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Ballots and Bullets for Afghanistan
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/19-4

Karzai and Warlords Mount Massive Vote Fraud Scheme
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/08/19-9

The Afghan Pipe Dream
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/19-3

Former CIA Operatives Agree: American Occupation of Afghanistan Threatens US Security
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/08/19-4

Rethink Afghanistan
https://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/08/19-0

Oxfam International: A Third of Afghans at Risk of Hunger Shows Need for Urgent Aid Reforms
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/08/19-9

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Why These Deaths Hit Home as Hard as the Somme

By Robert Fisk

Not so long ago, I seem to remember, Bush was telling us that we would be betraying the American dead in Iraq if we gave up the fight. We owed it to the dead to go on killing more Iraqis. And now we owe it to the dead to go on killing more Afghans. Who, of course, will go on killing us. Is there no end to this madness?

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23305.htm



There is no "Victory" to be Won in Afghanistan

"The notion that we are in Afghanistan to make our country safer is just complete b...s"

Video

Three former high-ranking CIA agents to explain why. There is no "victory" to be won in Afghanistan.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23309.htm



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