25 TONS of Bombs wipe Afghan town Off the Map

Vatic Note:   This is the strategy they decided to use in Iraq, if anyone remembers.  Rumsfeld was asked about the level of deaths and destruction and he said something to the effect that he would keep on bombing and killing until they quit resisting and he didn't care if any of them survived, it was up to the Iraqi's and he was just going to keep going until they gave up or were all dead.  I remember that so vividly because it reflected the lack of humanity shown on 9-11.  That appears to be what they decided when they put Petraes in charge after releaseing the previous commander who would not agree to do that.    So we can see that they consider "GEOCIDE"  a weapon of war.  Used to be a death penalty crime against humanity.  Wonder how Petraes and others will look with a noose around their necks.  Realizing that, confirms our belief that Israel runs our Pentagon and has for a long time.  They are the genocide experts since that is their goal with the pals. 

25 TONS of Bombs wipe Afghan town Off the Map

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/366/489/25_Tons_of_Bombs_Wipe_Afghan_Town_Off_Map.html
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 8:11, By Greg Ericson, Before its News

                                          
An American-led military unit pulverized an Afghan village in Kandahar’s Arghandab River Valley in October, after it became overrun with Taliban insurgents. It’s hard to understand how turning an entire village into dust fits into America’s counterinsurgency strategy — which supposedly prizes the local people’s loyalty above all else.

But it’s the latest indication that Gen. David Petraeus, the counterinsurgency icon, is prosecuting a frustrating war with surprising levels of violence. Some observers already fear a backlash brewing in the area.

Paula Broadwell, a West Point graduate and Petraeus biographer, described the destruction of Tarok Kolache in a guest post for Tom Ricks’ Foreign Policy blog. Or, at least, she described its aftermath: Nothing remains of Tarok Kolache after Lt. Col. David Flynn, commander of Combined Joint Task Force 1-320th, made a fateful decision in October.

His men had come under relentless assault from homemade bombs emanating from the village, where a Taliban “intimidation campaign [chased] the villagers out” to create a staging ground for attacking the task force. With multiple U.S. amputations the result of the Taliban hold over Tarok Kolache, Flynn’s men were “terrified to go back into the pomegranate orchards to continue clearing [the area]; it seemed like certain death.” http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/01/13/travels_with_paula_i_a_time_to_build

After two failed attempts at clearing the village resulted in U.S and Afghan casualties, Flynn’s response was to take the village out. He ordered a mine-clearing line charge, using rocket-propelled explosives to create a path into the center of Tarok Kolache.

And that was for starters, Broadwell writes. Airstrikes from A-10s and B-1s combined with powerful ground-launched rockets http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/10/did-a-new-rocket-help-rout-the-taliban-depends-what-you-mean-by-new-and-rout/ on Oct. 6 to batter the village with “49,200 lbs. of ordnance” — which she writes, resulted in “NO CIVCAS,” meaning no civilians dead.

www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/01/25-tons-of-bombs-wipes-afghan-town-off-the-map/

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