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Robert Naiman, Truthout: ''One thing the Afghan war policy hasn t lost: the GOP leadership. That was demonstrated Wednesday night when the GOP leadership blocked consideration in the House of a bipartisan amendment offered by Jim McGovern (D-Massachusetts) and Walter Jones (R-North Carolina) that would have nailed to the wall the current, slippery 'timetable' for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. There you have it. The reason that the amendment couldn t be allowed to come to a vote was because it could pass.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9241-how-house-gop-leaders-silenced-support-for-amendment-solidifying-afghanistan-withdrawal-timeline

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Congress, Standing Against Public Majority, Votes for More War in Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/18



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Naiman

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/11-4

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Why two soldiers were killed by Afghan police in a lost war

These soldiers died because the British government would rather continue fighting an unjustified war that is being lost than admit that after eleven years nothing has been achieved but mass slaughter and destruction.

http://bit.ly/J7pt3i


From Information Clearing House

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US House OKs continued ops in Afghanistan (but still hasn t declared war)

Wyoming Tribune Eagle

05/17/12

The House endorsed the continued war in Afghanistan on Thursday despite acknowledgment from Republicans and Democrats that the American people are war-weary after more than a decade of conflict. By a vote of 303-113, lawmakers rejected an amendment that would have swiftly ended combat operations in Afghanistan by limiting funds only to the 'safe and orderly withdrawal of U.S. troops and military contractors from Afghanistan'...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Pact Won t End War Or SOF Night Raids

By Gareth Porter

The Obama administration s success in obscuring those facts is the real story behind the ostensible story of the agreement.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31236.htm



About 25,000 Troops May Be Needed In Afghanistan After 2014, Planners Say

American military officials say that the planning figure is 25,000 troops, commanded by a three-star general. They would include trainers as well as thousands of Green Berets and other special operations troops who would work with Afghans on counter-terror missions.

http://n.pr/JDcxlj



A Decade of War-for What?

By Patrick J. Buchanan

The Taliban have shown themselves willing to persist against huge odds, to fight and die in considerable numbers for the kind of country they wish to live in-and the kind of regime they wish to live under. Our allies have not remotely matched their zeal.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31247.htm



US Kills 5 Afghan Kids

By Glenn Greenwald

The way in which the U.S. media ignores such events speaks volumes about how we perceive them.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31275.htm



Afghanistan: US airstrikes kill at least 14 civilians

NATO officials confirmed on Monday that an airstrike launched late Friday in the Sangin district of Helmand Province, Afghanistan resulted in the death of one mother and five children.

http://bit.ly/Jal5P7


From Information Clearing House

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Leaving Afghanistan by Staying

David Swanson, War Is a Crime: ''Obama is full of praise for U.S. troops, as if they have benefitted Afghanistan. And he is full of concern for the suffering of U.S. troops and U.S. citizens.... 'Neither Americans nor the Afghan people asked for this war,' Obama said, forgetting that one of those two countries had invaded the other one and occupied it for over a decade. 'The reason America is safe is because of you,' Obama told U.S. troops, forgetting that the war has made our nation more hated around the world.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8945-leaving-afghanistan-by-staying



A Dumb War

Alan Grayson, Truthout: ''To little fanfare, President Obama announced last week that he signed an agreement to extend the US military occupation of Afghanistan for twelve more years. No one noted the irony of this, since under our Constitution, President Obama can be president for no more than another four and a half years.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9041-a-dumb-war

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Take Responsibility for Civilian Deaths, Group Tells NATO
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/14-0



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The Associated Press has learned it does not report insider attacks in which the Afghan wounds or misses his U.S. or allied target. It also doesn t report the wounding of troops who were attacked alongside those who were killed.

http://nydn.us/Jx6opc


From Information Clearing House

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Renewed Violence Follows Obama s Afghanistan Visit
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/02



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Zur Lage in Afghanistan: Die Interventionseuphorie ist vorbei.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36818/1.html



Werden Moslems in Europa diskriminiert?

