Letters to the Editor

Obama is saying the wrong things about Afghanistan He hit the right notes during his swing through Iraq, but his plans for that other war could mean trouble. By Juan Cole [2008-07-23]

• Flying without instruments (in a storm)

  Obama has to know that there are hidden agendas going on here. This arena is far too easy to play publicity spins on, millions of dollars going out to little warlords and factions, arms being supplied, covert operations by elite or private forces.

  Any time things are settling down too much in Iraq to suit Bush's occupation agenda it's too easy to fire some handheld missiles or plant a package of C2 at any good target of opportunity.

  So called "Terrorist" activities in the middle east are not the terrorist acts that are a threat to the US if we are not there to be actively involved. Activity there which is nothing more than skirmishes has nothing to do with organized terrorist activity. The occupation in Iraq defies any definition or correlation to a "war on terror" as would mean anything to our national security. If we weren't there we wouldn't be losing soldiers, spending over a billion a day, or trying to justify the real agenda which is to support and protect the operations of private corporations making billions of dollars of public funds in an unorganized feeding frenzy of wasted and stupidly spent money.

  we aren't doing anything except supporting the excuse to fritter tremendous funds on useless infrastructure we won't be needing if we aren't there.

  Unaccountable money over there is being spent on secret bases that aren't approved or budgeted with approved funds. Billions in actual cash has gone over there to be poorly tracked, close to 10 billion dollars can't even be accounted for.

  -- woodguru
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