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“We Are Afghans AndAfghanistan Is Our

Country”“All We Want Is For The

Americans To Leave Us Alone;

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Only Then Will There Be PeaceIn Afghanistan”

“All Foreign Forces Have To LeaveOur Lands; Only Then Can There

Be Peace”“Look, The Americans Call Us

Terrorists; What Terrorist Act Did We

Ever Commit?”[Interview With A ResistanceCommander]

Mullah Aminullah, a Taliban leader, sits with NBC News' reporter Mujeeb Ahmad after arecent interview in Karargah, Afghanistan. NBC News

11.4.10 By Mujeeb Ahmad, NBC News

KARARGAH, Afghanistan – Ever since he joined the Taliban movement in Kandahar in1994, Mullah Aminullah has been a close aide of the movement’s supreme leader,Mullah Omar.

Aminullah’s loyalty to Omar is unshakeable; the two men are from the same tribe andgrew up together in Uruzgan province in Afghanistan. When he first joined the Taliban,



he was Omar’s personal cook but as he gained the trust of the organization’s seniorleaders was made a commander.

After the U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban in 2001, scattering its leadership,Aminullah and Omar remained in touch with each other – that is, as much as Omarkeeps contact with anyone.

Just a few days after word spread in the Western media about high-level peace talksbetween the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and influential members ofthe Taliban, I tried to get word to Omar’s deputy, Mullah Zakir Qayum, to find out whatwas really going on.

That request was quickly refused.

A short time later, Aminullah sent word that he would see me and make arrangements toescort me to Karargah, a tiny village of mud huts on the way to Kandahar in Afghanistan.

With my Pakistani identity card, I was able to enter Afghanistan from the Chaman border

crossing in Balouchistan Province. All I needed to say, to both the Pakistani andAfghan border guards, was that I was shopping for a particular car, an old Japanesemodel, and a friend in Afghanistan knew where I could buy one.

After a quick body search, I crossed over the Pakistan border and was on my way to theAfghan town of Spinboldak where three men on motorbikes were waiting for me.

I was asked to hand over my cell phones and then helped on to a motorbike andblindfolded for what seemed like more than an hour’s journey to finally meet Aminullah.

More than six feet tall and slender, Aminullah is around 45 years old, which makes himapproximately two years younger than Omar. He is an imposing figure who never takes

off his dark glasses and stroked his thick black beard as we chatted and drank tea. Hisbravado was evident and the 250 fighters under his command seemed to be in awe ofhim.

“All of these reports of peace talks are nonsense,” Aminullah said. “This is justpropaganda by the U.S. and its NATO allies to hide their defeat on the battlefield. Weare winning, why should we negotiate.”

“So in your opinion, what is the current status of the U.S. and NATO on the battlefield,” Iasked.

“Let me ask you that question,” Aminullah shot back. “Which U.S. or NATO operation

has been successful? Has the operation in Helmand been a success?”

Aminullah was quick to answer his own questions.

“British forces cannot come out of their bunkers. What about the U.S. operation inMarjah? That certainly failed. And whatever small gains they say they are making inKandahar will fail too.”



I was curious to know how Mullah Omar was still able to control the Taliban and directthe war in Afghanistan while being a recluse; or was Omar’s importance simply morefabrication than fact?

Aminullah was patient and considered his response.

“There is no question that Mullah Omar is our supreme leader and commander,”Aminullah said in a low voice. "Those who try and downplay his role are either ignorantor misguided.”

“He communicates with us through messengers on a weekly basis – sometimes thereare 10 different messengers before the message reaches the intended person. And themessengers are never the same; each communication will have different men to deliverOmar’s orders,” he stressed.

I asked Aminullah if he knew where Mullah Omar was or for that matter where OsamaBin Laden might be.

“No one knows where Osama is,” Aminullah laughed. “The last time I saw Mullah Omarwas in August 2009 in Nimroz Province. It is more than one year now, so I am hoping hewill send word that we can meet again somewhere soon." He paused and went on, "I amlooking forward to that.”

“What would be the Taliban’s conditions to hold peace talks with the Karzaigovernment?” I asked.

“Our position has never changed and the Americans, NATO and Karzai know it all toowell. Before there can be any peace negotiations, all foreign forces have to leave ourlands; only then can there be peace,” Aminullah said.

