"Gates says more civilians are needed in Afghanistan" by Kevin Maurer, Associated Press | April 24, 2009
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Defense Secretary Robert Gates yesterday told Marines being deployed to Afghanistan that a US victory there would look similar to progress in Iraq, but he cautioned that more civilians with skills beyond the battlefield will be needed....
He said he is asking for volunteers who have specific skills "who might serve as a bridge, getting them out of there quickly, and then bringing them back when their civilian replacements are hired."
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Good thing we got the Kennedy Draft Act in place, huh, kids?
Also see: Eye on Afghanistan: Why We Must Stay
"President signs $5.7 billion measure to boost volunteerism; Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act expands 16-year-old AmeriCorps" by Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | April 22, 2009
WASHINGTON - Honoring the call to service made by both President John F. Kennedy and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, President Obama yesterday signed a broad national service bill meant to encourage Americans - from grade schoolers to retirees - to volunteer to help their fellow Americans.
"We need your service right now, at this moment in history. I'm not going to tell you what your role should be; that's for you to discover. But I'm asking you to stand up and play your part," Obama, flanked by a hale-looking Kennedy, told a VIP-packed room at the SEED public boarding school in Southeast Washington, where he signed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act.
"I want all Americans to take up that spirit of the man for whom this bill is named; of a president who sent us to the moon; of a dreamer who always asked 'Why not?'; of a younger generation that carries the torch of a single family that has made an immeasurable difference in the lives of countless families," Obama said.
Kennedy - his voice trembling slightly but showing little physical strain for a man diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor last spring - welcomed a hug from Obama and likened the moment to the day in 1966 when he greeted the first team of Peace Corps volunteers sent abroad by his brother.
Maybe the intentions were good once, but now.... The Peaceful Agents of the New World Order
"Today, another young president has challenged another generation to give back to this nation," the Massachusetts Democrat said. "Mr. President . . . You have walked the walk - and today, you pave the way for others," Kennedy said, answering a cheer from the crowd with a jubilant pumping of his fist.
The law dedicates $5.7 billion over five years to encourage volunteerism, including providing $500 summer scholarships to middle school and high school students and granting $1,000 educational stipends to older volunteers, who could pass the cash on to their children, grandchildren, or another young person.
Further, the law vastly expands AmeriCorps, putting the 16-year-old domestic volunteer program on track to increase from its current level of 75,000 volunteers to 250,000. Those volunteers - who receive a living allowance of about $12,000 for 10 to 12 months of work - would staff programs for poor people, veterans, the environment, healthcare, and education.
Well, not in Boston.
The legislation creates the legal framework for the program, which has substantial bipartisan support. But Congress must still appropriate the money.... The director of the White House domestic policy council, Melody Barnes, a former longtime aide to Kennedy, said she was very hopeful the White House would secure the $1.1 billion Obama requested for the first year of the program.
Supporters said the program answers a historic shift, especially among young people, toward volunteerism. People in their 20s are displaying an interest in public service common in history after an era of affluence, said Morley Winograd, a fellow at NDN, a Democratic group, and coauthor of a book on the generation.
Alan Solomont, a former Boston community organizer who is a Democratic fund-raiser and chairman of the Corporation for National and Community Service, said federal and private volunteer agencies have been inundated with more applications than they can handle. In March, the corporation received 17,038 online AmeriCorps applications, nearly triple the 6,770 received a year earlier.
"It isn't that Washington is imposing this on America. What's happening is that Washington is trying to keep up with America," said Solomont, whose group will implement the new national service law.
Yesterday's event was a big legislative victory for the ailing Kennedy, who wrote the bill with Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch last year and got it passed and signed into law quickly. But it also was a personal day of celebration for Kennedy's family, colleagues, and friends - including former President Bill Clinton, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
While Kennedy has continued to work on legislation - focusing on a healthcare bill - he has largely stayed away from public events since he became ill. "I'm so happy," Kennedy's niece, Caroline Kennedy, said as she left the event. "He's waited so long for this day."
--more--"Yeah, yeah, I know it all sounds good; however, I no longer trust his government or agenda-pushing MSM! If it is being promoted in the paper, it is bad.
