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Rethink Afghanistan Rethink Afghanistan is now on iTunes. Those of you with iTunes accounts - can you take a moment to write a short review and rate it up?
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Rethink Afghanistan

Rethink Afghanistan Join others who want to end the war in Afghanistan: http://www.facebook.com/rethinkafghanistan

Xe Services, the mercenary company formerly known as Blackwater, is in the running for a $1 billion contract to train the Afghan National Police, despite the fact that they've trained the notoriously corrupt and incompetent Af...ghan Border Police. Xe Services / Blackwater is a liability to the American cause around the world and doesnt deserve another dime of taxpayer money. Share this to spread the word: Xe/Blackwater shouldn't get another dime of taxpayer money.

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Rethink Afghanistan ROBERT GREENWALD here. we are working cost of war video. what are the most outrageous examples of spending on afghan war you can think of.

February 6 at 8:08am
Rethink Afghanistan

Rethink Afghanistan Good morning! Here's an early morning video showing U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) assailing funding to close Guantanamo Bay as "asinine" "wasteful" spending at a time of huge deficits...right before he makes a war spending proposal roughly ten times that size. Can you share this on your Facebook profile? Howe can we ho...ld our reps accountable? -- DC

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Too many critical questions surround the war in Afghanistan that only public debate and Congressional oversight hearings can answer. These deliberative hearings have been an historical cornerstone of government ...
Bob Williams
Bob Williams
This point that it just encourages them was explained to me 15 years ago by Mr Nakamura, an international judo champion, before he succumbed to cancer. American state terrorism has ballooned in the 21st century, with its latest nuclear threat allegedly the underwater detonation in the Indian Ocean that wiped out rebellious Aceh province in Indonesia according to New Zealand websites.
February 6 at 11:39pm
Rethink Afghanistan

Rethink Afghanistan Don't forget to ask your Afghanistan questions.

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President Obama is taking questions from the Organizing for America community on Thursday, February 4th at 5:45pm EST. Click here to RSVP for the Conversation with the President.
Carolyn Caplan
Carolyn Caplan
DITTO, DITTO, DITTO! to Sandi and Greg......couldn't agree more! And more "question and answer" sessions will prove President Obama can handle any question because he is honest and upfront with so many facts and figures in his head, ready with the quips to ease tensions. Proof that he is a real person with real solutions!
February 6 at 10:02am
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Rethink Afghanistan New video: Yesterday, House Armed Services Committee member Rep. Platts (R-PA) decided to sing the praises of the Afghan National Security Forces. Uh, would that be the Afghan national security forces this report calls "corrupt," "unmotivated," and "not at war?" -- DC http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog/?p=1597

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Too many critical questions surround the war in Afghanistan that only public debate and Congressional oversight hearings can answer. These deliberative hearings have been an historical cornerstone of government ...
Tom J
Tom J
Just watched Rep Platts (another R, imagine that!)...yeah, does "short days, often absent and place personal gain above national survival" describe any other heavily involved entity you can readily think of?
February 4 at 4:18pm
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Rethink Afghanistan Tomorrow, Organizing for America (OFA) is hosting a "Conversation with the President" at 5:45 p.m. Eastern / 2:45 p.m. Pacific where he'll answer questions from OFA members. This is a great opportunity to ask the President to provide concrete details about his plan to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in July 2...011.

When you submit your question, consider asking something like: "When will you spell out a specific plan for withdrawing in Afghanistan, beginning, as you pledged to, in July 2011?"

If you're already an OFA member, please take a moment to join the Rethink Afghanistan OFA group. http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/RethinkAfghanistan340 --DC

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President Obama is taking questions from the Organizing for America community on Thursday, February 4th at 5:45pm EST. Click here to RSVP for the Conversation with the President.
Paul
Paul
A lot of differnt opinions. I am curious, how many of you have actually been there for any length of time to see first hand what is going on?
February 4 at 6:22pm
Jean Bails
Jean Bails
I'm curious, how many of you paid for and expect there will be blowback from actions taken abroad?
February 5 at 4:56am
Rethink Afghanistan

Rethink Afghanistan We're launching a new video with an act.ly petition attached this morning: with the House Armed Services Committee starting the process today of writing the 2011 Defense Department budget. We want the HASC members to read the Eikenberry cables. Follow this link and watch our new video, and then sign the act.ly petitio...n to HASC. Can you share this with your Facebook friends? --DC http://act.ly/1oe

