Five bucks says the guy sitting beside Fastpat while he was pushing paper while he "was around, in the military, during Vietnam"
was Lew Rockwell
Steve

I certainly hope all politicians hate me, it's vindication.

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That's all I have to say about politics here in POT.

You've spoken volumes in this message, oh man of few words.
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Nobody addressed the topic of the post. I"m guessing this means it's accurate......?????

Pat
Please give us more single sentence response with A- Highlighted quotes or B- Lew Rockwell quotes
Why don't you volunteer for a charity or some other cause and help some people with this extraordinary free time you have?
steve

When Lew speaks, people listen.

Hey Pat, I'd like to know what YOU know about the war in Afghanistan, not what some guy you dug up on the internet says. Seriously.

tap tap tap.....

Personally I haven't been there myself, so FWIW, the office next to mine has a several coworkers (contractors) who rotate in/out of both Afghanistan and Iraq constantly. They have been there for the last 2+ years and have stories good and bad w/pictures to support. They have seen things they will never forget - but they all say the media does not portray an accurate picture of the good stuff happening. Food for thought.

Parts of it are accurate, although exaggerated. Our enemies (and those of the elected government). in Afghanistan) used a traffic accident (malfunctioning brakes on a truck) to rile up enough folks for a demonstration. They are pulling out all the stops to get the attention of the US media...because it has worked so well to help their fellow terrorists in Iraq.

right back at ya buddy.........
what did you do in the military again?

The lie oft issued by the lewrockettes that asserts there were no connections between Saddam and al qaeda. Obviously a very important and pivotal hinge of many of the early arguments you quoted from the lew-rockettes...The myth, the lie if you will, was smashed...The truth is the first casualty of war - an axiom lewrockwell'ists live by.

You think those who demonstrated are terrorists? I'm not sure what you're getting at...who's "fellow terrorists?" What worked so well for terrorists in Iraq?

Fint, I honestly don't think those who demonstrated in Afghanistan are terrorists...

Maybe not. They, however, are ill-informed and lied to at the very least. They are much like the rest of the world who get fed selective media, media intended to manipulate them in various directions. Even American perception is vulnerable to this selective media and intentional distortion of fact. They [foreign Arabs] are also manipulated by an ideology, a gruesome and barbaric ideology that warps their intellectual and philosophical and psychological fabric.

It is easy to say what you think and what you don't. It is nothing more than opinion. Everyone has an opinion and many have one unfounded in fact. You saying who you think the demonstrators in Afghanistan were is such an opinion. For example, I am sure an outsider of America could easily believe that the American anti-war demonstrations were led by peace-loving hippies. They would be dramatically in error. Anyone who has done an ounce of research apprehends that those responsible for organizing and sloganeering for the "peaceful" left are nothing more than tyrant worshiping communists in drag...same goes for the illegal immigrant marches.

It is not hard to understand how the world fails to acquire an accurate picture of themselves or the world around them. There are many who have interest in keeping them in the dark. America is no exception, yet the theory is just as accurate here. We have the resources to be informed, yet we are not. People continue to believe and recite lies, as if a truth, regularly. There are few who have the resources or time to search and discern what is truth and what is not in the world...I being one, you not.

Odd, that the same sort of story the returning soldiers told when the Soviet Union attempted the exact same thing 25 years ago.

And just as accurate.

To the US government, their agents, and their accolytes anyone in opposition to the US government illegal attempted occupation of Afghanistan are terrorist or friends of terrorists. Same crap when the Soviet Union tried to "help" the country. The excuses for being in Afghanistan that are being used by the Bush'ists are the same that were used by the Soviets.

All to excuse naked aggression.

These aren't soldiers - they are contractors. Long haired, surfer types, well at least one of them is.
So to be clear you have not been to AF or IQ yet call *inaccurate* stories from friends & coworkers of mine that have. Yes?

IOW, they're mercenaries. With a vested interest in the status quo.

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So to be clear you have not been to AF or IQ yet call *inaccurate* stories from friends & coworkers of mine that have. Yes?

More precisely, I'm calling them a mixture of inaccuracies, lies, and irrelevancies.

According to locals on the ground there, the protests were organized by the same folks who are committing the terrorist acts there. Most of the actual protesters are just ignorant illiterates without access to much information that were misled into the belief that the accident was an intentional act. The terrorists use the cover of the civilian protesters to take pot shots at local police and US troops. They hope the return fire will kill innocents and further their cause...just like their evil friends in Iraq do on a daily basis.

If this is true, why aren't we arresting them for terrorism?

The good news for people of your ilk (are there others?) is that the Afghanistan adventure was a key cause of the collapse of the Soviet regime. And history may well repeat...

I know you need to block this part out of the Soviet regime catastrophic failures, but, whether you like it or not, socialism was the single largest contributor to their demise.

The truth shall set you free, weenie.

We do when we can.