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Afghan 24-Karat BS: Throwing Away American Troops’ Lives

The Washington Post article on this weekend’s attack on a remote US military base in Afghanistan notes: It is really hard to interdict the enemy,” said the base’s company commander in an interview with The Washington Post in late September. “There are literally thousands of trails around here. We just don’t have the numbers of […]

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Ginning Up Another Election Scam Abroad – Afghanistan

So the Afghan people will have the chance to prove they are free and self-governing this week. Or at least that is the story the Obama team and most of the U.S. media are shoveling. After the Bush team successfully carried off similar scams in Iraq, it is not surprising that the new regime in […]

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WHOOP WHOOP Quote of the Day – on War Crimes

“We believe that anyone suspected of war crimes should be thoroughly investigated.” So claims an anonymous U.S government official, quoted in a story on the New York Times website today. Of course, he was referring to an alleged massacre of Taliban prisoners by Afghan Gen. Dostum in Afghanistan in late 2001. (Despite Obama’s victory last […]

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