As I was preparing to leave, Aminullah grabbed me by the hand and said: “Look, theAmericans call us terrorists; what terrorist act did we ever commit?

“They traveled 10,000 miles to us and forced us to wage jihad against the Russians, whowere their enemies, and now they are waging a war against us.

“We are Afghans and Afghanistan is our country. All we want is for the Americans toleave us alone; only then will there be peace in Afghanistan.”

IRAQ WAR REPORTS

Resistance Action

Nov 4 (Reuters) & November 5, 2010 Jomana Karadsheh, CNN



Three Iraqi soldiers were killed after a bomb ripped through the Iraqi city of BaqubaFriday, police officials told CNN. Police said a parked car bomb detonated in thewestern part of the city near the civil defense headquarters, apparently targeting an IraqiArmy patrol. According to local residents, the city has been on high alert since a seriesof coordinated bomb attacks in Baghdad on Tuesday. Many roads have been cut off anda vehicle ban has been imposed in some areas, including the main market.

HIT - Four soldiers and two policemen were wounded when three roadside bombstargeting Iraqi army and police patrols exploded in different areas in the town of Hit, 130km (80 miles) west of Baghdad, police sources said.

SHIRQAT - Three policemen were killed and six wounded when a bomb they weredismantling exploded in the town of Shirqat, 300 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad, policesources said.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces managed to defuse a car bomb left near the ProvincialCouncil building in central Baghdad, an interior ministry source said.

HIT - Two roadside bombs went off in quick succession near the convoy of Kubaisa'smayor, Ziyad Rzayij, killing him and his driver near the town of Hit, 130 km (80 miles)west of Baghdad, police sources said.

FALLUJA - Three policemen were wounded when insurgents attacked a policecheckpoint in a town near the city of Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, policeand hospital sources said.

Three soldiers, part of an Iraqi army force that went to give support, were also woundedwhen a roadside bomb went off near the scene.

BAGHDAD - Two interior ministry officers working in the anti-terrorism department were

wounded when a sticky bomb attached to their car went off in Baghdad's southeasternZaafaraniya district, an interior ministry source said.

HAMMAM AL-ALIL - A parked car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol wounded threesoldiers in Hammam al-Alil near Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, policesaid.

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AFGHANISTAN WAR REPORTS



Massachusetts Soldier Killed InKandahar

U.S. Army Specialist Jonathan M. Curtis, 24, of Belmont, Mass., died Nov. 1, 2010, inKandahar, Afghanistan, after his unit came under attack by insurgents. (AP Photo/U.S.Army)

Illinois Soldier Killed In Kandahar

U.S. Army Pfc. Andrew N. Meari of Plainfield, Ill, 21, died Nov. 1, 2010, in Kandahar,Afghanistan, after his unit came under attack by insurgents. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)



Foreign Occupation “Servicemember”Killed Somewhere Or Other In

Afghanistan Thursday:Nationality Not Announced

November AP

A foreign servicemember died following an insurgent attack in eastern AfghanistanThursday.

Foreign Occupation “Servicemember”

Killed Somewhere Or Other InAfghanistan Friday:

Nationality Not Announced

A foreign servicemember died following an improvised explosive device attack in easternAfghanistan Friday.

Another Foreign Occupation“Servicemember” Killed Somewhere Or

Other In Afghanistan Friday:Nationality Not Announced

November 5 AP

A foreign servicemember died following an improvised explosive device attack insouthern Afghanistan Friday.

And Another Foreign Occupation“Servicemember” Killed Somewhere Or

Other In Afghanistan Friday:




November 5 AP

A foreign servicemember died following an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan

Friday.

U.S. Marine Killed In Afghanistan WasExpected To Return Home To N.J. In A

Month

October 21, 2010 By Rohan Mascarenhas, The Star-Ledger

ELIZABETH — Marine Lance Cpl. Francisco R. Jackson called his family in Elizabeth onMonday to deliver a hopeful message from Afghanistan.

"He said, ‘I’ll be home very soon. I want to see you,’" his cousin, Evelyn Cordoba,recalled today. "We were so happy to hear from him."

