Thursday, September 13, 2012

ROMNEY TAKES JOB AS MORMON MISSIONARY TO AVOID VIETNAM WAR DRAFT: NEGLECTS TO MENTION AFGHANISTAN WAR AT REPUBLICAN CONVENTION


Mitt Romney, Republican candidate for POTUS, has found himself in deep doo-doo when he criticized President Obama over the manner in which he handled the murder of J. Christopher Stevens, U.S. Ambassador to Libya, and three other staff members. 

Romney found fault with a news release from a staff member at the U.S. embassy in Egypt that suggested a video that a Conservative pastor from a little known 50 person church in Florida had released over You Tube and caused some of the Muslim population in Egypt to rise up in protest and storm the embassy in Cairo, Egypt. 

Romney, who has zero experience in the foreign policy field except for his role as a Mormon Missionary which found him in Paris, France for two years so he could avoid the Vietnam War draft also failed to mention the Afghanistan war when he accepted the nomination for President at the Republican Convention. 

Romney thought the press release by the embassy staff member in Cairo, Egypt was "apologizing" to the people of Egypt was inappropriate, but Romney didn't realize the attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya didn't happen until six hours later, and the body of Ambassador Stevens wasn't discovered until eleven hours later at a hospital in Libya where he had been taken by Libyans friendly to the United States. 

President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton both spoke of the deaths of the U.S. embassy employees, but neither of them mentioned the confused and inaccurate comments made by Mitt Romney.  

Even though Romney was caught lying about the attack he came back the next day and doubled-down  on his initial remarks and went even further attacking President Obama for not offering more protection for embassy staff, and even suggesting military action on Libya should be taken. 

Romney, who pulled out all the stops to avoid the military draft during the Vietnam War, is surrouded by neocons from the Bush/Cheney administration who are always looking to go to war with Iran, Syria, North Korea or any other country they contend is a threat to the security of the United States.

The upshot is if Mitt Romney is elected President he will not be able to carryout all his military intervention into all the countries he assumes are a threat to the United States without re-instating the military draft because our present military force is stretched to the breaking point after the Iraq war and conducting the Afghanistan war which is now in its 11th year. 

Mitt Romney is a "war hawk" who is surrounded by "chicken hawks" who never served a day of their lives in the military, but are looking for any excuse to go to war with any country that doesn't live up to their twisted thinking.   

 

NEWS ALERT: MARINES AMBUSHED IN LIBYA. TWO MORE U.S. EMBASSIES UNDER ATTACK


The U.S. Marines who were dispatched by President Obama to Libya have been ambushed and additional attacks on two other U.S. embassy posts in Yemen and the Middle East as the situation spirals out of control.

Read more here: 

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/12/13833848-us-diplomats-marine-rescue-team-were-also-attacked-at-safe-house-libyans-say?lite

U.S. Ambassador to Libya "KILLED" in mob ATTACK on BENGHAZI compound

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

FOX NEWS BLAMES OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FOR KILLING OF U.S. AMBASSADOR TO LIBYA AND THREE OTHERS


FOX NEWS has seized on the death of US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens to attack the OBAMA administration for responding too slowly (it was 2 SECONDS) and claiming OBAMA sounded apologetic about the attack.  MITT ROMNEY, naturally, followed FOX NEWS lead and said the same thing without knowing any of the details of the attack that killed Ambassador Stevens and three other staff members from the U.S. embassy in Libya. 

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

OMG: ROMNEY CALLS FOR ALL TROOPS OUT OF AFGHANISTAN BY 2014 AND FOX NEWS FREAKS OUT


Fox News is tearing their hair out because GOP Presidential candidate MITT ROMNEY has endorsed the same plan President OBAMA has annnounced about withdrawing all combat troops from Afganistan by 2014. 

FOX NEWS has been blasting OBAMA day after day for announcing the troop withdrawl and now ROMNEY is endorsing the same plan. 

Read more here:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/romney-renews-call-for-afghanistan-withdrawal-by-2014/

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Prince Harry back in Afghanistan as Apache pilot




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This is what happens to you when you go skinny-dipping and your grandmother is the Queen of England.
















WAR WEARY AMERICANS LOSE INTEREST IN AFGHANISTAN WAR


The Afghanistan War has been placed on the back burner if not taken off the stove completely by most Americans.

I've watched the "hits" to my anti-war blog skid from 3,000 a day to under 200 "hits" a day as Americans show they are no longer interested in the war even though we still have 100,000 troops in Afghanistan.

Interest in the Afghanistan is so bad that MITT ROMNEY and his VP partner PAUL RYAN never even mentioned the war in their speeches to the Republican Convention.

Read the USA Today report on how interest in the Afghanistan war has sunk to a new low here:  http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2012-09-08/afghanistan-soldiers-war-deaths/57698900/1#

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Marines attack key Afghan insurgent border hub



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Marines with 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion struck a key insurgent trafficking hub on the Pakistan-Helmand province border March 14-17. The attack was a part of Operation Rawhide II, an effort to stop the flow of narcotics, weapons, and fighters into, out of, and around southern Afghanistan. The insurgency in Afghanistan traditionally reloads and goes on the offensive in the spring and summer seasons. As Sergeant Jeremy Ross reports, Marines in the far south of Helmand province went out to stop this year's spring offensive before it can begin.




















