Eight Years Is Long Enough: What You Can Do to End the War in Afghanistan

starting with the so-called "humanitarian" President, the USA has been running illegal wars in Afghanistan.

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Every decision of the President is very crucial especially in the issue of war in Afghanistan where the US deployed thousands of our soldiers. But many people are still questioning why we have to fight for the war that many don’t even know how or why it started. Every government’s decision has its own critics but many believe it as dictatorship. Gore Vidal has been taking aim at Barack Obama, as he doesn't think he's doing anything good, and that we will see a dictatorship arise in the United States. (How it's going to work is that the Republicans will take over after Barack fails in the next election and things will get out of control – and he isn't alone in that opinion.) Maybe Gore Vidal is right – we should get payday loans and head to Canada.

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and sold to GoldmanSachs and then placed inside a hedge fund marked:for the benefit of a few at the expense of the many.

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The real reason we are in Afghanistan is to secure and protect a proposed pipeline from
Siberia, through Afghanistan to Pakistani ports and on to the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean.From there to the hungry-for-oil far east.
We just contacted a local talk radio station that was discussing Adghanistan. They mocked
our above reason, because we described the
situation as diabolical, based on the fact that
the military/indudtrial complex is sacrificing
young American lives for future oil profits.
They will eventually see the truth.
Just do the research. This pipeline is our
purpose for hegemony in a corrupt and ungrateful country.

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But for some reason, the U.S. press is marching in lockstep on this - total refusal to report on Iraq is now the rule, enforced across the corporate and non-profit media outlets.

We could just move all troops from Iraq to Afghanistan - but then, who would defend the oil?

Of course, the media corporations have also been bought off by advertisers or dictated to by shareholders on what the correct editorial attitude should be...

It's the robber baron era - but don't count on the corporate or non-profit American press to cover this - they're all owned by the same set of crooks.

P.S. There was a big car bombing in Fallujah the other day - bet you didn't see any mention of that on the propaganda, did you?

Let's stop calling it "news" and start calling it "propaganda."

As in, "Did you watch the propaganda last night?"

Or, "Do you prefer to get your propaganda in the morning or in the evening?"

Or, "Which is your favorite propaganda outlet?"

Propaganda Nation Lives! Walks! Talks!

Goebbels would be awestruck, wouldn't he?

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There's got to be more to our involvement in Afghanistan than us avenging "9/11" (that shadowy, curious event) or conducting a jihad against "radical Islam." My "hope" was that the new administration would not be a shadow of the former cabal, and I'd understand why we are flushing U.S. soldiers and massive debt into a Third World country with a centuries-old mission of repelling foreign invaders. The code word I'm reading from cheney/Obama is "win." Win what?

If friends of my neighbor's kids threw poison over my fence into my yard, what would I "win" by occupying my neighbor's house and trying to punish his kids physically? Would those kids, my neighbor, my neighbor's friends and my neighbor's friend's friend's sit idly by and welcome my defecating in the neighbor's house?

TAKE IT TO THE BANK that at some dismal future date, we will watch the last helicopter lift off from the roof of the American embassy in Kabul with our tail but no "win" between our legs. Between now and then, for what are our soldiers and diminishing wealth being sacrificed.

"Hope" certainly has not emerged from the shadows. Neither will truth.

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Let the parties who don't support the war but aren't as funded have their voice. Open the door to more choices so that more people will be motivated to stop choosing between two war/corporatist parties and maybe even force the Democrats and Republicans to come clean. At least the chances of people opening their hearts and minds to the issues and judging and voting for pols based on what they really stand for rather than the party they're affiliated with will improve.

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It's very sad but it appears we are going to fight endless wars from this point on. War, Financial markets including (insurance) and health care make up 82% of our GNP. We don't manufacture anymore. This once great country is on the verge of collapsing from the weight of it's own greed and mischief. Baton down the hatches we are in for a rough ride over the 25 to 50 years. Failed leadership, Multi National Corporations running this country and a extremist quality in our churches that rival radical Islam have caused this problem. The foundation has been laid, now it's simply a function of letting it play out!

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Why the hell is he continuing the illegal policies of the Bush/Cheney regime???

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On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate approved the largest military budget bill in the history of our nation: $626 billion.

