Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts

Monday, September 23, 2013

Pakistan: Attack on Christians

George W. Bush spread 'democracy' in Afghanistan. Now Obama is spreading 'democracy' in Afghanistan. Some of that 'democracy' has spilled over into Pakistan. Violence has become norm in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Now Taliban are targeting Christians. Christians are already poor and underprivileged in Pakistan/India. And now their lives are in danger.

There are about 70,000 Christians in the city of
Peshawar, capital of deeply conservative Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa province

"But some of the violence against Christians is organised and directly related to American-led war in Afghanistan, so has an expressly political motive.

Months after the US-led coalition attacked Afghanistan in late 2001, a grenade attack on a chapel inside a Christian mission hospital Taxila city killed four people."

Read more on the story here BBC News.

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Boston Marathon Violence

Since the Boston Marathon Violence I have been feeling very depressed. What kind of morons brainwashed these two brothers and what did they achieve? They killed three innocent people and wounded many others. The older brother is dead and the younger one is in serious condition; he will suffer a lot more than his brother.



Then I started thinking of Bush, Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld. Over one million innocent men, women and children killed in Iraq. In Afghanistan, over 100,000 innocent women and children butchered and yet Bush, Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld are living happily ever after – Bush and Dick Cheney are not even arrested, what kind of justice is that? What kind of troubled world do we live in?

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Sunday, November 27, 2011

US/NATO Attack Kills 24 Pakistani Soldiers



It's a very scary incident, which makes America's already strained relations with Pakistan even worse. Some Pakistanis are talking about retaliation, I hope there is none. Pakistan is a nuclear power and if those nukes get into the wrong hands, God help us. It would be a very dangerous situation.

I think it is extremely important that US-NATO is very careful crossing borders and bombing indiscriminately. One, it violates the sovereignty of Pakistan, and second people's lives are taken, especially when you attack military establishments in Pakistan (a supposed ally).

That reminds me of the recent GOP debate on November 22nd. It was amazing how most of the candidates gave the impression that the only legitimate government in the world was the United States, that it was up to America how countries in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and North Africa, are governed.

In other words, they gave the impression that they are the world's rulers. The only person who came across as sensible was Ron Paul, he kept reminding the other candidates that these are sovereign countries, to let them resolve their own problems, especially as America had enough of its own problems domestically.

An interesting statement of Ron Paul's was that if the US had not stationed its forces on sacred Muslim sites in Saudi Arabia, 9/11 would probably have not happened. It looks in all this that anyone who makes any sense is Ron Paul, but unfortunately it does not look he will come anywhere close to being the GOP nominee.

If we want peace in the world, US and NATO should minimize their interventions in the governing of other countries.

You can read more about the Pakistan incident here.

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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Sunday, April 03, 2011

Terry Jones - More Riots in Afghanistan

What the hell is wrong with this moron? What is it that he doesn't understand? Burning a holy book will bring a lot of trouble. Last year, when Terry Jones wanted to burn Koran, the President of the United States, Secretary of State, and Joint Chief of Staff all warned that this was a dangerous thing to do, that it would endanger American and allied soldiers in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.

This man is supposed to be educated, I watched a CNN interview where the host referred to him as DOCTOR Jones. Shouldn't Terry Jones know better? Why is he behaving in this criminal manner?

Part of the problem, unfortunately, is that the literacy rate in Afghanistan is not very high. Thus the Afghan people are easily incited on matters of religion. Religion is near and dear to the Afghan people - as it is to many people in poor and hopeless situations where faith is one of the few refuges available.

Terry Jones does not seem to understand the problems he is creating. I do not think the United States government should let it go, calling it just free expression. Terry Jones is spreading hatred and he should be criminally charged as he is directly responsible for the killings in Afghanistan; something that may spread to other parts of the Muslim world.

Click here to read more on this.

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Monday, June 21, 2010

George W. Bush: The demented man Part 2

Please watch this video below from my previous post, George W. Bush: The demented man Part 1



Let us start with his dementedness and some of the things Bush said. I mean a Republican plant Alvin Greene of South Carolina, so-called Democratic Candidate for Senate and mentally challenged, has not said as dumb things as this man. Bush would not have been hired as a bus boy in a hotel had it not been for his privileged background. Here are some of his whoppers.

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004 - He is right. He did harm US and its reputation around the world.

"I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft." - second presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004 - His brain was blown away by such a draft.

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." - Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000 - BP proved him wrong there.

"You work three jobs? ...Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." - to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005 - George Bush Sr. should have cracked the cocoon around Dubya a little tad growing up so that he would have understood a little bit about the real world.

