US Troops Ambushed By Terrorists, Civilians Get Killed
Sigh…
Afghans: U.S. troops shot at civilians
JALALABAD, Afghanistan - U.S. Marines fleeing a militant ambush Sunday opened fire on civilian cars and pedestrians on a busy highway in eastern Afghanistan, wounded Afghans said. Up to 16 people were killed and 34 wounded in the violence, officials said.
A suicide attacker detonated an explosives-filled minivan as the American convoy approached, then militant gunmen fired on the troops inside the vehicles, who returned fire, the U.S. military said.
As the Americans sped away, they treated every car and person along the highway as a potential attacker, said Mohammad Khan Katawazi, the district chief of Shinwar. But Maj. William Mitchell, a U.S. military spokesman, said those killed and injured may have been shot by the militants.
More than a half dozen Afghans recuperating from bullet wounds told The Associated Press that the U.S. forces fired indiscriminately along at least a six-mile stretch of one of eastern Afghanistan’s busiest highways — a route often filled not only with cars and trucks but Afghans on foot and bicycles.
So our troops get ambushed. They fight back, citizens get caught in the middle and die.
And who gets blamed for this, by the media indirectly and the loony left directly? Why our troops, of course. It doesn’t matter that nobody would have died had these terrorists not attacked us. It doesn’t matter that there would be peace in Afghanistan, and Iraq, if the terrorists would just lay down their arms. Nope, our troops (and not the suicide-bombing, fight-from-behind-the-civilians terrorist cowards) are to blame for all the death and carnage in Afghanistan and Iraq.
