Civilian deaths 'deeply shame' US --- each family paid $2,000 for each death

BBC News
5/8/07

An American commander in Afghanistan has said that he is "deeply ashamed" by the killings of 19 Afghan civilians by US Marines in early March.

He said that the military had paid condolence payments to the families in the eastern province of Nangarhar.

Western forces have been accused of carelessness over civilian lives when attacking the Taleban and their allies.

It has become a major issue, with Nato recently saying that its biggest error last year was killing civilians.

more:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6636343.stm

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Later in the story it reads: Journalists said at the time that US troops confiscated their photos and video footage of the aftermath of the violence.

One wonders, with our military being stretched so thin fighting an already lost effort in Iraq; what quality of psychological screening and/or battle training are our soldiers getting? It may be that soldiers not either appropriately trained or screened will make more and more tragic mistakes on the field of battle. Of course, this makes work that much more challenging for the many soldiers that do serve honorably.

As we have already seen with the Pat Tillman cover up, the military will work with the BushCo regime to attempt to hide the mistakes (war crimes?)and spin false truths to the MSM.

$2,000 - where in the world did that figure come from for a condolence payment? There is no proper perspective to justify placing such little value on a human life!


RiverStone

anything, how cold and insensitive. Our humanity factor is zero.

Juxtaposition a $2,000 payment for taking a life --- with $40,000 per second we spend for Shrub's reckless war machine and other military operations!!!!
:mad: :wtf:

more on 40K a second here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=852981&mesg_id=852981