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On the night President Barack Obama outlined his plans to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, we see that now-elected Rep. Jared Polis (D-CD2) is still featuring a video with discredited and fake Marine and anti-war protester “Rick Duncan” on his YouTube channel:
And a screencap for [...]
Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Afghanistan is being summarized as telling President Obama to Get Out Now. Olbermann’s words stir our enthusiasm, but he leaves damning loopholes as far as I am concerned. The MSNBC newsman conditions his advice to the president [...]
On Tuesday night, President Obama will address the nation on how we go forward in Afghanistan.
Tomorrow, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will publish their report, which you can read below. Note the title: Tora Bora Revisited: How we failed to get Bin Laden and why it matters today. It's [...]
UPDATE – TUES DEC 1 ANTIWAR ACTION- Show up. Bring a get-out-of-Afghanistan slogan, or hold extras from Coloradans For Peace.
Sport a healthy indignation over the new administration wanting to “finish the job” ie. continue war-making. Our action will be joined by peace [...]
Domestic issues including the mushrooming debt and the Democrats attempt to nationalize the health care industry consume the majority of the national media’s attention these days. President Obama’s pending announcement regarding an adjustment in strategy for the Afghanistan war and his decision to open the civil courts to captured terrorists [...]
President Obama wants to “finish the job?” What job would that be? Are we talking about a job which Bush started? Because I am pretty sure Mr. Obama was elected NOT to do that. “Finish” Afghanistan? Where was Obama when the rest [...]
White House spokesmen have announced that President Obama will address the nation on Tuesday, December 1st, to declare his intention to send 25,000-34,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. Join COLORADANS FOR PEACE in Acacia Park at 5PM TUESDAY to show our vehement opposition to this plan. Explained spokesman Robert Gibbs [...]
If you think you can influence Obama to get out of Afghanistan, by all means CALL THE WHITE HOUSE NOW! That’s 1-202-456-1111.
Rita Ague reports: “Hi Sisters and Brothers in Peace and Justice Movements: After many attempts, I got through to the White House at 12:45 PM Mountain Time. I [...]
Paul KrugmanVeterans For Peace are stepping forward to plan the unplannable: how to protest the regularly postponed announcement of an escalation in Afghanistan? I forgot how we picked March 19-21 to demonstrate against the attack on Iraq. Did we protest its beginning, or did it start afterward? Bush snuck the [...]
On Veterans Day, despite what any of us think about our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we can still honor our service women and men and their families. And we can join the [...]
Obama has reduced his Afghanistan options to four, but won’t say what they are, so that’s now four unknowns instead of one. A magician who tells you he’s narrowed your card down to four possibilities hasn’t conjured jack until he shows you which. Without detailing what the Afghanistan options are, [...]
President Obama has consistently labeled Afghanistan the war America cannot afford to lose. Last March, he announced a “stronger, smarter and comprehensive strategy,” undertaken after “a careful policy review,” and subsequently hand-picked one of America’s most respected military officers, General Stanley McChrystal, to lead the effort.
Yet with General McChrystal’s [...]
Naveed Ali ShahFrom the Colorado Springs Gazette article titled, “Fort Hood shooter wanted U.S. out of Iraq, Afghanistan,”
Lee said Hasan had hoped Obama would pull troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq and got into frequent arguments with others in the military who supported the wars.
But…. I thought they hate us for [...]
I DON”T GIVE A DAMN!!
Come on all you young women and men,
Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He’s got himself into a terrible jam,
Way off yonder in Afghanistan.
You ain’t got a job, so pick up a gun!
We’re gonna have a whole [...]