But the next day, Jackson, 24, was killed by an improvised explosive device during acombat operation in Helmand province, according to the Department of Defense.

He is the 26th service member with ties to New Jersey to die in Afghanistan sincethe war began in 2001. Roughly 100 others have died in Iraq since the invasion in2003.

Much of Jackson’s family traveled to Dover Air Force in Delaware today, where hisremains arrived.

Coming so soon after Jackson’s phone call from Afghanistan, the shock of his death hasdevastated the family, said Cordoba, 22, of Elizabeth.

They had already started to make plans for Jackson’s return, expected at the end ofNovember, she said.



"Once, my family went to the Bronx Zoo and he said we were going to have to do thatagain when he got home," Cordoba said. "This has been hard on everybody."

A field artillery cannoneer, Jackson enlisted in the Marine Corps a year ago and was onhis first combat deployment. He had been assigned to the 1st Battalion, 11th Marine

Regiment, 1st Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, Calif., and already had beenawarded a Purple Heart.

Jackson, who leaves behind a wife and a son, immigrated from the Dominican Republicat a young age and grew up in downtown Elizabeth, Cordoba said.

He was the eldest of four children, with two sisters and one brother, she said.

"He always protected me in school, with guys," Cordoba said.

He attended the William F. Halsey House, part of Elizabeth High School, beforetransferring to Union County Vocational-Technical Schools in March 2002, a district

spokeswoman said.

He decided to enlist last year partly because he had plans to become an engineer, andhoped the Marines would guide him to a better life, Cordoba said.

The military was also a feature of family life, she said: a grandfather served in theDominican Republic military, Cordoba said.

"He is an example," she said. "He was an excellent Marine, friend, family member. Hedied as a hero."

Vigil Held For Marine Killed InAfghanistan

October 20, 2010 By Vinde Wells – Editor, Ogle County Newspapers

Hundreds of Byron residents turned out Sunday evening for a candlelight vigil to honor a19-year-old Marine killed in Afghanistan.

Lance Cpl. Alec E. Catherwood, a 2009 Byron High School graduate, was killed bysmall-arms fire Oct. 14 while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in

Helmand Province, according to a news release from the U.S. Marine Corps 1stDivision.

This was his first combat deployment.

"I don't think there's words that can say what a sacrifice it is," said Jerry Oleson, anofficer in the Byron Police Department and a retired U.S. Marine at the vigil. "Alec wassomeone that was totally different – he could bring a smile to anyone's face no matterwhat was going on."



Catherwood, the son of Kirk and Gretchen Catherwood, Byron, was a rifleman with the3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force,based in Camp Pendleton, Calif.

He enlisted with the Marines after graduating from Byron High School last year.

He and his fiance Hailey Patrick, Davis Junction, were planning to be married next July.

A Byron school official also remembered Catherwood for his smile. "He always had asmile on his face," said Doug Stansford, assistant principal at Byron High School onTuesday. "He was just a great kid."

Stansford also had Catherwood as a student in biology class.

"He was a fun-loving, very respectful young man," he said.

Stansford said Catherwood came back to the high school to see teachers and

administrators before he left for military service.

Funeral services were pending late Tuesday afternoon. Farrell-Holland-Gale FuneralHome, Byron, is assisting the family with the arrangements.

Family, Friends Mourn Death Of R.C.Soldier

10/26/2010 By Wendy Leung, Staff Writer; Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - The Pallares family of Rancho Cucamonga mourned thedeath of their most positive and outgoing members, Ronnie J. Pallares, underneath hismilitary banner on Haven Avenue Tuesday.

With the photo of a smiling Pallares waving overhead, friends and relatives prayed andhung on to each other, wondering how they lost a loved one at such a young age.Pallares, an Alta Loma High School graduate, would have turned 20 on Thursday.

Few could articulate their pain.

"I'm still numb," said Pallares' fiance, Vanessa Jauregui.

Pallares' mother, Brenda Pallares, arrived at LA/Ontario International Airport Tuesdayafter viewing her son's body at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. A group of veterans,led by the Patriot Guard Riders, welcomed Brenda Pallares in Ontario and escorted herto Haven Avenue near Sixth Street, the site of Pallares' military banner. Nearly 50motorcycles decorated with American flags were part of the procession in Pallares'honor.



