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'I'm being sent out to stabilise a country I have no faith, interest or empathy in, to prop up a government the UN says is corrupt.

http://bit.ly/IcM5ia



Pulling out of expensive war will be costly, officials say

An already expensive war in Afghanistan will cost American taxpayers between $5 billion and $10 billion just to pull a decade s worth of weapons, vehicles and supplies out of the country.

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Afghan protesters accuse NATO of killing 4 children

The protesters, who were carrying the bodies of four children aged eight to 12, blocked the Kabul-Kandahar highway and chanted anti-US slogans, they said.

http://bit.ly/Is9TAS



Veterans Say No to NATO

While the president and the Pentagon are handing out posthumous medals, a number of veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan will be marching, in military formation, to McCormick Place in Chicago to hand their service medals back.

http://bit.ly/JMSVu2


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=NATO
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pentagon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=pointless+war
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=veterans
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=taxpayer
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