[Marxism] Obama's daughters and kill ratios

[Dennis Brasky <dmozart1756@xxxxxxxxx>]

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>  Fathers, Daughters, And The Rules
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> This is part of a Los Angeles Times story on the recent U.S. bombing in
> Afghanistan that killed about 140 
> people<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan-deaths17-2009may17,0,4108227.story>
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> *Piercing wails rose into the antiseptic-scented air where four blistered
> and bandaged little girls lay in side-by-side hospital beds. One of them,
> 5-year-old Ferishteh, writhed and cried almost continuously, unable to find
> a position that did not cause her pain from the burns that covered her arms,
> legs and torso.*
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> On the night of May 4, the girls' families, frightened by hours of fierce
> fighting between insurgents and Afghan and Western troops in and around
> Garani, had sought shelter, together with dozens of neighbors, in a pair of
> sprawling compounds belonging to the village's most powerful tribal clans.
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> After the clashes subsided in the early evening, residents said, many were
> bedding down by about 8:30, still huddled together in hope of safety.
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> That, they say, is when the bombs fell...
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> *Nurses and doctors said Nazbibi's father, Saeed Malham, rarely left her
> bedside...*
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> "When they told me what had happened, I fainted under a tree," he said.
> Then he rushed home, returning to a village marked by destroyed homes and
> fresh graves.
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> *The father of the other three girls in the burn unit, Saeed Barakat, was
> also separated from his wife and children at the time of the bombardment.*He 
> had gone to the mosque in the early evening, and then to the home of an
> elder married daughter to spend the night.
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> When the alarm was raised, he hurried to the compound where his family had
> been sleeping. There he encountered a nightmarish landscape of blood-covered
> rubble and severed limbs. A hand was found in a nearby tree. Only seven of
> more than 70 people inside were alive, according to Barakat and others
> interviewed.
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>  And here's Barack Obama, in Sderot, Israel in July, 
> 2008<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/29/barack-obama-israel-gaza>
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> "If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep
> at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that."
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> How many people have the rockets from Gaza killed? Let's say ten. How many
> people were killed as Israel did everything in its power to stop that? At
> least 100 times as many. Thus, according to the rules as articulated by the
> current president, Afghans may now kill 14,000 Americans.
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> That may seem like a lot, but fair's fair.
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> http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/002960.html
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>  "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."- *Voltaire*
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