Showing posts with label obama afghanistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obama afghanistan. Show all posts

26 January 2010

DEMOCRACY HAS LEFT THE BUILDING


“DO AS WE SAY, NOT AS WE DO”

Here is a small news roundup covering the Good and Great Democracies of America and England. (pun intended completely!) Want a first hand look at duplicity?

Since the Election in Palestine, which Bush touted as wholly “Democratic and Fair” the West has branded Hamas as “terrorists” and refused to recognise their electoral mandate. Hence, never mind who people vote for, if we don’t like whom you elect, we, along with Israel, will either destroy it with surgical strikes of Government buildings and kidnap and intern Government officials, strangle your country with an illegal siege, or inflict a genocide on the civilian population to punish them for voting. And this on a country that has never attacked America.

Now contrast the above with this insanity. Bush heads to Afghanistan after 9-11 to “smoke em outta their holes” to “hunt them down, dead or alive” to “Get Bin Laden and his supporters” and now here we are 8 years later and lo and behind the great military power of America cannot win the war. So, what does America do? Why begin negotiations with the Taliban (those would be the guys they’ve been fighting against for 8 years who work and support Bin Laden and Al Qaeda) and also offer to bring them into an Afghan government as their reward for helping Bin Laden and being part of Al Qaeda.

So, a country that supports, hides and works with Al Qaeda who DID attack America means the Americans will talk to them and allow them into government. And a country like Palestine, where no one attacked America, where no one sides with Al Qaeda, where the election was democratic, where the government wants to enter a peace process, America refuses to talk to them. Quotes from an interview with commander of US forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal:
link When asked if senior Taliban leaders might eventually become government leaders in Kabul, McChrystal said, "I think that anybody who dedicates themselves to the future and not the past, and anybody whose future is focused on the right kinds of things for Afghanistan might participate in government."
And UN special envoy to Afghanistan Kai Eide said this:
"If you want relevant results, then you have to talk to the relevant person in authority," Eide said, adding that he believes the time has come to do it.

The move to reconcile with Taliban after eight years of a bitter US-led conflict in the war-ravaged nation has been described as a defeat for Washington and the Afghan government.

Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, the United States invaded Afghanistan to allegedly kill or capture al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and root out militancy in the country.
Signs that this "plan" will take place are beginning to emerge as now the UN agrees with the “plan” to integrate the Taliban into the Afghan government, whilst at the same time refusing to acknowledge the elected government of Gaza, who never bombed America:
The United Nations has joined some Western countries in laying the groundwork for bringing the Taliban into the Afghan government
And here’s another report which I find quite comical indeed. Again this one comes from that “Great” democracy that supposedly supports “Freedom of speech” in China, but NOT in America, is against censorship in China, but FOR censorship (of Arab news stations) in America, and guess who pushed this bill forward? AIPAC, surprise! Can’t have those Americans hearing anything other than officially approved Israeli media or FOX news:
link Clinton had cited China as among a number of countries where there has been “a spike in threats to the free flow of information” over the past year.

"Those who disrupt the free flow of information in our society or any other pose a threat to our economy, our government and our civil society."
Ooops shot self in own foot with that statement there Hillary....…more:

And turning to the Iraq war and complete cover-up of the real agenda, e’g’ regime change, which is illegal. Remember that nice scientist Dr. David Kelly who was giving Blair and Bush some trouble by telling the truth about all those “weapons of mass destruction” and such. He was a real pest, gaining some recognition and throwing a spanner into the works and plans of the two lying war mongers? Well, after countless officials and medical experts who demanded an inquiry into Kelly’s mysterious death, the results of that inquiry have now been banned from the public for the next 70 years. Can you say massive uber cover-up and Guilty as Hell of murder? Dr David Kelley COVER UP:
link The official heading an inquiry into the suspicious death of a British weapons inspector who cast doubts on the main argument for invading Iraq has secretly ordered all evidence locked up for 70 years.

Lord Hutton, who chaired the 2003 inquiry, which controversially concluded that Doctor David Kelly's death has been a suicide, secured a 70-year seal on all major evidence, including medical records — none of which had ever been made public.

The unprecedented move was revealed last week, sparking fresh uproar and allegations of a government cover-up — considering that by 2073 anyone with the least interest, or stake, in the case will probably be long dead.

Kelly was mysteriously found dead in the woods near his Oxfordshire home in July 2003, just days after his name was leaked as the source of a pre-war BBC documentary that undermined the now-notorious 45-minute dossier as highly exaggerated.

The clandestine restrictions came to light when a group of 13 doctors challenging the Hutton verdict received a letter from the Oxfordshire County Council in answer to their calls to see the postmortem file.

"It fits in with the subversion of due process we have seen for six years. It is extraordinary…I am shocked but not surprised by this," the Daily Mail quoted Dr. David Halpin, one of the group of 13 doctors, as saying on Saturday.

The revelations may prompt calls on the country's ongoing inquiry into the Iraq war, to question former British premier Tony Blair, who is to give evidence later this week, on the issue.