Ein Amnesty Bericht dürfte die Diskussion über den Menschenrechtsbegriff wieder aufleben lassen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151867



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'I'm being sent out to stabilise a country I have no faith, interest or empathy in, to prop up a government the UN says is corrupt.

http://bit.ly/IcM5ia



Pulling out of expensive war will be costly, officials say

An already expensive war in Afghanistan will cost American taxpayers between $5 billion and $10 billion just to pull a decade s worth of weapons, vehicles and supplies out of the country.

http://bit.ly/JmYbTx



Afghan protesters accuse NATO of killing 4 children

The protesters, who were carrying the bodies of four children aged eight to 12, blocked the Kabul-Kandahar highway and chanted anti-US slogans, they said.

http://bit.ly/Is9TAS



Veterans Say No to NATO

While the president and the Pentagon are handing out posthumous medals, a number of veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan will be marching, in military formation, to McCormick Place in Chicago to hand their service medals back.

http://bit.ly/JMSVu2


From Information Clearing House



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By Conn Hallinan

For an administration touted as sophisticated and intelligent, virtually every decision the White House has made vis-à-vis Afghanistan has been a disaster.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31115.htm



Still killed and killing in the lost Afghanistan War

By Lindsey German

Has anyone told the media that the NATO forces are losing the war in Afghanistan?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31139.htm



Afghan Screams Are Not Heard

By Kathy Kelly and Hakim

Last weekend, in Kabul, Afghan Peace Volunteer friends huddled in the back room of their simple home. With a digital camera, glimpses and sounds of their experiences were captured, as warfare erupted three blocks away.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31138.htm

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Collateral insanity in Afghanistan

In These Times
by Terry J. Allen

04/18/12

The war in Afghanistan has taken a devastating toll on mental health from depression to suicide, domestic violence to murderous rampages. And financial and family strains, as well as attempts at self-medication, have exacerbated the casualty count. ... Many Afghans, blameless in ways that volunteer soldiers never can be, have been pushed past sanity by violence; by becoming refugees or internally displaced; and by losing family, culture, educational opportunities, professions, houses, rights and hope...

http://tinyurl.com/7u4vn7k



America s lost war

Freedom s Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

for publication 04/21/12

International and constitutional law be damned. Waging war on Afghanistan 'is clearly illegal. It constitutes armed aggression. It is creating a humanitarian catastrophe for the people of Afghanistan.' It s also a lost cause. Pentagon commanders know it. So does Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis. In an unclassified report and more detailed classified one, he explained ongoing disastrous conditions. From his own firsthand observations and what others told him, he concluded that America s war failed. It can t be won...

http://bit.ly/HT85eF


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/18-0

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U.S. Troops Posed With Body Parts of Afghan Bombers

By David Zucchino

The paratroopers posed for photos next to Afghan police, grinning while some held, and others squatted beside, the corpse s severed legs.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31108.htm



Photos of US troops with body parts disgusting, says Hamid Karzai

''The president underlines that the only way to put an end to such painful experiences is through an accelerated and full transition of security responsibilities to Afghan forces,'' the statement said.

http://bit.ly/HLsh2P



No resolution in earlier Marine corpse abuse case

While the military grapples with another corpse abuse scandal in Afghanistan, officials still haven t offered any resolution to the case uncovered earlier this year of Marines urinating on Taliban corpses.

http://1.usa.gov/HSN5YM



Military Training Exercises : Live Goats' Legs Cut Off With Tree Trimmers

Video

Each year, more than 10,000 live animals are shot, stabbed, mutilated, and killed in horrific military training exercises that are supposed to simulate injuries on the battlefield.

http://bit.ly/HJ789A


From Information Clearing House

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Afghanistan: More photos of US troops posing with corpses

Newsday

04/18/12

In an embarrassment to the Pentagon, newly published photographs purport to show U.S. troops posing with the bodies of dead insurgents in Afghanistan. Top U.S. military and civilian officials rushed to condemn the soldiers' actions Wednesday, calling them repugnant and a dishonor to the sacrifices of hundreds of thousands of Americans who have served in the war there...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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ISAF-Kommandeur verurteilt die Fotos und verspricht Aufklärung.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36789/1.html



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