God gave man free will.

Don't blame God for humanity's lack of sound judgment.

"SheBlewHimDidYouBlowHim" <killgod@killgod.com> wrote in message
news:Nt3_d.5597$qW.4721@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...

day 13 of 30 to see if god can go 30 days without committing a MURDER,
hey,
god's not doing too well thus far.
amazing, this "loving, caring" god can't go 30 days without COMMITTING A
MURDER

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/03/16/soldier.killed.ap/index.html

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A land mine killed a soldier in western
Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Wednesday, even as the top U.S.
general
insisted that security in the war-ravaged country was "exceptionally
good."

News of the explosion came as Gen. Richard Myers said the United States
is
considering long-term bases in Afghanistan as it re-positions its forces
worldwide.

The mine hit a group of U.S. military police on Tuesday near an American
base in Shindand, close to the Iranian border, killing one soldier and
injuring four more, the military said in a statement.

One of the wounded suffered a severe back injury, another was in stable
condition and two were treated and returned to duty, it said. None of the
soldiers was identified in the statement.

Taliban-led militants continue to mount regular attacks on U.S. and
Afghan
forces in Afghanistan, mainly in the south and east, although American
commanders claim that the former ruling militia is a fading force.

The last American combat fatality was January 3, when militants detonated
two bombs and opened fire on U.S. troops in eastern Kunar province,
killing
one soldier.

Elsewhere, an Afghan soldier was killed and another wounded Tuesday when
they triggered a mine while recovering bodies from an airliner that
slammed
into a mountain in the nation's worst-ever air crash, officials said
Wednesday.

Deep snow and fear of old ordnance has hampered efforts to retrieve the
remains of the 105 killed when the Boeing 737 crashed east of the
capital,
Kabul, during a snowstorm in early February.

Al Qaeda still targets Afghanistan
Myers, the visiting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that
Afghanistan remained a target for al Qaeda and that a hard core of
Taliban
militants were likely to fight on.

But he also said the Taliban were "essentially in disarray" since failing
to
disrupt landmark presidential elections last year.

"Security is very good throughout the country, exceptionally good," Myers
told reporters at Kabul airport after talks with Afghan President Hamid
Karzai and U.S. commanders. A reconciliation drive for "noncriminal"
Taliban
could further weaken the militia, Myers said.

Myers said he had yet to advise President Bush on whether to seek
permanent
American bases in Afghanistan.

"But clearly we've developed good relationships and good partnerships in
this part of the world, not only in Afghanistan," Myers said at a news
conference, also mentioning existing U.S. bases in Uzbekistan and
Kyrgyzstan.

The Afghan government has said it is seeking a "strategic partnership"
with
the United States spanning economic and political ties as well as the
military. It has yet to say whether that would include permanent American
bases in a country neighboring Iran, Pakistan and oil-rich Central Asia.

Three years after driving out the Taliban for harboring Osama bin Laden,
the
American military has about 17,000 troops in Afghanistan and operates air
bases at Bagram, north of Kabul, Kandahar in the south and Jalalabad in
the
east.