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Christian Parenti is a correspondent for The Nation and author of "The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq" (New Press, 2004). He received a PhD in sociology from the London School of Economics in 2000 and he has been a Soros Senior Justice Fellow and a Ford Foundation Fellow at the CUNY Graduate School's Center for Place, Culture, and Politics.
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Afghan AutopsyA Dig led by Christian ParentiEditor’s note: America began its so-called war on terror with the intention of driving the Taliban from power in Afghanistan. Five years later, the Taliban is back, Osama bin Laden is still alive, and insurgent fighters cite the U.S. presence in the country as their main wellspring of rage. How did it come to this?
The Taliban claimed credit for the bombing, as if to say: We can now strike anywhere. When I interviewed eyewitnesses a few days after the blast, shreds of clothing and a shoe still hung from the branches of a nearby tree. Local shopkeepers described the suicide bomber as “very clean,” “dressed in white” and “wearing eyeliner.” They said he paid $100 for a cigarette just before parking in the spot from which he launched his attack against two American Humvees.
After a month traveling around Afghanistan this autumn, I was forced to a grim conclusion: This project is lost, and nothing very good will likely replace it. The reasons for the international community’s failure here are several. First, there are the immediate blunders of the occupiers who, despite extensive European involvement, are led by the Americans. Next are deeper historical dynamics dating back to the U.S. role in the anti-Soviet jihad. And finally there are much older cultural, political and economic facts about Afghanistan that have long made this a wild, lawless place, impervious to conquest and even resistant to the modernizing efforts of its urban middle classes. The stated goal of this latest occupation has been to create a functioning state where none had existed. Thus, if Afghan institutions fail, so too does the West’s project there.
“You can’t have development without security,” says the waxy NATO spokesman in Kabul, Mark Laity. “And security without development won’t last.” Alas, neither obtains in Afghanistan.
Consider again the contours of this crisis: Half of Afghanistan is under effective insurgent control; scores of international troops have been killed this year. Between January and Oct. 8 of this year, there were 78 suicide bombings, killing nearly 200 people. Last year saw only 17 suicide attacks. In the last six months, several previously stable provinces have slipped into chaos. A few dissident British soldiers have accused NATO and U.S. forces of bombing and strafing villages. Despite, or more likely because of this firepower, the situation in key southern provinces like Helmand and Kandahar has deteriorated badly. The British were recently forced to negotiate a withdrawal from one of their southern bases in Masa Qala, essentially surrendering the area to the Taliban. By late summer, the military crisis in southern Afghanistan was so bad that NATO’s top U.S. commander, Gen. James Jones, was begging for 2,500 extra troops to join the fight in Afghanistan’s deep south. Few extra soldiers were forthcoming. France was asked to move the 2,000 NATO troops under its command in Kabul south but refused, claiming they were needed in the capital.
The resurgent Taliban now control districts just outside Kabul, in Lowgar and Wardak provinces, and are even launching attacks on NATO troops in and around Kabul. In September, Mullah Dadullah, head of the Taliban forces, claimed he had 12,000 fighters, including 500 suicide bombers, and promised escalating violence next spring. Cut those numbers in half or more and the Taliban are still a formidable force.
To appear a bit more like locals, my traveling companion and I are dressed in traditional salwar kameez. My blond colleague, the filmmaker Ian Olds, has his head wrapped in a scarf. At paramilitary police checkpoints, he plays the role of a sleeping sick man. It all seems a bit ridiculous—how could the Taliban really operate this close to the city? But once we reach our destination—some villages just off the main road—the tension grows palpably thicker. People in Lowgar say that the insurgents have been operating here for about a year. They began with organizers who infiltrated from Pakistan to stir up dissatisfaction and reactivate former fighters. The guerrillas here got a major boost when the extremist and pathologically ruthless commander Gulbuddin Hekmatyar pledged the support of his Hezb-i-Islami, an old mujahedeen party, to Al Qaeda and made peace with the Taliban. A youth from Lowgar explains: “Every family has to give one man to the Taliban.” The Taliban pay their fighters more that the Afghan military, which only pays $70 a month, but the fighters have local grievances that motivate them as well. A man in Lowgar complains: “There are no jobs, no development. The government is corrupt.” To the northeast of Kabul, in Kunnar and Nuristan, one finds a different ecology of insurgents: the networks of foreign fighters of Al Qaeda. There, the radio traffic reveals Kandahari Taliban fighters overlapping with Pakistanis and Arabs. Two Afghan journalists who know this scene well describe the Al Qaeda networks along the Pakistani border east of Kabul as supplying expertise and consultative guidance to the Taliban and Hezb-i-Islami. “When I went there, they made me take out the battery and chip from my phone. They brought in an Arab who went over the camera and then disappeared,” said one of these Afghan journalists with Al Qaeda contacts. “The Arab wouldn’t be interviewed. They had Pashtun from Kandahar who had been to Kashmir. They are very smart guys.” Dig last updated on Nov. 28, 2006Advertisement
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By 1drees, September 18, 2007 at 10:34 am # One of the reasons of implicating Afghanistan into a war was their huge potential to produce drugs which can profit the Zionists by the billions. lately the Brit forces did encourage the Afghans into cultivating it and soon the effects of a BUMPER CROP should be hitting the streets of America & Europe soon. IT was this profit that they are soon going to derive that irritated them into kiling off the Taliban, there was never ever any concern for the well being of Afghans or Iraqi or anyone else, its the money madness that is driving the Zionists and for the money they would even sell their moms.
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By Skruff, March 29, 2007 at 4:20 am # Comment #61031 by Jeff Badura on 3/28 at 3:38 pm “...to the Comment #60885 by Jackie T. Gabel look if you factor in the left wing nut-roots you cant complain about fox news !!” Actually obtaining “NEWS” from “mainstream” electronic media is akin to getting mileage estimates from auto producers… Sort-of… “Close, but no cigar. I don’t complain about Fox (a position with which I happen to disagree) or Lou Dobbs (a position whit which I do agree) I complain that News media have a position at all. BUT having humans report news through a medium completely supported by entrenched corporate interests invites bias....
