Category: War on Afghanistan
Osama Bin Laden is killed: nothing changes
May 2nd, 2011, No Comments
President Obama has announced that US forces have killed Osama Bin Laden:
“Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan,” Obama said. “A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. [...]
QotD: The fringe was right on Afghanistan
July 30th, 2010, No Comments
On the second to last day of the Dutch “mission” in Afghanistan, there is no more appropriate quote than this gem by Nick Mamatas:
Now, six, seven, eight years later, all one can do is take this as an admission that indeed, the far left was right in categorically opposing the invasion of Afghanistan, was right [...]
MPAA: objectively pro-terrorist
May 15th, 2010, No Comments
The MPAA fights the hardest battle of all against torrenting soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan:
One of the questions posed by the MPAA is whether they have banned U.S. troops from going to stores that sell pirated DVDs. The Central Command answered this question negatively, as it would hurt the business of Iraqi salesmen.
“No….banning our troops [...]
Hell no this was no accident!
April 7th, 2010, No Comments
Some thoughts: does anybody really believe this was an accident rather than premeditated? Even on just the evidence in the video the helicopter crew was mighty casual about killing the first group of people, while the attack on civilians attempting to carry off the wounded and dead is a straight warcrime. But put this atrocity [...]
Fuck you, you lying ass warmonger
December 3rd, 2009, 2 Comments
Obama: a more eloguent, more acceptable Bush:
First, there are those who suggest that Afghanistan is another Vietnam. They argue that it cannot be stabilized, and we are better off cutting our losses and rapidly withdrawing. Yet this argument depends upon a false reading of history. Unlike Vietnam, we are joined by a broad coalition of [...]
Why is Holland supporting this?
November 30th, 2009, 1 Comment
Seriously. Dutch soldiers are supposedly bringing democracy and freedom to Afghanistan, but the US military still operates black prisons:
An American military detention camp in Afghanistan is still holding inmates, sometimes for weeks at a time, without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to human rights researchers and former detainees held at [...]
The terrorist threat facing Britain is self inflicted
September 5th, 2009, No Comments
Brown said UK troops were in Afghanistan “as a result of a hard-headed assessment of the terrorist threat facing Britain”.
Ministers have often claimed that three-quarters of the terrorist plots facing Britain emerge from the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Ministers are less willing to discuss how many of those plots facing Britain were hatched before British troops were sent [...]
The facade has changed in Washington DC, the policies are still the same
August 30th, 2009, 1 Comment
So says Cindy Sheehan, who hasn’t been fooled enough by Obama’s moderate anti-war stance to not notice the buildup of troops in Afghanistan or the fact that withdrawal from Iraq seems more talk than action. Like she did with Bush, she therefore turned up at Obama’s holiday address to protest. As she explained:
“The reason I [...]
Fuck Off And Fight Your Own Shitty Wars Then, Yankee Scum.
March 8th, 2009, 7 Comments
A US State Department official, quoted in the Sunday Telegraph:
“There’s nothing special about Britain. You’re just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn’t expect special treatment.”
On message
March 3rd, 2009, No Comments
Wherever you start looking, the same excuses crop up over and over again. From the NATO Media Operations Centre’s socalled “master narrative“, as leaked by Wikileaks, come the following points its P.R. people should push when talking about civilian casualties in Afghanistan:
Militants deliberately force civilians into situations where they are either killed or are at [...]
