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Answering Obama’s Afghanistan deceptions
4 hours ago ago from Dr Nasir Khan
Eric Ruder, Socialist Worker , December 8, 2009 Barack Obama's December 1 nationally televised address to announce a further escalation of 30,000 troops to Afghanistan cemented his role as a war president who bears responsibility for the U.S. war on that country. It also marked Obama's assumption of the task of providing the justifications, alibis and obfuscations needed to cloak U.S. military aims in an aura of legitimacy. Eric ...
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14 hours ago ago from Today News From Pakistan
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says he needed to set a deadline to start withdrawing U.S. forces so the Afghans wouldn't assume their country would be "a permanent protectorate" of the United States. Obama told CBS's " 60 Minutes " that his decision to start bringing forces home by July 2011 was a signal the United States would not protect the country forever. Obama has said the U.S. commitment to Afghanistan is not ...
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23 hours ago ago from Maiz Centeotl Chicomecoatl
The Peace Candidate Myth By WILLIAM BLUM CounterPunch All the crying from the left about how Obama "the peace candidate" has now become "a war president" ... Whatever are they talking about? Here's what I wrote in this report in August 2008, during the election campaign: We find Obama threatening, several times, to attack Iran if they don't do what the United States wants them to do nuclear-wise; threatening more than once to attack ...
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4 hours ago ago from TruthNews.us
Tom Engelhardt Campaign For Liberty Fri day, Dec 11th, 2009 In his Afghan speech at West Point last week, President Obama offered Americans some specifics to back up his new way forward in Afghanistan. He spoke of the additional 30,000 U.S. troops he was sending into that country over the next six months. He brought up the roughly $30 billion it would cost us to get them there and support them for a year. And finally, he spoke of ...
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23 hours ago ago from Pakistan Politics
Interviewee: Robert E. Hunter, Senior Advisor, RAND Corporation Interviewer: Bernard Gwertzman , Consulting Editor, CFR.org Former U.S. ambassador to NATO Robert E. Hunter says that the NATO alliance is under pressure from the United States to increase force levels in Afghanistan. He says that very few European countries believe that prevailing in Afghanistan "is necessary for their own security," but they go along with Washington ...
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Obama Says Afghanistan Not US 'Protectorate' : NPR
3 hours ago ago from NPR
Search hear continuous streams 24-Hour Program Stream NPR News and Shows hear the latest news [4 min 45 sec] Latest NPR Newscast Obama Says Afghanistan Not US 'Protectorate' by The Associated Press Enlarge Associated Press President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama return to the ...
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Search hear continuous streams 24-Hour Program Stream NPR News and Shows hear the latest news [4 min 45 sec] Latest NPR Newscast Afghanistan Unveiled In Three Eye-Opening Accounts by Nadeem Aslam December 9, 2009 [3 min 51 sec] text size A A A ...
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13 hours ago ago from FOX News
U.S. Marines Train Illiterate Farmers to Be Police Friday, December 11, 2009 Print AP Dec. 8: An Afghan police trainee from the U.S. Marine police mentoring program searches an Afghan man at a checkpoint. KHAN NESHIN, Afghanistan The U.S. Marines were tense looking for bombs buried near a mud compound in this remote farming town in southern Afghanistan. Their new Afghan police colleagues were little help, joking around and sucking ...
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7 hours ago ago from U.S. News
NATO officials: Russian should give Afghan arms BRUSSELS (AP) -- NATO plans to ask Russia to contribute more to the escalating Afghan war by donating AK-47 assault rifles, grenade launchers, artillery, armored vehicles and other weapons to the expanding Afghan army, officials said Friday. New NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen starts his first visit to Moscow on Tuesday and will focus on Afghanistan in meetings with President Dmitry Medvedev ...
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