Rep. Ron Paul: Five Minute Speech in Support of Rep. Kucinich’s Afghanistan Resolution

Added: March 10, 2010

More on the war on terror:

– US Drone Strikes in Pakistan: 1 in 3 Killed Are Civilians

– US officials puzzle over millions of dollars in cash, well over $1 billion a year, leaving Afghanistan by plane for Dubai

– Blackwater Guards Stole Hundreds Of Weapons In Kabul And Went On Deadly Rampage

– Judge Napolitano and Angela Keaton on Freedom Watch: Obama’s Bush Foreign Policy

– Cynthia McKinney at Munich Germany NATO Peace Rally: ‘My Country Has Been Hijacked By A Criminal Cabal’

– The New Vision of the Obama Administration: War Without End

– International Fund to Buy Off Taliban Leaders in Afghanistan Will Cost Hundreds of Millions

– Ron Paul: US Foreign Policy is Bankrupting America

– Pentagon backtracks after Defense Secretary Robert Gates ‘admits’ Blackwater operating in Pakistan

– US Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret ‘Jesus’ Bible Codes (ABC News Investigation)

– US Marine Commander: Afghan surge troops won’t target drug crops

– Nobel Peace Laureate Obama seeks additional $33 billion for wars, on top of a record request for $708 billion for the Defense Department

– Top US intelligence officer: ‘Afghan Insurgency Can Sustain Itself Indefinitely’ and ‘Time Is Running Out’

– Afghanistan: Suicide bomber ‘kills four CIA agents’ after attacking CIA base, at least 8 Americans killed

– Afghan CIA suicide bomber ‘was courted as potential informant’

– 857 US Soldiers Died in Afghanistan Region Since 2001

– Obama’s surge comes at a cost: At least $57,077.60 per minute

– Nato appeals to Russia for more help with the war in Afghanistan

– US Forces Chief Admiral Mike Mullen Warns of More Fighting And Casualties in Afghanistan

– Robert Fisk, The Independent’s award-winning Middle East correspondent: Obama is a Disaster, Worse than Bush

– Rep. Dennis Kucinich: ‘These Wars Are Corrupting The Heart Of Our Nation!’

– Rep. Dennis Kucinich: The Truth About Afghanistan

– Obama administration tells Pakistan: Tackle Taliban or we will

– Dennis Kucinich: ‘The war in Afghanistan is a threat to our national security’; ‘America is in the fight of its life and that fight is not in Afghanistan – it’s here’

– Dennis Kucinich: Afghans ‘don’t want to be saved by us, they want to be saved from us.’

– MSNBC Rachel Maddow: War President Obama

– Ron Paul: ‘Obama is Actually Preparing Us For Perpetual War’

– Afghanistan Surge to Cost At Least $40 Billion, That Is $1.333.333 For One US Soldier Per Year

– President Obama ‘to deploy 30,000 troops to Afghanistan’

– Obama: ‘I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am President, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank.’ (!)

– CIA Secret ‘Torture’ Prison Found at Fancy Horseback Riding Academy Outside Vilnius, Lithuania

– British military forces told to ‘bribe’ the Taliban with ‘bags of gold’

– Afghanistan: New 67-Million-Dollar US Prison At Bagram

– The ‘Obama Market’ in Kabul: US Military Rations, Sleeping Bags, Tactical Goggles on Sale

– Paul Craig Roberts: Republic of Fools & The Evil Empire

– Rep. Eric Massa on Afghanistan: 2950 Days, 300 Billion Dollars, 911 Dead Americans – End the War, Bring back the Troops

–Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to Uzbekistan for extreme torture, to be ‘raped with broken bottles,’ ‘boiled alive’ and ‘having their children tortured in front of them’ (Must-read):

Murray asserts that the primary motivation for US and British military involvement in central Asia has to do with large natural gas deposits in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. As evidence, he points to the plans to build a natural gas pipeline through Afghanistan that would allow Western oil companies to avoid Russia and Iran when transporting natural gas out of the region.

Murray alleged that in the late 1990s the Uzbek ambassador to the US met with then-Texas Governor George W. Bush to discuss a pipeline for the region, and out of that meeting came agreements that would see Texas-based Enron gain the rights to Uzbekistan’s natural gas deposits, while oil company Unocal worked on developing the Trans-Afghanistan pipeline.

“The consultant who was organizing this for Unocal was a certain Mr. Karzai, who is now president of Afghanistan,” Murray noted.

“There are designs of this pipeline, and if you look at the deployment of US forces in Afghanistan, as against other NATO country forces in Afghanistan, you’ll see that undoubtedly the US forces are positioned to guard the pipeline route. It’s what it’s about. It’s about money, it’s about oil, it’s not about democracy.”

– US official resigns over Afghan war: Foreign Service officer and former Marine captain says he no longer knows why his nation is fighting:

“I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States’ presence in Afghanistan,” he wrote Sept. 10 in a four-page letter to the department’s head of personnel. “I have doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end.”

– Three US helicopters crash in Afghanistan, 14 Americans killed

– Morale dips for American marines in Afghanistan:

“I’m not much for this war. I’m not sure it’s worth all those lives lost,” said Sergeant Christian Richardson as we walked across corn fields that will soon be ploughed up to plant a spring crop of opium poppy.

– Afghanistan opium production reaches 6,900 tons:

Opium production rate has soared to 6,900 tons in Afghanistan in the past 10 years ‘despite‘ the presence of 100,000 foreign troops in the country for nearly eight years.

A report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said on Wednesday that Afghanistan produces 92 percent of the world’s opium that has devastating global consequences.

The UN report also noted that Afghanistan’s illegal opium production is worth 65 billion dollars.

The heroin and opium market feeds 15 million addicts, with Europe, Russia and Iran consuming half the supply, UNODC reported.

– Ron Paul: ‘The more troops we send the worse things get!’

– Ron Paul On The US Afghanistan War Policy

– Italians bribed the Taleban all over Afghanistan, say two senior Afghan officials

– Pentagon spends $400 per gallon of gas in Afghanistan

– I was ordered to cover up President Karzai election fraud, sacked UN envoy says

– President Obama quietly deploying 13,000 more US troops to Afghanistan

– Congressman Alan Grayson on Afghanistan

– Ten more US soldiers killed in Afghanistan

– Leaked Report: US Top Commander In Afghanistan Calls For More Troops Or War ‘Will Likely Result In Failure’

– ‘We’re pinned down:’ 4 US Marines die in Afghan ambush

– Top US commander in Afghanistan: The Taliban have gained the upper hand:

The Taliban have gained the upper hand in Afghanistan, the top American commander there said, forcing the U.S. to change its strategy in the eight-year-old conflict by increasing the number of troops in heavily populated areas like the volatile southern city of Kandahar, the insurgency’s spiritual home. Gen. Stanley McChrystal warned that means U.S. casualties, already running at record levels, will remain high for months to come.
(Source: The Wall Street Journal)

– General Sir David Richards: Afghanistan will take 30 to 40 years

– Former SAS Comander: Afghan operation is ‘worthless’