What about that "other" war we "won"??

[SoCalDem]

http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?j84596803&w=2243491



Over 50 Die in Day of Afghan Violence

By AMY WALDMAN

ABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 13 — the most violent 24-hour period in Afghanistan in nearly a year,people, including 6 children, were killed when a bomb exploded on their bus in southern Afghanistan. More than 40 others were killed today in fighting in the country's east and south.

The bomb exploded in Helmand Province aboard a bus headed for the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, according to wire reports. It was the deadliest such attack since a bomb exploded in Kabul last September, killing 35 people. The bombing in Helmand and a series of other attacks today, on top of other recent setbacks, allave notice to the American-backed government of the growing threat to the nation's stability.

In the east, suspected iban guerrillas attacked government soldiers in the province of Khost, about four miles from the border with Pakistan,e Tuesday night. Fifteen attackers were killed, as were five government soldiers, according to a spokesman for the provincial governor quoted by The Associated Press.

A local commander said that government troops had captured one Pakistani guerrilla and one Arab whose nationality was unknown.han officials have accused Pakistan of allowing Taliban insurgents to operate unimpeded and to make forays into Afghanistan.


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[Rhiannon12866]

1. Thank you for posting this. We are meant to forget about

Afghanistan, even though this is the actual ``war on terror.'' Americans are still fighting and dying there; Osama bin Laden is still at large. However, we are meant to replace him, in our minds, with Saddam Hussein, though the two have nothing in common. Who will be next?

We still have American troops fighting or trying to keep a tenuous peace in Bosnia and Kosovo. How soon we forget.

Thanks for posting this. You should e-mail this article to George Bush*, who seems to have forgotten, as well.:-(

[izzie]

2. Is not this odd that this war just dropped off the map?

Bush really did well as he got half the people to believe Iraq sent the men to take over the planes. I just do not see how he did that.We really must keep the arms busnesses going spicially since his family make so much money out of it.Money from death. Great business for the GOP. My poor father would turn in his grave to see what his party has come to.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. I watched it happen and couldn't believe it

In one speech he made, Bush* used the phrases Saddam and 9/11 in the same sentence, encouraging his listeners to make the leap. He got away with this, so began actually saying that Saddam was responsible for 9/11. No one called him on it. Bringing down Saddam has long been the intention of people like Wolfowitz, but they needed a warmonger like Bush* in office to carry out their agenda.

I blame the American media. The press needs to challenge these outrageous statements. It is their business to keep up to speed on these things, so they certainly know that what Bush* is saying has no basis in fact. Because he is unchallenged when he makes these statements, the American public believes them. The majority of Americans support Bush*s illegal and bloody war because 9/11 terrified them and they think that bringing down Saddam will make them safer. We were told that he was an ``imminent threat.'' Bush* needs to be called on these lies. I was glad to hear several of the Democratic candidates saying just this in the recent forum in Philadelphia. They need to keep saying it until the American public catches on.

General Wesley Clark said, on Meet the Press back in June that he was contacted by the White House, on 9/11, to publicly connect Saddam Hussein to those horrific events. He asked for evidence that this was true. He never received any. Here is a link to Gen. Clark's statements. This is a Truthout ediitorial from DU's own Will Pitt. He gets to Gen. Clark's Meet the Press statements about halfway through the article, which, BTW, is an excellent read, like all that Will has written.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/062303A.shtml

I agree. It is also about money. The Carlyle Group stands to make a great deal from this war. I am sorry about your dad. My dad was a lifelong Republican, but he was also an intelligent man and I like to think that he would not have been bamboozled by Bush* and his lies.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Warlords instead of the Taliban

It seems the rosy picture of "liberation" peddled by the administration have disappeared. Having served it's purpose of making the fratboy's jock strap appear larger, it's now forgotten. As usual, the mainstream media has moved on to more important subjects like the threat of toenail fungus or whether Ahhnuld will have to give up making all those memorable movies.