By Jackie T. Gabel, March 28, 2007 at 8:41 pm # Big list of postings on the issue of Al Queda’s links to the CIA — http://www.apfn.net/MESSAGEBOARD/01-11-04/discussion.c gi.28.html OK JB - this is il ultimo - and just so everyone knows, it’s called FALSE FLAG TERRORISM and it’s the oldest trick in the book - a number of the links to these postings are still hot - some are dead - much of this obviously comes from agency leaks - a lot of the spooks don’t like what’s going on either - google this and see what you get: “al queda cia asset” Vinnell bombing leader Khaled Jehani, fought for the CIA in Afghanistan, Bosnia & Chechnya Members of the Moroccan terror group Salafi Jihadi fought for the CIA in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Dagestan, Bosnia and Kosovo USS Cole Bomber Jamal al-Badawi fought for the CIA in Bosnia Zacarias Moussaoui fought for the CIA in Chechnya Head of Egyptian Islamic Jihad Ayman al Zawahiri, fought for the CIA in Bosnia When Osama Bin Ladin Was Tim Osman War and Globalization - The Truth Behind September 11th CIA reins in loose cannons, and keeps their Al Qaeda creation alive and well Will the CIA Leave Their Saudi Partners in Crime Holding the Bag? “New Al-Qaeda” like New Coke, “The Farce Goes On - The Hunt for Ayman Zawahiri, Mohammad Omar, & Osama “Moussaoui, Khadr, & Ressam Are “Graduates” of CIA’s Khalden Camp for Afghanistan & Balkans “Jihads” Bin Laden Puppetmasters Smoked Out In Balkans The CIA arranged for HUM guerrillas to fight in Bosnia & Kosovo Bin-Ladin and KLA have a ‘joint’ cash box in the United States The CIA & Bin Laden worked hand-in-glove in KLA operations U.S. Protects Al-Qaeda Terrorists in Kosovo Wolfowitz Meets “in Private” Bosnia, 1 degree of separation from Al-Qaeda Where was the “Concern” about “al-Qaida Operating in Iran” during the War in Bosnia? Terror mastermind with taste for high life The CIA’s “Operation Cyclone” - Stirring the Hornet’s Nest of Islamic Unrest” The Muslim Brotherhood: The Globalists’ Secret Weapon U.S. Armed, Promoted Accused September 11 Terrorist Mastermind CIA Bankrolled System of Madrassas & Training Camps to Brainwash “Jihad” Warriors British Press Gagged on Reporting MI6’s £100,000 bin Laden Payoff Ramzi Yousef was part of a CIA recruitment drive in New York and he did have “ties” to Bin Laden CIA Recruits Terrorist Agents At Guantanamo How Al Qaeda lit the Bali fuse
By Jeff Badura, March 28, 2007 at 3:38 pm # to the Comment #60885 by Jackie T. Gabel look if you factor in the left wing nut-roots you cant complain about fox news !! at least they “try” to be fair ??? this electronic medium is totally whacked!! it will will have its own dubious chapter in the future history books !! PS- I’m still waiting for proof?? illgramaticus knee o’kaun
By Jackie T. Gabel, March 28, 2007 at 2:03 am # RE: Comment #56735 by Moe Hare on 3/04 at 4:18 pm — “Jeff, Ok, Bush is not Hitler; he’s Hermann Goering—Cheney’s Hitler!” >>> and Roger Ailes, founding CEO of Faux News is Joseph Paul Goebbels, or he should at least get the JPG Award, which, however, doesn’t exist yet, but will be the end of this decade.
By Toby, March 23, 2007 at 8:04 am # It is so unfair to compare Bush to Hitler! Hitler actually fought in a war for his country. And was wounded and decorated to boot! Granted, at some point in time he went completely bonkers, but it wasn’t because he was a Chicken Hawk!
By SouthernYankee, March 17, 2007 at 7:57 pm # This president doesn’t have a brain and can’t think on his own. This idot listened to Chenut and Crummie Rummy. They took our soldiers to war in Iraq without finishing what they should have done in the first place. God will get the bastards that is for sure. I just still don’t understand how bush got elected. I can’t stand watching him speak. He is proud that before he became president he didn’t travel overseas and thrilled that he doesn’t read. What an inspiration for us all. I’m glad I didn’t vote for this idot.
By shepherd, March 11, 2007 at 9:25 am # Comment #57711 by Jeff Badura on 3/09 at 6:47 pm “about the Comment #56603 by shepherd!! Hey J.B., you forgot to mention/comment on the “bolt-action ‘Mannlicher-Carcano WWII rifle’ notorious for its inaccuracy, and often referred to as the ‘humanitarian rifle’” that Oswald supposedly fired from an incredible distance to blow JFK’s head apart in a moving vehicle… please do, and we’ll get back to Moore’s 9/11 hack cut & paste job later - I gotta get to work now! Billy Joel said something to the effect, “Man, you must be lost,” too recently; can’t exactly remember where though. But I’ll try and remember for later.
By Jeff Badura, March 9, 2007 at 6:47 pm # about the Comment #56603 by shepherd!!
