you don't have to kill your enemy in one attack On Oct 5, 11:46 pm, Daniel Seigler <[email protected]> wrote: > i have no comment. > > > > > > > Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 07:01:14 -0800 > > From: [email protected] > > Subject: Action Alert: Get US Out Of Afghanistan Now > > To: [email protected] > > > Occupying Afghanistan Does Nothing But Make America LESS Safe > > > Didn't we already have a so-called troop "surge" in Afghanistan? Well > > it obviously didn't work. Because now General Stanley McChrystal, > > whose last appointment was head of Dick Cheney's secret international > > assassination ring, is back pressuring President Obama to double down > > again on this strategically insane bet. The policy was doomed from > > the beginning, as we all knew, has done nothing but exacerbate hatred > > of America, and the more troops we send the more terrorists there > > will be who want nothing but revenge for the military occupation of > > their own country. > > > And for what? To prop up the patently fraudulent Karzai regime, that > > just stole an election with massive wholesale vote rigging. If our > > goal was to bring American style democracy to a remote and backward > > conglomeration of tribal warlords, considering our own electronically > > rigged elections, perhaps that is exactly what we have done. We are > > on the wrong side. We need to get out and cut our losses, NOW. HR2404 > > calls for an exit strategy. HR3699 prohibits funding for increasing > > our military force in Afghanistan. > > > Out Of Afghanistan Action Page: > >http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1007.php > > > The only good news is that there is a serious debate going on inside > > the Obama administration about this. It was a huge appointment > > mistake to put General McChrystal in charge in the first place. And > > following more of his bad counsel will lead only to greater disaster. > > Obama approved more troops for Afghanistan in February. They were > > sent, and now we learn the situation has only deteriorated. And the > > reason is that we can never, ever subjugate with military force such > > a mountainous and fiercely tribal country, not with a million troops, > > not in a million years. > > > Those who ruled America by fear for eight years have their doomsayers > > out there in full force, braying that leaving Afghanistan will > > empower the terrorists. For those with a memory, those of the same > > ilk in a previous generation shouted that leaving Vietnam, and not > > doubling our troop numbers there again and again, would cause other > > countries to fall to the commies like dominos. How utterly > > preposterous it all sounds now. > > > If fact, it is our PRESENCE in Afghanistan that empowers those who > > hate America, but creating more people who hate America, every time > > we bomb a wedding party, in a attempt to kill everyone even SUSPECTED > > of being a terrorists. Why would Al Qaeda, if they are still the real > > enemy at all, even WANT to return to such a backward place with such > > poor communications with the outside world, when operationally they > > are probably better off wherever they are now? It's just more > > senseless firepower thrown at absolutely the wrong target. > > > And while we are at it, in case you had not noticed, there is > > absolutely no intention of us EVER leaving Iraq either. All they have > > done is shuffle some troops around while commanders on the ground > > talk about us being there for decades to come. While at the same time > > you have right wing chuckleheads like Bill Kristol, Mr. Throwing > > Flowers and Candy himself, on Fox peddling the recycled hogwash that > > the people of Iran would welcome a military attack by us. As if we > > need yet a third sinkhole in the Middle East to deal with. > > > Why, even Henry Kissinger poked his head out of whatever undisclosed > > bunker location he's been hiding in, to avoid his own international > > arrest, to argue that we should give Obama's "new" appointments more > > rope to hang us with. Except they are all just the same OLD people > > from the Cheney regime, and they should have all been cleaned out day > > one, instead of leading us further down the wrong road. More troops > > is just the start Kissinger says. Haven't we heard enough from the > > genius architect of the original Vietnam debacle, and his retread of > > a Vietnamization theory? > > > Out Of Afghanistan Action Page: > >http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1007.php > > > Please speak out now. If President Obama did NOT have doubts about > > all this he could not be as much smarter than George Bush as we all > > give him credit for. But Congress is the decider on whether to go to > > war and whether to bring the troops home. And bring the troops home > > they must, and that's what they need to hear from us now. > > > And here is the one click Facebook page for this action. > > > Out Of Afghanistan Facebook Action: > >http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum1007 > > > And the Twitter reply to send, to send this message to all your > > members of Congress that way, is > > > @cxs #p1007 > > > Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed > > to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible. > > > If you would like to get alerts like these, you can do so at > >http://www.peaceteam.net/in.htm > > > Or if you want to cease receiving our messages, just use the function > > athttp://www.peaceteam.net/out.htm > > > usalone340b:73695 > > _________________________________________________________________ > Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. 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