Stopping the missile attacks and raids would be a good start, sir.
"Exit a part of Obama's Afghanistan plan" by Associated Press | March 23, 2009
WASHINGTON - A comprehensive strategy in Afghanistan - including an exit plan - is key to America's "number one mission" of preventing an attack on the United States, its interests or its allies, President Obama said in an interview broadcast yesterday.
He just insists on keeping that fraudulent lie going.
"What we can't do is think that just a military approach in Afghanistan is going to be able to solve our problems," the president said on CBS's "60 Minutes." "So what we're looking for is a comprehensive strategy. And there's got to be an exit strategy. There's got to be a sense that this is not perpetual drift."
Yeah, TURN AROUND, APOLOGIZE to them, and LEAVE!!!!
STOP KILLING THEM!!!!
Obama's comments were a prelude to a revamped plan for fighting insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which is expected to be announced this week. On Friday, a military official said the overhauled US strategy would call for new garrisons in far-flung Afghan communities to better hold off the Taliban.
Obama's plan covers the next three to five years, with the goals of containing the insurgency and providing enough security for Afghan citizens that they reject the insurgents of their own accord, the official said Friday. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the review was not complete.
In the CBS interview, Obama warned that Afghanistan would be "a tough nut to crack," citing difficult terrain, poor infrastructure, and destabilizing border issues with Pakistan.
We've been there EIGHT LONG YEARS!! They ain't gonna crack, so let's come home and stop kiling innocent people.
In the interview, Obama said the most difficult decision he has had to make in his two-month-old presidency was to send more troops to Afghanistan, which he decided before completion of a strategic review on the region.
"When I make a decision to send 17,000 young Americans to Afghanistan, you can understand that intellectually, but understanding what that means for those families, for those young people when you end up sitting at your desk, signing a condolence letter to one of the family members of a fallen hero, you're reminded each and every day at every moment that the decisions you make count."Then WHY DID YOU SEND THEM THERE based on a LIE?
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And expect to see (or not, knowing the AmeriKan MSM) a lot more of this:
"Predawn raid kills 5 militants, US military says; Afghan officials dispute account; Mayor: Staff, guests killed" by Abdul Waheed Wafa and Carlotta Gall, New York Times | March 23, 2009
KABUL, Afghanistan - A predawn raid by US Special Forces that killed five people yesterday in the northern province of Kunduz has once more produced conflicting accounts from the US military and local Afghan officials as to whether the dead were civilians or militants.
The US military said in a statement that its forces killed five militants and detained four suspects in an operation against a "terrorist network" near the Afghan-Tajikistan border. Local officials said that those killed were not militants and that the house raided belonged to the mayor of the town of Imam Sahib. The military statement also said the operation was coordinated with the local Afghan police, but the provincial police chief, General Abdul Razaq Yaqoubi, denied that he was given any information about it.
"I was not aware of the operation, nor was the governor, nor was the head of intelligence," Yaqoubi said. He said the US unit that conducted the raid had called the police chief of Imab Sahib when it started the operation and specifically told the police not to go to the area.
You think I believe the lying U.S. military about anything anymore?
They can thank Bush for that!
The US military statement said that when Afghan and coalition forces assaulted the compound they "encountered enemy combatants in the courtyard."
"One militant was killed, and one surrendered and was detained," the statement said. "When the forces called out for noncombatants to exit buildings in the compound, they were engaged with small arms fire. Forces returned fire and cleared the buildings on the compound, resulting in four militants killed and three suspected militants detained."
The military found AK-47 rifles in the compound, the statement added. No women or children were present, it said.
See: Asymmetrical Warfare Group
We clear?
Yaqoubi confirmed that the compound belonged to Mayor Abdul Manan. "The targeted house belongs to the mayor of Imam Sahib, and those who were killed are his driver, his cook, his bodyguard and two of the guests," he said. He said that he did not know who the four detained suspects were and that an investigation was underway.
So WE KILLED OUR OWN GUYS, huh?
Manan told the Associated Press that he was hunkered down in a room with his wife and children and had no contact with the troops during the raid. He said the helicopter-borne forces had blown open the gates of his compound.
The mayor is a well-known former mujahedeen commander, and was a member of Jamiat-i-Islami, the anti-Taliban faction that supported the US intervention in 2001, Yaqoubi said.
Yup, ONE OF OURS!! Great going, 'bamer!
German troops, as part of the NATO force, are responsible for security in the northern provinces of Kunduz, Takhar and Badakhshan, but US Special Forces have a base on the border with Tajikistan at Imam Sahib. The area is largely peaceful, although there have been occasional bomb attacks on German forces based in Kunduz.
Yup, LARGELY PEACEFUL until WE GET IN THERE!!!
