupt apparatus at face value, and neither should you. This Major, whoever he is, is full of PR shit. He is simply a lesser known Tony Snow, and deserves an equal amount of contempt.

Of course, that may make the terrorists look bad.

Yes, I’m deliberately leaving out massively important points and information in order to further bolster support for terrorists. What an insightful and wise implication.

I’m quite sure the Major would wholeheartedly agree with you.