Our dead in Afghanistan has now reached 2000. As anti-American protests and sentiments continue to grow, the Obama Administration continues to spend billions in the country and continues to send our soldiers into harm’s way. In the most tragically apt moment, we reached 2000 dead with yet another American killed by an Afghan soldier that he was treating as an ally and comrade in arms.
A civilian contractor with NATO and at least two Afghan soldiers also died in the attack by what the government refers to clinically as “an insider.” In addition to our 2000 dead, 1,190 more coalition troops from other countries have died.
With the Afghanistan President referring to Americans as “devils” and saying that he wishes he could have joined the Taliban, it is not surprising that we are training some soldiers who view our soldiers as the enemy.
Despite Obama’s promise of the withdrawal of U.S. forces, American, NATO and allied troops are still dying in Afghanistan at a rate of one a day. We are years into Obama term and we still have thousands of troops in a country where we are widely viewed as enemies and continue to spend billions as our own cities and states shutdown basic public programs for lack of money.
Source: Yahoo
The war in Afghanistan had been going on for three years when the IGTNT (I Got The News Today) series started in 2004, so not all are remembered here. However, there is a human face on every one of them. This long-running series posts each one’s story a few days after the news is released. Read ’em if you dare. Then, weep for them.
http://www.dailykos.com/blog/IGTNT
Bill McW, You said that Jill Stein is not as liberal as Obama. I don’t see Obama as liberal at all. He’s right of center. Jill is progressive.
Yeah, Nixon ended the war in Vietnam– after four more years plus!
Sling, thanks for posting the entire video of the murder of the journalists in Iraq. I saw the short version some time ago. This is the first time for the longer version. It makes me want to take down a helicopter or two. Imagine what it does to the families of those killed! If things continue as they have been, we may be facing the same kinds of attacks here, not just over-zealous cops but cops and military with heavy duty artillery and attack helicopters. And it will all be legal.
“and is even being denied access to newspapers and television. . . .”
This is because Gottfrid Svartholm has psychic powers.
He can communicate telepathically with the journalists who write the stories that he reads. WIth a little extra concentration, he can communicate telepathically with the people that they write about.
Communicating telepathically with people that he sees on television, is of course, very easy for him. WIth a little extra concentration, he can communicate telepathically with anyone watching the same channel.
He is allowed to read novels – but only those written by now-dead authors – and provided that the novels do not mention any living real people.
“Gottfrid Svartholm will be kept in detention for at least two more weeks on suspicion of hacking into a Swedish IT company connected to the country’s tax authorities. According to Prosecutor Henry Olin the extended detention is needed ‘to prevent him from having contact with other people.’ The Pirate Bay co-founder is not allowed to have visitors and is even being denied access to newspapers and television. . . .
“Since he hasn’t been charged officially in the Logica case the Pirate Bay co-founder could only be detained for a few days.
“But, after a request from Prosecutor Henry Olin this term was extended for another two weeks mid-September, and last Friday the District Court decided that Gottfrid could be detained for another two weeks.
“To prevent Gottfrid from interfering with the investigation the Prosecutor believes it’s justified to detain him for more than a month without being charged. The Pirate Bay co-founder is not allowed to have visitors and is being refused access to newspapers and television. . . . The Prosecutor hasn’t ruled out a request for another extension of Gottfrid’s detainment in two weeks, if the investigation is still ongoing.”
The claim that produced the most vitriol was that Sweden vests remarkable power in prosecutors and courts to keep accused suspects completely hidden from public view, with no communication or other contact with the outside world, and that this power is exercised with some frequency. Now we have confirmation of that claim from, of all people, the Swedish prosecutor in this case, Henrik Olin, who said in an interview outside the courtroom:
“‘According to the Swedish system, when the preliminary investigation is finished, I as prosecutor will decide whether to prosecute him. . . . In the Swedish system it is quite usual for people to be detained on this legal ground, and it gives me the possibility to prevent him from having contact with other people.'”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/01/wikileaks-sweden-pirate-bay
In another posting on this blog today..
An American Marine sucker punches an Afghan/Iraqi/Wherever woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fn0mrdmXZI
Ok. That was a Boston cop punch an American woman, but there is no difference in the ourage for onlookers and her community.
This pisses people off.
So does this
Dredd, Wasn’t it Nixon who ended the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam
You have 1 troop for every 7 contractors…… May have a huey….of 40 people shot down…… And 2 US GIs……. The others are casualties… Not statistics…..
