165 Insurgents Killed in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Two battles killed more than 165 Taliban fighters and a U.S.-led coalition soldier in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday as President Hamid Karzai prepared to discuss the escalating violence with President Bush in New York.

One of the clashes began Tuesday when several dozen insurgents attacked a joint coalition-Afghan patrol with machine guns, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades near the Taliban-controlled town of Musa Qala in Helmand province, with Taliban reinforcements flowing in all day, a coalition statement said.

The coalition said it returned artillery fire and called in fighter aircraft, killing more than 100 of the Taliban fighters. One coalition soldier was killed and four wounded.

The coalition said there were no immediate reports of civilian deaths or injuries.

To the family of the coalition soldier killed in this battle, my deepest sympathies for your loss because this is truly a feel good story for the rest of us, I know it can’t be for you and this is not meant to denigrate your loss in any way but when Americans can wake up to news that 165 insurgents, the MSM is too gutless to call them Taliban anymore, but to wake up and hear that 165 of them have been killed in one battle, well, from our standpoint, that IS good news…

I wish the insurgency in Iraq had the balls to take a stand like that, I don’t know if they’re too smart or too afraid, they know that if they attempt a massed assault on American troops, or Iraqi troops for that matter, American forces will crush them, and another thing to consider is this, the Iraqi insurgents aren’t fighting for the more lucrative reasons their Afghan brothers are…

Situated in northern Helmand province, Musa Qala and the region around it have seen the heaviest fighting in Afghanistan this year. It is also in the middle of the country’s poppy-growing belt.

In neighboring Uruzgan province, more than 80 Taliban fighters attacked a joint Afghan and coalition patrol from bunkers near the village of Kakrak in a six-hour battle Tuesday night, the coalition said.

These Afghan insurgents aren’t fighting for a political or religious cause, they are considerably more motivated than that, they are defending their poppy fields, the only viable and globally marketable cash crop they have, for this particular group, they were fighting for their financial survival…

And I have no sympathy for them or their deaths, for whatever reason they fought coalition forces, and I do believe it was more than likely because of their poppy crop, that crop alone is reason enough to stop them, and kill them if necessary, this is a continuation of the war on drugs now combined with the GWoT, I honestly believe that the money these insurgents make from the sale of their raw opium will be used to buy more arms that will in turn be used to kill Americans and that the raw opium itself will be converted to more refined drugs and will find their way into the bodies of Americans, either addicting them or killing them…

It’s all designed to kill Americans, one way or another, and I still believe that any fight we conduct in Afghanistan is a GOOD fight, whether it installs a democracy or not, that’s of no concern to me, the killing of radical Muslims that grow the poppy and sell it’s resins to finance more acts of war and terrorism against us, THAT is my concern, and that is what I call taking care of business by fighting a war that needs to be fought…

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165 Insurgents Killed in Afghanistan

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