Regardless its good to hear from you Tim. We did miss you at CFUN04.
As for Afghanistan, it was very much a justifiable war. Its a damn
pity though that Bush decided to get distracted with Iraq and not
finish the job in Afghanistan. Right now the Afghani president is
pleading for more ISF / NATO troop so that the elections can be held
on time and in relative safety. The Taliban and their allies are
scared of this election and do not want it to take place. That's why
lately they've been focusing on the election workers and attacking
those in the areas where the Taliban is active. Pehaps the best way of
helping to defeat the Taliban forces is to make sure this is a very
successful national election.
larry
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:20:04 -0400, loathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am a pretty senior guy in the office of the CTO at the U.S. Department of
> State.
>
> I am going to Afghanistan.
>
> My team leader worked for Clarke when he was the CT head at the white house.
> He is now a senior federal employee in DOD
>
> He is going to Afghanistan.
>
> My battalion commander is a lobbyist.
>
> He is going to Afghanistan.
>
> I admit that I have some problems with Iraq and how we got there. I wish it
> was ok for us to say that oil is of vital national interest. I wish that
> Bush's dad had done the right thing and gone on to Baghdad back in 91. I
> wish that we had simply said that he is not meeting the requirements of the
> cease fire and used that. However I do feel that we needed to go.
>
> Anyone here that thinks we don't need to be in Afghanistan should read two
> books. The first is called Taliban and was written by a Pakistani
> journalist, the second is called Ghost Wars and goes over Americas
> activities in the region for the last 50 years or so. Also we need to
> remember that with Afghanistan, they came here. After Pearl Harbor 18
> million Americans enlisted in the military to fight against tyranny. We
> lost more people on 9/11 than we did on 6/7 (if you don't know the date,
> look it up).
> SPC Timothy Heald
> Javelin Gunner
> B co 3-116th Infantry(Light)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 2:44 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Know Your Enemy
>
> I've missed this entire thread but I'll put in my 2 cents. Moore's
> 'film' is straight up propaganda designed to manipulate the facts to
> where he wants them to be. Doesn't matter that you come away not
> knowing where he wants you to be. Point is, he presents things out of
> context to make them seem what he wants.
> He was interviewing senators and asking them to sign a petition to
> send their kids to Afghanistan. One senator is shown doing a double
> take and it's basically presented as if he didn't want to. Truth is
> (when the full piece is shown, not in the movie) that he agreed and
> said that his son WAS in Afghanistan. This was cut out as it took away
> from Moore's 'point' of the elite (i.e. political people) not putting
> their kids in harms way.
> This is not a movie, not a documentary, it's straight up media
> manipulation. But that's what Moore's been doing for a bit of time
> now.
>
> Now, if anyone wants to debate me on this, please feel free. If anyone
> wants to call me an idiot, moron, or whatever, then it just proves
> them unable to bring a rational argument. I think that we as a
> community can debate and disagree politely.
>
>
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