Tag: Afghanistan War

If President Bush invaded Afghanistan and Iraq based on lies and deception, please explain why the U.S. is not responsible for repairing the horrific damage inflicted on those two countries and for paying reparations.

Obama's recent comment on the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan, claiming that “our citizens are safer and our nation is more secure” conjures up the image of the allegorical man chained in a cave facing a blank wall and with his back to the fire.

Inspired by the popular uprisings in Arab countries, the anti-imperialist 'Occupy Wall Street' protests are creeping with vigorous rapidity into other states in the USA.

What these books still conceal, however, is the fact that the neocons are motivated by their Jewish ethnicity and the interests of the state of Israel.

The United States Conference of Mayors, representing 1,200 cities with populations over 30,000, voted in their June 20 plenary session to call on the federal government to end America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and redirect that military spending to home land priorities.

Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are at risk of a new disease researchers say they have named Iraq-Afghanistan War lung injury.

There's been a few pieces of good news as this year draws down. But in most ways, this year has been a really hard one,...

White House Afghanistan Progress Means Staying the Course This was sent to VT from Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). Posted on behalf of IVAW...

The White House is using its December review to try to spin the disastrous Afghanistan War plan by citing “progress” in the military campaign,...

This posting is a follow-up to VT coverage of Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) and Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) forming an alliance...

VT was contacted by the author of this article, Clare Bayard, which was originally Published on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 by CommonDreams.org. Clare asked...

Back in early 2007, when the Bush administration was insisting that its military intervention in a faraway land was not open-ended, Senator Barack Obama wasn't buying it.

A poll by the International Council on Security and Development reaffirms that the NATO alliance is failing to win over Afghan civilians, a cornerstone of success in the current strategy employed in Afghanistan. The poll found that in the two provinces currently at the center of the war — Helmand and Kandahar — 75 percent of Afghans believe foreigners disrespect their religion and traditions; 74 percent think working for foreign forces is wrong; 68 percent believe NATO will not protect them; and 65 percent think Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar should be part of the government.

- Tallies Cost of War Including Recent Supplemental Bill through September 30, 2010 $749.9 billion for Iraq $337.8 billion for Afghanistan $1.09 trillion total spending With the passage...

PBS FRONTLINE did a documentary that is now available on DVD accurately called Obama's War. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/ FRONTLINE notes that "Tens of thousands of fresh American troops...

The war in Afghanistan is a political and a military failure, even Batman cannot win it for the Americans. In producing this Batman vs. Al Qaeda movie, Miller is merely going to glorify and authenticate a political myth.

This is a pivotal moment. According to a recent Newsweek poll "Afghanistan War Hurting Obama's Support at Home," public opposition to the Afghanistan War...

"This was not the war that the commanding General had in mind, this was not his ambition, this was not the challenge he aspired...

It is estimated that there are 2 million World War II veterans left alive.  Many that served in World War II also served in...

Danny Schechter, who edits Mediachannel.org., recently posted his views on what has become obvious to anyone monitoring or just watching mainstream media that...

No doubt after chewing our troops up, the DVA will rush in to facilitate expedited delivery of benefits. Right. For those stuck on history...