http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/09/time-to-be-impolite-about-afghanistan-protest-the-non-war/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/09/time-to-be-impolite-about-afghanistan-protest-the-non-war/#comment-54669 ron Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:21:54 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=10485#comment-54669 Ladysmith...What? It sounds to me like you can not make an argument for your case (whatever it is), so instead you make a bunch of tired and untrue suppositions about me--whom you have never met! Maybe you should go back to your tea party rally. Ladysmith…What? It sounds to me like you can not make an argument for your case (whatever it is), so instead you make a bunch of tired and untrue suppositions about me–whom you have never met! Maybe you should go back to your tea party rally.

]]> http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/09/time-to-be-impolite-about-afghanistan-protest-the-non-war/#comment-54662 Annie Ladysmith Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:04:18 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=10485#comment-54662 Dear Mr. Jacobs, Sir, it is you who is the moron. It is you who are either fooled or perhaps you're on someone's payroll. This sorry and hopeless economic state the US is in has nothing to do with free market capitalism. Listen, you little punk, this debacle was a man-made creation that was in the planning before the first plane hit the first tower. If you cannot seek the truth, how do you dare write anything? People are only interested in the truth at this point, we hate the lies and we hate the liars. So get honest or stop writing this drivel. Or tell your programers we're onto the lies and it's going to be coming right back at them, tell them we've had enough of the mind control and it's high time we put them on LSD and shoved a stun gun up their ass's. Dear Mr. Jacobs, Sir, it is you who is the moron. It is you who are either fooled or perhaps you’re on someone’s payroll. This sorry and hopeless economic state the US is in has nothing to do with free market capitalism. Listen, you little punk, this debacle was a man-made creation that was in the planning before the first plane hit the first tower. If you cannot seek the truth, how do you dare write anything? People are only interested in the truth at this point, we hate the lies and we hate the liars. So get honest or stop writing this drivel. Or tell your programers we’re onto the lies and it’s going to be coming right back at them, tell them we’ve had enough of the mind control and it’s high time we put them on LSD and shoved a stun gun up their ass’s.

]]> http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/09/time-to-be-impolite-about-afghanistan-protest-the-non-war/#comment-54585 Michael Kenny Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:18:31 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=10485#comment-54585 The screw-up in Afghanistan has done Merkel political damage and may well prevent her getting what she wants in the forthcoming election, i.e a CDU/FDP coalition. Public opinion is very hostile to the whole thing, as elsewhere in Europe and her current SPD coalition partners now say they wants to withdraw German troops (the big TV debate was last night!). That, of course, is just electioneering but, as the campaign heats up, this sort of thing can acquire a life of its own, particularly since the US military are blaming the German colonel. I wouldn't be surprised to see German troops pulled from the region in question and held back from a combat role. What is certain is that next time, German officers will withdraw rather than call for an air strike, which will hamstring operations. The screw-up in Afghanistan has done Merkel political damage and may well prevent her getting what she wants in the forthcoming election, i.e a CDU/FDP coalition. Public opinion is very hostile to the whole thing, as elsewhere in Europe and her current SPD coalition partners now say they wants to withdraw German troops (the big TV debate was last night!). That, of course, is just electioneering but, as the campaign heats up, this sort of thing can acquire a life of its own, particularly since the US military are blaming the German colonel. I wouldn’t be surprised to see German troops pulled from the region in question and held back from a combat role. What is certain is that next time, German officers will withdraw rather than call for an air strike, which will hamstring operations.

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