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Why Is The US Fighting a War In Afghanistan?
Why Petraeus Can't Make The Sale

By Dan Froomkin

As Gen. David Petraeus kicks off an extended media blitz intended to make Americans feel better about the war in Afghanistan -- or at least give him some more time to fight it -- he faces a foe more implacable than al Qaeda, or even the Taliban: Reality.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26162.htm



Why Is The US Fighting a War In Afghanistan?

Video Interview

Zbigniew Brzezinski on Afghanistan and the American strategy for Eurasia and the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26163.htm



Zbigniew Brzezinski says AIPAC is bad for USA/Israel

Video

While Israeli settlers relax in their swimming pool below are Palestinians with no running water and their olive groves have been cut.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc7BFkgmOYE&feature=player_embedded



AIPAC Pays For 81 US Lawmakers Vacation In Israel

By RT

While the US continues to struggle with its economic issues Congress is on vacation. Many are upset at the news reports that 81 members of Congress have chosen to spend a week relaxing in Israel.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28887.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Gen. Petraeus Goes to Media War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/16

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Petraeus Media Blitz
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/08/16-6

Gen. Petreaus' Nation Building Media Tour
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/17-9

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Petraeus Indicates He'll Delay Afghanistan Drawdown Deadline

Ben Arnoldy, The Christian Science Monitor: "With the number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan surpassing 2,000 this weekend, what does the road ahead in Afghanistan look like? The tally - now at 2,002 - comes from the independent iCasualties.org website. It includes 1,227 Americans, 331 Britons, 151 Canadians, and 45 French."

http://www.truth-out.org/petraeus-indicates-hell-delay-afghanistan-drawdown-deadline62352

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How the US created al Qaeda
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/915.html



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/why-hollywood-ignores-hiroshima.html

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Hollywood and the War Machine
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/12/26

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Forgetting the Past, One Military Movie at a Time

David Sirota, Truthout: ''Since 1986 s 'Top Gun' rekindled the Pentagon-Hollywood relationship from its post-Vietnam doldrums, the collusion between the military and the entertainment industry has become a blockbuster con, generating huge benefits for both participants and swindling the American public in the process. The scheme is simple: The Pentagon allows studios to use military hardware and bases at a discounted, taxpayer-subsidized rate. In exchange, filmmakers must submit their scripts to the Pentagon for line edits.''

http://www.truth-out.org/forgetting-past-one-military-movie-time/1330094665



Anti-War Critics Forgotten on Oscar Night

Adam Hochschild, Tom Dispatch: ''Yet curiously, for all the spectacle of boy and horse, thundering cavalry charges, muddy trenches, and wartime love and loss, the makers of War Horse, Downtown Abbey and, I have no doubt, the similar productions we ll soon be watching largely skip over the greatest moral drama of those years of conflict, one that continues to echo in our own time of costly and needless wars....The First World War was not just a battle between rival armies, but also ... between those who assumed the war was a noble crusade and those who thought it absolute madness.''

http://www.truth-out.org/antiwar-critics-forgotten-oscar-night/1330280524



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