The dispute over the raid comes after repeated complaints from President Hamid Karzai and provincial Afghan officials about the high civilian toll from, and public furor over, US-led counterterrorism operations, in particular overnight raids on houses and villages.
That's why you get this: US will appoint Afghan 'prime minister' to bypass Hamid Karzai
So much for democracy, 'eh?
Special Forces operations were halted in Afghanistan for two weeks in February to allow commanders to impose new safeguards intended to reduce the risk of civilian deaths, officials said. The US military spokesman here could not be reached for comment on the conflicting accounts of the raid....
Pffft!
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And LET'S ADD MORE INSULT to INJURY, 'eh?
"Strike in Helmand killed top Taliban figure, NATO says; 8 Afghan police die as violence surges in south" by Sebastian Abbot, Associated Press | March 24, 2009
KABUL - NATO troops killed a senior Taliban commander and nine other militants in southern Afghanistan, officials said yesterday, striking a blow in the group's heartland where the United States plans to send thousands of additional troops to stem the growing violence.
The thumping you hear is George Orwell turning in his coffin.
Over a dozen Afghan and coalition forces have been killed in the south in recent days, including eight Afghan police who were killed by Taliban fighters yesterday in Kandahar province.
Yeah, SCREW the CIVILIANS the COALITION is WASTING!!!! See why I'm sick of war prop?
US-led forces toppled the Taliban government in 2001, but many of the militants fled south and east to Pakistan where they have been launching cross-border attacks into Afghanistan alongside Al Qaeda.... Senior Taliban commander Maulawi Hassan and his associates were killed Saturday when NATO troops attacked an isolated compound in southern Helmand province, NATO said in a statement, adding that there were no civilians involved.
That's what the LYING OCCUPIERS SAY!
"Maulawi Hassan was a senior insurgent figure in northern Helmand, and his influence extended into western Oruzgan," the statement said. Afghan forces have also stepped up their operations against militants in the south.
Yesterday, Afghan police and intelligence agents detained five Taliban militants in Oruzgan, including the group's senior commander for the province, Mullah Azizullah, said police officer Wali Jan. The militants were stopped in Arzo district while driving from the city of Quetta in neighboring Pakistan, Jan said.
See: Preparing Pakistan For Occupation
Quetta is believed to be a safe haven for many senior Taliban leaders, including the group's supreme leader, Mullah Omar, according to Afghan officials. Pakistan denies the claim and says Omar is in Afghanistan.
The eight Afghan police who were killed yesterday were ambushed by Taliban fighters while on patrol in southern Kandahar province's Spin Boldak district, said Sahib Jan, a police officer. The attack also wounded one policeman, he said.
On Sunday, a rocket slammed into the main NATO military base in the south, killing a contractor and wounding six others. Two NATO soldiers also were killed Sunday in a "hostile incident" in the south, a third NATO statement said, without releasing the soldiers' nationalities or the exact location of the attack....
Meanwhile, the UN Security Council voted unanimously yesterday to extend the UN mission in Afghanistan for a year with a mandate to lead international civilian efforts to provide aid, promote reconstruction, combat corruption and help improve civilian-military cooperation.
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Afghan villagers in an opium poppy-growing region of southwest Afghanistan spoke yesterday with a counter-intelligence Marine seeking information to thwart Taliban attacks on US forces. (John Moore/ Getty Images)
Like this next guy (otherwise, the war-promoting, cover-up paper wouldn't treat him so well):
"Small Pakistan village pays a price for defying rebels; Courageous few make a stand against terror" by Pamela Constable, Washington Post | March 24, 2009
BAZITKHEL, Pakistan - .... It is also widely believed here, though the government denies it, that Pakistani intelligence agencies covertly aid the insurgents to create trouble for next-door Afghanistan.... --more--"
Oh, YA THINK? Why they leave the CIA CASE DIRECTOR OUT?
"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."
Oh, yeah, and about the TALIBAN:
"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."
Also see: Afghanistan's Other Government
And today, readers?
"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."
Oh, oh, oh!!!! I'm so offended by the AmeriKan MSM and its bullshit!
Also see: How I Came to Love the Veil
And consider this:
"They sat in one girl’s home telling their story, their faces uncovered only because no man was present. But when Mohammed Matloob, the father of one of the girls, walked into the room, the other three quickly pulled their head scarves over their faces. His daughter, Nagina, 16, ordered him to leave the room, which he did, with a surprised shrug."
Aren't the children beautiful?
Oh, what LIES we have been told about Muslims by our Muslim-hating Zionist AmeriKan MSM, Americans!!!!!!
Honestly, I'm tired of the MSM lying? Aren't you, AmeriKa?
Also see: I Don't Want to Kill Them Anymore
The Children of Afghanistan
The Uncomfortable Others