"We want them to know their son not only meant a lot to the family, he meant a lot to thenation," said Candy Rodriguez, a Vietnam War veteran from Upland.

Pallares, an Army combat engineer, died Oct. 23 in Afghanistan when his unit wasattacked by insurgents with an improvised explosive device. He was on his firstdeployment in a war that entered its 10th year this month.

Motorcycles lined a portion of Haven Avenue as veterans and supporters stood insupport. Some wore pins that read "Honoring an American hero" featuring Pallares'photo.

Pallares' uncle, Ricky Pallares, looked up at the sea of American flags and said, "Ronniedeserves all this, he deserves the best."

He remembered his nephew as a happy and social young man with plans to coach youthbaseball upon his return from Afghanistan.

Ricky Pallares said his nephew was always positive and would likely wonder what all the

crying was for on Haven.

Jauregui remembers her fiance as a soldier who was romantic at heart, penning herpoems during courtship.

She said she was attracted to Pallares ever since she met him during their junior yeartogether at Alta Loma High School. She remembers Dec. 12, 2008 was the date theirrelationship became exclusive. Pallares had the date tattooed on his arm.

In addition to love poems, Pallares also wrote poems about his service.

Taped to a light pole in what has become a makeshift memorial on Haven Avenue is a

poem from Pallares that reads, "This is what I wanted to do, to make sure you all arefree. I have no regrets, no matter what happens from now till then. And while I'm here, Iwill always volunteer to be the one they send."

Among those who supported the Pallares family were local pastors, military families andthe Creeds, a Rancho Cucamonga couple who lost their 23-year-old son to a sniperbullet in Iraq.

Kim and Rick Creed, who marked the fourth anniversary of Matthew Creed's death lastweek, were part of the Patriot Guard Riders supporting the grieving family.

"I haven't cried this much in four years," Rick Creed said.

The Creeds said knowing there are tough days ahead for the Pallares' family, theywanted to be there for them.

"There's going to be a new normal," Rick Creed said. "What was normal is gone and it'snever coming back."



Slain Soldier From Carrollton WasDedicated To Army

October 17, 2010 By TAWNELL D. HOBBS, The Dallas Morning News

Imelda Castillo painfully remembers receiving a call from her daughter to come homefrom her job in Farmers Branch on Thursday. There was a military man at the housewith bad news: Castillo's son had been killed in Afghanistan.

Army Sgt. Carlos A. Benitez, 24, of Carrollton died Thursday from wounds suffered wheninsurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device.

"It's like a part of me left," Castillo said of her feelings when arriving home to receive thenews from the military official.

Also killed were Spc. Rafael Martinez Jr., 36, of Spring Valley, Calif., and Pfc. Tramaine

J. Billingsley, 20, of Portsmouth, Va.

All three soldiers were assigned to the 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1stBrigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colo.

Benitez was married and had a 6-year-old daughter from a previous relationship, Castillosaid. He also had two siblings.

Castillo said that her son, a graduate of Creekview High School in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch school district, was dedicated to the Army. She said that he wanted toenlist when he was 17 but that she refused to sign paperwork allowing him to do so. He

joined when he was 18.

"It's what he wanted, to be in the Army," Castillo said.

Benitez served two tours in Iraq before being sent for a third in Afghanistan, she said.Leaving his wife to go on his last tour was difficult, she said.

Castillo said that she had seen news on TV of soldiers being killed in Iraq andAfghanistan and never thought of it happening to her son.

"Now I understand what it really feels like," she said.

U.S. Marine Cpl. Justin Cain OfManitowoc Killed In Afghanistan

Remembered As Eager To Serve HisCountry



October 16, 2010 By Charlie Mathews, Appleton Post-Crescent

MANITOWOC — The devastating news spread Friday among friends and former LincolnHigh School classmates that U.S. Marine Cpl. Justin Cain had been killed inAfghanistan.

The Manitowoc native, 22, and three battalion members died Wednesday, victims of ablast from an improvised explosive device. The Department of Defense released news ofthe deaths late Thursday.

On Friday, from the woman Cain took to his senior prom to his closest buddies now incollege or in the service to one of his teachers, memories were shared of a life cut short.

Cain was killed less than two months after classmate and close friend Nick Jost died inan August car crash near Newton.

