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YouTube: Obama Promise To End The War, 2007 - "You Can Take That To The Bank"
Post Date: 2009-12-03 00:15:58 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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YouTube: Obama Promise To End The War, 2007 - "You Can Take That To The Bank" Quote: "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank. " - Barack Obama Campaign Promise - October 27, 2007 Click for Full Text!
Poster Comment:"Read my purple lips." [to distinguish it from "Read my lips."] Time to throw him and The Bank into the sea.
Rachel Maddow-Assessing Obamas Afghan plan
Post Date: 2009-12-02 18:13:11 by Horse
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Video: Ron Paul : Obama Preparing for Perpetual War!
Post Date: 2009-12-02 18:07:50 by Horse
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Gen. McChrystal's Address To His Staff
Post Date: 2009-12-02 16:42:46 by Go65
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General McChrystal addressed his staff this morning in the wake of Obama's speech last night. Here's the raw video (Part 1). Part 2 is at http://www.youtube.com/user/ISAFMEDIA
Obama Speech Leaves Out How to Grow the Afghan Army
Post Date: 2009-12-02 12:36:16 by freepatriot32
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President Barack Obama has tied his decision to order 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to a pledge that they'll start returning home in 2011. But the President's West Point speech Dec. 1 was mute on his plans for the growing Afghan army, which remains the best - some would say only - way to bring home American personnel. His vagueness on the question of increasing the Afghan forces was understandable: the U.S. and its allies have already boosted target troop levels for the Afghan army four times, and the U.S. commander there, General Stanley McChrystal, wants the target number doubled yet again. There's no sign, at least publicly, of a surge in growth of the Afghan army. ...
McChrystal: Offer Taliban Chance To Quit The Fight "With Dignity"
Post Date: 2009-12-02 11:34:28 by christine
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KABUL — The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that the Afghan government and its international partners should use the coming 18 months to convince the Taliban they can't win and offer militants a way to quit the insurgency "with dignity." Gen. Stanley McChrystal made the call after President Barack Obama announced he was sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to the unpopular war. If conditions are right, Obama said American troops could begin leaving Afghanistan in 18 months. The Afghan government welcomed Obama's announcement but cautioned against setting a deadline for handing over security to Afghan forces and starting to withdraw. In a statement, the ...
Holiday Greetings: President and Man-of-Peace Obama has a Xmas Present for Afghanistan
Post Date: 2009-12-02 06:38:19 by Ada
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Merry Xmas Jarheads!! The Man of Peace, Nobel Laureate-to-be (and the latest Chickenhawk in the Whitehouse), President Barack Obama, your commander-in-chief, is going to be shipping you out as a holiday gift to the people of Afghanistan. You will be delivering bullets and bombs, with my name and the name of other American taxpayers on them, to the long-suffering people of Afghanistan by December 25, according to press reports ahead of the Mr. Hope and Change’s planned nationwide speech tonight. US bombing victims in AfghanistanUS bombing victims in Afghanistan Back here in America, the land of the free and brave, come the holidays, we will be scraping together the cash to buy small ...
Dems balk at deployment plan
Post Date: 2009-12-02 00:17:15 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Dems balk at deployment plan By Susan Page and Kathy Kiely, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — President Obama's long-awaited decision on the course ahead in Afghanistan provoked a topsy-turvy world on Capitol Hill. Republicans who oppose Obama on almost everything else praised his decision, sometimes grudgingly, to deploy 30,000 additional U.S. troops. Democrats who are usually his most reliable allies expressed criticism, sometimes heatedly, over his failure to detail when the U.S. mission would end. "I'm a big fan of the president's," said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass. "But I think he's come to the wrong conclusion." That leaves Obama in a perilous political ...
Rep. Lee promises fight against troop surge in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2009-12-01 23:26:23 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Rep. Lee promises fight against troop surge in Afghanistan By Josh Richman Oakland Tribune Posted: 12/01/2009 07:53:17 PM PST Updated: 12/01/2009 07:53:18 PM PST Rep. Barbara Lee, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus and one of President Barack Obama's key supporters, voiced disappointment Tuesday at his decision to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, even as antiwar activists struggled with a public generally opposed to the plan yet curiously apathetic so far. Lee, D-Oakland, an early, ardent supporter of Obama's 2008 candidacy, last week staged an Oakland rally in support of her bill to forbid spending any money to expand the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan. On ...
116 U.S. Troops Died in Afghanistan While Obama Pondered Reinforcements
Post Date: 2009-12-01 18:08:50 by Jethro Tull
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116 U.S. Troops Died in Afghanistan While Obama Pondered Reinforcements Tuesday, December 01, 2009 By Edwin Mora Georgia state National Guardsman, Sgt. Scott A. Millican, right, from Statesboro, GA., and Air Force Techincal Sgt. Phllip M. Huaser from Salina, Kansas, both part of the Counter-Improvised Explosive Device (CIED) route clearance unit look up as US fighter jets fly overhead near the town of Maidan Shar, Wardak province, Afghanistan Monday Nov. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)(Editor's Note: The Defense Department clarified after this story was posted that one of the casualties during October was a civilian, putting the number of U.S. military casualties ...
