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World War 3: Obama about to go all Nixon on Pakistan’s ass

“I think that the fact that there are links that exist between the Pakistani government and the Haqqani network, the nature of those can be assessed and is complicated. But there is no question that they have safe havens in Pakistan.”– Jay Carney, White House spokesman

September 28, U.S. President Barack Obama has endorsed the claims of Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, who accused Pakistan’s intelligence agency of “exporting” violence to Afghanistan.

In 1969 President Nixon (a Republican) secretly ordered the bombing of Cambodia and Laos (Operation Menu), believing they were helping the Viet Cong in South Vietnam.  The Operation Menu bombing lasted from March 1969 to May 1970, and failed to stop Viet Cong, or North Vietnam’s efforts to unite the country.  The failure led to Nixon making peace with the Viet Cong and North Vietnam.

Will Obama (a Democrat) follow in Nixon’s footsteps?

But wait, we’re already bombing Pakistan with our UAVs.  Oh, but the U.S. was already secretly bombing Cambodia under President Johnson (a Democrat), four years before President Nixon!  It turns out that Nixon’s bombing of Cambodia and Laos were simply an escalation of Johnson’s actions.

U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Obama had to consider military action against Pakistan.

United Police Kingdom: British military documentary justifies killing unarmed civilians

“The fact that British soldiers are reduced to watching what are effectively snuff movies shows the complete failure of the project in Afghanistan. It’s nothing to do with democracy, but a failure of war that is trickling down and resulting in a mental degradation among ground troops. Afghanistan is a dreadful situation and it is no better than it was a decade ago.”-Andrew Burgin, Stop the War Coalition

Burgin is talking about a documentary that’s being shown to British troops, called Kill TV nights, part of a three part series called Fighting on the Frontline.  Officially it’s meant to desensitize troops, but it also justifies killing civilians.

In one scene a commander is actually warning peers not to mention any of the possible war crimes they’ve just committed: “This is not for discussion with anybody else; keep it quiet about what you see up here. It’s not because we’ve done anything wrong. But we might have done.”

In another scene an Afghan woman is targeted, and you can hear the helicopter pilots call her “snake with tits”.

A voice in the documentary sums up the attitude of the evil British Red Coat military: “I have absolutely no dramas with it. None at all. I don’t really care whether they think it’s a fair fight.”

I wounder if this will be the same attitude used against the people of the United Kingdom, when the protests really get going?

 

 

 

U.S. soldier, from Idaho, confesses to killing 15 year old Afghan for the hell of it

“I could see his hands were empty, I could see he didn’t have a weapon.”-PFC Andrew Holmes, U.S. Army

September 22, Private First Class Andrew Holmes, from Boise, Idaho, pled guilty to killing an unarmed teenager in Afghanistan.

“I knew I should have taken cover, but instead I pulled the trigger.”-Andrew Holmes

When Holmes says he “should have taken cover” it’s because a fellow soldier just threw a grenade at the unarmed boy, who was working in a farm field.  Holmes shot the boy with “six to eight rounds” from his machine gun.

Pictures of Holmes with his ‘trophy kill’ were published in Der Spiegel and Rolling Stone magazines.

Two other U.S. Army soldiers have already pled guilty, two more are waiting for their day in military court.

 

Sign that the U.S. realizes it can’t defeat Afghan Taliban, U.S. to officially recognize Taliban diplomatic office in Qatar

September 12, according to Australian media, the Taliban have opened a diplomatic office in Qatar, and will soon be recognized by the United States as an legitimate political organization.

Qatar is also the biggest Arab supporter of the U.S., U.K. and French backed Libyan rebels.  Qatar is also being implicated, along with Saudi Arabia, of instigating armed uprisings in Syria.

Foreign media tried to get reaction from White House officials, but declined comment.  Reports say this is a step towards peace talks between the Taliban and the United States.  Such peace talks would recognize the Taliban as the de facto rulers of Afghanistan.

Earlier in the year there were reports that Turkey would allow a Taliban embassy, but now it looks like Qatar has become the location of choice by U.S. officials.

The Taliban are seeking assurances that its representatives in Doha, the Qatari capital, would be free from harassment or arrest.

