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Veterans Speak Out on Afghanistan
On Tuesday, John Nichols told us that the dire jobs situation in the U.S. has had an effect on the debate surrounding escalation in Afghanistan, and that the administration is actually meeting with peace groups for the first time to discuss alternate plans.
Brave New Films has been a tireless advocate against escalation, with the film Rethink Afghanistan exploring the problems there and proposing peaceful and diplomatic solutions and a responsible exit strategy. With this video, they bring together U.S. military veterans, including Matthew Hoh, to ask Obama not to send more troops to continue a war that is on its way to being America's longest in history.
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American media is carefully parsed, Matthew Hoh’s critique barely rippled the surface and Peter Galbraith’s only because he was famous, and played as a bru-ha-ha between Ban Ki-, Peter, and Hillary, rather than articulation of the US:ISAF support-at-any-cost ‘certified and legitimated’ Karzai policy.
NOT ONE WORD about the organized expropriation of Afghan natural resources, begun right after Tora Bora by the World Bank and Cheney Energy Policy Committee IN ENGLISH, and proceeding to orderly private auctions of all the Afghan oil & gas during the publicized August Afghan elections.
NOT ONE WORD, as $100Bs and Afghanistan’s 100-year energy future stolen in plain daylight: http://afghanistanpetroleum.com
By chipher on November 21st, 2009 at 12:57 am