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To: epicure who wrote (94958)	11/9/2008 10:32:12 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541701

KABUL (Reuters) – A joint Afghan and U.S. military investigation has concluded an air strike last week killed 37 civilians and wounded 35 more after Taliban militants launched an ambush from the cover of a village, the U.S. military said. President Hamid Karzai said after the incident the issue of civilian casualties was the biggest source of tension with his main backer, the United States, and called on President-elect Barack Obama to make it his priority to stop innocents being killed. A string of mistaken U.S. air strikes this year have killed at least 150 Afghan civilians, undermining public support for the continued presence of more than 60,000 NATO-led and U.S. coalition troops in Afghanistan. Ok, I want to go back and remind people that Obama was heavily criticized by Palin and others for this comment: "[w]e've got to get the job done there [in Afghanistan] and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there." I don't know if more troops will accomplish this, but he didn't deserve the lashing he got from the RW over this. He understood the problem.