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With most of the nation in debate about healthcare, there has been little done about the war(s) in the Middle East, and columnist George Will took some heat this week for writing that the U.S. should be pulling troops out of Afghanistan, rather than planning for more deployments.
Although polls show public support of the so-called “War on Terror” is waning, and the U.S. Attorney General is looking at possible indictments of our former presidential administration for starting the illegal war in the first place, (and all that anti-Geneva Convention prisoner abuse and torture condoned by President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who has been surprisingly quiet lately. Of course, Dick is trying the old bait and switch, and declaring the world unsafe because of the terrorists).
U.S. military leaders in charge say a mini-surge ala (the second) Bush will not make much impact in the fighting in Afghanistan. President Barack Obama wants our allies to get more involved while Germany, Britain, and France nationals want their troops pulled out. The clusterfuck of a war is so mixed up with allegiances mixed along the races, factions, and religious convictions that most U.S. troops don’t know if they are supporting or setting them up for raids. The “holy war” has been going on for hundreds of years, and U.S. involvement in the mess doesn’t seem to be making much headway.

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