http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/6625415/Iraq-report-Secret-papers-reveal-blunders-and-concealment.html

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23431

Such as the oil-fired power plant, that had a gas pipeline built (almost) to it, before anyone realized that anything was amiss?

Afghan MP Malalai Joya says that we, and all the other foreign troops should get out now .
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/afghanmission/article/727873—liberation-was-just-a-big-lie

And, she says, U.S. President Barack Obama, who is considering a surge in troop levels to battle Al Qaeda and the Taliban, should think again.

“The United States should go, too. As long as foreign troops are in the country we will be fighting two enemies instead of one.”

Yes, she says, there is a risk of civil war, as happened when the Soviet Union gave up the fight against U.S.-backed Afghan Islamists 20 years ago. But it would still be better than “night raids, torture and aerial bombardment” that killed hundreds of Afghan civilians while the Taliban made steady gains.

“Liberation was just a big lie.” Joya believes Afghans are now better prepared to battle the Taliban alone – if the warlords are disarmed, and the international community helps build a society that can push back against extremism.

It is a tall order, she admits. But “resistance has increased, and people are becoming more aware of democracy and human rights. They need humanitarian and educational support.”

But not, she adds, at the point of a gun.

(She was in Toronto to plug her book, A Woman Among Warlords. )

I noticed another article also. Seems that Harper, who has made a point of pinting out human rights abuses by China, is expecting to get an earful in China. Some allegations have surfaced that Canadians turned prisoners over to our freedom-loving Afghan friends, for the purpose of torturing confessions out of them. The current ambassador to China is supposed to have authorized it. Oops!

Sometime in the 60’s I think it was George Wallace who said:
“Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we’ve been bombing over the years been complaining?”

I was born during the Korean War and grew up during the Vietnam War. Nothing is changing boys and girls, nothing.

Protested, demonstrated, gassed, hand cuffed, hell, I even voted.

I’ve just never understood why we can’t even take a smidgen (like a cool couple billion from whatever trillions) of that money we use on killing people in other countries and use it like say, on health care in this country.
(Oh wait, we’re afraid of terrorists. Oh wait, we’re not afraid to be sick, without a home, a job and/or all in excruciating cancerous pain. But…
Oh wait, God Forbid, that’s socialism. A cure worse than slow death.)

Anyway, if we’re so God Almighty Powerful and Arrogant why do these wars take so long? How long does it take to destroy a little picayune country and it’s people?

And then, I really don’t get this: we stay in this ‘other’ country and help them put it all back together? Even Humpty Dumpty had trouble with that one.
I thought we went there to screw ‘em (with AA)?
For crying out loud, let’s put on our “big boy pants” or take them off as the case may be and “screw ‘em” already.

Get all our children, the sacks of cash, a humvee or two and come the hell home.
Come build that hospital here, we have staff that can run it. Come build that water treatment plant here, we have knowledgeable staff to run it. Small projects, large projects bring them here. Plenty of people out of work here that can operate it, build it, staff it, whatever you need.

But no, same stupid ass shit.

(Sorry CH, maybe I haven’t had enough coffee this AM or maybe too much)

But wait, just one more quote, love this, it works for people and countries:

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
—Albert Einstein

Drop dead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhmnOpoGAPw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arXyYYsQM3Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_72wGGgtv9I