The War Against Muslim Extremists is Wholly Unnecessary for Our National Security
Post Date: 2009-12-01 13:58:07 by christine
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In response to my essays documenting that war is harmful to the American economy and produces a huge carbon footprint, some commentators have argued that the Afghanistan and Iraq wars are necessary to combat Muslim extremists. Even putting aside the fact that Saddam was an atheist who hated Muslims, the argument holds no credibility. A leading advisor to the U.S. military, the Rand Corporation, released a study in 2008 called "How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering al Qa'ida". The report confirms what experts have been saying for years: the war on terror is actually weakening national security (see this, this and this). As a press release about the study ...
Why Won't We Face Iran's Evil?
Post Date: 2009-12-01 09:00:26 by Eric Stratton
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Why Won't We Face Iran's Evil? Mona Charen Tuesday, December 01, 2009 When tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets last spring and braved the most brutal repression the regime could inflict, Michael Ledeen was the least surprised man in Washington. In season and out, Ledeen has chronicled the profound weakness of the mullahocracy and its deep unpopularity with the Iranian people. Impatiently, year after year, he has identified opportunities for the United States to help the people of Iran replace their sinister and menacing rulers. After each new post on the subject, Ledeen signed off with "Faster please." In "Accomplice to Evil," Ledeen seems almost ...
The U.S. Government is Taking Us Down
Post Date: 2009-12-01 06:22:24 by Ada
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President Obama has decided to up the ante in Afghanistan by acceding to his generals’ request to send an additional 34,000 troops to that beleaguered nation. What better proof that those of us who opposed the initial invasion of Afghanistan were right? The decision to treat the 9/11 attacks as a military problem, rather than a criminal-justice one, has turned out to be one unmitigated disaster, a disaster that seemingly has no end. After all, the occupation has now been going on for 8 years. Eight years of bombs, shootings, killing, maiming, secret prisons, arbitrary arrests, torture, indefinite incarcerations, and unrestrained power to search and seize. And eight years of ...
Obama Is Not the First President to Screw the Troops
Post Date: 2009-11-30 23:40:02 by snoopdougg
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Obama is by no means the first president to do the things he is doing. Every president in recent memory has expanded the government and taken away freedom. Obama is doing nothing new or unique. This includes screwing the military. I say this in response to the news that three Navy SEALS who captured a most wanted terror suspect in Iraq are now facing assault charges in relation to the capture. Without going into the particulars of the situation, I want to comment on the anger I have seen directed at Obama. I keep hearing that “if only we didn’t have Obama” things would be different for the military. This isn’t the first time the troops have been screwed. On ...
Tajik Grip on Afghan Army Signals New Ethnic War
Post Date: 2009-11-29 19:40:18 by AGAviator
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Contrary to the official portrayal of the Afghan National Army (ANA) as ethnically balanced, the latest data from U.S. sources reveal that the Tajik minority now accounts for far more of its troops than the Pashtuns, the country’s largest ethnic group. The massive shift in the ethnic composition of ANA troops in recent years is leading to another civil war between the Pashtuns and a Tajik-led anti-Pashtun ethnic coalition similar to the one that followed the fall of the Soviet-supported regime in 1992, according to some observers. Tajik domination of the ANA feeds Pashtun resentment over the control of the country’s security institutions by their ethnic rivals, while Tajiks ...
War crimes reserved for US policy opponents
Post Date: 2009-11-29 09:08:35 by Tatarewicz
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Through countless wars the United States has amassed a long record of war crimes, from abuse and torture of prisoners to the bombing of civilians and the deliberate destruction of hydroelectric dams, sewage and water treatment facilities, factories, bridges, roads, schools, hospitals and dwellings. The United States has also facilitated Israel's war crimes, while at the same time obstructing efforts to bring Israeli war criminals to account. Therefore there is nothing more brazenly hypocritical than the US having an ambassador at large for war crimes in the person of Stephen Rapp who has tried former Liberian president Charles Taylor at the Hague. Rapp's mandate is to drag before ...
A key British official reminds us of the forgotten anthrax attack
Post Date: 2009-11-28 08:51:42 by Ada
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By Glenn Greenwald (updated below) Britain is currently engulfed by a probing, controversial investigation into how their Government came to support the invasion of Iraq, replete with evidence that much of what was said at the time by both British and American officials was knowingly false, particularly regarding the unequivocal intention of the Bush administration to attack Iraq for months when they were pretending otherwise. Yesterday, the British Ambassador to the U.S. in 2002 and 2003, Sir Christopher Meyer (who favored the war), testified before the investigative tribunal and said this: Meyer said attitudes towards Iraq were influenced to an extent not appreciated by him at the ...