Many American think that George W. Bush is a criminal who committed crimes against humanity and that he must be taken to the Hague and put on trial. He should be taken along with his God Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and the rest of the mob who initiated and participated in these crimes. Similar crimes were committed in Afghanistan and unfortunately there is no end in sight for atrocities there and in Iraq. Barack Obama must smarten up otherwise he will become another chapter in the book as Bush being the worst president US ever had. The Afghanistan war could have been avoided and the Iraq war was a pure criminal undertaking.

The biggest fans of Bush are Tony Blair of Britain (Bush's poodle), John Howard of Australia and Stephen Harper of Canada (Bush's poodlettes). Bush, Blair and Howard are out of office and it is about time that Harper take a hike too. Michael Ignatieff happens to be Bush's fan also. What does that tell you about the Liberal leader?

Hey Dubya, God told you to invade Iraq and now millions of people around the globe feel that their conscience is compelling them to point out that you're a criminal and to get some atonement through proper trial and a lifetime in jail (I am against capital punishment) and maybe you will not burn in hell for eternity and God may lessen your stay in the hell by a few centuries only.

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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Rush Limbaugh should be deported to Afghanistan

Afghanis need some help. I heard Pashtuns love well fed chubby men. They may like to diddle with him and he can also look for oil for BP that he cares about so much.

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Saturday, March 06, 2010

Torture of Afghan Detainees: Déjà vu all over again

Watch the videos here and here as reported by CBC.

First it was US where “enhance interogation” techniques (torture) against war detainees was the controversary. It looks that Harper took a chapter out of George W. Bush’s "torture book" and similar tecniques were used against Afghan detainees through Afghan authorities.

“Amir Attaran University of Ottawa law professor Amir Attaran says Canadian officials intentionally handed over Afghan detainees to be tortured in order to gather intelligence.” CBC.

Where is all this going? Is appointing retired Supreme Court justice Frank Iacobucci, to review documents for release, going to delay matters as the cat is already out of the bag.

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Monday, December 07, 2009

The Horrors of War



..and the lies we are told about these wars. Please watch this video carefully. These are the real facts and real horrors of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and few others being waged by US and its allies. This is only a glimpse into the atrocities being carried out in the name of democracy. The complete picture is much more gruesome and dreadful. This is something you will never see on your evening news. And this is something that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Harper or now Obama will never tell you about or make speeches about. We the people are being screwed. Please speak up.

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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Malalai Joya: Women’s voice in Afghanistan

If the US and Canada care so much for women's rights in Afghanistan, then why don't they listen to Malalai Joya. She was recently in Halifax explaining the atrocities of war in Afghanistan at the International Security Forum where big wigs like John McCain were in attendance. She was with the protestors to expose the hypocrisy of the US and Canada and the phoney war for democracy.

Click here to read the story.

Update: When you visit the above site look for the very first entry: "Don't be fooled by this democratic façade – the people are betrayed." I thought the above link takes one directly to this particular statement but apparently it does not.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Mulroney Again: Oh no!

Did we not deal with a Mulroney before?

Brian Mulroney said at one point in time that he did not do this and that, or say this and that with regards to Karlheinz Schreiber and money exchanging hands. It turned out that he did all that and said all that. Strange now David Mulroney, one time Associate Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs to Harper and currently ambassador to China, is saying there was no torture of detainees in Afghanistan, claiming he didn't know anything about it. Moreover, he says he does not know what Richard Colvin is talking about. Can we believe this Mulroney now? Is this guy related to Brian Mulroney. Déjà vu all over again.

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Peter Mackay’s facts

According to Defence Minister Peter Mackay, Richard Colvin's statements cannot be backed by facts. Which facts is Mackay talking about? Why does he not state these facts?

What possibly can be the motive of Richard Colvin to lie? To get fired from a high profile, well paid job in Washington D.C? Although Peter Mackay says he will not fire him and he will leave it up to to the civil servants. Right! He is really telling the truth now, is he not. My golly what a yahoo Mackay is; he really thinks people will believe him, Mackay, who wants to keep his job and that of his boss Harper's and will do anything for it; or would people believe Calvin who apparently has no motives (other than self-destruction?) as in the long run his career may be ruined.

Here is Mackay's statement:

"I don't believe it's credible. I don't believe it's backed up by fact and what we have to deal with in a parliamentary hearing, as we do in a court of law, or another judicial or public inquiry, is evidence that can be substantiated."


You can click here to read the rest of the story.

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Friday, November 20, 2009

Stephen Harper: Emperor Without Clothes

It is amazing that Stephen Harper, Peter Mackay and Rick Hillier all either have amnesia or don't recall (typical excuse in order to hide the truth) receiving any memo from Richard Colvin, a senior Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan now posted in the US. In these memos, it was stated that detainees handed over by Canadian troops to Afghan authorities were routinely tortured. How can they not know? They have lost any credibility, not that they had any. It does not look good on Canada. We wittingly or unwittingly were party to war crimes. How can we condemn Rwanda or other similar war atrocities by other societies when we ourselves were heavily involved? Very sad times for Canada.