By Moe Hare, March 4, 2007 at 4:18 pm # Jeff,
By Jeff Badura, March 4, 2007 at 9:18 am # Comment #56272 by Michael Hipple says “I have stopped paying taxes and I will not pay taxes until I see some leadership that respects the US constitution. Bush and crew are fascists. We are no different right now than those folks in Germany as Hitler took control of their lives.” Comment #56252 by republicanSScareme says- “I will continue to call Republicans Nazis until they stop calling Democrats traitors.” illgramaticus knee o’kaun
By shepherd, March 3, 2007 at 9:32 pm # Part 2. Comment #55766 by S. Redding on 2/27 at 4:33 pm S. Redding: “I have a very different view from most, the US CIA created the Taliban during the Reagan years, why be naive and pretend that the Taliban is anything other than an extension of the CIA today? Right now they are doing CIA dirtywork.” We’ve all heard about Mike Moore’s ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’, but a lot of us still haven’t seen it. I only caught it a few days ago for the first time. Excerpt: “In 1997, while George W. Bush was governor of Texas, a delegation of Taliban leaders from Afghanistan flew to Houston to meet with Unocal executives to discuss the building of a pipeline through Afghanistan.” “A senior delegation from the Taleban movement in Afghanistan is in the United States for talks with an international energy company that wants to construct a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan. A spokesman for the company, Unocal, said the Taleban were expected to spend several days at the company’s headquarters in Sugarland, Texas.” “Taleban in Texas for Talks on Gas Pipeline,” BBC News, December 4, 1997 (Sugarland is 22 miles outside Houston.) “The Taliban ministers and their advisers stayed in a five-star hotel and were chauffeured in a company minibus. Their only requests were to visit Houston’s zoo, the NASA space centre and Omaha’s Super Target discount store to buy stockings, toothpaste, combs and soap. The Taliban, which controls two-thirds of Afghanistan and is still fighting for the last third, was also given an insight into how the other half lives. The men, who are accustomed to life without heating, electricity or running water, were amazed by the luxurious homes of Texan oil barons. Invited to dinner at the palatial home of Martin Miller, a vice-president of Unocal, they marvelled at his swimming pool, views of the golf course and six bathrooms. After a meal of specially prepared halal meat, rice and Coca-Cola, the hardline fundamentalists - who have banned women from working and girls from going to school - asked Mr. Miller about his Christmas tree.” Caroline Lees, “Oil Barons Court Taliban in Texas,” The Telegraph (London), December 14, 1997. “And who got a Caspian Sea drilling contract the same day Unocal signed the pipeline deal? A company headed by a man named Dick Cheney, Halliburton.” On October 27, 1997, both Unocal and Halliburton issued press releases about their energy work in Turkmenistan. “Halliburton Energy Services has been providing a variety of services in Turkmenistan for the past five years.” Press Release, “Halliburton Alliance Awarded Integrated Service Contract Offshore Caspian Sea In Turkmenistan,” October 27, 1997. http://www.halliburton.com/news/archive/1997/hesnws_10 2797.jsp ; S. Redding, here’s the reference source (I think you’ll find it very useful as I did):
By shepherd, March 3, 2007 at 9:27 pm # Part 1. Comment #56401 by Jeff Badura on 3/02 at 3:35 pm I’m sure that Jackie T. can speak for himself, but as this is an open forum for all and any to participate in, when you say, “but when accusations like these and statements like these are made, you need ‘documentation and proof’ of what you’re saying??? ‘if you were to provide me with proof’!!” All it takes friend is removing the blinkers that obviously render you blind, sir. A little research into Webster Tarpley’s claims and pointers reveals a hell of a lot. Presumably you still accept that Oswald from way up in the Depository building with a bolt-action ‘Mannlicher-Carcano WWII rifle’ notorious for its inaccuracy, and often referred to as the ‘humanitarian rifle’ because it never killed anyone on purpose, killed Kennedy? Perhaps the real reason behind JFK’s assassination had something to do with: “While Kennedy had originally supported the policy of sending ‘military advisors’ to Vietnam in an ‘advisory role’, he had begun to change his thinking, and shortly before his death in November 1963 he had ‘begun limited recall of American forces’.” Jeff?? Gulf of Tonkin Incident For a few more hard “facts” Jeff, have a good look at Moore’s 9/11 film facts, then get back after a thorough read:
By Pete, March 3, 2007 at 9:15 am # Afghanistan has been the graveyard of many invading foreigners over the centuries. Add to that the fact that the USSR invaded the place with an army of over 400,000 men that wasn’t the least bit concerned with civilian casualties, the Geneva Convention, or the observations of a free press and failed. This begs the question of why the USA thought it was going to succeed where the Russians failed. If they had gone after Osama and his people and got out, that would have been the end of it. Where did Bush get the idea that the US Military can do the job of the Peace Corps.
By Jeff Badura, March 2, 2007 at 3:35 pm # dear Jackie T. Gabel i don’t mean to constantly ridicule you ??? you seam like a intelligent person? i went to your web site!! but when accusations like these and statements like these are made, you need documentation and proof of what your saying??? if you were to provide me with proof!! not some other whacked out web site with the same observations but no proof !! but hard proof !! than i would whole heartingly agree and support your views!!
By chelemer, February 28, 2007 at 8:17 am # It is payback time: with love from Russia.
By S. Redding, February 27, 2007 at 4:33 pm # I have a very different view from most, the US CIA created the Taliban during the Reagan years, why be nieve and pretend that the Taliban is anything other than an extension of the CIA today? Right now they are doing CIA dirtywork. At this moment our youngest, my second graders are being indoctrinated with words like afghanistan, Taliban, overthrowing governments, Liberia, soldiers, etc. and this is found on a website promoted by “NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND” for public schools.I wish everyone would stop rehashing Bin Laden, etc. if they wanted him dead he would be… duh.TODAY the CIA is giving weapons to IRANIAN minorities in an effort to start civil war, yet again, TODAY, BBC. If everyone doesn’t stop acting like your trying to solve some stupid mystery. Wake up, they love war, they love oil, millions of innocent people die in their name, they have been planning this for a long time. CALL YOUR SENATOR, CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN, PROTEST. (CHOMSKY)
By shepherd, February 25, 2007 at 7:29 pm # Comment #42267 by Jackie T. Gabel on 12/14 at 8:10 pm “Anyone following this thread, I strongly recommend, if you’ve not done so, follow the links previously posted to Tarpley’s lecture from his book “9/11 Synthetic Terror - Made in USA.” His clarity is compelling. Reviews here: http://www.amazon.com/9-11-Synthetic-Terror-First/dp/0 930852311 “ Yes very instructive indeed, and some excellent reviews. By the way thanks also for this most useful and informative audio/video link (takes ages to download with dialup, but what the hell): Excellent stuff though the ‘controlled demolition’ of the twin towers is hard to accept, consideing we were watching the TV news live as the first plane hit, just short of 11.00pm where we are and yet computer controlled planes into the buildings is very feasable, and indeed very likely. You haven’t mentioned the former Boston air traffic controller Robin Hordon. If our Happy Days friend J. ‘Richie’ Cunningham (must be a fan of “Dallas” too with initials like “J.R.") has any further doubts about 9/11 being an inside job, then check this out: http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/boston_air_tra ffic_controller_911_inside_job.htm Thank Christ some people have the courage to speak out, and hopefully nail in time the true perpetrators. But something else; as we’re seeing the US is now run by an invisible secret government, an ‘oligarchy’ (had to look this baby up in the dictionary), so if by a miracle Obama becomes Pres. in ‘08 he’ll quickly have to learn to tow the line or he’ll rapidly become another casualty like Kennedy, no? This is where Hillary has the upper hand - she knows the game, understands it, and doubtless will play it if elected, and once again the bulk of the ‘have nots’ (the underpriviledged) in US society won’t be catered for, meaning the ‘war on terror’ will continue unabated.
