It has come to my attention that America as a nation involves itself in a multitude of issues all over the world. I do understand that our Nation needs to be protected, but at what cost and from what or whom? I would ask you to please look around and perhaps visit some areas in our own county that are at war. We are fighting a war against poverty, against racism, against global warming, against the control of corporations and their lobbying power and in my opinion the biggest battle we are fighting is the one within our own government. I wonder what it would take for our congress to actually listen and follow the wishes of the people who put them in office. I wonder what it would take to have a President that the people actually voted in. What would it take for our President to be the people’s President and not answer to corporate America or to the “fat cats” who have run our country far to long?
You are willing to spend 1 million dollars per solider under the façade that you are protecting us of terrorist, the terrorist I fear are here in the United States. Why won’t you look into 9/11 or have an unbiased committee assigned to finding out the real truth. Why won’t you visit Compton, Watts or Harlem where a million dollars per person would provide education, health care, jobs and a way for these young men and women to make a life for themselves and their families? Money is needed to break the cycle of despair in these areas. Is Osama bin Laden and the Taliban more important?
I guess the most important question I have for you is why won’t you tell the truth? I feel that we have not heard the truth about 9/11, also the deaths of John and Robert Kennedy, the election of George W Bush, and what really did happen to put our nation in recession? These are just a few examples; I have no doubt that there are so many more cover ups and lies that are of major importance that the people of this nation have never hear about. I ask you to do the right thing, by giving this county back to the people and allowing us to make educated, informed decisions about our future. Decisions that are based on fact and truth. I ask you to be the first President in a very long time (if ever) that has the courage to simply tell us the truth.
WASHINGTON — The nation’s pre-eminent civil rights organization ACLU on Thursday slammed President Obama for shielding the Bush administration from accountability for its “dangerous torture policy,” and insisted that this “lack of transparency” severely threatens the future of constitutional liberty in the United States.
“The Bush administration constructed a legal framework for torture,” Jameel Jaffer, Director of ACLU’s National Security Project, said in a conference call with reporters. “Now the Obama administration is constructing a legal framework for impunity.”
While he credited Obama for having disavowed torture under his watch, Jaffer said that “on every front, the administration is actively obstructing accountability by shielding Bush officials from civil liability, criminal investigation and even public scrutiny for their role in authorizing torture.”
According to press reports, you intend to decide between November 7 and November 11 whether or not to send tens of thousands of American soldiers to Afghanistan. We are writing in advance of that decision to add our voice to those of Sen. Feingold, many House Democrats, and of a clear majority of Americans in urging you not to escalate this war, but rather to announce an immediate cease-fire followed by a withdrawal of all US troops in the fastest way consistent with the safety of our forces. We urge you to end the policy of using Predator drones to assassinate Pakistani civilians on the territory of their own country, in defiance of all concepts of international law. We also call upon you to cease all covert CIA and Pentagon operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran. Read the rest of this entry »
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire
Question: How many countries do you have to be at war with to be disqualified from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: Five. Barack Obama has waged war against only Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia. He’s holding off on Iran until he actually gets the prize.
Ellsberg: Leaked Pentagon Papers from Vietnam give clues to why Obama will most likely grant military requests to send more troops to Afghanistan.
Paul Jay, senior producer of The Real News Network, interviewed former military analyst and Pentagon whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg about the common thread between the conflict in Afghanistan and the war in Vietnam.
Like Vietnam, Ellsberg said “no victory lies ahead [for the US] in Afghanistan” and President Barack Obama knows it.
Still, Ellsberg believes Obama will “go against his own instincts as to what’s best for the country and do what’s best for him and his administration and his party in the short run facing elections, which is to avoid a military revolt.”
WASHINGTON – In support of the official United States assertion that Iran is arming its sworn enemy, the Taliban, the head of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Dennis Blair, has cited a statement by a Taliban commander last year attributing military success against North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces to Iranian military assistance.
But the Taliban commander’s claim is contradicted by evidence from the US Defense Department, Canadian forces in Afghanistan and the Taliban themselves that the increased damage to NATO tanks by Taliban forces has come from anti-tank mines provided by the United States to the jihadi movement against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
A key aide to Bob Ainsworth, the UK defence secretary, has resigned and criticised the UK’s mission in Afghanistan.
Eric Joyce, the now former parliamentary private secretary to Ainsworth, vacated his post on Thursday and said that there were “problems” with the handling of the war that needed “fixing with the greatest urgency“.
“I do not think the public will accept for much longer that our losses can be justified by simply referring to the risk of greater terrorism on our streets,” he said in a resignation letter.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” — Karl Marx
The Afghan presidential election will prove to be simply irrelevant. The U.S., whose imperial hubris renders it ignorant of other cultures and societies, invaded Afghanistan with the stated purpose eliminating Al Qaeda (remember them, the few hundred armed followers of Osama bin what’s-his-name?). In doing so, they repeated the same blind arrogance of their imperial predecessors, the British and the Soviets.
YOUR NETWORK exposes Obama’s expansion of the war on terror and highlights organizations (WEARECHANGE, 9/11 TRUTH, CODEPINK, etc) that are working to bring accountability and social justice back into politics.
The first two episodes of YOUR NETWORK coverage on the War of Terror are below.
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