US Approves $33bn for Afghanistan Troop Increase
The US House of Representatives has approved funds to pay for President Barack Obama's Afghanistan troop increase despite growing unhappiness with the war among his fellow Democrats.
"We’ve been in Afghanistan for nine years, making it the longest war in our nation’s history, and it’s come at a tremendous cost. We’ve tragically lost more than 1,100 American lives and spent close to $300 billion. We’ve also been in Iraq for seven years, where we’ve lost more than 4,400 American lives and spent more than $700 billion," explained Congressman John Garamendi, D-California, who added that, “Every dollar spent on war is a dollar not available for job creation in America, our schools, paying down the deficit, or helping those afflicted by natural and man-made disasters. The more than $30 billion allotted for the Afghanistan war could employ 300,000 teachers in schools across America."
And a comment from the article at commondreams.org......
9 years of war mongering and fear mongering, lies ,WMDs , the patriot act and 2 trillion dollars.... 6000 troops lives 80000 wounded and injured, 600000 Iraqi men women and children dead, 3 million Iraqi displaced, no peace in Iraq, violence increase in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Two countrys with infrastructure collapse, one we destroyed.
Our country has been hijacked by greedy right wing neocon bull shit artists and coward democrats.
AND WE PAY THE BILLS.
Our free press must change or be fired, mainstream TV media the same.
What is wrong with us? Why we allowing our government to do this? Is our government and military complex to large to be overthrown by the people? Are we so lazy and uninterested in the way they steal billions upon billions of our money to murder other people, innocent people, then claim to want to rebuild these countries that we invaded and destroyed to begin with? It's insane! And really insane is groups like the teabaggers protesting high taxes and a ballooning government when they should look at what's ballooning our debt, the wars, and protest that!! We are being taken for fools, we are being duped by our government! WE have the power to vote in this country and we don't use it. The majority of us want these wars to end, so put in place people like Barbara Lee and Dennis Kucinich, not warmongers like John McCain who calls a timetable a "purely political decision" and Lindsey Graham saying "if everybody in Afghanistan believes that we're going to begin to leave in July 2011 no matter what... we're gonna lose". Can you believe this bullshit?? There is NEVER gonna be a win Mr. Graham! Why is it uneducated stupid people like myself know that but our elected leaders do not??
From globalresearch.ca....
America today is a warfare state, the most powerful ever, and its leaders lie when they claim that small countries half way around the world with $5 billion annual military budgets represent a threat to Washington, which spends roughly $800 billion a year for war. That’s more, by the way, than the $780 billion all 50 state governments combined collected in 2008 to run the country. In his book, “House of War(Houghton Mifflin), James Carroll points out the Pentagon "exceeding agency and intention, has mutated into the great white whale of anarchy and destruction."
And a comment from the article at commondreams.org......
9 years of war mongering and fear mongering, lies ,WMDs , the patriot act and 2 trillion dollars.... 6000 troops lives 80000 wounded and injured, 600000 Iraqi men women and children dead, 3 million Iraqi displaced, no peace in Iraq, violence increase in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Two countrys with infrastructure collapse, one we destroyed.
Our country has been hijacked by greedy right wing neocon bull shit artists and coward democrats.
AND WE PAY THE BILLS.
Our free press must change or be fired, mainstream TV media the same.
What is wrong with us? Why we allowing our government to do this? Is our government and military complex to large to be overthrown by the people? Are we so lazy and uninterested in the way they steal billions upon billions of our money to murder other people, innocent people, then claim to want to rebuild these countries that we invaded and destroyed to begin with? It's insane! And really insane is groups like the teabaggers protesting high taxes and a ballooning government when they should look at what's ballooning our debt, the wars, and protest that!! We are being taken for fools, we are being duped by our government! WE have the power to vote in this country and we don't use it. The majority of us want these wars to end, so put in place people like Barbara Lee and Dennis Kucinich, not warmongers like John McCain who calls a timetable a "purely political decision" and Lindsey Graham saying "if everybody in Afghanistan believes that we're going to begin to leave in July 2011 no matter what... we're gonna lose". Can you believe this bullshit?? There is NEVER gonna be a win Mr. Graham! Why is it uneducated stupid people like myself know that but our elected leaders do not??
From globalresearch.ca....
America today is a warfare state, the most powerful ever, and its leaders lie when they claim that small countries half way around the world with $5 billion annual military budgets represent a threat to Washington, which spends roughly $800 billion a year for war. That’s more, by the way, than the $780 billion all 50 state governments combined collected in 2008 to run the country. In his book, “House of War(Houghton Mifflin), James Carroll points out the Pentagon "exceeding agency and intention, has mutated into the great white whale of anarchy and destruction."
These wars are what we all should be protesting, not President Obamas policies on healthcare, we are fools!!
