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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has joined Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold in declaring that the United States needs to start thinking about how to extract its military from Afghanistan.

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US Peace Activists Call for Near-Term Withdrawal of Foreign Troops From Afghanistan

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: "The coming weeks hold critical significance for the US occupation of Afghanistan. The Senate is expected to vote on the Obama administration's $128 billion request to fund war operations in Afghanistan and Iraq for the coming fiscal year. Next week, the Obama administration will unveil a report on whether US benchmarks for success in Afghanistan are being achieved. It's widely believed President Obama will receive a military request to escalate the Afghan war with thousands of additional troops. The apparent congressional unease over a troop escalation comes near Friday's eight-year anniversary of the vote authorizing the attack on Afghanistan. We speak to Norman Solomon of the Institute for Public Accuracy on his recent trip to Afghanistan and CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin."

http://www.truthout.org/091509V?n

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Mullen Confirms: More troops Requied for Afghan Escalation
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/15-8

Eight Years Later: Speak Out Against the War in Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/09/15

 

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'I took some flesh home and called it my son.'

By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in Kunduz

"The villagers were fighting over the corpses. People were saying this is my brother, this is my cousin, and no one could identify anyone."

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By ALISON SMALE

Western powers now in Afghanistan run the risk of suffering the fate of the Soviet Union there if they cannot halt the growing insurgency and an Afghan perception that they are foreign invaders, according to Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former U.S. national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter.

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/13-0

Marine's Photo Reminds Us of War that Will Not End
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/12-3

 

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/11-10

Obama Facing Doubts Within His Own Party on Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/11-3

US Should Learn From Canada, Allies in Afghan Mission: Adviser
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/11

Afghanistan: What Are These People Thinking?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/11-3

 

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The father of Sultan Munadi, the Afghan colleague of Mr Farrell who was killed in the raid, has demanded to know why ongoing negotiations, which he believes could have led to a peaceful outcome, were abandoned in favour of a military strike.

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Pelosi: Afghan surge lacks support

The leader of the US House of Representatives has said that there is little support among Americans and politicians for sending more US troops to Afghanistan.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/09/200991018389200455.html


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Anmerkungen zu einer Regierungserklärung.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31112/1.html

 

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Nach dem tödlichen Bombenangriff in Nordafghanistan beschäftigt der Feldzug Parlament und Justiz in Deutschland.

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AntiWar.Com

by Philip Giraldi

09/10/09

If Obama gives McChrystal his soldiers he will be heading down the road to disaster. When reliably conservative columnist George Will calls for leaving Afghanistan, the writing is surely on the wall. Even Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Michael Mullen has conceded that the United States has effectively wasted more than seven years in Afghanistan and now has to start over, an assessment that is actually optimistic in that it presumes that there is a way to achieve success, whatever that means. Obama can read the tea leaves as well as anyone. Will he do an LBJ and, in the cowardly fashion of a politician placing party above country, support a war that he knows is lost or will he make the courageous and correct choice to speak candidly to the American people and admit that Afghanistan has been a failed US policy and that it is time to walk away? Or will he adopt a third way that is neither fish nor fowl, going with the status quo and supporting current troop levels and funding, even though he knows to do so is futile, in the hope that he will not be labeled as the president who ‘lost’ Afghanistan?


http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/09/09/obamas-turning-point/

 

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To escalate the escalation?

Independent Institute

by Ivan Eland

09/09/09

The debate rages among experts on whether to escalate the escalation of Barack Obama’s ‘war of necessity’ in Afghanistan — seemingly oblivious to American public opinion at home that has turned against waging the conflict at all. During even the best of times, Washington can be isolated from the rest of the country and world. Now the imperial city — and most of the politicians, both Democrat and Republican, who run it — seems to be reenacting an episode of the incomprehensible television series Lost...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2599


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