So what "unforeseen event" is going to buffalo the Congress to pass the DRAFT LEGISLATION that is sitting in committee, waiting, readers?
Parents, please tell your children you love them before the government takes them away to fight for Iz-ray-HELL!!!!
"Gates Seeks European Troops for Afghanistan" by Peter Finn, Washington Post | October 9, 2008
OHRID, Macedonia, Oct. 8 -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Wednesday asked defense ministers from southeastern Europe to send more troops to Afghanistan, a message that he is likely to forcefully echo at a meeting with other NATO defense officials this week.
This as European nations are wanting to LEAVE!
See: British Say We Can't Win in Afghanistan
French army chief rules out military victory in Afghanistan
Truce Talks With Taliban Underway in Saudi Arabia
FYI, readers: Gates ain't leaving even if Obama is elected:
Meet President McBamaBush
Just ONE MORE REASON to vote THIRD PARTY!!!
"As the situation on the ground in Iraq continues to improve, I urge you to consider sending your military forces to Afghanistan, where there is an urgent need for trainers as they expand their army," Gates said at a meeting of the South-Eastern Europe Defense Ministerial, a 12-member organization composed of NATO members and countries such as Macedonia that want to join the military alliance.
"Your assistance will not only help Afghanistan better protect and care for its citizens but will also reinforce your important role in ensuring peace and stability around the globe," he said.
The U.S. commander in Afghanistan has said he needs three more brigades -- 10,000 to 12,000 more troops -- to confront a resurgent Taliban and a general deterioration in security. --more--"
Those are going to be YOUR SONS and DAUGHTERS, AmeriKa!!!!
And WHO will they be fighting?
"Something of a catchall term for loosely affiliated insurgents without a singular command structure. Often, the Afghan government favors the phrase 'enemies of the state' (New York Times July 24, 2007)."
"The Taliban is growing and creating new alliances not because its sectarian religious practices have become popular, but because it is the only available umbrella for national liberation," says Pakistani historian and political commentator Tariq Ali. "As the British and the Soviets discovered to their cost in the preceding two centuries, Afghans never like being occupied."
"More and more, people here look back to the era of harsh Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001, describing it as a time of security and peace"
Also see: Afghanistan's Other Government
Btw, WHO helped set up the Taliban, anyway:
"The U.S. government was well aware of the Taliban's reactionary program, yet it chose to back their rise to power in the mid-1990s. The creation of the Taliban was "actively encouraged by the ISI and the CIA," according to Selig Harrison, an expert on U.S. relations with Asia. "The United States encouraged Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to support the Taliban, certainly right up to their advance on Kabul," adds respected journalist Ahmed Rashid. When the Taliban took power, State Department spokesperson Glyn Davies said that he saw "nothing objectionable" in the Taliban's plans to impose strict Islamic law, and Senator Hank Brown, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia, welcomed the new regime: "The good part of what has happened is that one of the factions at last seems capable of developing a new government in Afghanistan." "The Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis. There will be Aramco [the consortium of oil companies that controlled Saudi oil], pipelines, an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that," said another U.S. diplomat in 1997."
Well, well, well, isn't that something, Amurka?
Here is the hell hole your kids will be sent to:
WASHINGTON - A draft report by American intelligence agencies concludes that Afghanistan is in a "downward spiral" and casts serious doubt on the ability of the Afghan government to stem the rise in the Taliban's influence there, according to American officials familiar with the document.
Translation: WE NEED a DRAFT!
And WTF? I was TOLD for EIGHT FUCKING YEARS we were WINNING?
The classified report finds that the breakdown in central authority in Afghanistan has been accelerated by rampant corruption within the government of President Hamid Karzai.
I hate being right all the time: U.S. Warns Karzai of Coup
The report, a nearly completed version of a National Intelligence Estimate, is set to be finished after the November elections.
How come the New York Times has to LIE all the time?
See: Bush Suppresses Afghanistan Report
Beyond the cross-border attacks launched by militants in neighboring Pakistan, the intelligence report asserts that many of Afghanistan's most vexing problems are of the country's own making, the officials said. --more--"
That is FUCKING DISGUSTING!!!!!!
Our MASS-MURDERING CARNAGE based upon that DAMNABLE INSIDE JOB of 9/11 is THEIR FAULT?!
FUCK YOU, Jew York Times and AmeriKan government!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, the DRAFT must be REAL CLOSE!
After the MARTIAL LAW DECLARATION, readers?
