The Afghanistan War

Why?

US soldier clowns with an Afghan corpse

US soldier clowns with an Afghan corpse

• $1 trillion a year in heroin profits.
• a free pipeline route for Unocal
• Similar to Hitler’s use of the Spanish civil war — a place to test new weapons. The US has perfected, banned weapons, robotic soldiers and predator drones. The idea is to fight war as a video game, safely far away by remote control.
• huge amounts of lithium to use in high performance batteries

Four Lies About the Afghanistan War

1. Americans claim the Taliban attacked America

   Even George W. Bush says it was Al-Qaeda that attacked on 2001-09-11, not the Taliban. Not even one of the alleged 2001-09-11 conspirators was an Afghan or Iraqi. They were nearly all Saudis. The United States attacked Afghanistan first and illegally. Aiding and abetting that American occupation is a capital war crime.

2. Americans claim the Taliban are a serious security threat to the USA

   How could they be when their only weapons are a kitchen-made road-side bombs? They have no humvees, tanks, ships, planes, ICBMs… The Taliban just want their country back, same as they wanted it back from the Russians. They did not threaten the Russians either. The USA has roughly 10 times bigger a population that Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s population in mostly under 15. America is bombing the shit out of nation of children! An average American brings in per month. The average Afghan brings in per month. Americans claiming self-defence against Afghanistan is like Mike Tyson claiming self-defence in a mugging/rape of Miley Cyrus. There are only 100 Al-Qaeda left in Afghanistan. Just how few have to be left before Americans can feel safe? This paranoia is stark raving bonkers.

3. Americans claim the Taliban are insurgents

   That is nonsense. Back in 2001, the Taliban were the legitimate government of Afghanistan. Even if we don’t like their fundamentalist religion, they still have the support of the majority of the Afghan population which is almost completely Muslim. Hamid Karzai is a puppet dictator imposed by the US military. His band of warlords and druglords collaborated with a foreign enemy. That makes them traitors, collaborators and insurgents. It is a situation similar to the Nazi occupation of France in WWII (World War II) with the provisional government of morally bankrupt French collaborators appointed by the Nazis.

4. Americans flatter themselves

   Americans flatter themselves by claiming the Afghans love having the Americans occupying their country. Think of the suffering the Afghan people endured to be free of the occupying Russians then later the Americans. It is a David and Goliath story. The Afghans take massive casualties and sacrifice their lives in suicide attacks just to kill one occupying soldier. Only because the Afghans are so determined to be free and only because the Afghan people are so unified have they managed to fight to a standstill the world’s largest military power for 16 years and 6 months.

Why?

• Why are we doing this?
• What do we hope to accomplish?
• How would things be different if we won or if we just came home?
• What are the benefits to us of this extended slaughter?
• What business have we in meddling in the internal affairs of a tiny impoverished country on the other side of the planet?
• What could possibly justify the cruelty we inflicted on the Afghan child burned in a NATO bombing in the photo to the right?
• Why are we willing to bankrupt our country in a pointless, endless war?

82 US Airborn posing with a trophy

82 US Airborn posing with a trophy

1. We treat the war like an Olympic speed-skating event. We just can’t stand the shame of being held to a stalemate by a country much smaller and poorer than us, especially since we have the help of the largest and most advanced military on the planet. We we are butchering kids in the name of stubborn national pride.
2. We want a share of the spoils — Afghanistan’s lithium and Iraq’s oil.
3. We Canadians and Britons are cowards. We do it only because the Americans tell us to.
4. In North America, we manufacture almost nothing but weapons, so the war is just a cynical make-work program to pay off arms makers who bribe politicians and to create make-work jobs that don’t actually need doing.
5. We are bigots and sadists who love the idea of torturing Muslim children.

Legality

• It was an aggressive (first strike) unprovoked war. Aiding an abetting such a war in a capital war crime.
• The UN (United Nations) did not authorise it. Bush-43 went to the United National Security Council to get a resolution authorizing the use of military force against Afghanistan and Al Qaeda. He failed. You have to remember that. This war has never been authorized by the United Nations Security Council.
• Congress did not declare it as required by the constitution.
• The Leahy Law prohibits U.S. military assistance to foreign military units that violate human rights with impunity. The Karzai regime is as sick and corrupt as any in history.

Books

Book referral for No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

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	birth	1976 age:41	978-0-525-95372-2	hardcover
	publisher	Dutton Adult	978-1-101-61130-2	eBook
	published	2012-09-04	978-1-61176-156-6	audio
			B008MG1E4A	kindle
Mark Owen is the pseudonym of Matt Bissonnette, a SEAL who participated in the assassination of Osama Bin Laden. The military is furious with him for spilling a few details of the assassination, claiming they are important military secrets. They threatened to prosecute him and his publisher. Bissonnette is actually a low-level whistle-blower who exposed some of the military’s lesser lies. He claims there is no classified material in the book. In my view the military has no right to keep secrets from the voters when the purpose is to deceive and manipulate the voters, rather than keeping the supposed enemy from gaining an advantage in battle.
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Book referral for Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

	recommend book⇒Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
	by	Rachel Maddow	978-0-307-46099-8	paperback
	birth	1973-04-01 age:45	978-0-307-46098-1	hardcover
	publisher	Crown	978-0-307-46100-1	eBook
	published	2012-03-27	978-0-307-97040-4	audio
			B005BUG6T8	kindle
I wry look at the US military. It starts out poking fun at the astronomical waste and incompetence in the spending for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. It also makes a convincing case that Ronald Reagan was an unscrupulous, lying lunatic.
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