World-News

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski239.html

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US General: Afghan Violence to Rise
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/09-10

Afghanistan's 'Bravest Woman' Pins Hopes on USA, Not Obama
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/09-7



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Surging Into Disaster
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis172.html

The Shame and Folly of Obama's Afghan War
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/lindorff6.1.1.html

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The Bush-Obama War

by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Now it's Barack Obama's war. After campaigning against "George Bush's War" in the Middle East, Obama has escalated that war. By transferring thousands of America's forces from Iraq to Afghanistan, and by sending an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, the liberal Democrat has demonstrated that his administration is not so different from that of his "conservative" Republican predecessor. While I was crisscrossing America during the campaign season last year, I repeatedly........

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin553.htm

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Meanwhile...

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Ever since President Obama's speech last Tuesday, all media, political and public attention has been focused exclusively on the war in Afghanistan. The president mentioned Iraq a few times in the speech, mostly to blame that situation for the situation in Afghanistan. At one point, however, he seemed to be making the shocking claim that the war in Iraq has been a success. 'We have given Iraqis a chance to shape their future, and we are successfully leaving Iraq to its people,' he said. Hm."

http://www.truthout.org/1207098

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White House Chorus: We Will Occupy South Asia for 'Long Time'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/07

Escalating Afghan War Mocks Hopes of Peace, Good Will
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/07-9

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Best performance in a farce

AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

12/08/09

Within the last 11 months, while 500 coalition soldiers have perished and thousands have been wounded on the battlefields of Afghanistan, the Obama administration has treated the rest of us to an elaborate, Oscar-worthy performance of how to act in charge from the back seat of a car. In other words, instead of approving the tens of thousands more in reinforcements military leaders said they needed to win right away, the president spent most of 2009 trying to look deliberative and in charge — and pleasing no one. Turns out the escalation was hardwired from the beginning. He’ll do what the military wanted all along. It makes one wonder which is worse — the escalation itself, or leaving the operation foundering in virtual limbo for a year while this kabuki theater ran its course...

http://tinyurl.com/yk99poa



The march of folly

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

12/07/09

It will be a long and unnecessary war. President Obama is sending 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan to prove that the US can impose its will on the country and crush by military means what is still a relatively small scale insurrection. The real reasons for escalating the conflict are very different from those declared by Mr Obama...

http://counterpunch.org/patrick12072009.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Das Lachen der Minderheit. Der Bundestag hat das deutsche Kriegsmandat verlängert. Es ist die Entscheidung einer politischen Parallelgesellschaft, die zeigt, was sie von der wahren Mehrheit hält

„Über den Ausgang der Entscheidung (hier die Liste der namentlichen Abstimmung) hatte es vorher keinen Zweifel gegeben: Die deutschen Soldaten bleiben ein weiteres Jahr in Afghanistan, der Kriegseinsatz, um den so viel Wortakrobatik betrieben wird, damit er nicht so genannt werden muss, geht weiter. Fortsetzung findet damit auch der politische Autismus einer Minderheit, die sich für eine Mehrheit hält: 446 Abgeordnete votierten für eine Verlängerung, 148 Parlamentarier stimmten dagegen oder enthielten sich…“ Artikel von Tom Strohschneider in Freitag vom 04.12.2009 http://www.freitag.de/politik/0949-afghanistan-bundeswehr-bundestag-debatte-mandat-verlaengerung


„Wir hassen diese Generäle“. Präsident Obama, es ist Zeit nach Hause zu kommen! Der Filmemacher Michael Moore hat einen Offenen Brief geschrieben. Der Krieg am Hindukusch geht trotzdem weiter

„Nach acht Jahren Krieg in Afghanistan setzt US-Präsident Barack Obama auf eine massive Militäroffensive. Anfang des Jahres sollen 30.000 zusätzliche US-Soldaten an den Hindukusch geschickt werden. Im Sommer 2011 soll dann – abhängig von der Sicherheitslage vor Ort – der Rückzug der Armee beginnen. Vor der Rede Obamas in der Militärakademie West Point hat sich der Filmemacher Michael Moore an den Präsidenten und das amerikanische Volk gewandt. Freitag.de dokumentiert seinen Offenen Brief, das Original findet sich auf Moores Webseite.“ Übersetzung des Offenen Briefs bei Freitag online http://www.freitag.de/positionen/0949-usa-afghanistan-krieg-moore-brief