"He's a great guy and would do anything for you," said Kara Raduenz, who went to theprom with Cain and is in the Air Force, stationed at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.

On Friday, it was another base — Dover Air Base in Delaware — where Cain's motherand stepfather, Judy and Tim Stock, were headed to await the arrival of their son's body.A Marine Corps spokesman did not know when that would happen.

Raduenz and another one of Cain's close friends, Katelyn Birringer, each received ahandwritten letter from Cain on Tuesday, a day before his death.

"He talked about his plane ride over to Afghanistan," Raduenz said. "(Justin) had justgotten there. In the letter it didn't seem like he's scared."

"This is very hard," said Mary Goins-Hopkins, a Lincoln friend of the machine gunner

and the wife of a Marine headed for Afghanistan by year-end.

"I never thought this would happen to Justin … he's only been (in Afghanistan) twoweeks," she said.

With her 11-month-old son, Aaden, Goins-Hopkins is back in Manitowoc after being withher husband at Camp Pendleton in California, a common link between Cain and severalof his buddies who chose to become brothers-in-arms.

"He was the nicest guy you could ever imagine," said Mike Luther, Lincoln Class of 2007and a Marine Corps mechanic currently stationed at the mammoth Marine base in SanDiego County and awaiting his own overseas deployment.

"If you had a problem, Justin would listen when nobody else would," Luther said.

"Every Marine wants to go to, at least, one combat mission before he gets out. Hetransferred units so he could deploy."

Luther said Cain started talking about joining the Semper Fi fraternity when he was asophomore at Lincoln. Cain enlisted just two weeks after graduation.



Jacob Hampson, a University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh senior, was part of Cain's highschool group that enjoyed "mudding."

Hampson remembered their gang going to "The Pipeline" near Crivitz to drive throughmud in their jacked-up pickup trucks with special tires.

"Justin's white Chevy pickup broke down. He limped home to Manitowoc, not going over40 (mph)," Hampson said. "I turned him into a 'mudder' and Justin called me 'Mud,'"Luther said.

Ryan Zimmerman, a tech ed teacher at Lincoln, said Cain did all his own work on thewhite Chevy.

"Justin was very easygoing, likable and will be greatly missed by friends and families,"Zimmerman said.

In front of Abraham Lincoln's campus statue Friday, the U.S., Wisconsin and schoolflags were at half-staff. Flags at Manitowoc County facilities will be flown at half-staff

through sundown Sunday.

Lincoln Principal Keith Shaw said Cain participated in "Youth Options" as a senior,attending Lakeshore Technical College as part of its dairy herd management program.

Shaw remembered Cain wearing a U.S.M.C. T-shirt with an American flag in thebackground of his senior yearbook photo.

"He looked like he was ready to go into the Marines," Shaw said.

And he did, but now he's gone and his friends are struggling to understand.

Cain is survived by his parents, James Cain and Judy and Tim Stock, siblings, relativesand friends. Jens Family Funeral Home & Crematory is handling the funeralarrangements.

Three Foreign Occupation SoldiersWounded In Kunduz:


November 05, 2010 Xinhua

Three foreign soldiers were injured Friday as a roadside bomb went off near theirvehicles in northern Afghanistan's Kunduz province, an official with the NATO forces toldXinhua.

The blast occurred around 1 p.m. local time, leaving three troopers with the NATO-ledInternational Security Assistance Force (ISAF) injured while they were on patrol.



Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for Taliban militants, claimed responsibilities in talkswith media from undisclosed location, stressing the roadside bomb had been planted bymilitants and left four foreign troops dead and injured three others.

U.S. Soldier Wounded In Helmand

U.S. soldiers help a comrade wounded by an explosion to a Medevac helicopter inHelmand province in southern Afghanistan November 4, 2010. REUTERS/PeterAndrews

Resistance Action11.3.10 Xinhua & AP & 11.4.10 DPA & November 5, 2010, By Laura King, Los AngelesTimes & By RAHIM FAIEZ, Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan – A bomber blew himself up in a crowded bazaar in northwestAfghanistan on Friday, killing at least nine people and wounding 30 others, police said.

