Afghanistan: a fucking joke

[Darth Rock&Roll]

true...true

[Michael]

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are pretty much the same as the one we had in Vietnam.

[Andy_S]

Good points - though I have to say the CGI for both Osama and 9/11 were not done very convincingly. Hollywood would have done a better job, surely? Ah well, probably too expensive.

Thanks for cluing us in on the war, Mike. As you can see, with the depleted uranium, ther IS long-term strategy: We will kill all the terrorists and the bad boys (the non-CGI ones, that is) in about 300 years.

Victory!

[Darthwing Teorist]

The spice must flow.

S

Shawn controls t3h correct.

[Chris McKinley]

It's kinda sad....there's nowhere near enough people dead from this little jaunt.

[Darthwing Teorist]

It's kinda sad....there's nowhere near enough people dead from this little jaunt.

My point was that there was a reason why US went in. Now, that reason may not be true, but it was the most legitimate of the "Wars on Terror". However, now US pulling out leaves Afghanistan almost in the hands of the Taliban. In a few years it may go back to what it was before. Therefore all the dead and suffering have been needless.

All this means that the official reason (getting Bin Laden, Al-Qaida and the awful Talibans) was not the real objective. The neocons don't give a shit that the whole thing is so transparent.

[Chris McKinley]

Hmm....I can't answer for neocons, since I'm an old con myself, though no one (outside of the victims of 9/11 and the Afghanis themselves) would feel more betrayed if we handed anything back to the Taliban than true Conservatives, who lent Dubya their support and goodwill for going into Afghanistan in the first place.

[zenshiite]

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are pretty much the same as the one we had in Vietnam: the primary motivation is making money. The politicians buy into it in the beginning because it ups their ratings temporarily. The soldiers in Afghanistan are guarding poppy fields, heroin production is at record levels. Hamid Karzai was a Conoco consultant and opium magnate for the whole damn country before the war. In Iraq, you got Bechtel, Halliburton, and Blackwater, plus many others, raking in tha cash, all while trillions of dollars are going missing from the Pentagon, and that's ON TOP OF the no-bid contracts for neo-con insiders.

The wars are not being mis-managed. They are being handled in a way that is most profitable for a select group of people at the expense of the lives of millions of others, just like in Vietnam.

The secondary motivation is depopulation. In addition to millions killed by bombs and bullets, in Vietnam there was Agent Orange (dioxin) lingering for over a hundred years. In Iraq and Afghanistan (as well as Serbia), there are uranium munitions (so-called depleted uranium) lingering with a 4 billion year half life, permanently contaminating large areas, destroying the DNA and health of Iraqi and Americans exposed to it, and spreading through the wind across the globe upping diabetes rates worldwide.

The wars make perfect sense when you have the "correct" perspective.

Did you hear about that US Major General that raked in something like $9 million in bribes from corps like Halliburton in Iraq?

[Michael]

I didn't specifically catch that one, but what I've heard is that such bribery is common place in Iraq.

[Chanchu]

http://www.militarycorruption.com/

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