Then the bill will be sent to committee, and then back to the House and Senate for final passage.

There is still a short window of opportunity to stop this wasteful military madness.

Tell your members of Congress to vote "NO" on the 2010 defense appropriations bill.

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Obscene national defense costs keep rising. The senate just passed a 626 billion dollar military bill to keep Americans safe. But not all defense-related organizations are included,they will cost an additional 400 billion. The total yearly defense costs are over one trillion dollars annually. Any talk of getting out of Afghanistan and cutting the costs of national defense angers congressmen. They have the obligation to a industry that helped put them in office, and they also want to keep Americans safe.

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In the later 30's the The Nation and the left similar to people who post here(and some on the right) prevented FDR from re-arming--The slogan was No war". We paid a price for that.
And now the same people--most who post here and the Nation are at it again. All the arguments are emotional or conspracy types; none engage in rational thinking. OF course, one could oppose our activities but nothing posted here shows any rational discussion.

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1. The way to solve one of the major issues regarding Afghanistan is to legalize cannabis in USA (and everywhere) and have a substantial delegation of advisor/experts (hopefully not just heavily armed crewcut boots on the ground) to show Afghan farmers how to switch from poppy growing (90% of all heroin worldwide) to both inspirational and industrial hemp. (Note that hemp is a good precursor crop for reforestation programs such as Afghanistan desperately needs.)

2. The other huge Afghan issue being unemployment, the USA could import several hundred thousand, especially young workers, including mothers with their young children, from Afghanistan to help abate biofuels in western US drought zones where colossal billion dollar fires have been threatening the solvency of California etc. The savings from getting bushfire (oops sorry, wildfire) under control would justify the taxpayer giving some honorary figure, like $5 an hour, to these workers that they can send home to the family. (The best of the deadwood would replace live-cut lumber, plastics etc. in manufactured products, thus protecting forest in more ways than one.)

Halliburton and other famous and beloved organizations can supply on-site housing (cleaned FEMA trailers etc.), catering, internet access, language classes (EngSpanPortFrench), medical staffing, daycare and other relevant services. The foreign workers would labor alongside Americans (unemployed, ex-offender, interns, graduate students etc.). By treaty with Australia, Brazil, Chile etc. this program can have a seasonal "Hemigration" feature. Each hemester would earn credits toward education, citizenship and other rewards for participants.

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"Eloquent" answer of group's Director of Communications responding to a recipient of their E-mail:




E-mail recipient's own comments:

Since you say that you crave positive and cheery thoughts, but not specifically free, unfettered and honest discussion, please forgive the writer if these questions cause you the slightest discomfort: Have you figured how much you yourself are paying in taxes to finance the war? Do you think that just about covers the cost? If not, how much of a tax increase would you and your associates be willing to pay to fully cover the cost on your own? Should the U.S. government, instead, just levy a surtax on people who want American troops operating there and how much should the surtax amount to?

Or do you think it's easier to favor military operations there just as long as the government borrows to pay for the war and passes the bill to future generations? And, also for the sake of open, unfettered and free debate, how many more billions of other people's money are you and your associates prepared to spend before Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network are defeated there? Or is the Taliban a convenient substitute and excuse for prolonging the war in Afghanistan?

And since you say the "media" is now attacking the Afghanistan War, you certainly don't mean, do you, that Sean Hannity and his associates, whose messages are broadcast on television and on hundreds of radio stations across the country, are now attacking that war? He and his associates are the dominating media presence in this country, if anyone is "the media."

Charles H. Savage/Editorial Columnist
Continental Features/
Continental News Service, Inc.

--- On Sun, 8/9/09, Danny Gonzalez - Move America Forward wrote:

From: Danny Gonzalez(Director of Communications) - Move America Forward
Subject: Media Now Attacking Afghanistan War
To: continentalnewsservice
Date: Sunday, August 9, 2009, 8:07 AM

The former U.S. Senate candidate, Howard Kaloogian is listed in this entry from the organization's Board of Directors. The humorist in this writer could not resist reproducing the entry as it appears on
their Website:

The Honorable Howard Kaloogian ? Founder [The question mark appears on their Website]

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the War in Afghanistan is never stopped, for the peoples conflick.
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