The attack targeted the head of the Faryab provincial council, Mullah RahmatullahTurkistani, police chief Khalil Andarabi said. Turkistani, who was wounded in the blast,regularly visits the bazaar in Khwaja Sabz Post district on Fridays to hear citizens'concerns and dine at a local restaurant, Andarabi said.

"He had a book in his hands and sometimes he was reading. He was probably waitingfor his target to come." When Turkistani arrived, the bomber walked toward him anddetonated his cache of explosives, killing an Afghan policeman. Witnesses identified thebomber through his body parts found at the scene.

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Security in Ghazni — which lies on the main road between Kabul, the capital, andthe south's main hub, the city of Kandahar — has steadily deteriorated in recentmonths, with the Taliban present in, or in control of, many areas.

Three police were killed and five others wounded as a roadside bomb struck their van insouthern Helmand province, police spokesman Kamaludin Khan said Wednesday.

Amine struck a police vehicle on Khanshin-Garmsir road.

In eastern Khost province, insurgents using small arms attacked an army checkpoint andthen a bomber drove a car packed with explosives into it, the provincial commandersaid. Besides the attacker, two soldiers were killed and six were wounded, said Gen.Raz Mohamed Oryakhail.

An official with a provincial education department in southern Afghanistan was killedThursday while shopping at a market, a spokesman for the provincial governor said.Ustad Abdullah, the deputy director of Kandahar province's literacy department, waskilled in the centre of the provincial capital, also named Kandahar, spokesman ZalmaiAyoubi said.

U.S. OCCUPATION RECRUITING DRIVEIN HIGH GEAR;

RECRUITING FOR THE ARMEDRESISTANCE THAT IS

A foreign occupation armed forces member from the USA puts his hands on the body ofan Afghan citizen without consent during a patrol Nov. 5, 2010 in Sangin, Afghanistan.(AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Afghani citizens have no right to resist humiliating public body touching by occupationsoldiers from the USA. If they do, they may be arrested, wounded, or killed.



Foreign occupation soldiers from the USA make a daily practice of publicly humiliatingAfghan citizens.

This encourages self-respecting honorable Afghans to kill them.

[Fair is fair. Let’s bring 94,000 Afghan troops over here to the USA.

[They can kill people at checkpoints, bust into their houses with force andviolence, bomb and butcher their families, overthrow the government, put a newone in office they like better and “detain” anybody who doesn’t like it in a militaryprison endlessly without any charges being filed against them, or any trial.

[Those Afghans are sure a bunch of backward primitives. [They actually resentthis help, have the absurd notion that it’s bad their country is occupied by aforeign military dictatorship killing them wholesale, and consider it their patrioticduty to fight and kill the soldiers sent to grab their country.

[What a bunch of silly people. How fortunate they are to live under a militarydictatorship run by Barrack Obama. Why, how could anybody not love that?You’d want that in your home town, right?]

NO MISSION;POINTLESS WAR:ALL HOME NOW

Concussed 8th Marines rest in a compound offering cover after rocket propelledgrenades exploded near their positions during a battle against Taliban insurgents in thetown of Nabuk in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, November 1, 2010REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly



MILITARY NEWS

HOW MANY MORE FOR OBAMA’S WARS?

The remains of Army Pfc. Tramaine J. Billingsley at Arlington National Cemetery Nov. 2,2010. Billingsley of Portsmouth, Va., died Oct. 14 between the Muqur district of Ghazniprovince and Darreh-Ye Bum, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgentsattacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)



FORWARD OBSERVATIONS

“At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh hadI the ability, and could reach the nation’s ear, I would, pour out a fiery stream ofbiting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.

“For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.

“We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”

Frederick Douglass, 1852

Hope for change doesn't cut it when you're still losing buddies.-- J.D. Englehart, Iraq Veterans Against The War

I say that when troops cannot be counted on to follow orders because they seethe futility and immorality of them THAT is the real key to ending a war.-- Al Jaccoma, Veterans For Peace

“What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time totime that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”-- Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787



The Social-Democrats ideal should not be the trade union secretary, but thetribune of the people who is able to react to every manifestation of tyranny andoppression no matter where it appears no matter what stratum or class of thepeople it affects; who is able to generalize all these manifestations and produce asingle picture of police violence and capitalist exploitation; who is able to take

advantage of every event, however small, in order to set forth before all hissocialist convictions and his democratic demands, in order to clarify for all andeveryone the world-historic significance of the struggle for the emancipation ofthe proletariat.”-- V. I. Lenin; What Is To Be Done

