U.S. ignored warnings before deadly Afghan attack
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Three intelligence reports warned that Taliban insurgents were planning an attack just days before this month's raid on two remote military outposts in eastern Afghanistan that killed eight U.S. soldiers, but the reports were dismissed as insignificant, U.S. officials told The Washington Times.
As a result, military officials did not send additional troops or make preparations to protect the 140 U.S. and Afghan troops at the combat outposts near Kamdesh in Nuristan province by the Pakistan border,
A former senior Army officer said the intelligence should have prompted action to provide the outposts with more defenses.
"Why didn't they react and have immediate support on site, based on the intelligence, and even based on the initial attack that occurred?" retired Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely asked.
Gen. Vallely said the outposts near the border should have been staffed with more Afghan troops, who despite eight years of U.S. assistance and training are not deemed capable of running such posts themselves.
full report:
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/16/us-ignored-warni...
We buried one of those boys yesterday
http://www.rgj.com/article/20091017/NEWS/91017020/-1/news1802
What a waste..They closed those outposts anyway.
"I don't endorse anything they say"
~Ron Paul On the 911 Truth movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGyhlNY0y1k
I am sorry to hear that
...such young promising lives gone...very heartbreaking ...and for what?
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"I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies." ~ Chris Floyd
"I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies." ~ Chris Floyd
Never ending war.
All the anti-war democrats are now silent.
The military and the corporations own our government.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4qUY9b3ETU
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Black Agenda Report
We Need a Black-Led Movement for Peace, Not a Phony “Prize”
When Barack Obama declares he is presiding over 'necessary' wars, then those who seek peace must organize the necessary resistance to his wars.” That responsibility weighs even more heavily on Black activists, who must “reignite a Black-led movement to confront this administration's war policies, at home and abroad.” The date is November 7th. The place is Washington, DC.
“President Obama has expanded on a legacy of death and destruction.”
President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is as phony as the plastic prize in a Cracker Jack box, full of empty rhetorical calories and poisonous substances. The Norwegian Nobel Committee completed its nominations process only eleven days after Obama took office, and chose him based on their own wishful assumptions of what he might do as president. In the real world, among his first acts was to present to Congress the biggest military budget in the history of the world, to fund a U.S. armed forces that is more lethal and costly than all the rest of the militaries on the planet, combined
transcript in full:
http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/we-need-black-le...
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"I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies." ~ Chris Floyd
"I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies." ~ Chris Floyd
Because they are trying to pick a fight and get the American
people to get behind this crap again!
"Human beings with love and compassion are some of the most beautiful creatures in the universe... Those without are a plague on us all."
"Human beings with love and compassion are some of the most beautiful creatures in the universe... Those without are a plague on us all."
Yes, that's the way they operate
* At least the one General seemed to really question it..I hope our military is watching out for this. Also, what is to stop one of these mercenary contract groups from escalating the violence on purpose to maintain thier profits?
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"I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies." ~ Chris Floyd
"I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies." ~ Chris Floyd
Good point.
It keeps them in business.