News blackout on 7 U.S. troops killed in Obama’s war

Gosh, I know there are a lot of important stories crowding the news right now — after all, Michael Jackson is still dead and all, but it’s amazing that I literally had to go hunt for this story.

It’s also amazing to me how the election of Barack Obama sure shut up the the whole “anti-war crowd”.  (Don’t you love being called “anti-war” because you’re against illegal, unnecessary war?  Right, I’m so anti-war that means I’m a pacifist, right?  It’s like being called “anti-hamburger” when you’re really against hamburger that’s tainted with e-coli.)

Anywya, here’s a story that you would think would be, should be a rather large and important story:   the fact that yesterday, Monday, 7 United States military troops were killed in Obama’s new Vietnam.  

Obama’s now got serious American blood on his hands.

And for what?

General Petraes sorta slipped up and admitted that there’s no more Al Queda in Afghanistan.  But nobody cares about that, either, “the Taliban” is interchangeable with “Al Queda” now, in the minds of the public and the bought-and-paid-for schills who feed us our “news”.

So we’re at war with the Taliban.  And our sons and daughters are being killed.  Great.

Was America ever threatened by the Taliban?  No.  

Was America ever attacked by the Taliban?  No.  

Yet we’re slaughtering them right and left, including a hell of a lot of women and children who aren’t Taliban and aren’t even in Afghanistan.

More here, at an earlier piece I wrote here called “Barack Obama — War Criminal“.

In fact, I just can’t tell Obama and Bush apart anymore.  Even their victims look the same.  Can you guess which one of these is a victim of GWB and which one is a victim of Obama?

Maybe the Obama victim is the one whose blood is miraculously spelling out the word “hope” on his diaper.

Why do we keep letting our leaders do this shit?   Why don’t we stop them?  

Oh right.  We’re totally powerless.  I forgot.

Dem or Repub, the war machine goes on.  We’re have about as much power as we are when we’re trapped in some podunk airport and we have the choice of either the eight-dollar hotdog or the eight-dollar hamburger from the one deli that’s open.

That’s what we have in this country, our choice between Dem and Repub.  It’s all the same.

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    • Inky99 on July 8, 2009 at 03:13
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    • Edger on July 8, 2009 at 03:32

    if no on ever sees them bleed and die on TV, whether they American or Afgani or Iraqi. Which is why Bush banned photographing of caskets coming back from Iraq.

    But there’s been a huge “change” since the 2008 election.

    Seen any returning American caskets on TV since January 21? Or any pictures of Afghani’s or Pakistani’s killed by predator drones? Of course not.

    It’s new era of transparency in which nobody really dies…

  1. have to go out and stop these wars ourselves.  There is no other way, the elite will not listen unless the peasants revolt.  

    • pico on July 8, 2009 at 04:16

    on something you pulled directly from Yahoo/AP, and is currently running on ABC news, CNN (who has a special section devoted just to news from Afghanistan), MSNBC, CBS, the Detroit Free Press, and then I just stopped bothering to look anymore.  I don’t think that’s what a “news blackout” means.

    Also, where have you been?  “Obama’s now got serious American blood on his hands.”  Now?  You know there have been roughly 80 American soldiers who’ve died in Afghanistan in 2009 alone, and that’s not counting coalition troops, with casualties coming from countries from England to Fiji.  Check it out, it’s part of the media blackout, apparently.

    If your complaint is that people aren’t paying attention, well then, clearly.  But part of the reason you aren’t hearing more noise about this is that Obama ran on a platform of continuing war in Afghanistan, so as far as his die-hard supporters are concerned, this is what they voted for (and of course you won’t hear any complaints from Republicans).

    What about the progressive left?  Mixed reactions – some bloggers have been following it closely, but the mainstream media has been giving it the same treatment they always have: lots of coverage, little of the gory details, generally apathetic reading public.

    I will agree with you on Afghanistan being our next Vietnam, and I question the capabilities of any leader who thinks that we can solve the ‘problem’ of stabilizing the area.  We won’t be leaving there anytime soon, and even if Iraq stabilizes after the promised half-withdrawal of U.S. troops, the Afghans have proven that they don’t suffer outside armies.  

    So a very minor positive turn in the recent shift on U.S. focus towards actually working with the people rather than acting like an embedded military force, but… when you’re essentially an embedded military force, that’s a small gold start on a heaping pile of hurt.  

  2. a bloodletting pure and simple after 9/11–American’s were dying for someone to suffer.  I remember a couple of people I met in the Norfolk VA area where I was at the time– just literally jumping up and down — I mean their whole bodies were literally a shakin’.

    “I can’t wait for it to start” said one.

    “What, huh” said me

    “The bombing”

    This is the culture that we’ve created, and that so many think is just fine.

  3. One week after several battalions of Marines swept through the Helmand River valley, military commanders appear increasingly concerned about a lack of Afghan forces in the field.

    “What I need is more Afghans,” said Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson, commander of the Marine expeditionary brigade in Helmand Province. He accompanied the top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, during a visit with troops at Patrol Base Jaker here on Monday.

    General Nicholson and others say that the long-term success of the operation hinges on the performance of the Afghan security forces, which will have to take over eventually from the American troops.

    General Nicholson said the American force of almost 4,000 had been joined by about 400 effective Afghan soldiers.

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