 

 

Government Coverup: United States rejected several offers from Taliban to hand over Osama bin Laden, also, proof the U.S. knew bin Laden was actually in Pakistan

“Even before the [9/11] attacks, our Islamic Emirate had tried through various proposals to resolve the Osama issue. One such proposal was to set up a three-nation court, or something under the supervision of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. But the U.S. showed no interest in it. They kept demanding we hand him over, but…They did not recognize our government.”-Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, Afghan Foreign Minister under the Taliban

Robert Grenier, CIA boss in Pakistan at the time of 9/11, confirmed that the Taliban made such offers, but that the United States didn’t take them seriously: “No one in the U.S. government took these [offers] seriously because they did not trust the Taliban and their ability to conduct a proper trial.”

Offers by the Taliban were relayed to the U.S. through indirect channels such as the U.S. embassy in Pakistan, or the informal Taliban office for the UN in New York City.  But, the United States did not recognize the Taliban, who governed Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001.

Also, top U.S. prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, visited Pakistan to present evidence implicating bin Laden in U.S. embassy bombings: “He met with the Pakistani interior minister and the idea was to convince the Pakistani government to help in turning over bin Laden.”-Robert Grenier, former Central Intelligence Agency

Of interest is the fact that most main stream U.S. media failed to report that the Taliban government of Afghanistan condemned the 9/11 attacks: “Afghanistan was one of the first few governments that condemned the attacks…We [Taliban] condemned the attacks because the people targeted were defenseless civilians, women, children, Muslim and non-Muslim. But al-Qaeda praised it.”-Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil

 

 

At least 77 U.S. troops wounded in latest attacks in Afghanistan, Afghans say it’s retaliation for unjustified U.S. occupation of Afghanistan

“Each year, 9/11 reminds the Afghans of an event in which they had no role whatsoever.  American colonialism has shed the blood of tens of thousands of miserable and innocent Afghans.”-Afghan insurgent statement

September 11, at least three U.S. troops have been wounded in attacks in western Afghanistan.

This follows a September 10 truck bomb attack against the U.S. Combat Outpost Sayed Abad, in the eastern province of Wardak.  NATO reports that 77 U.S. troops were wounded, two Afghans killed and 25 Afghans wounded.

U.S. Army sources have reported that 50 troops, plus civilians, were wounded in the Saturday truck bomb attack:  “It happened at 5:15 pm on Saturday. It detonated near the entry point at a combat outpost, resulting in 89 wounded in action and a 20-foot (six-meter) hole in the wall.”-David Eastburn, Major U.S. Army

Wardak is where a U.S. Chinook helicopter was shot down recently, killing all 30 U.S. forces and eight Afghans on board.

Also on Saturday/Sunday, a NATO soldier died in an ambush in southern Afghanistan, and  two bombs exploded in Paktika and Kunduz Provinces, leaving a total of 10 civilians dead.

 

Is the price of human suffering really worth the War on Terror vengance for 9/11? Especially when the U.S. is killing the wrong people!!!

Fact: Not one Afghan or Iraqi was involved in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, yet the people of Afghanistan and Iraq have been the bloody whipping boys/girls for the blood lust vengeance seeking people of the U.S.

Fact: The accused 9/11 attackers came from Saudi Arabia (15), United Arab Emirates (2), Egypt (1) and Lebanon (1).

How many people died on 9/11? 2,977, not counting the alleged attackers.  2,669 were U.S. citizens, 372 were foreigners.

How many U.S./coalition forces have died in the vengeance seeking War on Terror in Afghanistan? 4,390 total.  1,762 U.S. deaths in combat.  948 Coalition deaths.  1,680 U.S. deaths relating to Afghan operations, or died after being wounded.  No numbers for allied Afghan government forces.  (note that the Department of Defense recently revised upward the number of U.S. combat deaths in August 2011)

How many Afghans have died? There is little or no record keeping of civilian deaths by the Afghan government, but human rights groups, and some media organizations say at least 23,000 Afghan civilians have been killed, so far.

The United Nations says for the first six months of 2011, 1,464 civilians were killed.

Don’t forget, not a single Afghan was involved with the 9/11 attacks (some Pakistan media sources say Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan the whole time)!

