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Possible U.S. airstrike hits Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan; at least 19 dead
Washington Post ^ | October 3, 2015 | Tim Craig

Posted on 10/03/2015 11:41:33 AM PDT by Altariel

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To: Altariel

While Putin is killing ISIS, Obama is killing doctors.


21 posted on 10/03/2015 12:11:57 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Altariel

War is hell. Who brought the shit to Kunduz in the first place? If these folks can hide behind civilians, then there’s no stopping them until there are no civilians left. No more sheep, no place to hide.


22 posted on 10/03/2015 12:12:15 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: USMCPOP

That’s right. Who cares what Yahweh thinks? The ends justify the means!

</sarc>


23 posted on 10/03/2015 12:26:41 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Safetgiver
"U.S. forces may have mistakenly bombed a hospital in northern Afghanistan on Saturday,....and what is the downside? We killed more muzzies? So what? A few stupid doctors died? They probably would get their heads cut of anyway. No problem then."

I agree. What are "Doctors Without Borders" doing in a war zone in the first place? It seems to me these "Doctors Without Borders" deliberately establish themselves in war zones where America is fighting in order to get in the way of and impede American military operations. I have no sympathy for them.

24 posted on 10/03/2015 12:35:38 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: Altariel

It’s those durn ICD 10 codes... It’s confusing for everyone. Mandatory effective 10/1.


25 posted on 10/03/2015 12:38:07 PM PDT by momincombatboots (Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
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To: StormEye

I love you (not in that sense!!). When are people going to wake up?


26 posted on 10/03/2015 1:15:36 PM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: StormEye

Some years ago, I found myself in a Doctors Without Borders field aid station in Chad. I was being treated by a Lady Belgian doctor. Some joker in the embassy thought I was having a heart attack. So, over my protests, the Admin Officer ordered me to go with a driver to their aid station. She told me to take off my shirt and when she saw my bypass scar, she wanted to call for an aeromedevac. I said no way and left. I had been laying on a filthy sheet, covered in blood stains. This was at the onset of AIDS, and I was in Central Africa. Doctors do a good job but only to sew your head back on your neck until you can get medevaced.


27 posted on 10/03/2015 1:31:40 PM PDT by Ax ("You'll Never Walk Alone" (LFC))
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Never thought, in all these years, I'd be writing this:

My son, who shall remain nameless, but is the "Ace" in "Ace's Dad" is there and wrote this to me several hours ago. He flies (legally) in the area, that's all I can say.

He writes: "Those docs are behind enemy lines. They are treating the Taliban. Fuck em, comforting and aiding the enemy. The Taliban just went through Kunduz raping and piliging .... ugh"

There is much more to this story than is being reported. You can maybe start with the "raping" part!

28 posted on 10/03/2015 1:36:16 PM PDT by Ace's Dad (Proud grandpa of a "Brit Chick" named Poppy Loucks (Call sign "Popsickle").)
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To: StormEye

See my post #28. You are on the right track in your thinking, it seems!


29 posted on 10/03/2015 1:38:27 PM PDT by Ace's Dad (Proud grandpa of a "Brit Chick" named Poppy Loucks (Call sign "Popsickle").)
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And if the hospital were behind American lines, it’d be treating Anericans.

That’s what doctors do. Treat the sick and wounded. Treat rape victims. Even if sine of the patients were enemy combatants, it doesn’t follow that all patients were enemy combatants. You have pregnant women secret care, children with various diseases. A man who broke his arm trying to fix a roof.

The reality is, some kid lost his mother, father, or relative in that bombing. That kid is going to grow up in an honor/shame system and decide to avenge his honor.

He knows his father/mother/relative wasn’t a terrorist. He also knows that the attack is attributed to allied forces.

Guess where that potentially leads.


30 posted on 10/03/2015 1:46:16 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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“some”, “seeking”


31 posted on 10/03/2015 1:47:16 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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Possible U.S. airstrike hits Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan; at least 19 dead

Not really unexpected as Obama plays one up-manship with Putin. It has been posted in recent days that Russian bombers had attacked civilian targets in Syria..............well, Obama's not going to be outdone, so we hit not just a civilian target but a hospital at that in Afghanistan............that'll show Putin!

32 posted on 10/03/2015 2:44:31 PM PDT by varon (Don't point that finger at me unless you're prepared to have it broken off!)
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To: Altariel

I agree. My son was very definite on placing the blame on the Taliban.


33 posted on 10/03/2015 7:27:48 PM PDT by Ace's Dad (Proud grandpa of a "Brit Chick" named Poppy Loucks (Call sign "Popsickle").)
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To: Altariel
Late Saturday, Obama extended his condolences to those killed and injured and said in a statement that “the Department of Defense has launched a full investigation, and we will await the results of that inquiry before making a definitive judgment as to the circumstances of this tragedy.

I guess the pilots were not all white and the victims all black, so he is awaiting the results of an inquiry before jumping in ( or more likely looking for someone to pin it on in order to leave himself blameless )

34 posted on 10/03/2015 9:05:01 PM PDT by TheCipher (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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