“The Nixon administration claimed and received great credit for withdrawing theArmy from Vietnam, but it was the rebellion of low-ranking GIs that forced thegovernment to abandon a hopeless suicidal policy”-- David Cortright; Soldiers In Revolt

It is a two class world and the wrong class is running it.-- Larry Christensen, Soldiers Of Solidarity & United Auto Workers

The Obama Postmortem:“More Than Anything Else, The

American People Are Angry ThatTheir Government Doesn’t EvenPretend To Give A Damn About

Them”“By Mid-2009 America Had Become A

Left-Wing Country, Not In The Media But

Among The Citizenry, Telling Polls ThatTheir Preferred Economic System WasSocialism”



[Thanks to Michael Letwin, New York City Labor Against The War & Military Resistance,and Phil G., who sent this in.]

Obama never proposed a jobs program. He gave trillions of taxdollars to thievingbanksters who ought to have been arrested instead, then tried to pass off thisoutrageous giveaway as economic stimulus.

November 3rd, 2010 By TED RALL, tedrall.com

The Obama Postmortem: An Autopsy of a Political Suicide

It’s the day after the Republican sweep we all knew was coming.

If Obama had any dignity, if he was honest with himself and with us, he would resign. It’sabundantly clear that he isn’t up to the job.

But you don’t become president by being honest or dignified.

So now it’s wound-licking time.

The President and his cronies are comforting each other. “It’s not your fault the economysucks,” a Yes Man reassures Obama, sinking his heels into the new Oval Office carpet.“It was like that when we got here.”

Do they scratch him behind his ears? They should. It feels nice.



“It was the poor economy—not the wisdom of the Republicans’ ideas or the brilliance oftheir tactics—that assured they would retake control of the House,” coos MarketWatch’sRex Nutting. Which is true. And doesn’t matter.

Democrats are taking solace in history. It’s the midterms! The party that holds the WhiteHouse always loses seats in Congress. Look at Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan. They

suffered midterm defeats, then roared back to landslide reelection wins two years later.Not to worry!

The voters will vote against the other party next time!

Which is also true. And also doesn’t matter.

In the broken-down shambles of the excuse for a political system we have in the UnitedStates, there’s only one stage of grief: denial.

Barack Obama may well be reelected in 2012. Considering that the current GOPfrontrunners are Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney, the odds favor him. But the Obama

experiment is effectively dead. There will be no change, and so there is no hope.

Remember what happened to Clinton after the “Republican Revolution” sweep of 1994?He spent 1995 locked in a bizarre “co-presidency” with House Speaker Newt Gingrichbefore figuring out that his “partner” was more interested in obstructionist sabotage thanbipartisanship.

Obama is heading down the same bloody path with John Boehner.

But Clinton did get that second term. During which he accomplished many things, suchas…um…well, he did get impeached. Does that count?

I don’t understand why presidents want to get reelected. No president since FDR hasgotten much done after his first term. Must be an ego thing. Either that, or it’s cool tohave your own chef.

If Obama was going to shine, it was going to be during 2009. Elected by a sizablemargin with an undeniable, media-backed mandate for change during a severeeconomic crisis he could exploit to push through his agenda, Obama also enjoyed therare luxury of a Democratic House of Representatives and a nearly filibuster-proofDemocratic Senate.

So what does he have to show for that marvelous gift?

Three major items:

One: a healthcare overhaul that increases premiums and insurance companyprofits, and doesn’t include the public option he and everyone else said wasabsolutely essential. The good news is, the Republicans will probably repeal ordefund this monster before it takes effect.

Two: a financial reform package no one knows about. Which is just as well, sinceit doesn’t crack down on the banksters.



Three: more dead Afghans.

They’re not much, but I hope Obama is proud of them. That’s as good as he’s going toget from now on.

What killed the Obama presidency? Political suicide. There were several death blows:

First and foremost, the economy. 60 percent of Democrats and 63 percent ofRepublicans told exit pollsters that the lack of jobs was their number-one issue.

