Not for the first time, the military under the Bush administration, is baldly lying about civilian deaths during one of its air-strikes.

Time and time again, the Bush administration--ironically an administration, who has party members who believe that they are backed by God himself, has very casually downplayed the deaths of innocent women and children, often by horrendously inaccurate estimates.

Most recently, in Afghanastan, the brave top brass behind the Bush military machine, arrogantly insisted that an air-strike that allegedly took out roughly 30 Taliban militants, only killed 5 to 7 civilians. The Afghans claim as many as 500 deaths, but, hard evidence is coming to light that a minimum of around 20 deaths, to as many as 50 deaths, may have occurred, a good many of them babies and toddlers, as well as two pregnant women.

Villagers are angry, and probably rightly so. And, this is not helping to bring about trust and cooperation with the US-backed government there...which would in fact, go much farther in bringing about less Taliban activity, than bombing the hell out of villages ever could.

The Bush military has begrudgingly backed away from its hard stance as to the statistics of the bombing raid, and is sending ONE military intelligence officer to the region, to "look into the situation." Riiight. That means, he will drive his little Jeep around, talk to a couple of people--who probably weren't there, make some notes, and go back to his posh hotel for a nice meal and a shag with a local prostitute.

Oh yes, I support most of the troops---the one's not torturing prisoners and raping civilians, but will not support the people behind the troops. Never.