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Afghanistan and Human Rights

By many accounts the human rights situation in Afghanistan has severely deteriorated. Mathew Hoh, a senior US diplomat in Afghanistan who recently resigned, alludes to similar circumstances. He is basically saying that we are making the situation worse in Afghanistan.

Click here for a story depicting the worsening situation of human rights.

There are a lot more stories on the above site that you may consider to read.

Also this video sheds a lot of light on what is going on in Afghanistan when it comes to children.

There is a need for United Nations involvement and for the involvement of many nations to resolve these issues. These issue cannot be resolved through bullets which actually have worsened the situation. We went after Al-Qaeda and in the process we further destroyed Afghan society. There is a need for education and developing societal institutions to battle these horrible crimes going on in Afghanistan. US and NATO countries have been concerned about their own interests only. This is deadly wrong. These invading countries have a responsibility now to repair the damage done to Afghan society.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Afghanistan: Sexual exploitation of young boys


I watched this on CNN with horror that how very young boys are being exploited for sex. We have heard of the worsening of women's rights and increased drug trade but some how this worsening tragedy of sexual exploitation of young boys has not been fully exposed. It applies to young girls too but the situation is equally bad if not worse for very young boys, especially homeless and poor boys are used as sex slaves. The invading army has done very little or nothing to curb this hideous sexual exploitation. What kind of freedom and democracy are the US, Canada and other NATO countries bringing to Afghanistan?

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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Military Generals and Symbolism

When a person wears their Military General uniform, the symbolism does something to them. They start behaving like God, like any other powerful position. Rip their uniform off and expose their humanness and maybe society will look at them differently and not take so many orders from them. General McChrystal is one of them. He wants to conquer Afghanistan and he is using all kinds of dirty tricks to get his way. His report was leaked to put Obama in a difficult position and push him to give in to his demands of 40,000 more troops. It turns out that McChrystal actually asked for 80,000 troops. How is he going to do the conquering? This is not clear.

How to overcome eight years of botched war is beyond comprehension. After tens of thousands of innocent civilians killed, will Afghanis trust a foreign army? I doubt it. I have said this before and I will say it again, unless the local population is on your side you can never win a war, especially given the history of Afghanistan as the graveyard of empires (rough terrain, tenacious fighters). Someone needs to put General McChrystal and General David Petraeus, who are putting so many American and NATO allied forces' lives at risk, in their place.

The only achievement so far is that, besides further destabilizing Afghanistan, Pakistan has been destabilized and because of its involvement in the US war, Pakistanis are constant victims of the Taliban's deadly attacks. More innocent lives are being lost. Also, Pakistan is a nuclear power and the attack on Military Headquarters in Rawalpindi is very scary. Something needs to be done to stabilize Pakistan for the sake of Pakistan and world peace. As far as the war in Afghanistan is concerned, diplomacy may be the only solution left for face-saving.

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Monday, September 14, 2009

Afghanistan: Another soldier gives the ultimate sacrifice with his life

Pte. Patrick Lormand was only 21. It is very sad.



Our mission in Afghanistan needs to be re-assessed. In the recent Afghan elections there are complaints of hundreds of fraud cases. Karzai's own former foreign minister and now his main political opponent Abdullah Abdullah has spoken out about the rampant fraud. On CNN he said that Karzai is doing as much harm to Afghan society as the Taliban. This is very depressing to hear when our soldiers are giving their lives to better the lives of Afghans. Unfortunately the lives of Afghans are not getting better, it is definitely not the fault of the soldiers, it is the corrupt political system in Afghanistan.

Karzai is allied with war lords and drug lords and yet all he can claim control of is Kabul - that's why he is called "the Mayor of Kabul." Maybe he needs these alliances to merely survive. Can NATO change that situation? Many experts say not through military force. The only solution left is negotiations, including with tribes allied to the Taliban, and to put a government in place that will better represent the will of the people of Afghanistan. A very tall order.

Our main concern must remain that our soldiers are not giving their lives in vain.

Click here to read the story of Pte. Patrick Lormand.

I intended to write more about the Afghanistan situation, the Karzai government, the corruption and fraudulent elections as claimed by Karzai opponents and some independent observers, but out of respect for Pte. Patrick Lormand I leave it at this for the time being.

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Monday, August 31, 2009

Afghanistan: The thriving democracy

Should we really believe that? Especially now that reports are coming out about vote rigging and other election frauds. Is NATO achieving anything there other than creating more misery? Should we not stop being world police and let the locals decide their own fate, rather than telling them what their fate should be from the barrel of a gun?

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