By shepherd, February 25, 2007 at 3:00 am # Comment #42348 by John Cunningham on 12/15 at 12:17 pm “I’m not all that clever with a computer so I don’t know how to provide one with a link other than to write it out and then you’re on your own.” It’s very simple man. All you do is “highlight” the URL (uniform resource locator) address link by placing your “mouse pointer” on it and clicking it (this will highlight it). Step 2, with your mouse pointer on the highlighted link, then “right click” your mouse button and then click “copy”. Step 3, place your “mouse pointer” wherever you like in your post and again click your “left” mouse button and select “paste”. Bingo, you’ve “copy & pasted” a link from any web-page to your post. Practice makes perfect. Reading the exchanges between you two guys, Jack and yourself has been an education… Thanks. PS. You can basically highlight anything by running your mouse pointer over it whilst holding down the left mouse button, then just right click and copy the highlighted text and paste it where you like.
By MattNet, February 23, 2007 at 2:25 pm # I’d like to see some evidence of the bold claim that Osama Bin Laden is still alive! All indications are that Osama has been dead for years.
By Jackie T. Gabel, December 21, 2006 at 1:55 pm # ...without your dinner...sweet dreams: http://www.NorthPacificMusic.com/windowsmedia/In.The.L and.Of.wma
By John Cunningham, December 21, 2006 at 2:56 am # We better start acting our ages or they’re going to send us to our rooms.
By Jackie T. Gabel, December 19, 2006 at 8:45 pm # two to tango http://youtube.com/watch?v=gTbtSTO78Xs http://66.49.150.190/FWM/Philistine.Nation.Joe.Blow.m3u and won to go — http://www.a-laska.com/pictures.fall.01.html
By John Cunningham, December 19, 2006 at 5:04 am # Jack, go to littlegreenfootballs.com and scroll down to Stuck Mojo: Open Season. Must be played LOUD.
By Jackie T. Gabel, December 17, 2006 at 2:01 am # Dear John: Looks like we’re about the only ones left here...so what? As for the polls, it’s worse than you think. The most recent NY Times, CBS poll revealed that less than 20% believe the government is not lying in some way or another about 9/11. The most forgiving position now afloat is that the 911 Commission is an obvious cover up and complicity is an open secret in Washington, the media and the financial community, but almost everyone is desperate to avoid the inevitable constitutional crisis that a fully transparent 911 truth investigation would precipitate. BTW: I went to Katherine Kersten’s page, read her articles and left the following note on her blog. In 1975 and 1976, the Church Committee published fourteen reports on the formation of U.S. intelligence agencies, their operations, and the alleged abuses of law and of power that they had committed. These include infiltration of the media, which is probably far more thorough now than it was then. Editorialists like Katherine Kersten are obviously either rich assets or useful tools (some say fools, though that doesn’t seem to fit, she seems bright and witting). The bottom line is this: There is a wide world of terror out there. It devastates whomever it touches, spreading chaos and havoc wherever it erupts. The naive citizenry of this nation cannot begin to handle the fact that the intelligence agencies of this nation are not staffed with persons morally strong enough to resist using this powerful weapon. The truth is that all the alphabet spooks have been up to their asses in terrorism; especial false flag terrorism for decades (including the ‘93 WTC bombing and the Oklahoma bombing). Additionally they have run kidnapping, death squads, arms and drugs all over the world. Among the few moral and dedicated officers are numerous thugs paid to follow any orders they get — many severely compromised by wretched personal histories. Then there are the pathetic basket cases recruited by the boat load and often sacrificed as patsies. There are probably more unwitting than witting operatives caught up in these dirty little networks, mostly working within small cells on a need-to-know basis. There are so many black-ops/psy-ops programs going on, very few on the outside ever manage to learn who’s doing what. Even the operatives mostly don’t know what’s going on — why they’re ordered t do whatever. Take this recent stunt with the ejected Imams and the attendant publicity blitz in its wake — psy-op written all over it; the purpose of which is simply to perpetuate fear of terror, the myth of Islamo-fascism; keep it in the news; keep one and all afraid, very afraid and ultimately resentful of the laws now being drafted vis-à-vis the profiling issue. Orwell had it dead on right, just 20 years off. I wrote about my Polish wife observing US society now devolving into an Orwellian (though to Poles the better term is Kafkaesque) nightmare. You cannot even begin to imagine the outrage in Poland upon learning that their newly emerged “democratic” government had submitted to CIA demands to refurbish communist-era prisons there to serve in their global torture gulag. I couldn’t resist adding: “Yeah, that’s Rummy’s New Europe.” These Straussian neocon madmen must be shown to their cells. Their elitist, warmongering, Nietzschien, superman, proto fascist insanity we have suffered too long. For the sake of our very humanity and for the peace of the entire world we can not afford to suffer them any longer. Investigate, indict, prosecute and execute! Support 911Truth - End War of Terror!
By John Cunningham, December 15, 2006 at 12:17 pm # Mr. Jack, Abugrabthis. I’m not all that clever with a computer so I don’t know how to provide one with a link other than to write it out and then you’re on your own. It’s an article about that vacation spot in Guantanamo Bay. http://www.startribune/blogs/kersten Mentioning that prison excess is not unlike terrorist apologists that trot out Timothy VcVeigh. One crazy white guy goes beserk and they start painting broad strokes. Always felt sorry for his father. They live in Pendelton, NY and because I drove a taxi in Western New York I got to pass by his house often. You could see in his face the many times we ‘met’ him on TV how awful he felt. I daresay the fathers of those that flew the planes into those targets on 9/11 did the obligatory celebratory firing of weapons into the air. Don’t those goofballs realize that when you fire a bullet into the air it eventually comes down. We’ve known about gravity for quite a while, what is it with them. I know we used to do that in the Wild West, but we don’t do that anymore. Now I will express concern about Kurt Weldon. He’s in the congressional district next to mine. When they showed on the news the victory celebration of his opponent at the Saint Davids Hotel I was taken aback by the amount of middle easterners with their faces right up in the camera. Perhaps it was just that particular camera in that particular corner of the ball room. No, I’ll still think of it as an expression of ‘in your face’. Excuse me if I can’t get into all this we’re the bad guy conspiracies. I can’t think of any specifics right off the top of my head but over the years one hears of similar thought processes when the US was in similar crises in the past, some I heard of going back to Civil War days. Two different studies were conducted, each not knowing the other was being conducted. The question each population of one-thousand had, they were asked ‘do you think the United States attacked itself on 9/11’? Both studies came up with, within a couple of points of each other, one-third believed that that’s what happened. Transfer that inference to the total population of the United States, three-hundred million, we have one-hundred million people in the United States that believe the United States attacked itself on 9/11.
