For the US administration, OBL is much more useful “at large” than dead or captured. There is no evidence that he is still alive, except for those believers in the video tapes conveniently issued at each turning point in US policy.

The US administration is lying on quite each issue regarding Iraq or Afghanistan, that is a proven fact. Why should we believe the rest of their story?

That is not a support to terrorism, nor to all conspirational theorists around the globe. That is simply a matter of moral sanity.

Notice how reports from Afghanistan for at least two years have said that the capital city of Kabul is the only part of the country that the US fully controlled. This is complete deja vu from the Soviet days, you might say word for word just replace US for USSR. I suppose you could replace roadside bombs for stinger missiles, but that’s just insurgent tactics.

I like to say that history repeats itself except history is like movie remakes, the updated version is the same yet disguised.

your writing is not filled with solutions, just hollow rhetoric

Getting rid of Bushco will be a huge improvemnt but “the West” has sunk into such a quagmire that it will take 100 years for the possibility of a recognizable recovery. That is thirty years before you even have a proper government and then 70 more years to get it organized in a humanitarian mode.

We need to double the number of US forces from 20K to 40K

Nato took comand of US forces in Afghanistan (12K soldiers)

20,000 – 12,000 = 8,000 US troops unaccounted for.

Where are they?, What happened to them?

What is glaringly real, in todays world, is that the people who are right-of-centre have a bankrupt philosophy. “Conservatism” has been abducted and twisted into a torturing, killing, greedy monster which more rightly needs to be called Hitlerism or Bushism.

The true conservationists are the Green Peace supporters, the Social consciousness supporters who advocate for universal access to nourishing food, good health care, open education, and personal dignity supported by unequivical laws and sociatal acceptance; all without destruction of our beautiful home, the Earth. In other words, true “conservatives” would have reject all of the Bushco policies on a world wide basis.

In order to insure that we can accomplish the common goals of humanity be need to be sure that money is availble for the social programs that benefit the masses. Accumulated fortunes spent on glitzy pet projects that feed the mega-egos of a few capitalists are detrimental to the well being of humanity. It is therefore, essential that accumulated fortunes earned in one lifetime must be distributed to the common good not passed down to through inheritance.

Bush’s Failed Policy of Kill, Kill, Kill

On March 30, 2003 – 3 ½ years ago and only 10 days after the U.S. invasion of Iraq – I solicited assessments from a few trusted military analysts and wrote that “whatever happens in the weeks ahead, George W. Bush has ‘lost’ the war in Iraq. The only question now is how big a price America will pay, both in terms of battlefield casualties and political hatred swelling around the world.”

…“Instead of recognizing their initial errors and rethinking their war strategy, Bush and his team are pressing forward confidently into what looks like a dreamscape of their own propaganda,” refusing to turn back “no matter how bloody or ghastly their future course might be.”

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And it just keeps coming. And the Republicans just keep looking at the Democrats trying to blame them. The Republicans are the majority. The Republicans are in the White House. Telling me the Democrats aren’t patriotic and telling me the Foley mess was political move is bull shit. I’m sick of this.

Look what the incompetent bully boys have done to Afghanistan and Iraq. Look what they’ve done to Haiti. Unforgivable.

I am soooo tired of this BS.

Jeanne Smith

Unlike the U.S. public, who have had their country, their government, and their constitution stolen out from them without firing a shot. Obviously, there is no need for “gun control” in the U.S. ……your guns are only used to kill other common men, whether they are countrymen or foreign.

Of course, the USA and its CIA created the Taliban and the Al-queda (”the base”) in Afghanistan under President Reagan to oppose the Soviet-run government there in the 1980s. We reap today what the imperial GOP sowed there twenty years ago… See the documentation presented by Seymour Hersch in The New Yorker magazine last year.
Cheers.

Keep taking the Oxy Paul, you’re almost unconcious.