Comments on: Deadly Shell Game: Picking Afghanistan’s Casualty Figures http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/08/09/deadly-shell-game-picking-afghanistans-casualty-figures/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:49:55 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: John Lowell http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/08/09/deadly-shell-game-picking-afghanistans-casualty-figures/comment-page-1/#comment-158795 John Lowell Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:30:31 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/?p=4531#comment-158795 Well, while you weren't looking, Obama's now doubly determined to keep his promise of a 16 month withdrawal from Iraq, alright. But the troops won't be coming home. He's going to send them to Afghanistan, where, according to him, they should have been from the outset. And now the Bitish military is promising defeat in Afghanistan if troop levels are not significantly increased. What George Bush has joined together, let no man put asunder. And this a NATO operation! When first imagined, NATO was a purely defensive alliance designed to keep Joe Stalin from pushing the American and British Armies in continental Europe into the Atlantic Ocean. Soon, if they keep it up, NATO will be involved in South Ossetia and after that, East Ugabugaland, where, we've been assured by Israeli intelligence, a nuclear weapons program aimed at them is humming right along. Its never going to stop as long as "the system" remains in place. Peace will never come as long as there are Republicans and Democrats. One hopes the coming economic cataclysm will so alter the political reality that what comes out the other end will make what exists today utterly unrecognizable. Well, while you weren’t looking, Obama’s now doubly determined to keep his promise of a 16 month withdrawal from Iraq, alright. But the troops won’t be coming home. He’s going to send them to Afghanistan, where, according to him, they should have been from the outset. And now the Bitish military is promising defeat in Afghanistan if troop levels are not significantly increased. What George Bush has joined together, let no man put asunder. And this a NATO operation! When first imagined, NATO was a purely defensive alliance designed to keep Joe Stalin from pushing the American and British Armies in continental Europe into the Atlantic Ocean. Soon, if they keep it up, NATO will be involved in South Ossetia and after that, East Ugabugaland, where, we’ve been assured by Israeli intelligence, a nuclear weapons program aimed at them is humming right along.

Its never going to stop as long as “the system” remains in place. Peace will never come as long as there are Republicans and Democrats. One hopes the coming economic cataclysm will so alter the political reality that what comes out the other end will make what exists today utterly unrecognizable.

]]> By: DetainThis http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/08/09/deadly-shell-game-picking-afghanistans-casualty-figures/comment-page-1/#comment-158748 DetainThis Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:10:20 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/?p=4531#comment-158748 "AP" stands for <a href="http://satirebureau.com/?p=955" title="A brilliant satirical review of AP's July 26 editorial-posing-as-a-report" rel="nofollow">Apple Polishers</a>. “AP” stands for Apple Polishers.

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