By Skruff, December 15, 2006 at 10:03 am # Iran a player? http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/257DD78A-63A7-4 427-A444-262D0FD9F6C7.htm Maybe out of Afganistan too???
By Jackie T. Gabel, December 14, 2006 at 8:10 pm # RE: • Comment #42056 by John Cunningham on 12/13 at 11:26 am — “Yes, I have a PC, too. Been to those web sites, also...controlled by Cheney.” >>>>>>...Cheney? Who’d trust Cheney? Tarpley makes it clear: “...3 heart attacks, 4 pace makers, a neocon wife yapping in his ear and turning up CNN over the interagency briefings...” No way; professionals did 911 — an operation like that...a putz like Cheney? Seriously, Cunningham’s commentary is probably too crude to be professional disinfo., though it’s hard to tell these days. Witting or witless can both serve a purpose, not to mention the numerous limited hangouts: books by useful tools like Peter Lance, Bob Woodward or the NORAD tapes, et al, floating “incompetence” as a viable escape hatch. Anyone following this thread, I strongly recommend, if you’ve not done so, follow the links previously posted to Tarpley’s lecture from his book “9/11 Synthetic Terror - Made in USA.” His clarity is compelling. Reviews here: http://www.amazon.com/9-11-Synthetic-Terror-First/dp/0 930852311 To begin with, the 9/11 patsies simply couldn’t do it, i.e. manually fly jumbo jets like fighter pilots. Their role was simply to get noticed and appear dangerous. On the day of, they too were in the dark, if they were even on the planes; their names (real or otherwise) are not on the flight manifests, and their protected status within the Able Danger Program, where they played roles in terror drills, is documented from what’s left after 2.5 TB of Able Danger data was intentionally and illegally destroyed — investigated by Republican Representative Curt Weldon. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArt icle&code=20050917&articleId=965 At the heart of the 9/11 coup is the security stripping of Bush: hung out 30 min. at the school then another 45 min. in the air with zero fighter cover while the nation was “under attack” and FAA tracked over a dozen suspected hijackings — an orchestrated security stripping far beyond “incompetence” (literally treasonous) yet carefully ignored by the main stream media and of course the 911 Commission. Amidst the confusion, with the nation “under attack,” the threat was phoned in, “Angel is next” (Angel = Air Force One) accompanied by enough top-secret code to convince officials — all documented, William Saffire even mentioned it. The administration initially acknowledged then denied it. Bush capitulated, and then flew to Barksdale and Offut to take physical control of the nuclear trigger — the codes were compromised. Then he spoke by phone with Putin and made clear the coup plotters’ demands: The War of Civilizations starts now. The US is invading the Middle East and taking control of the military bases around the Caspian Sea. Russia had better not interfere. Among the 15-odd military drills running that day, virtually all of STRATCOM had been moved into in an advanced DEFCON posture, and of course the Russians had to come up to meet them. “So, let’s just nobody make any sudden moves here, OK?” Putin stepped back and allowed the US military to take up positions right on the Russian boarder. Yet, the corporate mainstream media found nothing remarkable in this — nothing remarkable? So, now we’ve got an endless War of Terror — mission accomplished. Another 9/11 could easily get us over the edge. These madmen need to be shown to their cells. PS: “...We don’t do bastardly things any more...” except like Abu Grhaib — "I can never remember which it is.” Bad apples, letting off steam? Help out here, John, help us “get over it” — this wholesale dehumanization...who ever “gets over” this?
By SalTalun, December 13, 2006 at 5:55 pm # “ insurgent fighters cite the U.S. presence in the country as their main wellspring of rage “
By John Cunningham, December 13, 2006 at 11:26 am # Yes, I have a PC, too. Been to those web sites, also. We’ve all seen those news events of the buildings that have been taken down by controlled explosions. It takes weeks if not months to wire the buildings and then precisely set the charges. You’re then left with many miles of bundled wires that then are taken to an area perhaps a few hundred yards away from the building about to be taken down. Try to imagine how much time it would have taken to prepare two 110 story buildings. Perhaps four to six months to prepare. And thousands of people that worked there never saw or heard a thing. The Jews, Cheney, Bush and Halliburton are good. I’ll believe Frontline and Popular Mechanic’s explanation on what brought down World Trade Buildings on 9/11. Oh, wait, how silly of me, I forgot, radio controlled planes, controlled by Cheney in the basement of the White House brought them down. I can never remember which it is. I think it was the late 1600’s or early 1700’s that there was probably the first use of biological warfare. It was an extremely cold Buffalo, NY winter, go figure. The Seneca’s were not doing well. Lord Amherst offered them blankets that had been infested with smallpox. Murdered thousands of Senecas. Amherst, NY, a suburb of Buffalo, very well off place, listed as one of the US’s top ten safest cities, is named after Lord Amherst. Yes, we used to do bastardly things to those people. We don’t do those things anymore. Kind of like no one alive today has ever been a slave or ever owned one. In the City of Niagara Falls, NY New York State deeded over to the Seneca Nation four square blocks of the city in an area very close to The Falls. The Senecas built this huge casino/resort that is a big time competitor of the casinos on the Canadian side. The Seneca Casino generates over a billion dollars a year. After expenses and the state takes their cut it all belongs to the Senecas. We don’t do bastardly things any more and we’re trying to make amends. The Senecas got over it. If I may offer a suggestion. You seem to have taken on trauma from past lifetimes. Perhaps you’re suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. You can receive counseling for that. Then, too, you will be able to say, ‘I got over it.’ Just a thought, Mr. Jack.+
