Reconsider Afghan Mission Unless NATO Boosts Support: Senate

Remember Afghanistan?<br />
Pierre Tristam/Candide's Notebooks, February 13, 2007<br />
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There is, after all, another war going on, the original war, the one “on terror,” the one that was supposed to end terrorism and states that support it. That Afghanistan is getting little attention anymore is the fruit of two poisoned trees: the situation there is intractable. And it is not about to be resolved, neither by a splurge of surges nor by imports of cash, no matter the tonnage. On Monday, the Canadian Senate committee on national security and defence released a 16-page report that asks whether it’s time to consider a pullout. Don’t expect to see news of that report in the American press, to whom Canada is the geopolitical equivalent of the aurora borealis: it’s up there somewhere, prettily swaying this way and that if you pay attention on certain nights, but mostly it’s invisible. Ostensibly the reason given by the senate committee, for its threatening ire, is the refusal of Canada’s NATO “allies” to join Canadian troops fighting near Kandahar, where the Taliban’s pistons are firing on half-bearded cylinders. That’s the official reason. Germany and France, for example, won’t let their men fight. Imagine that: “allies” demanding that Germans join the fight.<br />
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One suspects there’s an unofficial reason for Canada setting itself up for a withdrawal, too. Talk of withdrawing from Afghanistan will sooner or later become as common as it has been regarding Iraq. Not now, to be sure: the clock of futility hasn’t run its course yet. But after providing proof for what can already be theorized with about as much accuracy as the theory that the sun will set this evening: Short of sending in Rambo, if he can be pried off his Rocky retirement, Afghanistan isn’t the sort of place any western nation can tame. <br />
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"It's an alliance. We're expected to be shoulder to shoulder."

I guess it's not much of an alliance when the member country that was supposed to have been attacked by "terrorists" did the job themselves and lied about it. These days just about everyone with a functioning brain knows that the story about 9/11 is false, and our respective governments - short of the US Gov - have come to realize the jig is up and they are no longer fooling anyone.

What is a mystery, is how anyone could have thought that occupying Afghanistan would be "successfull" (whatever that means). I guess the Imperial Command had to attack someone for 9/11, if for no other reason than to put on a good show.

Despite failures in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Imerial Command still wants to attack Iran, but this time absolutely no one - short of the US Gov - is buying into the program.

>>>These days just about everyone with a functioning brain knows that the story about 9/11 is false, and our respective governments - short of the US Gov - have come to realize the jig is up and they are no longer fooling anyone.<<<<br />
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Well that would explain why the Bush administration has done such a piss poor job of investigating 9/11.<br />
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There's NEVER Been A Real 9/11 Investigation<br />
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A quick look at the government's investigations into 9/11 reveals that -- not only has there never been a real investigation -- but the behavior of government representatives in willfully obstructing all attempts at investigation comprises evidence of guilt. Specifically, in all criminal trials, evasiveness, obstruction, and destruction of evidence all constitute strong circumstantial evidence that the accused is guilty or, at the very least, not to be believed. 9/11 is no different.<br />
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For example, the former director of the FBI says there was a cover up by the 9/11 Commission. <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/11/17/122900.shtml">http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/11/17/122900.shtml</a><br />
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And the 9/11 Commissioners knew that military officials lied to the Commission, and considered recommending criminal charges for such false statements, yet didn't bother to tell the American people. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR200608">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR200608</a>... (free subscription required).<br />
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Indeed, the co-chairs of the Commission now admit that the Commission largely operated based upon political considerations. <a href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2006/08/04/national/w124">http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2006/08/04/national/w124</a>...<br />
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SNIP<br />
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But let's back up and look at the 9/11 Commission in more detail. Preliminarily, President Bush and Vice-President Cheney took the rare step of personally requesting that congress limit all 9/11 investigation solely to intelligence failures, so there has never been a congressional probe into any of the real issues involved. <a href="http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/01/29/inv.terror.probe/">http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/01/29/inv.terror.probe/</a><br />
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The administration also opposed the creation of a 9/11 commission. <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/15/attack/main509096.shtml">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/15/attack/main509096.shtml</a>. Once it was forced, by pressure from widows of 9-11 victims, to allow a commission to be formed, the administration appointed as executive director an administration insider, whose area of expertise is the creation and maintenance of "public myths" thought to be true, even if not actually true (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_D._Zelikow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_D._Zelikow</a>), who was involved in pre-9/11 intelligence briefings, and who was one of the key architects of the "pre-emptive war" doctrine. This executive director, who controlled what the Commission did and did not analyze, then limited the scope of the Commission's inquiry so that the overwhelming majority of questions about 9/11 remained unasked (see <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_D._Zelikow">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_D._Zelikow</a> and <a href="http://911blogger.com/node/3418">http://911blogger.com/node/3418</a>).<br />
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The administration then starved the commission of funds, providing a fraction of the funds used to investigate Monica Lewinsky, failed to provide crucial documents, refused to share much information with the Commission, refused to require high-level officials to testify under oath, and allowed Bush and Cheney to be questioned jointly. <a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,437267,00.html">http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,437267,00.html</a>, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/27/bush.911/">http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/27/bush.911/</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/national/26KEAN.html?ex=1123128000&en">http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/national/26KEAN.html?ex=1123128000&en</a>=..., and <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4862296/">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4862296/</a><br />
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Continued at: <a href="http://911blogger.com/node/6196">http://911blogger.com/node/6196</a>

Excellent summary!

A lot of the crap going on in Canada today stems directly from the false 9/11 premise that evil Muslim terrorists are everywhere. All of the crap such as retarded border security, retarded airport security, retarded anti-terroism decrees written in as laws, false arrests of innocent people (all Muslims of course) on bogus terrorist charges, a costly and criminal war in Afghanistan, and attempts to push through more retarded 1984 concepts down our throats - all of it should be tossed in the trash can since we know beyond a shawdow of doubt that the official version of the 9/11 conspiracy theory is a big fat stinking lie!