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The intention of the US military to transfer soldiers from Iraq to Afghanistan is a grave error and represents yet another callous move in its traditional practice of harming innocent civilians in conflict zones, and this time in another part of the globe. The soldiers being transferred or in the process of being transferred are not only battle-hardened troops but also are the ones that have often being implicated in committing atrocities against Iraqi civilians. Ever since the US invaded Iraq in 2003, Iraqi civilians have constantly being forced to face bullets and missiles from the occupation troops of the Coalition forces, primarily from US soldiers. US aircraft have also being responsible for unleashing armour-demolishing missiles against defenceless women and children. US soldiers in Iraq have also being often accused of raping or assaulting Iraqi women and only a very small number have been arrested. Others were also accused of shielding these criminals or helping to eliminate witnesses to the crimes. US patrols in Iraq were also guilty of acts of indiscriminate shooting of civilians in many cities, especially in Baghdad, whenever a roadside bomb went off or an unknown gunman started shooting. US soldiers in Iraq have been implicated in attacking friendly Iraqi government police and uniformed guards on many occasions and it is proof that these soldiers regard Iraqi people, even those supposed to be friendly to the US, as humans whose lives have little or no value. The US invaded Iraq on false premises but that did not stop their soldiers treating Iraq as if it was one big shooting range for use as target practice. Civilians were regarded as inexhaustible cannon fodder. And now these same soldiers are going to Afghanistan. To continue where they left off. To shoot more civilians and to bomb more houses and create more havoc. It makes no sense at all, as the US at present is still deeply mired in financial trouble with US banks in very frail health. The entry of US troops into Iraq opened the floodgates of terror for the country. Incessant car bombs and massacres by religious groups helped to turn the whole country into a giant human abattoir. And now Afghanistan faces the very same nightmare as US troops start pouring into Kabul. The US president should needed to be reined in. the full control of the has been true since the

now start thinking if the US military The US military has never been under civil authority in Washington and this days of Douglas MacArthur.

The US president should ask himself if he is possibly imitating George Bush by escalating the war in Kabul. Has he forgotten

about the lessons of Kampuchea, Vietnam, Lebanon and eleswhere. Military deployment eventually turned into hurried withdrawals accompanied by the fall of the puppet regimes friendly to the US. Obama might want to consider if giving Abrams tanks to Kabul would be a better option. Helping the Afghan government to stand on its own feet militarily would be much better than sending in bloodthirsty US soldiers who have a bad history of slaughtering defenceless civilians. Additionally, Obama might want to study the case of Sri Lanka where the government has virtually crushed a terror organisation without outside assistance or foreign troops. The SL government acquired the necessary hardware needed to carry the fight to the enemy and this is exactly what the Kabul government should be doing. Not the method of letting in foreign soldiers who have no compunctions at all killing civilians or friendly forces.