By Jackie T. Gabel, December 13, 2006 at 12:36 am # RE: • Comment #41930 by John R. Cunningham on 12/12 at 6:29 pm — “Senecas. Extremely well mannered and polite people. Much more than I can say for you, Mr. Jack...Are you saying that the Vice-president is fixin’ to blow up our new 83 story Comcast Building?” >>>>>>> only a little Cherokee blood in my veins ...maybe that’s what makes me so feisty in the face of hegemons. Of course it’s well know how the Cherokee beat, Andy “Sharp Knife” Jackson, beat his Indian Removal Act of 1835 all the way to the Supreme Court, where it was declared unconstitutional. Then the old hegemon illegally ordered the Army to round up the most Western-educated, Western-assimilated, agrarian-based of all the Indian Nations, just to steal their land, and then murderously sent them by the thousands on a dead-of-winter, decimating forced march to a virtually worthless unwanted strip of wasteland in Oklahoma...and you dare to exhibit the arrogance to spit out, “they got over it.” Like hell they did. I dare you to go to the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma and ask the people you meet there: “How about that Trail of Tears thing; you all got over it, right?” As for Cheney’s handlers, forget your Comcast building, the too-worn-out-to-refurbish USS Enterprise is the ticket and just about ready to be retired by the brand new USS George Bush, launched for sea trials Oct. 7 under the name of POTUS 41 — couldn’t be scripted more perfectly. And fitting you bring up the Seneca — name-sake to the Roman Emperor Nero’s counselor, who warned, “Beware, fabricated terror is like a drug. It always takes a bigger dose to get the same effect.” FLASE FLAG TERRORISM — oldest trick in the book. Now, as for FALSE FLAG TERRORISM, of course the “manual” on that...avoid the term. The more it’s repeated: FALSE FLAG TERRORISM, the more the citizenry will come to recognize the expression: FALSE FLAG TERRORISM. Yes, folks it’s FALSE FLAG TERRORISM — what the Japanese used (a train bomb) for a pretext to invade Manchuria; FALSE FLAG TERRORISM, what the Germans used (a cross-boarder attack on a radio station) as a pretext to invade Poland; FALSE FLAG TERRORISM, what the US used (presumably a floating mine blowing up the USS Maine) as a pretext to go to war with Spain and of course there’s the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. It’s FALSE FLAG black-ops/psy-ops. It’s what the alphabet spooks do with their secret budgets: FALSE FLAG TERRORISM! Half the violence now being labeled Islamo-Fascism is black-ops/psy-ops FALSE FLAG TERRORISM executed by CIA-MI-6-controlled terror cells: death squad executions, beheadings, car bombings — a strategy of tension and destabilization to create failed states and pretexts for wider and wider war. Get used to it folks: FLASE FLAG TERRORISM. Here, from Webster G. Tarpley’s “911 Synthetic Terror - Made in USA” — called in a review by former CIA analyst, Robert Steele, to be the best of the 770+ books he’s reviewed for Amazon.com, and the Amazon No. 1 best seller in October, 2006 — an historically oriented, detailed lecture:
By Eleanore Kjellberg, December 12, 2006 at 7:24 pm # “I suggest you put forward your own ideas, and stop attempting to (badly) decipher mine.” Skruff--I’m sure you’ll agree with this idea: The wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the appalling treatment of the Palestinians are acting as catalysts to radicalize Muslims throughout the Middle East. What will be the consequence of all this death, violence and destruction? The U.S. Is now hated throughout the world, and I don’t think we are hated for our freedom. The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more wars—must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. ~Martin Luther King, Jr
By John R. Cunningham, December 12, 2006 at 6:29 pm # I lived in Western New York for twenty-three years. I got to meet many of the descendents of the original inhabitants, mostly Senecas. Extremely well mannered and polite people. Much more than I can say for you, Mr. Jack. Are you saying that the Vice-president is fixin’ to blow up our new 83 story Comcast Building? I see some recent entries here that echo the thought that the United States is encouraging the violence ‘over there’. That makes about as much sense as saying that police encourage crimminal behavior because the police go after crimminals.
By Skruff, December 12, 2006 at 12:52 pm # Comment #41761 by imran tahir on 12/11 at 7:58 pm states: “Mushharf...... knows how to deal them.” From the world news I have read, it appears that you are right. BUT Americans (speaking of their governments now) NEVER accept “advisory help” from people they see as “less than superpowers” so like the Russians (who suffered similar supremacy issues) they will (after 2008) leave Afganistan unfinished, and Mushharf will have to deal with yet another failed state on his border. Because of popular oppinion in Northern Pakistan, he will allow (shall we say somewhat shady) elements to opperate up there, ‘cause it is in his interests to have tough lawless hombres between him and the ruined Afgan state.
By Skruff, December 12, 2006 at 12:42 pm # Comment #41719 by Eleanore Kjellberg on 12/11 at 2:23 pm asks: “Is the U.S. military policy, nothing more than a cynical sadistic joke” Lets take a vote? My humor was at your expressed idea that “We corrupted” Afganistan. I express humor at this idea, nothing else. I suggest you put forward your own ideas, and stop attempting to (badly) decipher mine.
By imran tahir, December 11, 2006 at 7:58 pm # i am from pakistan and i agree with u in some extent and some not.You have to see history of afghanistan that no body can rule afghanitan even alexander the great bribe them. THE BRITISH only know how to deal them they lost two wars and now they are on hatric.The best way is to deal the problem on three basis what mushharf said to nato beacuse he knows how to deal them.NO 1 put more tpoops on groun like 200000.No 2 start massive reconstruction and the doner money promissed by boon process. no 3 hire taliban into army police that they quit fight. If u cant do it thendont wast your time and money.Beacuse only playing blame game with pakistan on media wont help any body beacuse its not his war its american war he can help u some extent but cannot fight for u guys.last thing if american wont attack on iraq probably afghanistan a success. Two boats riders always sink.
By John Cunningham, December 11, 2006 at 5:15 pm # I have ‘heard’ that the opium fields will be sprayed by our DEA. Any truth to that?
By Eleanore Kjellberg, December 11, 2006 at 2:23 pm # Skruff,
By Jackie T. Gabel, December 11, 2006 at 1:34 pm # RE: • Comment #41623 by John Cunningham on 12/10 at 4:52 pm — “They got over it.” >>>>>>> spoken like a true hegemon — now if only they’d give up those “silly” rituals and “dead” languages...really get with the program (totally assimilate)...some would say they need another good smack down...put ‘em back in their place...while reminding them “this hurts me more than it hurst you.” And while were at it, some are saying to be on the lookout for another 9/11; seems the American People are going soft on the “pay back.” Indeed, but beware: if WMD go off anywhere in the world, don’t look to the cave, bin Laden, the laptop; don’t look to the “Axis of Evil.” Look to Cheney and Cheney’s handlers — hegemons you can understand, no doubt, Mr. Cunning-ham...sounds like a stage name, you’re field officer’s idea?
