The same "Christian" government that wants to jail abortion doctors is KILLING children on the other side of the world and LYING about it

Except for LYING:  KILLING people on the other side of the world for
no apparent reason is what the United States government does best.

3:57 a.m. - U.S. DENIES Attack On Syria
http://arkansasmatters.com/content/fulltext/news/?cid5341

Monday, Oct 27, 2008 @03:56am CST

The U.S. military is denying a claim by Syria that it has been
attacked by American forces.

The Syrian news agency SANA claims four helicopter gunships attacked a
building under construction in that country.

A U.S. official has told the "New York Times" American helicopters
were not involved in any way.

Iraqi police in Anbar province across the border are saying nine
construction workers were killed and 19 wounded.

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US helicopter raid on Syria kills eight• Four children among dead,
says Damascus
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/27/syria-usa

• Washington admits targeting 'foreign fighters' Ian Black, Ewen
MacAskill, Matthew Weaver and agencies guardian.co.uk, Monday October
27 2008 11.13 GMT

Damascus reacts with fury to what it says was a helicopter and special
forces strike on its territory

US helicopters flying from Iraq landed inside Syria yesterday and
dropped special forces who killed eight people, including four
children, the Damascus government said today as Washington admitted it
had targeted "foreign fighters".

Syria warned it held the US "wholly responsible for this act of
aggression and all its repercussions".

It described the dead as Syrian civilians, five of them members of the
same family. Syrian state television said the attack was against a
farm near Abu Kamal, five miles from the Iraqi border. Doctors in
nearby al-Sukkariya said another seven people were taken to hospital
with bullet wounds.

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An Eye for an Eye

We have extracted our pound of flesh
But the bombings will not abate
We Americans like to make sure
With extra icing on the cake

So they keep us comfortably dumb
Blind to what they won't let us see
The babies with their guts hanging out
Will never be seen on T.V.

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Death From America

Baby Betty caught some shrapnel
U.S. Bomb came through the wall
Mommy wasn't there to save her
Didn't hear her baby call

Daddy drives a cab in Kabul
Mommy's scrubbing floors at night
Baby Betty's in the graveyard
Dressed in burgundy and white

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Videos Show Dead Afghan Children After US Raid
http://www.truthout.org/article/video-contradicts-us-casualty-reports...

Monday 08 September 2008
by: Fisnik Abrashi, The Associated Press


Kabul, Afghanistan - The bodies of at least 10 children and many
more adults covered in blankets and white shrouds appear in videos
obtained by The Associated Press on Monday, lending weight to Afghan
and U.N. allegations that a U.S.-led raid last month killed more
civilians than the U.S. reported.


The sounds of wailing women mixed with the voices of men shouting
inside a white-walled mosque in the western village of Azizabad, where

an Afghan government commission and U.N. report said some 90 civilians

- including 60 children and 15 women - were killed.


The two grainy videos, apparently taken by cell phones, showed
bodies lying side-by-side on the mosque floor, covered by floral-
patterned blankets and black-and-white checkered shawls. One young boy

lay curled in a fetal position; others looked as though they were
asleep. One child had half its head blown off.


Turbaned men walked around, gently lifting the blankets covering
the faces of the dead. At least two elderly men were among the dead.
There appeared to be several dozen bodies lying on the mosque floor,
though a precise count was difficult because of the poor quality of
the images.


The videos do not provide proof that 60 children died in the
operation, but the images do appear to contradict a U.S. military
investigation that found only seven civilians were killed in Azizabad,

along with up to 35 militants.


The U.S. said Sunday it would reopen the investigation because of
emerging new evidence. On Monday, a Pentagon spokesman said new
"imagery evidence" came to the attention over the weekend of Gen.
David D. McKiernan, the American commander of the NATO-led force here.



"There is some evidence that suggests that the evidence that the
U.S. military used in ... its investigation may not have been
complete," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.


He said a general to be sent to Afghanistan by U.S. Central
Command will review the initial investigation. But it is also possible

there will be a new inquiry into the raid in Azizabad - this time
conducted by Central Command, said Lt. Cmdr. Bill Speaks, a spokesman
for the command in Tampa, Fla.


The Afghan government has agreed to a joint U.S.-U.N.-Afghan
investigation, said Sultan Ahmad Baheen, spokesman for Afghanistan's
Foreign Ministry. It's not clear when or how that will be conducted.


In the videos, several dozen bodies covered by blankets were lined

up in two rows, some with their feet protruding. Veiled Afghan women
were seen shrieking in grief, alongside a young boy who squatted and
rocked back and forth, sobbing beside one of the bodies.


One video showed three young children wrapped in white shrouds. A
fourth child had gruesome head wounds, while a fifth appeared to be a
girl lying on her back, her head resting on a red blanket.


It was impossible to verify conclusively that the videos showed
the aftermath of the Azizabad attack, but the contents appeared to
back claims by Afghan and U.N. officials that the U.S. operation
killed far more civilians than the military has acknowledged.


U.S. special forces and Afghan commandos carried out the
operation.


Afghan President Hamid Karzai has repeatedly warned the U.S. and
NATO that it must stop killing civilians in its bombing runs, saying
such deaths undermine his government and the international mission.
But the Azizabad incident could finally push Karzai to take action.


Karzai says the Azizabad bombings have brought relations between
the Afghan government and the U.S. to one of its lowest points since
the ouster of the Islamic militia from power in 2001.


Shortly after the Azizabad attack, he ordered a review of whether
the U.S. and NATO should be allowed to use airstrikes or carry out
raids in villages. He also called for an updated "status of force"
agreement between the Afghan government and foreign militaries. That
review has not yet been completed.


Afghan officials say U.S. special forces and Afghan commandos
raided the village while hundreds of people were gathered in a large
compound for a memorial service honoring a tribal leader, Timor Shah,
who was killed eight months ago by a rival, Nader Tawakal.


The U.S. investigative report released last week said American and

Afghan forces took fire from militants while approaching Azizabad and
that "justified use of well-aimed small-arms fire and close air
support to defend the combined force."


The report said investigators discovered evidence the militants
planned to attack a nearby coalition base. This included weapons,
explosives, intelligence materials and an access badge to the base, as

well as photographs from inside and outside the base, the U.S. report
said.


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Associated Press reporters Jason Straziuso in Kabul and Pauline
Jelinek in Washington contributed to this report.
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