Comments on: Targeting the Taliban http://www.veteransforacademicfreedom.org/2010/01/targeting-the-taliban/ Just another WordPress site Sat, 09 Apr 2011 16:13:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Michael_Fowler http://www.veteransforacademicfreedom.org/2010/01/targeting-the-taliban/#comment-434 Michael_Fowler Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:09:50 +0000 http://www.veteransforacademicfreedom.org/?p=1140#comment-434 Kazi, thank you for your post, everyone is welcome. First, I will ignore your baseless claims and so we can discuss something of substance. Explain to me how the U.S. profited from Tailban heroin during Soviet occupation? Even, if the U.S. was profiting from the heroin trade my plan for eradication of opium poppies, would put everyone out of the drug business, correct? Kazi, thank you for your post, everyone is welcome.

First, I will ignore your baseless claims and so we can discuss something of substance.
Explain to me how the U.S. profited from Tailban heroin during Soviet occupation?
Even, if the U.S. was profiting from the heroin trade my plan for eradication of opium poppies, would put everyone out of the drug
business, correct?

]]> By: Kazi Mahmood http://www.veteransforacademicfreedom.org/2010/01/targeting-the-taliban/#comment-433 Kazi Mahmood Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:20:04 +0000 http://www.veteransforacademicfreedom.org/?p=1140#comment-433 I know this is a purely American site. I also notice the concern regarding the strategies in the Afghan war. I feel I have the right to post an opinion too. First of all, the American writers, journalists, blogger are wrong on one very important aspect of Afghanistan: The Taliban does not profit or benefit from drug trade. Nato, UK, US and other Western armies are there to protect opium trade for pro-US drug warlords. Karzai family benefits from this trade, are enriching themselves with it and your 'opinion' masters are lying to the American people on the issue. Such lies will not help the US win such wars. On the other hand, I find it incredible that the writer found 400,000 peope killed by Saddam Husein who was murdered thanks to US help to Shi'a elements in Iraq! The US murdered 1 million Iraqis and well how passionate are you about that? More lies will be spured by you and you are giving journalism, blogging and everything that is called writing a real big miss! I know this is a purely American site. I also notice the concern regarding the strategies in the Afghan war. I feel I have the right to post an opinion too. First of all, the American writers, journalists, blogger are wrong on one very important aspect of Afghanistan: The Taliban does not profit or benefit from drug trade. Nato, UK, US and other Western armies are there to protect opium trade for pro-US drug warlords. Karzai family benefits from this trade, are enriching themselves with it and your 'opinion' masters are lying to the American people on the issue. Such lies will not help the US win such wars.

On the other hand, I find it incredible that the writer found 400,000 peope killed by Saddam Husein who was murdered thanks to US help to Shi'a elements in Iraq! The US murdered 1 million Iraqis and well how passionate are you about that? More lies will be spured by you and you are giving journalism, blogging and everything that is called writing a real big miss!

]]> By: Michael_Fowler http://www.veteransforacademicfreedom.org/2010/01/targeting-the-taliban/#comment-432 Michael_Fowler Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:21:05 +0000 http://www.veteransforacademicfreedom.org/?p=1140#comment-432 Well first off Gen. Butler's comments are 100 years old. Second, I do see any evidence that the U.S. Oil companies have profited from the Iraq war, as they do not have free access to that oil, Iraq does. Second, Gen. Butler was speaking of dirty little wars, not eliminating genocide. Your comments are sounding as if you are trying to use Gen. Butler to promote an anti-American, anti-war agenda, which having read Gen. Butler's book, he was not in either of those camps. Because he believe there are legitimate reasons to go war, but he opposed the way veterans were treated and the profiteering of Big Business in the days of the "Fat Cats" which no-longer exist due to new regulations. Lastly, I find your lack of compassion for the over 400,000 people murdered by Saddam appalling. They have every right to be free just as we have. read: <a href="http://www.veteransforacademicfreedom.org/2009/12/the-right-of-war/" rel="nofollow">http://www.veteransforacademicfreedom.org/2009/12...</a> Well first off Gen. Butler's comments are 100 years old. Second, I do see any evidence that the U.S. Oil companies have profited from the Iraq war, as they do not have free access to that oil, Iraq does.