By Skruff, December 11, 2006 at 11:30 am # Comment #41637 by Eleanore Kjellberg on 12/10 says: “Rather than creating a “democratic” society in Afghanistan we have created a corrupt country riddled with drugs and strife with terrorism; a country which has evolved into a failed state in the hands of drug cartels and narco-terrorists.” Ok Ok, now you have made me laugh. The above paragraph is the equivelant of saying “gambling corrupted Louisiana politics!!! Ha Ha Ha… That’s a good one.
By Eleanore Kjellberg, December 10, 2006 at 7:12 pm # Rather than creating a “democratic” society in Afghanistan we have created a corrupt country riddled with drugs and strife with terrorism; a country which has evolved into a failed state in the hands of drug cartels and narco-terrorists. In rural areas where wheat has historically been the dominant crop, fields of poppies are proliferating. Many poor farmers, who complain that the Afghan government and other countries have failed to ease their economic woes through legal means, say that they are growing illegal opium poppies for the first time. Drug laboratories are in abundance where raw opium is processed into morphine or heroin — once rare in Afghanistan — are sprouting at an unprecedented rate. Authorities appear less inclined to combat new drug syndicates than to share in their profits. The crude but money-making factories are largely condoned by elders, police and guarded by militiamen and their commanders. What a MESS--Afghanistan is the number one drug manufacturer, and Iraq is a country in utter chaos.
By John Cunningham, December 10, 2006 at 4:52 pm # Skruff, they’re twenty floors short of the new 83 story Comcast Building. Should be finished in a year. They still do plan by taking a view from the Belmont Plateau. If you can see William Penn from there, the sky’s the limit. Mr. Jack, 100% VA disability, I’m on my own. Sitting Bull’s descendents are busy working their casino. They got over it.
By Jackie T. Gabel, December 10, 2006 at 1:24 am # RE: • Comment #41495 by John Cunningham on 12/09 at 2:29 am — “...if you went to Eurabia you’d have to buy all new prayer rugs.” >>>>>>>> do you troll for sport, or are you on salary? RE: • Comment #41495 by John Cunningham on 12/09 at 2:29 am — “I hate it when we have to keep order on the planet with one arm tied behind our backs.” >>>>>>>> tell it to the descendants of Sitting Bull.
By Skruff, December 9, 2006 at 1:51 pm # John, My ancestors arrived in what later became Philly in 1606. Thomas Snyder’s offspring were burried in the Arch Street Cemetary. I used to love it there BEFORE the buildings became taller than W.P.’s hat Whole framily of Quakers,,, and one warrior. Shame I didn’t listen to anyone when I was younger.
By John Cunningham, December 9, 2006 at 2:29 am # Looks like we’re a bunch of geezers re-fighting the war. Mr. Skruff and MR. Jackie (sorry, all the while I thought you were female) if you’re ever in the Philadelphia area, e-mail me. I’ll show you around Independence Hall, Liberty Bell, Betsy Ross House the Art Museum, you can run up the steps just like Rocky. You Jack, my mother’s mother was Polish. I have a few second generationers that are still breathing. Maybe they could convince you to stay. Besides, if you went to Eurabia you’d have to buy all new prayer rugs. Skruff, I’ve often wondered about nukes. Especially when they launched Tet. I got there in Sep ‘67. Things were as calm as things could be. I was saying to myself, ‘self, this Vietnam thing isn’t that bad’. And, then, Happy F****** New Year. Without exaggeration, went to the field for five months and literally, when and if I got the chance to lay down, it was on the ground. But, we got over it. Times Square couldn’t beat it. We nuked Japan, they did an immediate 180. No doubt, those that survived thought, ‘what were we thinking, Imperialism, that’s so silly’. They got over it. You must have seen the recent photo-ops of 43 and the Prime Minister of Japan going hand and hand through Graceland. Now a days we have neutrons, they’re supposed to be clean. I guess it’s like an environmentally friendly nuke. I hate it when we have to keep order on the planet with one arm tied behind our backs.
By Skruff, December 8, 2006 at 12:57 pm # John… The war in Vietnam was unwinnable. I know I know, they now have arguments on how it could have been won, BUT none of those arguments take into consideration that 800 million chinese shared a border with Vietnam, and they were NOT going to allow a democracy and permenant US bases on that piece of Southeast Asia. The fact is we were dumping millions there when the French were fighting that war, we picked the wrong ally… We covered France’ ass but when the end came there was no one to cover ours. There were two ways Vietnam could have been ours.. General Douglas McArthur could have been granted permission to cross the Huang He into China and secure that nation… When he wanted to do this, China had no resources or will to fight. If that had happened, No Chinese assistance for the enemy, and no soviet interference because of the big US bases we would have built in China. The second way we could have won the Vietnam war is if we had gone nuclear after tet. Unfortunately, that would have caused more problems than it solved.. You may or may not know (because you were over there) but in the late sixties, the government almost lost control of THIS COUNTRY regular riots in the streets, and more and more people saying “OUT NOW” When I was young I wasn’t very smart (some say I haven’t improved) but Then, I was all for “staying the course” “fighting on” and all the other cute little sayings AND I still believe that those who supported the war were the majority… BUT I, and they were wrong...in retrospect, there was no reason for even one American to die in Southeast Asia… Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and their staffs were wrong also. The ragged crew in the street, William Sloan Coffin, and Joan Baez were right.. It hurts to say this… But it’s so…