Blair penned a clinching introduction to the dossier, claiming spies had proved “beyond doubt” that the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction that he could launch within 45-minutes.
How anyone can even remotely think for one minute that England and America stand for anything even closely resembling openness, democracy or justice is beyond me. America gives the entire Arab world a shining example of what a former Democracy looks like when taken over by Israel and neocons who have an agenda of making profitable wars for both of those countries, with the added bonus of taking control of the entire middle east.

28 October 2009

KARZAI DROPPED LIKE A HOT POTATO

LOOK WHO THE AMERICANS AREN’T BACKING ANYMORE

Yes, it’s none other than Hamid Karzai the current Afghan-American President. The US government must have decided that Karzai and his brother are “Past Their Sell By Date.” And now want to replace them with Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, enter the fresh new face of “change” who has now suddenly and obviously morphed into Obama, judging from his website :
JOIN THE CAMPAIGN TO CHANGE AFGHANISTAN

"I’m asking you to believe not only in my ability to bring about necessary change and hope in our beloved country, Afghanistan. But I’m also asking you to believe in your own potential to change to course of our history

Boy does that rhetoric sound familiar. Whilst I personally believe both Karzai AND Abdullah are both “American” men, Karzai’s inability to win outright, along with all the “baggage” that comes with Karzai, his links and his family have all become too much to carry for the US.

Now, for years Ahmad Wali Karzai has been one of those fellows who exist within the murky area CIA/Drug Trade/Politics. Hamid and Ahmed both have ties to America as there are five other siblings living in the US running a very “lucrative” chain of Afghan restaurants all in large US cities; Chicago, Illinois; Boston, Massachusetts; Baltimore, Maryland; and San Francisco, California. I note one is in Maryland. And the siblings have daily conversations with their brother via his satellite phone.

IN May 2009 Ahmed had yet another attempt on his life. reportedhere:
Wali Karzai was returning from a trip to the eastern city of Jalalabad, where he went Sunday to thank Nangarhar Gov. Gul Agha Sherzai for not running against his brother in this summer's presidential election.Southern Afghanistan also sits at the heart of the booming heroin business, and local and international media reports have alleged that Wali Karzai is involved in the opium poppy trade.
Ahmed also leads the provincial government council in the southern city of Kandahar where the offices were attacked, six killed, but not Ahmed Karzai:
six people were killed and at least 40 wounded when a suicide bomber driving an oil tanker launched an attack on government buildings in southern Afghanistan. A brother of the Afghan president who was in one of the offices was unhurt, officials said.

The blast occurred on a road between the main intelligence office in the southern city of Kandahar and a compound used by the provincial government council. The council is led by Ahmad Wali Karzai, a brother of President Hamid Karzai.
So, to go in for the kill, a new piece in the New York Time which I pilfered from the Timesonline, has thrown Ahmad Wali Karzai and effectively Hamid Karzai under the bus via his CIA-Ops linked brother, here's the report:
President Karzai’s younger half brother, long accused of links to the drugs trade, was embroiled in fresh controversy today after The New York Times reported that he had been on the CIA’s payroll for the last eight years. (And suddenly this comes out right now)

Ahmad Wali Karzai had been paid by the agency for services including arranging contacts with the Taleban, and helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force in the southern city of Kandahar where he lives, the newspaper said.

He was also paid for allowing the CIA, U.S. special forces and the local militia, called the Kandahar Strike Force, to use a large compound outside the city — the former home of Mullah Omar, the Taleban’s founder, it said.

“He’s our landlord,” it quoted a senior American official as saying. A CIA spokesman refused to confirm or deny the claims which are highly embarrassing for both President Karzai and the U.S. government.

Ahmad Wali, who heads the Kandahar provincial council, confirmed that the CIA, U.S. special forces and the local militia used the compound, but denied receiving payment from the CIA, or having any involvement in the drugs trade.

He admitted, however, that he received money for “expenses” from his brother, the President, saying he did not know where the funds came from originally.

The report is damaging to Mr Karzai as the Taleban and other critics often accuse him of being an American puppet and allowing Ahmad Wali to run Kandahar like a personal fiefdom.

The CIA has long favoured cooperating with local strongmen -- many of whom it helped to fight the Soviets -- regardless of their alleged role in war crimes or the drugs trade. It sees some as potential middlemen in negotiations with the Taleban.

Western diplomats and counter-narcotics officials have repeatedly held up Ahmad Wali as a prime example, accusing him of involvement in the drugs trade, and even asking President Karzai to dismiss him.

Ahmad Wali, 48, has also admitted living in a heavily fortified three-storey mansion house belonging to Haji Azizullah, a notorious drugs trafficker from Helmand province.

Azizullah has been on the US Treasury's list of Specially Designated Nationals, with whom US citizens are banned from doing business, since June 2007 because of his involvement in the drugs trade.

Ahmad Wali has told The Times he had no idea about his landlord's connection to the drugs trade when he moved there in 2001. He said last year his salary was 17,000 Afghanis (£175) a month and, while he had other sources of income, he did not want to discuss them.
I think we can now all see who America is now backing in the Elections, the New Afghan "Obama" Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, so great they had to name him twice.....