Update:
What the kiddies will be headed into and what the Globe so dutifully and consistently conceals:
"5 officers killed in compound attack
KANDAHAR - Three Taliban suicide bombers evaded tight security to attack a governor's compound in southern Afghanistan, killing at least five police officers yesterday, authorities said.
Yeah, never mind that there is no such tradition amongst the Pashtuns on both sides of that artificial line the British drew up until "Al-CIA-Duh" and Tim Osman, CIA agent, oh, I mean bin Laden the "terrorist" showed up. Ready for some more stench?
The three bombers were able to get past a first security checkpoint, and one set off his explosives at a second checkpoint, said Ahmad Wali Karzai, the president's brother and the head of the provincial council. Two other bombers moved deeper into the compound before police fired on them and their explosives detonated, Karzai said. At least five police died in the attack and nine people were wounded, hospital officials said. The Kandahar governor was not harmed. Officials were searching for a possible fourth suicide bomber, Karzai said.
Well, he shouldn't be too hard to find. Just look for a blown up dead guy, right?
Pffft!
A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, claimed responsibility for the attack (AP)."
Or so claims the lying, war-promoting, Muslim-hating, Zionist propaganda organ I call a Sunday Globe.
Of course, no mention of this item my local WASP-owned (although still subservient to the chosen cause as all AmeriKa's jewspapers are) War Daily carries in the Boston Sunday Globe (and they can't not know, readers; they pick up enough WaPo stories).
"Taliban bar Pakistan army convoy as tension grows
ISLAMABAD -- Taliban gunmen stopped an army convoy from entering their valley stronghold Saturday, casting a U.S.-criticized peace deal back into doubt a day after the militants called off a move closer to the Pakistani capital.
About 50 militants blocked the main road leading into the northwestern valley of Swat, halting a column of six army trucks and two jeeps, Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan said. The vehicles were carrying extra troops as well as supplies, in violation of the peace accord, Khan told The Associated Press by telephone.
Of course, U.S. PUPPET GOVERNMENTS and USrael itself are allowed to violate peace all the time without being called "terrorists," etc, etc. Can you tell I'm sick of the shit-shovel of AmeriKa's jewspapers?
Sorry to put it that way, but explore the blog a bit. Find out how a faithful reader of the Boston Globe (not for much longer) documented their endless and sometimes seemingly innocuous cover-ups. Go ahead; I'll wait for you.
A military official confirmed the incident and said the convoy returned to the nearby town of Bari Kot. He declined to give details and spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss it publicly....
You know what? I'm just glad NO ONE was KILLED TODAY (if indeed no one was killed; I hardly expect this shit sheet in front of me to tell) because NO MATTER WHOM THEY ARE they are ALL INNOCENT of that 9/11 FRAME-UP INSIDE JOB by CIA, Mossad, and various other levels of certain (primarily U.S., British, and Israeli) governments.
U.S. officials and many Pakistani critics view the pact as a capitulation before extremists who have beheaded opponents, burned girls schools and said they would welcome and protect Osama bin Laden. It also grants the militants effective immunity from prosecution.
Isn't that just a SPLENDID PIECE of SHIT JEW PROPAGANDA?
They MAKE ME DO IT! Take a GOOD, LONG LOOK, dammit!!!!!!!!!!
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?
Tomas Munita for The New York Times Hameeda Sarfraz, in the dark burqa, teaches Islamic religious lessons to children in her village, about 50 miles north of Islamabad, Pakistan.
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
Are you sick of half-truths and Muslim-hating lies from your jewspapers yet, America?
"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."
We can "LIVE WITH THAT?"
Yeah, kinda like the way the keep "Al-CIA-Duh going!!!!
F***ing MSM whores and liars!!!!!!!!!!
And on that last one, is that like the immunity Obama gave to torturers, s*** press?
Hello, you there? Yeah, yu-huh! Sigh!!!!
Western officials worry that Swat could turn into an expanding haven for al-Qaida allies. The trouble also diverts Pakistan from tackling more established militant sanctuaries closer to the Afghan border....
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I really can't take the propaganda anymore, readers.
See: The Boston Globe Knows About "Al-CIA-Duh"
Naivete or Disingenuousness?
Which means this is ALL GARBAGE and THEY KNOW IT!!!