Second, Gen. Butler was speaking of dirty little wars, not eliminating genocide. Your comments are sounding as if you are trying to use Gen. Butler to promote an anti-American, anti-war agenda, which having read Gen. Butler's book, he was not in either of those camps. Because he believe there are legitimate reasons to go war, but he opposed the way veterans were treated and the profiteering of Big Business in the days of the "Fat Cats" which no-longer exist due to new regulations.

Lastly, I find your lack of compassion for the over 400,000 people murdered by Saddam appalling. They have every right to be free just as we have.

read:
http://www.veteransforacademicfreedom.org/2009/12…

]]> By: Michael_Fowler http://www.veteransforacademicfreedom.org/2010/01/targeting-the-taliban/#comment-430 Michael_Fowler Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:55:15 +0000 http://www.veteransforacademicfreedom.org/?p=1140#comment-430 Thanks for the comment and the post from General Butler, one of my heroes, as I am a Marine. Gen. Butler is absolutely right that Big Business can and will influence the Washington, D.C and that in turn will lead the military to do its bidding. That is always going to be a constant pressure. Yet, that does not answer the question of human rights and modern warfare. No country with the military might of the U.S. should stand by idle and watch genocide occur as did happen in Germany, Russia, Ukraine, China, Vietnam, Iraq, etc. We are compelled to act out of basic human respect for life. Before WWII the U.S could sit back and watch Europe fight with itself with little worry that the war would effect us. But, with the advent of modern warfare things have changed greatly and we must be interventionist to the point of preventing large war machines such as the Nazi's or Saddam's from rising up. So, we must be on guard against war profiteering, while balancing that with human rights and self-preservation. However, we the people must be the rulers of our military might, not generals. I cannot find one good reason not to burn those fields in Afghanistan. Thanks for the comment and the post from General Butler, one of my heroes, as I am a Marine. Gen. Butler is absolutely right that Big Business can and will influence the Washington, D.C and that in turn will lead the military to do its bidding. That is always going to be a constant pressure.

Yet, that does not answer the question of human rights and modern warfare. No country with the military might of the U.S. should stand by idle and watch genocide occur as did happen in Germany, Russia, Ukraine, China, Vietnam, Iraq, etc. We are compelled to act out of basic human respect for life.

Before WWII the U.S could sit back and watch Europe fight with itself with little worry that the war would effect us. But, with the advent of modern warfare things have changed greatly and we must be interventionist to the point of preventing large war machines such as the Nazi's or Saddam's from rising up.

So, we must be on guard against war profiteering, while balancing that with human rights and self-preservation.

However, we the people must be the rulers of our military might, not generals. I cannot find one good reason not to burn those fields in Afghanistan.

]]> By: Twitter Ruby Diana http://www.veteransforacademicfreedom.org/2010/01/targeting-the-taliban/#comment-425 Twitter Ruby Diana Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:54:46 +0000 http://www.veteransforacademicfreedom.org/?p=1140#comment-425 "Neither the Bush administration nor Obama administration has effectively utilized this strategy." Isn't this why we have trained military and Generals? Why blame Bush and Obama? They follow the advise of the military. If the military doesn't understand the fundamentals of destroying the supply lines of the Taliban, war will be going on forever there. "Neither the Bush administration nor Obama administration has effectively utilized this strategy."
Isn't this why we have trained military and Generals? Why blame Bush and Obama? They follow
the advise of the military. If the military doesn't understand the fundamentals of destroying the supply lines of the Taliban, war will be going on forever there.

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]]> By: Leonard Magruder http://www.veteransforacademicfreedom.org/2010/01/targeting-the-taliban/#comment-423 Leonard Magruder Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:51:03 +0000 http://www.veteransforacademicfreedom.org/?p=1140#comment-423 The DNC knows the power lies have. They know that so long as they tell people what they want to hear, it does not matter. The big problem is getting people to wake to the fact that the media is part of the DNC. The DNC knows the power lies have. They know that so long as they tell people what they want to hear, it does not matter. The big problem is getting people to wake to the fact that the media is part of the DNC.

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