Monday, April 5, 2010

U.S. Troops Killing Innocent Afghans

From: allgov.com (emphasis mine)

McChrystal Admits U.S. Troops are Killing Innocent Afghans at Checkpoints

Monday, April 05, 2010
America’s top commander in Afghanistan, Army General Stanley McChrystal, ... told his audience: “We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat.”

McChrystal added that during the nine-plus months he has been in charge, in none of the cases in which a civilian was hurt “has it turned out that the vehicle had a suicide bomb or weapons in it and, in many cases, had families in it."

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That's not "change we can believe in."

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