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AMERICAblog: In Afghanistan, June is "deadliest month for foreign soldiers"

  • jr · 1 year ago
    Prime Minister Ben Kingsley's stunt double seems to be on top of things
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    The whole world will be dancing like this on Jan. 20, 2009:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY
  • Hawk · 1 year ago
    The earth may even move!

    Sorry for OT: What do you think about how the gathering at the Hotel yesterday is being handled by the "Press"?

    It looks to me like, they eavesdropped on the speeches and are quoting transcripts they were not invited to have? I guess this sort of thing is acceptable now? The empty Glass leaching press?
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    I now live in a state where an Indian governor, along with the legislature here, has now given judges authority to cut the nuts off prisoners for punishment. They wont get less prison time. Still have to serve their sentence out. Pretty funny. But scary medieval. I think it's another indicator of what's coming for everybody. What begins in the south with increasingly difficult times will spread.
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    The fundies put Jindal in the govenor's mansion here and so far, he's pushed legislation for Creationism in schools and focibly cutting prisoners balls off.
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    The British couldn't hold Afghanistan.
    The Soviets couldn't hold Afghanistan.
    The United States can't hold Afghanistan.
    There's a secret message hidden in all that.
    First one to find their secret decoder ring and figure that one out wins!
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Forcibly cutting their balls off? There's another, more peaceful, option for ball removal??
  • unrepentant_expat · 1 year ago
    If you don't win the hearts and minds you're going to lose the war in Afghanistan. and if the people are hungry...
    from NPRhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90840970
    Morning Edition, May 27, 2008 · The sky-rocketing cost of wheat is breaking food budgets around the world. Families are paying more for bagels in Brooklyn and for flatbread in Afghanistan. The difference is that many Afghans are now spending half their earnings on bread alone. International aid is keeping the country — one of the world's poorest — from food riots and starvation. But the crisis may encourage some farmers to move out of the drug trade and into wheat
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?st...

    from Canada
    Canada should ease Afghan hunger
    Calgary Herald
    Published: Monday, May 05, 2008

    Spiking food prices are an acute danger not only to the world's poor, but to the strategic aims of NATO in Afghanistan, making it all the more imperative that the hunger of Afghans be alleviated as soon as possible.

    While the Canadian government announced an extra

    $50 million in aid this week for poor nations affected by rising food costs, none of the money is specifically earmarked for Afghanistan. This omission urgently needs to be corrected as a prolonged food shortage will undermine Afghanistan's fragile multi-ethnic confidence in the national government of President Hamid Karzai and severely imperil NATO's efforts to bring peace to the volatile country
    http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theedi...
  • lynchie · 1 year ago
    Hold it Barbara said the war was to free the women from their burkhas and let them go to school. No one said anything about getting killed. Even the caped crusader Karzai who when he sees the bat sign in the western sky dons his wedge cap, puts on his cape, surrounds himself with coalition troops and gets the hell out of Kabul, even he can't believe anyone gets killed in these conflicts.
  • ComradeRutherford · 1 year ago
    Just in time for my medic friend to arrive. He's in the Army Reserve, and this is his second tour. He had been in Iraq for 18 months, and now he's in Afghanistan. He says their base keeps falling under attack from rockets, and four guys had been killed in one week, just last week.

    When he was in Iraq, he refused to carry an assault rifle. He's a medic, you see. He would wear a sidearm, and only if his unit were going into very dangerous areas would he carry a shotgun. He said the majority of his medic work was on Iraqi civilians shot up by US troops, or civilians in range of IEDs when they were detonated. The closest he got to dying was a direct hit on the HMV directly ahead of his in a convoy.

    But when he returned to the US, the VA refused to allow him PTSD treatment saying that since he didn't ever carry and assault rifle, he never saw combat and therefore didn't qualify! Of course, since he's a medic he saw seriously horrific wounds that he had to treat, so if anything he had it worse...

    So now he's in Afghanistan and the Army won't even say how long he's going to stay there...