"Demgegenüber setzen wir auf eine vorausschauende Friedenspolitik". "Aktionsvorschläge 2010"

Bundesausschuss Friedensratschlag verabschiedet "Aktionsvorschläge". Im Wortlaut: Eine Agenda der Friedensbewegung für 2010, dokumentiert beim Friedensratschlag http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/bewegung/schwerpunkte2010.html

Siehe auch die Sonderseite zum Friedensratschlag 2009 mit allen Dokumenten http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/rat/2009/Welcome.html


Aus: LabourNet, 7. Dezember 2009



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In a similar poll 18 months ago only 55 percent were against the despatch of some 700 extra troops to Afghanistan.

http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/french-news/80-percent-of-French-oppose-more-troops-for-Afghanistan_58619.html


From Information Clearing House



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Guttenberg und die versuchte Taktik des geordneten Rückzugs

Der Verteidigungsminister will uns weismachen, dass die Bombardierung der Tanklaster zwar falsch, aber doch irgendwie auch richtig war und er auf jeden Fall weiterhin ohne Fehl ist.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31651/1.html



Schlechte Nachrichten für Guttenberg und die Regierung

Veröffentlichte Teile des Nato-Berichts über die Bombardierung in Afghanistan machen die Verschleierungstaktik der Regierung deutlich.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146684



Was macht das KSK in Afghanistan?

"Militärisch nicht angemessen" - Guttenbergs Neubewertung des Bombenabwurfes auf die Tanklaster bei Kundus führt zu immmer neuen Teilwahrheiten und neuen Fragen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146683



Auf Kriegsfuß mit der Wahrheit

Der deutsche Bombenbefehl von Kundus: Auch drei Monate später lassen Verteidigungsministerium und die Bundesregierung nur erkennen, dass sie an der umfassenden Aufklärung des Luftschlages und der näheren Umstände nicht interessiert sind

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31725/1.html

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12. Dezember 2009

Merkel muss endlich Karten auf den Tisch legen

Die Affäre um den Luftangriff in Afghanistan mit vielen Toten und Verletzen nimmt eine neue Dimension an. Fast täglich werden neue Fakten bekannt. Dazu erklärt der Parteivorsitzende Lothar Bisky:

Nur so viel zugeben, wie ohnehin schon öffentlich bekannt geworden ist - das ist die Taktik der Bundesregierung in Bezug auf die Bombardierungen nahe Kunduz. Scheibchenweise kommt jetzt offenbar die Wahrheit ans Licht – ohne Zutun der Bundesregierung. Im Verteidigungsministerium herrscht offenbar ein System von Verdrängung, Vertuschung und Lüge. Es ist höchste Zeit für einen Systemwechsel. Wenn es stimmt, dass das Bundeskanzleramt bereits vor dem Luftschlag nahe Kunduz ein schärferes Vorgehen der Bundeswehr in Afghanistan gebilligt hat, dann wurden Parlament und Öffentlichkeit bewusst getäuscht. Das wirft ein völlig neues Licht auf die Ereignisse und die Desinformationspolitik der Bundesregierung. Verteidigungsminister Jung wurde geopfert, um weitere Fragen im Keim zu ersticken. Die Salamitaktik von Kanzlerin Merkel wird nicht aufgehen. Sie muss endlich die Karten auf den Tisch legen.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/merkel-muss-endlich-karten-auf-den-tisch-legen/

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Friedensratschlag: Nicht das Grundgesetz ändern, sondern die Politik

Wortführer der CDU/CSU scheinen von allen guten Geistern verlassen zu sein, wenn sie den Streit um das Kundus-Massaker zu einer Grundgesetzänderung nutzen wollen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741687605ms186



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Gen James Jones told me that "in no manner, shape or form" would the US withdraw from Afghanistan in 2011. In his speech on Tuesday, President Obama for the first time put a date on the beginning of the end of the United States presence in Afghanistan.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markmardell/2009/12/no_afghanistan_withdrawal_in_2.html



Obama's speech on Afghanistan: A compendium of lies

In his December 1 speech at West Point announcing the deployment of 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan, President Barack Obama attempted to justify a major escalation of a deeply unpopular war on the basis of lies and distortions. That he had to resort to such falsifications reflects both the reactionary character of his policy and the fact that it is being imposed in violation of the popular will.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/dec2009/pers-d03.shtml