Thursday, September 6, 2012

AFGHANISTAN WAR NOT FORGOTTEN


Thanks Mr. President and Mr. Vice President for remembering our troops still deployed to Afghanistan.  A far cry from Romney and Ryan who never mentioned the Afghanistan war at all.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

I DON'T AGREE WITH THIS VIDEO ON AFGHANISTAN WAR



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Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films, joins Thom Hartmann. Despite a lack of coverage on the mainstream media - the war in Afghanistan is still volatile - and far from over - as people continue to die every day. Can the US Government find a clean exit strategy for Afghanistan - or are we in store for more violence in the years to come?













HELICOPTER CRASH RESCUE IN AFGHANISTAN

Monday, September 3, 2012

Rachel Maddow - Don't mention it: At convention, GOP fails to address wars




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Mitt Romney accepted the nomination to be president of the United States of America without a single word for the over 80,000 Americans who are serving in Afghanistan. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow discusses why the election will fail us for the lack of debate about the war.











U.S. MILITARY MAKES DRASTIC DECISION ON AFGHANISTAN


It is about time the U.S. military has come to the conclusion that the mission in Afghanistan has been a total failure. 

Read what the military is going to do here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/02/afghanistan-police-training-green-on-blue_n_1850065.html

AMAZING VIDEO: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A SOLDIER IS LEFT BEHIND BY HIS SQUAD IN AFGHANISTAN




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A soldier is separated from his squad during an intense firefight and left only with the support of a single ANA troop.






















































Sunday, September 2, 2012

AFGHANISTAN PRESIDENT KARZAI DENOUNCES U.S. TROOPS


Afghanistan President Karzai has denounced U.S. troops after two Afghan civilians were killed by U.S. troops. 

This type of rhetoric is even more of a reason why we should get out of Afghanistan ASAP.

Read story here:

http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php?sid/208808467/scat/b8de8e630faf3631/ht/Karzai-denounces-US-troops

IMPORTANT VIDEO: WHY IT NEVER GETS BETTER IN AFGHANISTAN


Saturday, September 1, 2012

BLOODY DAY IN AFGHANISTAN LEAVES 2 U.S. SOLDIERS DEAD

On another bloody day in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense has announced 2 U.S. soldiers were killed in combat.

Read full story here:

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/01/13602900-isaf-2-us-service-members-killed-in-afghanistan?lite

CAUTION: LEAKED COMBAT VIDEO OF AFGHANISTAN WAR

Click on link to watch a dramatic video of the war in Afghanistan including a C-130 Gunship run on Taliban fighters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XupigwIZa8

Friday, August 31, 2012

ROMNEY SKIPS ANY MENTION OF TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN OR THOSE KILLED OR WOUNDED IN IRAQ


Mitt Romney, GOP nominee for President, delivered his acceptance speech and never once mentioned our troops in Afghanistan or those that have died or were wounded in the Iraq war.

Meanwhile, 5 Aussie troops were killed in Afghanistan today.

Watch video and read more here:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-30/five-aussie-soldiers-killed-in-afghanistan/4233558

Thursday, August 30, 2012

US Marines Shot In Ambush



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A Standard Patrol In Afghanistan When Their Convoy Stopped To Check Out Their Surroundings.


Then Out Of The Blue Small Arms Fire Was Directed At Them.

Were One Marine Got Shot Just Above His Ass.                  

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

The Life-Saving SKYDEX Convoy Deck



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The SKYDEX Convoy Deck has been installed on thousands of MATVs in service in Afghanistan -- because tests show that in an IED blast that means a 100 percent chance of injury to crew members, the innovative SKYDEX Convoy Deck reduces the chance of injury to just 10 percent.














SO WHAT?

Investigation shows U.S. soldiers have burned over 100 copies of the Koran.  Who gives a damn after what the Afghans have been doing to our troops?

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/08/27/uk-usa-afghanistan-koran-idUKBRE87Q13I20120827

Monday, August 27, 2012

AFGHANISTAN DETERIORATES AS THE WORLD SLEEPS


17 people were beheaded by the Taliban and two US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan as the world sleeps.

Read full story here:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/afghan-soldier-kills-us-troops-latest-green-blue/story?id=17084797

Sunday, August 26, 2012

BRUTAL COMBAT VIDEO. 173RD AIRBORNE IN HEATED BATTLE IN AFGHANISTAN



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U.S Army Soldiers, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team engage the Taliban following an attack on their camp in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.















INTENSE Firefight | Afghanistan | Live Action Combat Footage | Helmet Cam

Friday, August 24, 2012

U.S. Military Death Toll in Afghan War Reaches New Milestone



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Since the beginning of the the Afghan War in 2001 up to the current day, there have been 2,000 U.S. servicemen and women who have lost their lives. That number includes both combat deaths as well as military suicides that occurred in Afghanistan. Ray Suarez looks at the factors that have contributed to those casualties.













AFGHANS TAKEOVER SECURITY FOR U.S. BASES

The Afghanistan National Security Force is set to takeover security for U.S. bases in Afghanistan.

The decision is raising a lot of eyebrows.

http://news.yahoo.com/afghan-force-protect-nato-bases-025507564.html

Thursday, August 23, 2012

I WAS AN ARMY "SAPPER" AND THIS IS WHAT WE DO



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I was a "Sapper" in the United States Army Combat Engineers and this is what we did.  It is not a pretty picture.

Beastly Sappers meeting interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture...and annihilating all that they have built. Sapper Beast!