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Tell members of the House Armed Services Committee to read the Eikenberry warnings on Afghanistan before writing a 2011 Defense Budget.
Tom J
Tom J
RA: Thanks for the memories. As disabled vet I can't afford phone service; keep in mind those of us who can't (esp the "house"less making "homes" wherever they can) are still US citizens (Equality? There's the rub)
February 4 at 8:58am
Tom J
Tom J
And to Deb S van D: Let's be more accurate and hold the US GOVT-SUBCONTRACTOR COMPLEX* responsible; they're the ones getting all the $$$ USD from the Chinese debt stream we call the Budget. 160,000 US individual military in Iraq are paired with 180,000 separate sub-contractors (and at least 70 other "security" firms in Baghdad besides Xe/Blackwater).
We'll always have a military as long as our "families" keep needing it to complete the job of making children affordable and turning them into adults. A LOT of such dysfunction gets corrected by the mil (and re-screwed by the VA etc).


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* COMPLEX: Ike Eisenhower's "military-industrial complex" and superhawk "nuke N Vietnam" Barry Goldwater's "a billion here and a billion there and soon it adds up to real money" (said before "trillions" became the opertive). Goldwater also said,way back then, re gays in the mil, "You don't have to be str8t to shoot straight".
February 4 at 8:58am
Rethink Afghanistan

Rethink Afghanistan what is best howard zinn quote relative to afghanistan?

February 2 at 2:07pm
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Rethink Afghanistan want to start more brainstorming. tell us what you are doing this week to help force a rethink afghanistan policy big,small, inbetween, local, national,...

February 2 at 8:28am
Robert Slate
Robert Slate
Also, I posted about Afghanistan on my own humble little blog, at: http://iblogwesthartford.blogspot.com/2010/02/31-americans-lost-their-lives-in.html
February 3 at 11:32am
Paul
Paul
A lot of differnt opinions. I am curious, how many of you have actually been there for any length of time to see first hand what is going on?
February 4 at 6:23pm
Rethink Afghanistan

Rethink Afghanistan Good morning, everyone. The president is expected to release his 2011 budget this morning at 10:45 Eastern / 7:45 Pacific, including a brutally high defense budget. Help us spread around our new video - "Afghanistan War Shapes Engorged Defense Budget While Domestic Programs Freeze." Can you send it to 3 friends? --DC

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The Obama Administration is expected to unveil a huge Defense Department budget for next year shaped by the Afghanistan war. War spending is exempt from the president’s proposed spending freeze, despite President Obama’s statement at West Point that, “we can’t simply afford to ignore the price of th...
Rethink Afghanistan

Rethink Afghanistan From a peacemaker friend Absar Ahmed Khan, who has this to say: "Is it not a sheer unjust that when US Army kills an innocent, an apology would be suffice from US government to settle the dispute. And if some Muslim kills an American citizen/serviceman, he's definitely a 'terrorist'. Is that why we're fighting this war?" --CL

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KABUL -- A gunner in a U.S. military convoy shot and killed a local imam as he was driving his car here Thursday morning, prompting outrage among residents and an apology from coalition forces.
Rethink Afghanistan

Rethink Afghanistan ROBERT GREENWALD here. we are approaching l,000 deaths in afghanistan. we are talking and thin king about how to call attention to the fact when it happens. thoughts everyone as to what rethink campaign and all of us together can do...

January 30 at 7:59am
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Rethink Afghanistan FROM ROBERT GREENWAL,over l,000 new peopejoined us in last day or so. tell us how you heard about the rta/facebook page.

January 28 at 1:37pm
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Rethink Afghanistan ROBERT GREENWALD. welcome to the l,000 new rethink afghanistan fans. glad to have you with us. what do you think are most important issues/actions we should be working on together.

January 27 at 8:43pm
Sarah Elliott
Sarah Elliott
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122945924&sc=fb&cc=fp
what are we going to do about the fact that we are sending our troops into a Muslim country with biblical inscriptions on their weaponry FROM THE MANUFACTURER!!!!???
check out this website and then call your government and get it aired!
separation of church and state!
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at the very least, it's a CRUSADE AND HERE'S THE PROOF!!!
PSSSSSSSSSSST...DO SOMETHING!
January 28 at 10:12pm
Judith B Salzman
Judith B Salzman
Rethink all the priorities in this country. Economic inequality, militarism, consumerism -- it's a mess.
February 3 at 7:12pm