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Is David Petraeus a "Lying Liar" About the Drawdown?

Robert Naiman, Truthout: "'Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them' was former non-Sen. Al Franken's 2003 examination of the lies and distortions of right-wing pundits and politicians. Such a book, if it were written today, should certainly include a fair and balanced look at some of the lying liars still running our foreign policy: in particular, at Mr. David Petraeus."

http://www.truth-out.org/is-david-petraeus-a-lying-liar-about-drawdown62469



From Churchill to Petraeus

Michael N. Nagler, Truthout: "'I have not become her Majesty's first minister to preside over the dissolution of the British Empire.' It was hard not to remember this proud declaration of Winston Churchill, as wrong headed as it was confident, when General Petraeus argued last Sunday that he had 'not come to Afghanistan to preside over a graceful exit.' Can we, unlike many, unfortunately, who will be persuaded by his reasons to delay withdrawing troops from Afghanistan until the 'job' is done, draw some lessons from the instructive parallel?"

http://www.truth-out.org/from-churchill-petraeus62576



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Why the US empire will never conquer Afghanistan

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

08/17/10

Consider what happened to a man named Sayid Arif, who was apparently working for the Afghan government. They yanked him from his car and just shot him, leaving him with a note on his chest that said, ‘This is punishment’ for anyone working for the government. Or consider what happened to Khairullah, a young man kidnapped by the Taliban...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-08-17.asp


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The Afghan president, has given private security firms working in Afghanistan four months to end their operations.

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Afghan private security ban: Join police, or stay inside compounds

Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai issued a decree Tuesday formalizing a four-month deadline for private security companies to disband - a move likely to dismay NATO and the U.S. military that rely on such firms to protect convoys and bases.

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Karzai's "impossible" decree

A push to oust private security firms from Afghanistan puts "fear of god" into foreign forces.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/afghanistan/100817/karzai-private-security-afghan-war


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575. That's how many U.S. soldiers have lost their lives in the Afghanistan war since Barack Obama became President . 575 is also the number of U.S. soldiers who lost their lives in the Afghanistan war during the Presidency of George W. Bush.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/by-us-deaths-as-of-today_b_683441.html


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Why Petraeus Can't Make The Sale

By Dan Froomkin

As Gen. David Petraeus kicks off an extended media blitz intended to make Americans feel better about the war in Afghanistan -- or at least give him some more time to fight it -- he faces a foe more implacable than al Qaeda, or even the Taliban: Reality.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26162.htm



Why Is The US Fighting a War In Afghanistan?

Video Interview

Zbigniew Brzezinski on Afghanistan and the American strategy for Eurasia and the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26163.htm

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Gen. Petraeus Goes to Media War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/16

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Petraeus Media Blitz
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/08/16-6

Gen. Petreaus' Nation Building Media Tour
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/17-9

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Petraeus Indicates He'll Delay Afghanistan Drawdown Deadline

Ben Arnoldy, The Christian Science Monitor: "With the number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan surpassing 2,000 this weekend, what does the road ahead in Afghanistan look like? The tally - now at 2,002 - comes from the independent iCasualties.org website. It includes 1,227 Americans, 331 Britons, 151 Canadians, and 45 French."

http://www.truth-out.org/petraeus-indicates-hell-delay-afghanistan-drawdown-deadline62352

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How the US created al Qaeda
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/915.html



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NATO acknowledged on Sunday that five Afghan civilians appeared to have been killed by one of its air strikes. The strike was carried out on Thursday.

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Media Failing to Ask Tough Questions on Afghanistan War Again

General Petraeus is on a media tour to sell the idea that the U.S. military is "making progress" in Afghanistan, a well-worn message aimed at convincing elites to extend this brutal, futile war. So far, it looks like the mainstream media is buying it, hook, line, and sinker.

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Dion Nissenbaum, McClatchy Newspapers: "After months of deadly and often demoralizing fighting alongside mediocre Afghan forces in one of the Taliban's most intractable strongholds outside Kandahar city, the Americans in this Army company are asking themselves if it had been worth it. 'I'm ready to get out of here,' said Sgt. Joshua Middlebrook, 25, of Sanford, N.C., as the patrol made its way back to base after coming up dry in the search. 'I'm tired of picking up body parts.'"

http://www.truth-out.org/us-soldiers-missions-show-afghan-wars-uncertainties62309



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"What a beauty!" comments one of the soldiers when the building is blown to pieces in the 3-minute video, recorded by Polish soldiers from the Army's 6th rotation during their tour of duty between October 2009 and April 2010.

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Nicht nur das "Time Magazine" möchte uns glauben machen, dass es beim Einsatz am Hindukusch auch um die Rechte der Frauen geht. Das Leben der meisten Afghaninnen ist hart und so manches Schicksal tragisch. Doch die Anwesenheit der internationalen Truppen hilft ihnen nicht. Artikel von Barbara Vorsamer in der Süddeutschen Zeitung vom 11.08.2010 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/frauenrechte-in-afghanistan-ein-feigenblatt-fuer-den-krieg-1.986902

Aus dem Text: „Auf dem aktuellen Titel des US-Magazins Time prangt das Bild einer Frau ohne Nase. Daneben steht: Was passiert, wenn wir abziehen. Das ist ein einprägsames, emotionales und überzeugendes Argument für den Einsatz in Afghanistan. Allein: Es ist falsch. Bibi Aishas tragische Lebensgeschichte ereignete sich zwischen den Jahren 2003 und 2009 - zu einer Zeit, zu der die internationalen Truppen in Afghanistan waren. Kein Nato-Soldat hinderte die Taliban an ihrer grausamen Rechtsprechung. (...) Das Coverbild des Time Magazine hält Maaß in Verbindung mit der Aussage "Was passiert, wenn wir abziehen" für eine unzulässige Instrumentalisierung. Die Expertin betont: "Internationale Soldaten sind nicht nach Afghanistan geschickt worden, um Frauenrechte zu schützen." Im Afghanistankrieg werden Frauen als Feigenblatt missbraucht. Gekämpft wird nicht wegen ihnen - und auch nicht für sie.“

Siehe dazu:

Afghan Women and the Return of the Taliban - Was passiert, wenn wir abziehen

Gekürzte Version des Artikels von Aryn Baker aus dem Times Magazine vom 09.08.2010 http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2007238,00.html


Aus: LabourNet, 12. August 2010

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Afghan Women Have Already Been Abandoned

By Ann Jones

I know Bibi Aisha, the young Afghan woman pictured on the August 9 cover of Time, and I rejoice that her mutilated nose and ears are going to be surgically repaired. But the logic of those who use Aisha's story to convince us that the US military must stay in Afghanistan escapes me.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26181.htm

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Tales from the Northwest Frontier

AntiWar.Com
by Philip Giraldi

08/19/10

A recent example of a magnificently false and malicious narrative appeared in Time magazine, which featured a cover photo of an Afghan woman with her nose cut off. The magazine suggested that the United States has to remain in Afghanistan to prevent similar mutilations, a concept that is both breathtaking in its irrelevance and suggestive of borderline imbecility on the part of the magazine’s readers. Time‘s tale is a throwback to the days of the British Empire, the white man’s burden, a bizarre narrative in which America’s bold warriors are sacrificing their lives to protect the weak and helpless across the Khyber Pass and along the Northwest Frontier. Would that it were so, but devastated wedding parties targeted by drone pilots sitting in air-conditioned comfort in Nevada tell a different story...

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