Travelling by road in Afghanistan 'now more dangerous than under Taliban'

Britain's most senior commander in Helmand has admitted.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/6718217/Travelling-by-road-in-Afghanistan-now-more-dangerous-than-under-Taliban.html


From Information Clearing House

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Strategy and Logistics in Afghanistan: Flawed Thinking

Melvin A. Goodman, Truthout: "Logistics will be the key to introducing 30,000 soldiers and Marines into Afghanistan in the next six to seven months and to confronting the Taliban over the next 18 months. This reflects an old saying in the military - amateurs study strategy and professionals study logistics."

http://www.truthout.org/1204092



The Afghan Ambush

Michael Winship, Truthout: "The decision has been made. The months of meetings and briefings are over. Tuesday night, the president made it official: 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan. Along with Friday's announcement of an additional 7,000 from our NATO allies, after all those weeks of debate and consultation, the result's pretty much exactly what our commander over there, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, asked for in the first place."

http://www.truthout.org/1205094

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Do Obama Officials Know What his Afghanistan Plan Is?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/04-11

Liberal Democrats Take Aim at Funding for War
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/04-5

Chomsky Speaks on US Imperialism
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/04-9

We Need a Clean Vote Now on Afghanistan Escalation
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/04



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4. Dezember 2009

Nach der Entscheidung des Bundestages, das ISAF-Mandat um weitere 12 Monate zu verlängern, erklärt Christine Buchholz, Mitglied des geschäftsführenden Parteivorstandes DIE LINKE:

Mit ihrer Entscheidung zur Weiterführung der deutschen Kriegsbeteiligung in Afghanistan hat sich die Regierungsmehrheit im Bundestag erneut in einer zentralen Frage gegen die große Mehrheit der deutschen Bevölkerung gestellt. Und wieder hat die Bundesregierung ihr Mantra vorgetragen, die Sicherheit erfordere den Aufbau Afghanistans, und der Aufbau erfordere Sicherheit - in Form der militärischen Absicherung durch die internationalen Streitkräfte. DIE LINKE weist dies zurück. NATO-Truppen machen Afghanistan nicht zu einem sichereren Ort. Sie tragen den Krieg in bisher ruhige Gebiete. Sie behindern den Aufbau, wie uns unabhängige Hilfsorganisationen bestätigen. Und sie töten unschuldige Menschen, wie kürzlich bei Kundus. Minister zu Guttenberg gibt nun endlich zu, dass das Massaker von Kundus "objektiv nicht angemessen" war, nimmt den Kommandeur aber in Schutz, weil seine Entscheidung "subjektiv angemessen" gewesen sei. Mit anderen Worten, die Bundeswehr macht Fehler, die subjektiv nicht zu vermeiden sind und weiterhin Zivilisten töten werden. Wir sagen daher: Die Kriegsbeteiligung ist objektiv nicht angemessen. DIE LINKE will ein Ende der Gewaltspirale. Der erste und unumgängliche Schritt ist der Abzug der Bundeswehr. Je eher das geschieht, desto einfacher wird es werden, danach mit echter Hilfe zu beginnen. Wir begrüßen dass es in der grünen Bundestagsfraktion erstmals mehr Nein- als Ja-Stimmen gab. Wir werden weiter für ein sofortiges Ende des Krieges in Afghanistan und gegen eine mögliche Aufstockung des Kontingents kämpfen.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/afghanistan-kriegsbeteiligung-objektiv-nicht-angemessen/



15. Dezember 2009

Nicht eine Kriegserklärung, sondern der Abzug aus Afghanistan ist die Lösung

Auf die Forderung des Bundeswehrverbandschefs Ulrich Kirsch, Afghanistan zu einem bewaffneten Konflikt zu erklären, antwortet Christine Buchholz, Mitglied im Geschäftsführenden Parteivorstand der Partei DIE LINKE:

