Forum Post: Afghanistan
Posted 12 years ago on March 11, 2012, 10:51 a.m. EST by richardkentgates
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Funny how all these reasons keep popping up to perpetuate the conflict and give reason to stay.
What are the chances the soldier that shot up those kids yesterday was slipped a psychotropic drug shortly before he lost his mind?
It's hard to believe that the Korans were burned accidently. Did you know that opium production was cut 90% by the Taliban 6 mpnths before we invaded in late 2001? It is now double the pre 2001 level, even with our socalled eradication efforts. One could come to the conclusion that the US reason for invading was to increase opium production.
Since the US invasion, much Afghani opium has been smuggled straight across the border into Iran, where it has caused massive social & crime problems, & it's the main reason Iran executes so many people. Also, many hundreds of Iranian border guards have been killed fighting the smugglers.
G : You make yet another oft ignored but very important point and a couple of links that speaks to this are :
"Americans Are Deeply Involved In Afghan Drug Trade", by Glen Ford : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24082.htm &
"The Master of Spin Boldak : Undercover with Afghanistan's drug-trafficking border police", by Matthieu Aikins : http://harpers.org/archive/2009/12/0082754 .
fiar pax ...
http://www.afghanpharma.com/products/
Star digging there and see if you can connect the dots. Thats what I'll be researching this week.
Didn't see anything of interest in the link. Did you? It seems the reason to restore the opium supply would be to keep the price of opiates low, both legal and illegal. And to keep vast numbers of people addicted. Wasn't Rush still using Oxycodone, an opiate, back then?
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Or wasnt really a soldier at all....
Or wasn't properly diagnosed? check this out http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/03/unexpected_directions.php?ref=fpblg
Crazy stuff
Crazy...no. Bunch of crap.
nobody know how was the exact situation happens. But we can see only the casualties. it could be anything to create international affair. Imagine situation like in Vietnam where a little girl sneaks to military base with hand grenade! Very selfless, very dangerous. People are fed up already!
According to the news that soldier was on his fourth tour and in the past he had been treated for a severe head injury in the past.
Two articles on this dark, despicable and dispiriting matter :
"I Don’t Want To See Their Faces; I Don’t Want To Hear Them Scream", by Christopher Cooper : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30798.htm &
"Burning Babies : Afghanistan's Haditha ; An Atrocity to End the War", by Robert Dreyfuss : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30793.htm .
e tenebris ...
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There have been differing reports over the number of casualties and the number of troops involved. Witnesses have told Reuters they saw a group of American soldiers arrive at their village in Kandahar's Panjwayi district at around 2am, enter homes and open fire.
Remember back when Obama first starting talking about shortening our mission in Af, then they had two massive bombings that linked back to the Pakistan military, that we pay. The retaliation from the book burning was short lived, so now they try again to inflame the area? Every time it looks like everyone is tired of the fight, their is a provocation that just pops out of nowhere. The brass was caught using psy-ops on members of congress when they visited. It's time to rout the entire godamn pentagon. The 1% is corrupting domestic politics, but the military complex is terrorizing the entire planet.
More troubling is the fact that the Obama administration has now adopted assassination as a fundamental tool of American foreign and military policy and this is generally applauded by pundits of all political stripes.
This is, unfortunately nothing new. It was always an option for the CIA and covert operations. What Obama did was make it possible to do it openly. I'm not saying that's a good thing by any means, but only that such killings have been done throughout much of the last century. The Cold War was replete with them.
Very true
That was candidate Obams talking peace. What we got from President Obama was Bush's third term.
no, it was actually in the beginning of 2011. This isn't about politicians. It's about the corruption in our military and the abuse of covert methods.
The buck stops with Obama. It became his war with "the surge", which was supposedly such a big success in Iraq.
Candidate Obama held that Iraq was the "wrong war" and Afghanistan was the "right war." It's his baby. I don't know if we the people of the USA whose reputation is collectively on the line here are ever going to be told what really happened.
Not unless you get the story from Wikileaks.
Yeah, the UN rapporteur just made a statement about the conditions of the imprisonment of Bradley Manning.
http://rt.com/usa/news/manning-cruel-treatment-un-torture-383/
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