By Jackie T. Gabel, December 8, 2006 at 10:40 am # RE: • Comment #41317 by John Cunningham on 12/08 at 1:59 am — “the ‘c’ word.” >>>> Indeed, we saw what happened to Aldo Moro when he let the ‘c’ people take their seats in the Italian Parliament (FYI, Red Brigade = Gladio = CIA/MI-6 = NATO)—fully documented and exposed at Italian Parliament hearings ca. 1990. RE: • Comment #41317 by John Cunningham on 12/08 at 1:59 am — “You can’t blame the Vietnamese boat people and Pol Pot on on what was originally intended for that part of the world...” >>>>> Oh yes I can. Ho’s ‘c’ word was Communism; The Dulles brothers’ ‘c’ word was Capitalism. The French version of the ‘c’ word for Vietnam was Colonialism. You, sir, cannot blame Ho’s compatriots for not wanting any more of that. Ho wrote to Truman directly. He did not beg for a Marshal Plan. He only asked that the French not be allowed to reoccupy the colony. The US could have prevented that and partnered for peace at the end of WWII instead of siding with colonialists — irony so rich it is lost on those for whom history is little more than an antiquarian prop for their demagoguery. RE: • Comment #41317 by John Cunningham on 12/08 at 1:59 am — “Why are you not seething about Pol Pot? Why are not seething about the condition in what then became just Vietnam and millions would rather take their chances on rafts, voting with their feet, on the high seas? How’s this sound?” >>>>> Oh yes I have seethed very intensly over the years. Here on the “Left” Coast as it’s often referred to, many thousands more refugees from SE Asia have settled, than on the “Right” Coast, and I know their stories very well. And, it is an historical fact that the Nixon/Kissinger bombing of Cambodia destabilized the country and gave Pol Pot his opening. Then five years later the US supported him (enemy of our enemy) when the Vietnamese came in to end the nightmare. Then a curious thing happened. They left — so much for the Domino Theory of Monolithic Communism. RE: • Comment #41317 by John Cunningham on 12/08 at 1:59 am — “Why don’t you float on out on a raft and go over there to live?” >>>>> What took you so long? In the 60’s it was “USA, No. 1, Love it or Leave it!” RE: • Comment #41317 by John Cunningham on 12/08 at 1:59 am — “ There’s probably a new industrial park...You could get a job there. Someday I’ll take one of those tours...you can come down to the dock to see us off and you can wave from the dock as we fade into the horizon.” >>>>> Finally, smug cosmopolitanism, another ‘c’ word. I’m not going to bludgeon your cute little vignette with my decades on the road in Europe, Africa and Asia, traveling “down with le peuple” as they say, not on cruise ships; as well as working at more jobs than I can remember. As for your attempt at “irony(?)” it’s a simple minded puerile scenario — a post-grad-educated 57-year-old American male slogging in a corporate sweat shop owned by global oligarchs and run by communists? I certainly have not misread your cloyingly contemptuous ad hominem denigrations. As a freelance artist struggling to survive in this, the most philistine nation of all time, Europe has for some time been looking pretty good again. My wife, also an artist, would like nothing better than for us to return to her homeland, Poland, where our work will certainly be more appreciated. She’d especially like to leave because the USA, which she had always held as a beacon of freedom and liberty while she and her colleagues struggled against Orwellian totalitarianism, she now feels is becoming exactly that — a pot of simmering frogs. By all means, Mr. Cunningham, embark sooner rather than later on your South China Sea cruise. Do it while your dollars are still worth something and the casino is still open.
By John Cunningham, December 8, 2006 at 1:59 am # Jackie, you got me on the Gulf of Tonkin. But then, Uncle Ho used the ‘c’ word. You can’t blame the Vietnamese boat people and Pol Pot on on what was originally intended for that part of the world if we had been successful and the American people hadn’t lost their will and spine and in an act of spite cut off funding and not even have allowed our Air Force to assist the Army of the Republic of Vietnam when the north over ran the south after we left. Why are you not seething about Pol Pot? Why are not seething about the condition in what then became just Vietnam and millions would rather take their chances on rafts, voting with their feet, on the high seas? How’s this sound? Why don’t you float on out on a raft and go over there to live? A couple of years ago my brother and his wife gave me for Christmas a coat, they bought it at the GAP. Love that coat, it’s barely going to freezing today here in Philadelphia, it’ll be needed today. It was so funny, though, when I got that coat home that day I read the label and it turns out it was made in Vietnam. There’s probably a new industrial park in the suburbs of Ho Chi Minh City that exclusivly makes stuff for the GAP. You could get a job there. Someday I’ll take one of those tours that a lot of Vietnam veterans take so we can revisit our old haunts. Hmmmm, lunch in Tam Ky, dinner in DaNang, a week on the former DMZ in Quang Tri. Do a side trip to Khe Sahn, Route 9 is probably a four lane hard top now. Then when we go back to the ship to continue our south China Sea cruise you can come down to the dock to see us off and you can wave from the dock as we fade into the horizon. Oh, Jackie, there’s a little island called Cu La Rae (hope I spelled it right) it means island of sun. It’s only one by three miles and it’s twenty-six miles off the coast from Da Nang. Spent two weeks there in ‘67 guarding an Air Force radar installation. Maybe they turned it into an R&R;destination for the Vietnamese by now. During my two years there I got to go to Australia three times. But, you’ll be working at the GAP, probably wouldn’t be able to afford a trip down under. Well, at least you’ll be happy and won’t be seething anymore. For what it’s worth Ortega did ‘promise’ that he in so many words has matured and has turned down his rhetoric, he didn’t really mean he really wanted to be a communist. He was only (kidding). People can change, we’ll only have to hope for the best. His people have spoken. Tony, I only did five years in the regular army (’67-’72) and ten in the guard (’84-’94) while living up in Buffalo. Hardly a lifetime. People say we talked to the Soviets therefore we should talk to the Iranians and Syrians. They fail to remember that when we were talking we did do Korea and Vietnam, and even though we did cut and run (ring a bell?) we also did sabre rattling big time during the eighties. Remember the big military build up that Reagan did? The big build up that those without spines said would take us three generations to pay for. The bill that Clinton did in fact pay off before he left office. Did the Soviets finally decide to get off the pot and finally take down that wall because Reagan said please or did they do it because they were afraid that Reagan was going to unleash the hounds? Now, Tony, tell us what you’re going to talk to President Imadinnerjacket about to convince him that on his list of top ten things to do he’ll from then on promise that he’ll put his current number one thing to do, kill all the Jews, to, let’s see, number seven on his top ten list. See if he’ll put us number eight. Please don’t chop my head off and I want my youtube back.
By Skruff, December 7, 2006 at 1:55 pm # Noriega. is a different subject… Our friend when it suited us… Our scapegoat when he was no longer useful AND Mistakes are not impossible for me either...don’t be embarrassed about that! Add Your Comment |
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Watch this 15-minute 1999 documentary about the lives of women under the Taliban in Afghanistan. With the Taliban back in power and women forced back into virtual house arrest, this film is tragically still relevant.
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