8,000 people killed last year in our war on Afghanistan

Another product of our supposed, “good war.” 

The United Nations has delivered a grim assessment of the conflict in Afghanistan, reporting that violence increased sharply last year and resulted in the deaths of more than 8,000 people, at least 1,500 of them civilians.

In a report to the security council, the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, said the number of violent incidents rose from an average of 425 a month in 2006 to 566 each month last year.

The number of suicide attacks rose to 160 in 2007 from 123 in 2006 — with 68 attempts thwarted in 2007 compared with 17 in 2006, he said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/11/afghanistan.unitednations

This war was apparently about an oil pipeline in the first place, and not about Osama bin Laden at all.

http://www.thedebate.org/thedebate/afghanistan.asp

 http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/preplanned.html

A while back I posted on the other effects of our presence in Afghanistan.  See here:

http://theradicalmormon.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/secret-combinations-in-afghanistan/