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Alex213
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War on Terror: The 5 year clusterfuck
#6026850 - 09/04/06 02:54 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Five years ago this week, the Taliban's al-Qa'ida allies made final preparations to launch devastating attacks on America that would precipitate the "war on terror," the US led invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent invasion of Iraq.
Far from ending terrorism, George Bush's tactics of using overwhelming military might to fight extremism appear to have rebounded, spawning an epidemic of global terrorism that has claimed an estimated 72,265 lives since 2001, most of them Iraqi civilians.
The rest, some 30,626, according to official US figures, have been killed in a combination of terror attacks and counter-insurgency actions by the US and its allies. The figures were compiled by the US based National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (Mipt).
US led-invasion swept away the Taliban regime in a matter of weeks, and did the same to Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party in 2003, but far from bringing stability and democracy to Afghanistan and Iraq, the outcome has been one of constant warfare.
In Iraq, three and a half years after the invasion, the situation remains equally dire and the numbers of Iraqi casualtieshas soared by 51 per cent according to US figures. Some 3,000 civilians are now dying every month in Iraq the Pentagon says.
President Bush has shifted his approach in an effort to shore up faltering public support for the war. No longer does he stress the benefits of securing peace in Iraq, but rather he is laying out the peril of a failure.
Away from such rhetoric, the situation on the ground in Iraq only appears to be getting worse. According to a new, grim assessment by the Pentagon, Iraqi civilians are increasingly suffering as a result of the violence and chaos.
In recent months the numbers of Iraqi casualties both civilians and security forces - has soared by 51 per cent. The deaths are the result of a spiral in sectarian clashes as well as an ongoing insurgency against the US and UK occupation that remains "potent and viable". The average number of attacks of all types now stands at around 800 a week.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1359854.ece
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Re: War on Terror: The 5 year clusterfuck [Re: Alex213]
#6027247 - 09/04/06 06:26 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Republicans on CNN justify it with bizarre logic. They usually ramble about how wonderful it is the deaths are overseas rather than on our homeland.
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Re: War on Terror: The 5 year clusterfuck [Re: Alex213]
#6027526 - 09/04/06 09:11 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I hope the next president ends the war on terror as their first act, then makes a public apology for all of America's past and present actions toward all nations affected in the East.
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Re: War on Terror: The 5 year clusterfuck [Re: demiu5]
#6027601 - 09/04/06 09:38 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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That's not going to happen, regardless of the party of the next president.
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Re: War on Terror: The 5 year clusterfuck [Re: Alex213]
#6028118 - 09/04/06 12:55 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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thats prolly because "war on terror" means the repugnican global agenda and not any kind of anti-terrorist effort...
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Re: War on Terror: The 5 year clusterfuck [Re: demiu5]
#6030553 - 09/05/06 07:50 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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You cant stop a war against terrorism, because then terrorism would have won. You cant win a wear on terror because every week new terrorists come into existence from the general population.
Government course of action: increase spying on the general population and make them "easier to rule".
As seen with the War On Drugs, its similarly unwinnable, and is fought to at the expense of the freedoms of the general population.
To quote Oliver Hardy: "Thats another fine mess youve gotten us into"
Its all a War on You, and not a war on taliban and drug cartels.
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Re: War on Terror: The 5 year clusterfuck [Re: Asante]
#6030636 - 09/05/06 08:47 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Since we booted the Taliban out of Afghanistan, opium poppy production is up 300-400%.
Donald Rumsfeld cited those poppy production figures a few months ago with that smug smirk on his face. He seemed proud and perhaps rightfully so.
"Mission Accomplished"
The "war on terror" and the "war on drugs" are completely "unwinnable" other than for the few who reap the fortunes of war. The government likes that. And why wouldn't they?
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Edited by LunarEclipse (09/05/06 09:07 AM)
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