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President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to "finish the job" in Afghanistan and promised to unveil a decision soon on sending tens of thousands more US troops to battle Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091124/pl_afp/usafghanistanmilitarytroops



Top Democrat warns Afghanistan will bankrupt domestic programs

Threatens war surtax if Obama sends more troops.
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From Information Clearing House

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Obama Plans to Send 34,000 More Troops to Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/24

Afghan Army Turnover Rate Threatens US War Plans
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/24-11

Obama's 'Finish the Job' Talk Sets Stage for Afghan Troop Surge
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/25-4



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/23-3

Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam and Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/23-3

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Realities Collide at Halifax "War Conference"

Anthony Fenton, Inter Press Service: "While the world's top military elites gather inside a fortified hotel to discuss NATO's future, protesters question the organization's legitimacy, secrecy, and the lack of democratic debate about the increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan."

http://www.truthout.org/topstories/112309jr01



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Eight years after a US-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most dangerous place in the world for a child to be born, the United Nations said.

http://www.thefrontierpost.com/News.aspx?ncat=an&nid=1092


From Information Clearing House



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There was a fear that graphic reports, even in censored form, could be uncovered by opposition parties and the media through access-to-information laws, leading to revelations that would further erode already-tenuous public support.

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From Information Clearing House



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Ein Bericht der Hilfsorganisation Oxfam bemüht sich um Ansichten und Stimmen der "normalen Afghanen".

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31526/1.html

FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband has given the strongest indication yet that Britain's military presence in Afghanistan will significantly increase.

http://www.scotsman.com/latestnews/Britain-39to-stage-Afghanistan-surge39.5833058.jp


From Information Clearing House

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The bogus success of the surge

CounterPunch
by Ray McGovern

11/18/09

Last week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates summed up the administration’s dilemma on Afghanistan in a single question: ‘How do we signal resolve and at the same time signal to the Afghans and the American people that this is not open-ended?’ It is the same question that policymakers and generals were grappling with three years ago with respect to Iraq. Let’s hope they learned the right lessons from that experience, but it’s doubtful since the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) has been no help in shedding light on what actually happened...

http://counterpunch.org/mcgovern11182009.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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New Study
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/18-0



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Our Corrupt Occupation of Afghanistan

Robert Naiman, Truthout: "Is it just me, or is the pontification of Western leaders about corruption in Afghanistan growing rather tiresome? There is something very Captain Renault about it. We're shocked, shocked that the Afghans have sullied our morally immaculate occupation of their country with their dirty corruption. How ungrateful can they be? But perhaps we should consider the possibility that our occupation of the country is not so morally immaculate - indeed, that the most corrupt racket going in Afghanistan today is the American occupation."

http://www.truthout.org/1118096

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Afghaniscam
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/18

History Promises Disaster in Afghanistan for Blind America
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/18-10

Oxfam International: Poverty and Unemployment Fuel the Conflict According to 70% of Afghans, New Oxfam Research Shows
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/18

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Good grief

In These Times
by Kristian Williams

11/19/09

Whose life is worth protecting? If the question shocks us, it is because we hesitate to declare, by implication, that there are people whose lives aren’t worth protecting. Yet, while it may not be put in these terms, this is exactly the sort of judgment that President Barack Obama has to make in deciding how many troops to leave in Iraq, whether to escalate the war in Afghanistan, and when to authorize drone attacks in Pakistan. The point of combat is to kill the enemy, after all, and in the right circumstances anyone may be expendable — our soldiers, our allies, civilians on all sides. Acceptable losses. Collateral damage...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/5197/good_grief


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Pratap Chatterjee, TomDispatch.com: "Every morning, dozens of trucks laden with diesel from Turkmenistan lumber out of the northern Afghan border town of Hairaton on a two-day trek across the Hindu Kush down to Afghanistan's capital, Kabul. Among the dozens of businesses dispatching these trucks are two extremely well-connected companies -- Ghazanfar and Zahid Walid -- that helped to swell the election coffers of President Hamid Karzai as well as the family business of his running mate, the country's new vice president, warlord Mohammed Qasim Fahim."

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