Breaking The Silence - Truth and Lies in the War on Terror (HQ) by John Pilger

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Breaking The Silence - Truth and Lies in the War on Terror (HQ Copy) by John Pilger John Pilger dissects the truth and lies in the 'war on terror'. Award-winning journalist John Pilger investigates the discrepancies between American and British claims for the 'war on terror' and the facts on the ground as he finds them in Afghanistan and Washington, DC. In 2001, as the bombs began to drop, George W. Bush promised Afghanistan "the generosity of America and its allies". Now, the familiar old warlords are regaining power, religious fundamentalism is renewing its grip and military skirmishes continue routinely. In "liberated" Afghanistan, America has its military base and pipeline access, while the people have the warlords who are, says one woman, "in many ways worse than the Taliban". In Washington, Pilger conducts a series of remarkable interviews with William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, and leading Administration officials such as Douglas Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and John Bolton, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. These people, and the other architects of the Project for the New American Century, were dismissed as 'the crazies' by the first Bush Administration in the early 90s when they first presented their ideas for pre-emptive strikes and world domination. Pilger also interviews presidential candidate General Wesley Clark, and former intelligence officers, all the while raising searching questions about the real motives for the 'war on terror'While President Bush refers to the US attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq as two 'great victories', Pilger asks the question - victories over whom, and for what purpose? Pilger describes Afghanistan as a country "more devastated than anything I have seen since Pol Pot's Cambodia". He finds that Al-Qaida has not been defeated and that the Taliban is re-emerging. And of the "victory" in Iraq, he asks: "Is this Bush's Vietnam?"



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gameover, it is an old article and too vague in today's context, but I will go along with it. I will say this, "War on Terror" is a politically correct misnomer. Try again!

The fight against Al-Qaeda and Taliban is not in Iraq, but in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan has almost never been in a better shape within the past few decades.

In truth, Afghanistan isn't a war. It is a counter-terrorist operation. Is it working? Not with the current media it isn't. The US media carries a bigger punch than the US military.

As for Iraq, well, Saddam is out, that is a win by any standards.

Really? What are you guys calling it at your Klan rallies now days? The "War on sandni@@ers" or the "War on ragheads"?

Which do you guys prefer? Both are pretty catchy...



Oh you mean all that jazz from Bush and the necons about if we don't fight them(Al-Qaeda) there(Iraq), we will have to fight them here, was in my imagination? So, I guess then the invasion of Iraq, which wasted an insane amount military resources and taxdollars, cost nearly 5,000 American military lives, killed a seemingly endless amount of Arabs, and contributed to bankrupting our entire economy and that of the Western World...Was all to get Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan? Yah...That makes sense...Sure.

Afghanistan is in better shape? Our you seriously joking? Do you even know a thing about the place? Do you have even a clue? You might as well say it was better off when the Soviets tried to occupy the land. The Afghans want "us" gone, and this is going to only drag on and get worse. Unlike Iraq, Afghanistan is a real guerrilla war, and not an insurgency like in Iraq. We are up against a real battle-hardened guerrilla army which we mistakenly label the "Taliban". The Pashtuns are damned skilled at this, and are comfortable with this going on FOREVER. We simply no longer have the money to afford this. GAME OVER.

The Afghans want us gone, and in the end, the Pashtuns want their own country. Our racist quest for "democracy" is actually robbing them of their right to self-governance, and setting them back decades. Thanks solely to people like you.

Why don't you just listen to what Malalai Joya, an elected member of the Afghan Parliament had to say about it:

Links of Interviews

In fact why don't you educate your "non-veteran" self to what hatred we are sowing with those poor people in Afghanistan:

U.S Strategy Failures in Afghanistan

While you are at it, how about coming to terms with the results of this nonsense, both to the U.S economically as well as strategically. World superpower, no more:

Welcome to 2025

If you as an American still support this fascist imperialistic garbage, all the while we are on a bankrupt sinking ship that is rapidly losing it's status as THE "preeminent global world power" decades before we should have...Well, there is a name for that kind of person...Traitor.