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Title: Poll: ‘No’ to US wars at all time high
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URL Source: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/139299.html
Published: Aug 20, 2010
Author: PressTV
Post Date: 2010-08-20 10:37:34 by christine
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A new opinion poll says the number of Americans opposed to the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is at an all time high. The CNN opinion poll found that 62 percent of the American people now think that the war in Afghanistan neither can be won, nor should it be fought at all, the Press TV correspondent in Washington reported on Thursday. The poll also found that 69 percent of the Americans are now opposed to the US war in Iraq and favored the US President Barack Obama's plan to withdraw 50,000 US troops from the country. The poll, on the other hand, shows 30 percent of Americans support the wars. About 50-thousand American soldiers will remain in the war-torn Iraq until the end of 2011 to help train Iraqi forces. The nearly seven and a half year war has claimed the lives of nearly 4500 American troops and cost more than $900 billion. It is estimated that the US war in Afghanistan will cost nearly $105 billion in the 2010 fiscal year. The figure is expected to rise in 2011, as costs per service member in Afghanistan are almost twice as expensive as they are in Iraq. The United States has about 87,000 troops involved in the Afghan war and with more deployments on the way, the number is expected to reach over 100,000 by next year. The combined costs for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have surpassed one-trillion dollars.
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#1. To: christine (#0)
Israel is our only "ally" in the region and has contributed how many lives and how much money in this fight?????
To the dungeon with you.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" The jews are willing to fight to the last drop of American Goy blood.
thank-you for excellent article. it is very important that we the americans and people all over the world see that we do not favor war. as you know we have private contractors in Afghanistan (I think 100,000 or so) and these people fill military tasks as well as the soldiers. So our force is really about double the 87,000 listed. those private contractors are very expensive and perform tasks that in past wars the US military would perform, including combat. unfortunately our mass media is 100% pro-war. there are no anti-war voices at all tolerated in our mass media. the puppet liberals and the puppet conservatives in our mass media (tv, radio, print) are all pro-war. and they accuse each other of being inadequately supportive of the wars. it is telling that this article was in the Iranian news agency. No doubt they found an American source for all of this info. But this info cannot be presented in the US mass media. anybody who does it will lose their jobs. In the early 1970's congressional researcher Brian Quigg (with others) identified that 6 corporations were making a very strong attempt to buy up media outlets and were paying large amounts of money to do it. Over a long period of time there was an effort to buy up the media. even the small town newspapers now are overwhelmingly owned by those 6 large corporations. the money paid for these properties was frequently several times any reasonable value. our laws were changed to facilitate this concentration of ownership. both democrats and republicans participated in the process to pave the way for this to happen. Congressional researcher brian Quigg who warned about it in the early 1970's was murdered by Phoenix Police in summer of 2003. they called up his family and told them to come pick up the body. when they came to the location to pick up his body they were handed an urn full of ashes. Not one person who knew Brian Quigg was allowed to look at the body after he was killed. he was a person who persistently did research in opposition to the people who rule our country. we are a slave nation. we are ruled by a regime that is hostile to us and harms us and we do not have the ability to stop these things. Some of our people know this, some do not.
Revelation 6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and [see] thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
...and it is impossible for Americans to catch on to that glaring truth.
"The 'uniter' has brought the entire world together - to despise and deride us." lod
Jews made "isolationism" a dirty word because Americans wanted no part of more European wars.
interesting info about Brian Quigg. i had never heard of him. thanks for the info. i also had not known that there are more u.s. soldiers in afghanistan than iraq.
"if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." 1 Cor 12:31—13:13 it's interesting how, after all the varied reasons the american people were given for these wars, the general belief is that they were a result of 9/11 despite the fact that other reasons were officially given. this is why 9/11 truth will always remain a key issue to focus on. not for a 'new investigation', but because in order for the public to have a properly formed conscience, ( which will dictate the policies they support) , they need to know the truth.
"if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." 1 Cor 12:31—13:13 Troops that could very well stop the invasion from me-he-co, but I digress. I don't know why Obummer has such a hard-on for Afghanistan, there's nothing there but a bunch of flea-bitten turd-worlders. Let them kill each other, it's the only thing Afghani's excel at.
__________________________________________________________ 30%??? how can it still be that high?
Afghanistan has $1 Trillion worth of precious minerals. www.nytimes.com/2010/06/1...asia/14minerals.html?_r=1 "U.S. Identifies Vast Mineral Riches in Afghanistan" 06/14/2010 Some cut and paste: The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe. An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries for laptops and BlackBerrys. The vast scale of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth was discovered by a small team of Pentagon officials and American geologists. The Afghan government and President Hamid Karzai were recently briefed, American officials said. While it could take many years to develop a mining industry, the potential is so great that officials and executives in the industry believe it could attract heavy investment even before mines are profitable, providing the possibility of jobs that could distract from generations of war. “There is stunning potential here,” Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the United States Central Command, said in an interview on Saturday. “There are a lot of ifs, of course, but I think potentially it is hugely significant.” The value of the newly discovered mineral deposits dwarfs the size of Afghanistan’s existing war-bedraggled economy, which is based largely on opium production and narcotics trafficking as well as aid from the United States and other industrialized countries. Afghanistan’s gross domestic product is only about $12 billion. “This will become the backbone of the Afghan economy,” said Jalil Jumriany, an adviser to the Afghan minister of mines. American and Afghan officials agreed to discuss the mineral discoveries at a difficult moment in the war in Afghanistan. The American-led offensive in Marja in southern Afghanistan has achieved only limited gains. Meanwhile, charges of corruption and favoritism continue to plague the Karzai government, and Mr. Karzai seems increasingly embittered toward the White House. So the Obama administration is hungry for some positive news to come out of Afghanistan. Yet the American officials also recognize that the mineral discoveries will almost certainly have a double-edged impact. Instead of bringing peace, the newfound mineral wealth could lead the Taliban to battle even more fiercely to regain control of the country.
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
As soon as we leave Afghanistan, the Communist Chinkernese will cut a deal with the various local warlords and start mining. They've done it all over the African continent and Afghanistan will be no different.
__________________________________________________________About 50-thousand American soldiers will remain in the war-torn Iraq until the end of 2011 to help train Iraqi forces. The nearly seven and a half year war has claimed the lives of nearly 4500 American troops and cost more than $900 billion.
#2. To: Cynicom (#1)
#3. To: tom007 (#2)
#4. To: christine (#0)
The United States has about 87,000 troops involved in the Afghan war and with more deployments on the way, the number is expected to reach over 100,000 by next year.
#5. To: Cynicom (#3)
The jews are willing to fight to the last drop of American Goy blood.
#6. To: Bub (#5)
#7. To: Red Jones (#4)
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him"
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
#8. To: Cynicom (#1)
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him"
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
#9. To: christine (#0)
Barack Obama's plan to withdraw 50,000 US troops from the country.
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#10. To: christine (#0)
The poll, on the other hand, shows 30 percent of Americans support the wars.
#11. To: X-15 (#9)
I don't know why Obummer has such a hard-on for Afghanistan, there's nothing there but a bunch of flea-bitten turd-worlders.
#12. To: scrapper2 (#11)
#13. To: scrapper2 (#11)
#14. To: scrapper2 (#11)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
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