Die geforderte Kriegserklärung und Erlaubnis "präventiv zu wirken" würde bedeuten, weiter zu bombardieren und Menschen außergerichtlich zu exekutieren. Die Bundeswehr überschreitet die Grenzen des Mandats und verstößt gegen internationales Recht. Dies ist tatsächlich ein Problem für die Soldaten vor Ort. Die Lösung ist aber nicht, den Krieg zu erklären, sondern die Soldaten sofort aus Afghanistan zurückzuholen. Dies muss die Konsequenz aus der Bombardierung von Kunduz sein. DIE LINKE lehnt den Afghanistan-Einsatz ab und fordert den Abzug der Bundeswehr. DIE LINKE unterstützt den Aktionstag der Friedensbewegung gegen den Afghanistan-Einsatz am 28. Januar anlässlich der Londoner Afghanistan-Konferenz.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/nicht-eine-kriegserklaerung-sondern-der-abzug-aus-afghanistan-ist-die-loesung



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/lindorff5.1.1.html

Obama et al. have apparently found the perfect model and game plan for winning in Afghanistan
http://www.lewrockwell.com/douglas/douglas29.1.html

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New president, same old scam
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/743.html

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Bipartisan Group of Legislators Opposes Increasing Troops in Afghanistan

Mary Susan Littlepage, Truthout: "A bipartisan group of legislators wrote a letter to President Barack Obama to oppose his call to increase the number of US troops in Afghanistan. The group consists of Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin), Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Massachusetts) and Rep. Walter Jones (R-North Carolina). Feingold, McGovern and Jones said they think that Congress should debate and vote on an increase in troops for the eight-year war in Afghanistan. The group also opposes the increase because the three men said they think it could undermine the United States' ability to address the global threat posed by al-Qaeda, and they expressed concern for the loss in lives and resources from the war, as well as a concern that the war creates many mental health troubles such as post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide among many soldiers."

http://www.truthout.org/1203099

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Afghan training mission faces tough obstacles

MSNBC

12/03/09

America’s eight-year effort to build a functional Afghan security force has been a study in slow motion, raising doubts about President Barack Obama’s new plan to quickly get the nation’s army and police in shape so U.S. forces can begin to leave in 18 months. A lack of competence, resources and confidence have hampered Afghanistan’s army and police, as have illiteracy and corruption. Those continuing obstacles provoked skepticism from Congress this week about whether the U.S. military can train the Afghans quickly and effectively enough to begin to replace American forces by Obama’s proposed exit start date of July 2011...

http://tinyurl.com/yd6prdd



Congress confused about Afghanistan plan

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

12/03/09

The Obama administration sent what many lawmakers saw as vague and sometimes confusing signals Wednesday about its intentions in Afghanistan, leaving members of Congress unsure how to proceed as they consider a plan to deploy 30,000 more American troops there. President Obama had said Tuesday night that U.S. troops would begin leaving Afghanistan in July 2011, but under grilling yesterday at the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggested that date could change...

http://tinyurl.com/yhp8ds6



Obama’s war: The reaction

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

12/04/09

I’m actually pretty surprised to see that many liberals and progressives are not climbing on board Obama’s war wagon — notably Rachel Maddow, who made a stinging criticism of the escalation by comparing the rhetoric of the Bush administration and that of the New Obama, concluding that the latter had adopted and even extended the essence of the ‘Bush Doctrine,’ the morally indefensible idea that we have to strike at targets that might possibly pose a threat to U.S. national security some time in the indefinite future. … Keith Olbermann was clearly embarrassed, like a father whose child has just crapped his pants in the middle of Walmart...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/12/03/obamas-war-the-reaction/



Civil war president

The American Conservative
by Sheldon Richman

12/03/09

Barack Obama’s intensification of the occupation of Afghanistan is nothing less than a full commitment to one side in the civil war raging there. What he calls a threat of a Taliban takeover is actually a Pashtun resistance to the U.S. occupation and the corrupt Karzai government it backs. Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s spin cannot change those facts. Obama’s story isn’t even coherent...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/12/03/civil-war-president/



The fog of war

Slate
by John Dickerson

Since his inauguration, Barack Obama has tripled the number of troops fighting in Afghanistan. After announcing the latest surge of 30,000 new soldiers in a speech at West Point, it is clear that he is a president actively prosecuting a war, not merely tending to one that was left to him. The rest, though, is a bit blurry. According to his speech, Obama is escalating while retreating, adding more troops while also setting a date for their departure. Obama said he was putting pressure on the Afghan government, but he didn’t suggest how...

http://www.slate.com/id/2237100/



The Obama war plan: A recipe for disaster!