Let them Eat Patty Cake
Post Date: 2009-11-28 08:43:29 by Ada
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Are we going to escalate the war in Afghanistan for the sake of saving face? Defense Secretary Robert Gates says we have to stay the course in Afghanistan to deny al-Qaeda a "propaganda win." A propaganda win, as best I can tell, is a condition where someone can say "nyah, nyah" to us and we can’t say "nyah, nyah" back. Except that wouldn’t be the case if we left Afghanistan. They could say they ran us off. We could say so what, we live in the richest country in the world and you live in Afghanistan. Gates has proven himself to be a bureaucratic survivalist who knows how to work the system but very little else. He calls Afghanistan the "modern ...
Barack Obama must sell base on unpopular war in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2009-11-27 14:51:40 by christine
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In his speech to the nation on Tuesday, President Barack Obama must persuade supporters who thought they’d voted for an anti-war president to back a plan expected to roughly double the number of troops in Afghanistan from when he took office. Obama’s rise as a national political figure was fueled by his early opposition to the war in Iraq, which distinguished him from primary foes who’d initially backed the invasion and which quickly won him the support of millions who had grown weary of that conflict. While he repeatedly talked on the campaign trail about directing more resources to the fight in Afghanistan, many of his supporters took that rhetoric primarily as a critique ...
UK Inquiry: Blair Conspired with Bush as Early as February 2002 to Plot Iraq Invasion
Post Date: 2009-11-26 10:03:40 by Ada
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Most Americans are blissfully in the dark about it, but across the Atlantic in the UK, a commission reluctantly established by Prime Minister Gordon Brown under pressure from anti-war activists in Britain is beginning hearings into the actions and statements of British leaders that led to the country’s joining the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Even before testimony began in hearings that started yesterday, news began to leak out from documents obtained by the commission that the government of former PM Tony Blair had lied to Parliament and the public about the country’s involvement in war planning. Britain’s Telegraph newspaper over the weekend published documents from ...
Unforced Error
Post Date: 2009-11-26 09:12:46 by Ada
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President Barack Obama is about to make the biggest mistake of the 21st century by sending 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan. We currently have 68,000 troops in Afghanistan. NATO countries supply an additional 42,000. There are maybe 100 al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, and maybe 300 in Pakistan. Some estimates say al-Qaeda is down to fewer than a dozen core fighters. And we already have 110,000 mechanized, highly trained and well paid dudes gunning for them. There are also 200,000 Afghan forces under the command of Gen. Stanley McChrystal who suck, but that’s a lot of forces. All told, McChrystal already outnumbers al-Qaeda nearly 800 to one at a conservative estimate. If we grant that ...
Ceasefire not troop surge for Afghanistan
Post Date: 2009-11-26 07:08:11 by Tatarewicz
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What is needed in Afghanistan is just to work out new strategies which shift the focus from aggression to peace making, including working side-by-side with Afghans in hunting Al Qaeda and dismantling its cells. Engaging the Taliban in strategic peace talks in return for them giving up violence will give Afghans an opportunity to build their country and would be a unique opportunity for NATO to disengage on honorable terms. Therefore, western powers need to declare a cease fire, returning fire only if attacked, scale down military activities against the Taliban and set up a time table for withdrawing coalition forces. (MORE at link above) english.pravda.ru/opin ion/feedback/110536-0 ...
US still reviewing landmines ban
Post Date: 2009-11-26 01:49:21 by Tatarewicz
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The Obama administration has decided not to sign the landmines ban treaty but will continue an ongoing review as well as attend a conference in Columbia next week on the decade-old treaty which has been adopted by 156 countries. The US has contributed $1.5-billion to mine removal since 1993 but has regarded the mines as necessary for "national defense needs" and those of allies (like South Korea) according to Ian Kelly of State. Among the 37 countries which have not signed the Canadian-initiated landmines ban is Israel. Landmines are estimated to have caused 52 casualties last year. Tatarewicz: With Israel not on the list of treaty signers it's not likely that its lobby ...
U.S. Starves Children in Somali War
Post Date: 2009-11-25 18:18:21 by Horse
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The United States is waging a war of starvation against the people of Somalia. According to United Nations officials, Washington has interrupted the flow of desperately needed food to Somalia, on the grounds that some of it might find its way into the hands of the Shabab, the Islamists the U.S. calls "terrorists," but who are winning the war for control of southern and central Somalia. Forty million pounds of American-donated food is sitting in warehouses in Mombasa, Kenya, but U.S. officials won’t allow aid workers to deliver the food to the Somalis that need it. The Americans are blatantly using food as a political weapon, holding starving people hostage to U.S. political ...
Tony Blair 'was told 10 days before Iraq invasion that Saddam had dismantled WMD'
Post Date: 2009-11-25 17:39:58 by Horse
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Tony Blair was told Saddam Hussein may not have been able to use his chemical weapons ten days before war was declared, the Iraq Inquiry was told today. The second day of public hearings heard the Foreign Office had no evidence Saddam was trying to supply chemical or biological weapons to terrorists. The inquiry also heard Iraq was only the fourth most dangerous rogue state trying to develop weapons of mass destruction prior to the 2003 invasion. Officials were more alarmed by developments in Libya, Iran and North Korea, the Foreign Office's head of counter-proliferation said. Sir William Ehrman, who was director of international security at the Foreign Office, defended the war, ...
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