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Tioåriga kriget - Time to bring our troops home
It is time for me to bring our troops home -- right now. Not one more American needs to die.
Their deaths do not make us safer and they do not bring democracy to Afghanistan.
It is not our mission to defeat the Taliban. That is the job of the Afghan people -- if that is what they choose to do.
There are many groups and leaders of countries in this world who are despicable.
We are not going to invade 30 countries and remove their regimes. That is not our job.
I am not going to stay in Afghanistan just because we're already there and we haven't "won" yet.
There is nothing to win. No one from Genghis Khan to Leonid Brezhnev has been able to win there.
So the troops are coming home.
I refuse to participate in scaring the American people with a phony "War on Terror."
Are there terrorists? Yes. Will they strike again? Sadly, yes. But these terrorist acts are few and far
between and should not dictate how we live our daily lives or make us ignore our constitutional rights.
They should never distract us from what our real priorities are in making our country safe and secure:
Everyone with a good job, families able to own a home and send their kids to college, universal health care
that's coordinated by your elected representative government -- not by greedy,
profit-hungry insurance companies. THAT would be true homeland security.
Källa: Michael Moore okt 2010
Detta är en film som borde visas överallt där man talar om landet Afghanistan.
I [SAK] exempelvis...
An anti-war documentary film
In 1972 Eric Siegel, an early pioneer of video art, set out on an extreme adventure [...]
Detta är ingen fredsbevarande mission
Speaking in London after a meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Rice said, "I do think the alliance [NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization] is facing a real test here. Our populations need to understand this is not a peacekeeping mission but rather a long-term fight against extremists."
Källa: Asia Times 8 febr 2008
Det pågående kriget
[...] De totala utgifterna för krigen i Irak och Afghanistan överstiger nu 1000 miljarder dollar och i juni blev Afghanistankriget det längsta krig som USA utkämpat. Det har nu pågått i 105 månader. Vietnamkriget pågick under 103 månader.
Källa: SvD 2010 08 17
lägesrapport Afghanistan 22 oktober 2008
Die hören sollen, sie hören nicht
mehr,
Vernichtet ist das ganze Heer,
Mit dreizehntausend der Zug begann,
Einer kam heim aus Afghanistan.
Länk:
Endast en kom hem . . .
Good news feb 2009
In Afghanistan, "state institutions have been created, a Constitution adopted, a president was elected, and government was formed. All the necessary conditions are in place for the stable functioning of a government in Afghanistan," the statement said. The Kyrgyz government also cited growing popular discontent with the US military presence among its motivations for the closure. It also criticized US obstruction of the investigation into the fatal shooting in December 2006 of a Kyrgyz truck driver by a US serviceman during a security check at the entrance to the air base. Officials have not specified when the closure might take place, but the agreement under which the base was established in 2001 specifies that the United States must be given 180 days notice.
Kyrgyzstan moves to shut US air base
- an announcement 5 feb 2009
May 2010 Resentment over
deaths
Joseph Breasseale, a military spokesman, told the AFP
news agency that the military could not elaborate on
the case or identities of those killed. "The
investigation is in Afghanistan, not in the US, and
the soldiers are currently in Afghanistan,"
Breasseale said.
Civilian deaths are a highly sensitive issuefor US and Nato forces in Afghanistan.
Last month, two women and a girl were killed after Nato troops opened fire on a car in the southern city of Kandahar. Two weeks before that, US troops opened fire on a bus in the same city, killing four civilians and sparking angry public protests.
There are more than 90,000 Nato soldiers from 40 nations in Afghanistan. They entered the country following a US invasion in 2001 to remove the Taliban from power. The Taliban were accused of harbouring al-Qaeda operatives.
Afghan officials say about 170 Afghan civilians were killed between the months of March and April this year alone, an increase of 33 per cent compared to the same period last year. Although UN figures show far more civilians are killed by the Taliban, deaths at the hands of foreigners spark wide resentment in the country and undermine international forces' attempts to weaken the Taliban by building trust among the population.
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Mona och Urban:
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flickskolor för flickor koranskolor för pojkar
Enligt hemliga rapporter från USA-ambassadörers möten med Mona Sahlin och partikollegan Urban Ahlin talade socialdemokraterna gott om närvaron i Afghanistan och föreslog propagandahjälp för att förklara varför man stödde insatserna i landet, skriver tidningen.
Vid ett besök hos ambassadören Matthew Barzu i Stockholm den nionde november 2009 ska Mona Sahlin ha sagt sig vara mycket positiv till de internationella insatserna i Afghanistan.
Hon ska vid samma tillfälle enligt Barzun uttryckt att socialdemokraterna varit villiga att stödja Sveriges fortsatta insatser i Afghanistan. Detta med motiveringen att internationell inbladning är "så väldigt viktig", eftersom det enligt Sahlin var tydligt att det inte rörde sig om ett amerikanskt fälttåg, uppger Aftonbladet.
Sahlin ska även ha gett sin syn på relationerna med USA. Enligt rapporten ska hon ha sagt att svenskarna tidigare haft en stark antiamerikansk hållning, men att ett stort skifte skett bland annat sedan Obama blivit president. Hennes önskan var enligt Barzun att stärka de USA-svenska relationerna genom samarbete om klimatförändringar och kulturella värderingar, lyder det i rapporten.
Tre månader senare, den 17 februari, presenterade de rödgröna partierna en överenskommelse om Sveriges relationer med omvärlden där man kräver att USA avvecklar samtliga militära baser utanför landets gränser.
Drygt ett år innan mötet mellan Sahlin och Barzun mötte socialdemokraternas utrikespolitiske talesman Urban Ahlin ambassadens andrechef Robert Silverman. Under mötet ska Ahlin enligt en hemligstämplad rapport från Silverman sagt sig vara villig att "spela en användbar roll gällan Afghanistan och Kosovo", uppger Aftonbladet.
Ahlin ska också ha vädjat om hjälp för att komma till rätta med partiets besvärliga opinionsläge, och föreslagit att en högt uppsatt medlem i den Afghanska regeringen skulle besöka Sverige för att vittna om hur viktiga Sverige och Nato:s ansträngningar är för att flickor ska kunna gå i skolan och talibaner inte ska förtrycka folket.
Wikileaks 1 dec 2010