Root for America
by Wayne Allyn Root

12/03/09

I believe President Obama has made a grave decision that will result in a never-ending commitment to a war that America can neither afford, nor win. Unlike Iraq, Afghanistan is a country comprised of people without national identity, with only family and tribal loyalties. They have no interest or desire to build a democracy. America has no business in attempting to force them to do so, and I, for one, am unwilling to commit American lives and treasure to support a corrupt group of war lords. Let them fight their own battles. I would not risk the lives of my young sons on this tragic game plan. Would you? Would Obama? Would any of the gung-ho Republicans who have come out in support of Obama’s war expansion plans? I don’t think Karl Rove or Newt Gingrich would send their sons. I know that Mitt Romney has never sent any of his 5 sons. But they certainly have no problem sending your sons with enthusiasm...

http://www.rootforamerica.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry091203-154412



A postscript: Choices have consequences

The Power of Narrative
by Arthur Silber

12/03/09

Choices have consequences. When people choose to support a system such as ours today, endless destruction, murder, torture, barbarity and devastation are what they will get, necessarily and inevitably. Almost no one chooses ‘the only honorable course.’ Instead, most people avail themselves of transparent rationalizations, of mindless invocation of ‘lesser evils,’ and of the full panoply of denial and avoidance. But the suffering and the death go on...

http://tinyurl.com/y9jgj8q



We will be your insurgency

Freedom's Phoenix
by Mel Mason

12/03/09

So it’s come to this. Obama’s gotta wage his war, and I gotta sit in the street. It’s not that I like blocking traffic or getting arrested or dealing with the fall-out when I could be reading a book. It’s that I can’t live with endless war and I must end it or surely die. I’m not leaving this country. This is my mess, so help me, and I’ll scrub it till my fingers bleed. I will not compromise with genocide...

http://tinyurl.com/yaxc3sc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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One Thousand U.S. Soldiers and $300 Million for Every One al Qaeda Fighter

By RICHARD ESPOSITO, MATTHEW COLE and BRIAN ROSS

President Barack Obama's description Tuesday of the al Qaeda "cancer" in that country left out one key fact: U.S. intelligence officials have concluded there are only about 100 al Qaeda fighters in the entire country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24105.htm



"More occupation means less occupation"

Obama's Af-Pak is as Whack as Bush's Iraq

By Glen Ford

Barack Obama's oratorical skills have turned on him, revealing, as George Bush's low-grade delivery never could, the perfect incoherence of the current American imperial project in South Asia.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24107.htm



Is President Obama's Surge A Trap?

By Cynthia McKinney

U.S. policy is not only guided by pipeline politics. There is also the consideration of chessboard geo-positioning necessary to contain Russia, China, and ensure U.S. empire-for those inclined to traditional Cold Warrior "containment" thinking.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24112.htm



Petraeus: al-Qaida not operating in Afghanistan

VIDEO

The chief of the U.S. Central Command says al-Qaida no longer is operating in Afghanistan. But Gen. David Petraeus says affiliated organizations still have "enclaves and sanctuaries" in the country.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/10/petraeus-alqaida-not-oper_n_201310.html



Mullen: 2011 Afghan Withdrawal May Be "Very Few"

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen told CBS News on Thursday that, while President Obama's plan to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan in 2011 is clear, there has been no indication of how long that pullout may take after it's begun.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/03/world/worldwatch/entry5875488.shtml



Costs: By the numbers

Before President Obama reached the decision, announced Tuesday, to send additional troops to Afghanistan, he had requested $65 billion to fund operations in the country in fiscal 2010. Here is a breakdown of the money by the main spending categories...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/01/AR2009120104923_pf.html



This strategy has been tried before - without success

On this historic day - when Barack Obama plunges ever deeper into chaos - let us remember the British retreat from Kabul and its destruction in 1842.

http://snipurl.com/tjm6u


From Information Clearing House

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A Voice from RAWA: Zoya on Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/12/03-0

President Obama's Afghanistan Election Speech
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/03

The Afghan Quagmire
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/03-7

Congressman Dennis Kucinich: The War Is a Threat to Our National Security
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/03-13

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Are Obama and Clinton Being Honest About How Afghan War Began?
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/03-24



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