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 > at http://www.peaceteam.net/out.htm > > usalone340b:73695 > _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. 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