Obama never proposed a jobs program.

He gave trillions of taxdollars to thieving banksters who ought to have beenarrested instead, then tried to pass off this outrageous giveaway as economicstimulus.

To make things worse, he stuck with an impossibly absurd argument: more people

would have lost their jobs without it.

Even if the phony stimulus stopped things from getting worse — and it didn’t —people don’t care. They want the 20 percent of Americans who already lost theirjobs—their friends, spouses, children and parents — to find new ones.

Obama never addressed that.

He didn’t even try.

Second, he alienated his base. He didn’t even know who his base was.

Obama’s campaign was a potent mix of vague pabulum (“hope,” “change”) and, when hedeigned to specify, center-right specifics (stop torture but expand the war againstAfghanistan, bipartisan cooperation with the Republicans, no gay marriage, etc.).

The problem was that the vagueness that helped him cobble together a winning coalitionof leftist and independent voters made it impossible for him govern. Leftists got turnedoff when he doubled down in Afghanistan and refused to close Guantánamo;independents are notoriously fickle anyway.

If Obama’s advisors had been smart, they would have recognized two truths, one oldand one new. The old truth is that the safest time to deliver to your base is the first yearof a presidency; the passage of time allows the anger of the moderates to cool in time

for the next election.

The new truth for Obama was that his base comprised liberals who actually disagreedwith much of what he stood for but had paid more attention to the “hope” and “change”posters than to his platform. He didn’t understand that.

Moreover, the world changed between September and November of 2008.

Global capitalism collapsed.



Millions of Americans lost their jobs and their homes during the next year. Wall Street,bankers, big business, the golden boys of the previous century, were discredited — butunpunished for their countless sins.

By mid-2009 America had become a left-wing country, not in the media but among the

citizenry, telling polls that their preferred economic system was socialism.

Team Obama didn’t understand that. They still don’t.

The inarticulate rage of the inchoate Tea Party caught the president by surprise.

Neither Obama nor the political clones that form his center-right cabinet can see that in abinary political culture anger gravitates to the opposite pole. If Obama were Republican,the Tea Party would be identified with the left.

The takeaway is anger, not ideology.

People are pissed.

They hate the bailouts, but the bailouts aren’t the main point.

More than anything else, the American people are angry that their governmentdoesn’t even pretend to give a damn about them.

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Behind Closed Doors

From: Mike HastieTo: Military ResistanceSent: October 17, 2010Subject: Behind Closed Doors

Behind Closed Doors

What does a sniper and a Washingtonpolitician have in common?They are both trained to kill.

Mike HastieVietnam VeteranOctober 17, 2010



Photo and caption from the I-R-A-Q (I Remember Another Quagmire) portfolio ofMike Hastie, US Army Medic, Vietnam 1970-71. (For more of his outstanding work,contact at: ([email protected]) T)

One day while I was in a bunker in Vietnam, a sniper round went over my head.The person who fired that weapon was not a terrorist, a rebel, an extremist, or aso-called insurgent. The Vietnamese individual who tried to kill me was a citizenof Vietnam, who did not want me in his country. This truth escapes millions.

Mike HastieU.S. Army MedicVietnam 1970-71December 13, 2004

DANGER: POLITICIANS AT WORK

“42,389,619 Americans ReceivedFood Stamps In August, A 17% RiseFrom The Same Time A Year Ago”





“Food Stamps Have Become A LifelineFor Workers Who Have Lost Their Jobs”

NOVEMBER 4, 2010 Wall St. Journal [Excerpts]

More Americans are using government assistance to buy food.

Food stamp recipients ticked up in August, children consumed millions of free lunchesand nearly five million low-income mothers tapped into a government nutrition programfor women and young children.

Some 42,389,619 Americans received food stamps in August, a 17% rise from the sametime a year ago, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which tracks the data.That number is up 58.5% from August 2007, before the recession began.

The average benefit size per person nationwide in August was $133.90. Per household

it was $287.82.

Food stamps have become a lifeline for workers who have lost their jobs,particularly among the growing share of unemployed Americans who have alsoexhausted their unemployment benefits.

Lines at grocers at midnight on the first of the month have signaled that, in manycases, those benefits aren’t tiding families over and they run out before their nextcheck kicks in.

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