How many U.S./coalition forces/civilians have died in the vengeance seeking War on Terror in Iraq? 6,627 total.  3,529 U.S. combat deaths.  318 Coalition deaths.  945 U.S. deaths relating to Iraqi operations.  1,487 U.S. contractors.  348 Journalists.

How many Iraqis have died? The number of Iraqis killed varies from several hundreds of thousands to more than one million four hundred thousand!!!

Don’t forget Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 (as claimed by the war criminal Bush jr administration)!!!  Nor did Iraq have any weapons of mass destruction (as claimed by the war criminal Bush jr administration)!!!  Nor did Iraqi officials have any connection to al Qaeda (as claimed by the war criminal Bush jr administration)!!!

So lets compare the number of people killed on 9/11, versus the number of people killed in the vengeance War on Terror. 

September 11, 2001: 2,977.

Ongoing War on Terror: 1,489,607!!!

I’m just talking about the number of people killed.  The number of people wounded, and permanently disabled is far, far higher!   Just from the operations in Iraq the number of U.S. wounded is more than 100,000!!!

The numbers suggest that the War on Terror is anything but that.  It shows that it is actually a War of Terror.  The numbers suggests that the United States is pure evil! 

 

War on Terror cover for Global Economic War: Invasion of Afghanistan IS about oil, Afghanistan has 80 million barrels of oil, now it all goes to China

State-owned China National Petroleum Corporation won the first oil and natural gas exploration contracts in Afghanistan since the U.S. led invasion in 2001.

It’s estimated that there are 1.6 billion barrels of crude oil in Afghanistan.  The oil fields of Bazarkhami, Kashkari and Zamarudsay (areas under contract with CNPC) contain an estimated 80 million barrels.

In 2007 China got the rights to mine copper in Afghanistan.  Isn’t nice that the U.S. led War on Terror is allowing other countries to get contracts to mine minerals and oil?

What Economic Recovery? $60 billion in taxpayer money, simply disappeared in Iraq and Afghanistan, could have created at least 192,000 civilian jobs in the U.S.

The Associated Press reported on August 31, that “…$60 billion in U.S. funds has been lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade through lax oversight of contractors, poor planning and payoffs to warlords and insurgents…”

According to a 2009 update of a study by the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), for every billion taxpayer dollars you spend on the military, you essentially destroy at least 3,200 civilian jobs. That’s the difference between civilian jobs created for every $1 billion in tax cuts for taxpayers, versus military jobs created for every $1 billion spent on the military.

Multiply 3,200 by the number of billions of taxpayer dollars the AP reports were wasted on the criminal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: That’s 192,000 civilian jobs lost.

The number of jobs lost is even higher when you look at spending on Education, instead of the Military.

For every billion taxpayer dollars spent on Education 29,100 civilian jobs are created, versus 11,600 military jobs.  The difference is 17,500.  Multiply 17,500 by the $60 billion unaccounted for taxpayer dollars lost in Iraq and Afghanistan: That’s more than one million potentially new civilian jobs lost!

Now realize the U.S. is spending tens of millions per month in Libya, and is pushing for war with Syria.  You can see there will be no economic recovery for the United States.


 

Obama wants troops to stay in Afghanistan until 2024, Russia says it doesn’t make sense

Afghan officials have told British media that the U.S. and Afghanistan have agreed to keep thousands of U.S. troops in country until 2024!

The deal would allow U.S. forces to use Afghan military bases, provide facilities to store massive numbers of U.S. military equipment, and allow thousands of military personnel to stay, including special forces.

Russian officials pointed out that the deal doesn’t make sense: “If the job is done, if terrorism is defeated and peace and stability is brought back, then why would you need bases?  If the job is not done, then several thousand troops, even special forces, will not be able to do the job that 150,000 troops couldn’t do.  It is not possible.”-Andrey Avetisyan, Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan

The Russians should know, they got their butts kicked by the Afghans back when Russia was part of the Soviet Union.  They did exactly what the U.S. is doing now, trying to train up the Afghan government to take on the “terrorists”.  The Soviet Union left Afghanistan in 1989, but continued to supply weapons and trainers to the Afghan government.  The Afghan government lasted until 1992, brought down by a civil war that lasted until 1996.  The civil war ended in 1996 when the Taliban took control of the country.