OS.
I hope the NATO official is correct. The sooner the better.
“When will people see that war is evil?”
Everyone knows that war is evil, but to war profiteers and Zionists, it’s a NECESSARY evil.
Jesus never supported the view of nessisary evil. Therefore guess who?
When will people see that war is evil?
Romney says he will hire on a Hundred Thousand more troops. What is he gonna do with them? JT blames Obama for this war and for the deaths. Yesterday he was blaming Obama for drones. Had Obama just pulled out all troops on day one four years ago the RepubliCons and Blackwater (same thing) would have him lynched by now.
Glen Greenwald has coupled this to the since a week or so deportation of one of the founders of the ISP company from Cambodia, at Swedish request.
There appears to gbe Swedish aid money involved announced the same day as the deportation order was signed. It is not eh first time for Cambodia who receive over one billion from the Chinesé for the deportation of 20 Uyghurs to China.
Here from the comments which consist of newssites quotes.
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“The following article describes the role of the Cambodian government:
Cambodia’s decision to deport Svartholm Warg notably coincided with Sweden’s signing of a 400 million Swedish kronor (US$60.6 million) development aid agreement with Cambodia last week. Swedish officials denied a connection between the events, with Kristina Kuhnel, head of Sweden’s development cooperation in Cambodia, stating that the aid package was decided upon in March and only signed now due to delay on Cambodia’s side.
This would not be the first example of Cambodia receiving cash in return for deportations. Immediately after Cambodia agreed to deport 20 Uyghur asylum seekers to China in April 2010, China pledged Cambodia more than US$1.2 billion in aid and a few weeks later pledged an additional US$14 million to replace US military aid suspended in protest against the deportations.
and the US one
Many online commentators see US pressure on Cambodia and Sweden behind Svartholm Warg’s arrest and deportation. They have cited US Trade Representative Ron Kirk’s presence in Cambodia on the day of his arrest and WikiLeaked US cables that suggest US influence behind a 2006 Swedish crackdown on Pirate Bay. The US embassy in Phnom Penh would neither confirm nor deny these assertions.”
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Just to ask. Does anyone think that Sweden will be richly rewarded, by their unoffficial ally for services rendered?
It would almost appear as if these governments are colluding with one another.
Should Swedish police raid against Wikileaks ISP site in Stockholm be moved to another thread? Don’t want to distract from Afghan thread. Opinions?
How this got out is still not clear but if Glen Greenwald is writing about it, then someone solid has rang to him privately. And he is headlining it, apparently.
swedenvsassange@swedenvsassange
“now we have a case that confirms exactly those claims about Sweden’s justice system”: #Piratebay #Svartholm Right link http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/01/wikileaks-sweden-pirate-bay …
Sweden detains Pirate Bay founder in oppressive conditions without…
Glenn Greenwald: The case underscores the prime fear long expressed by Assange supporters about the Swedish justice system
The Guardian@guardian
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You can be held 36 hours without being charged. No bail in Sweden. But a weak case can lead to release at first “häktnings” hearing.
Every American should be ashamed of this…. You’re all paying for it! And for what benifit? NONE at ALL…………..
Wikipedia’s ISP host raided now.
http://www.cyberwarzone.com/piratebay-isp-owned-piratebay-founder-being-raided-police
PS They were raided before in 2006 for hosting Pirate Bay.
The Guardian is a far better news source than CNN. We might get out of Afghanistan sooner than planned. This is a brand new story in The Guardian today:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/01/nato-forces-afghanistan-early-retreat
OS,
Great! Just my taste. Beats the hell out of marching music–no disparaging our soldiers meant. Only to thosw who pay the piper.
Guess who collected the data originally. Our folks did, with MPS accuracy, daily.
Ismael Jones last op was as a volunteer, the only one of eight “volunteers” who actually went to Iraq.
His main thrust was to do tactical help to the troops. Using Iraqi agents, equipped with MPS or his own, IED placements were “collected” and sent to the Army for “defusing” His cultural knowledge and adaptable arabic, quarter for quarter (yeah, true) gave great results. The highest info giver around the world in volume of reports. But it waa a team effort. Just being there could get you killed. On the street or in your bunk in a trailer with eight other guys when a rocket goes through just under the roof without exploding. Canteloupe sized hole.