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7th Anniversary Of Afghan War Marked
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Friday November 21, 2008 21:06 by GAAW - GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR
IRISH TROOPS OUT OF AFGHANISTAN The Galway Alliance Against War marked the 7th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan yesterday, Thursday 20th November and called on the Irish government to withdraw Irish troops from this occupied country. Ireland’s involvement in this conflict does not stop at Shannon airport. Irish officers are presently working alongside NATO forces in Kabul and some of those soldiers are known to come from Galway’s Liam Mellows barracks. Irish officers with experience of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) from their time in Lebanon are involved in assisting NATO. Specifically their task is to try and prove a link between these Taliban weapons and Hizbullah and Iran, so as to give the US a “reason” to bomb Tehran. |
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by Gary Leupp
http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp05292009.html
Sihab,
You're really going to have to get off the net to get an education.
Try reading a book....try this one by "Pakistan's best and bravest reporter (pro-war Christopher Hitchens)" Ahmed Rashid "Decent into Chaos - How the war against Islamic extremism is being lost in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia"
Rashid is no radical, author of the bestselling "Taliban" he is well researched and sourced. If a book is too time consuming in these daze. Try this interview as an intro...could be a taster. The Taliban were invented by Sauds, U.S. and Pakistan, go figure!
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/10/descent_into_chao...id_on
They've had decades and centuries of war and imperialism in that part of the world and you pose that as a solution.......
“NATO and the US are trying to prevent the people of Afghanistan from achieving self-determination and freedom”.
SURE they are...my innocent friend.
Before the Invasion:
http://www.edu.pe.ca/montaguehigh/grass/socialstudies/g...3.htm
Women Enslaved:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban_treatment_of_women
Summary Executions:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/26/taliban-execut....html
Amnesty International Report:
http://www.rawa.org/mazar4.htm
Oh yes...The Taliban are “Mom and Apple Pie” .
6 Anti-war Activists arrested at Northwood HQ, London on anniversary of NATO strike on Afghani wedding party
6 anti-war arrested at Northwood on anniversary of NATO bombing of a wedding party in Afghanistan. Those arrested included author Milan Rai, Trident Ploughshares founder Angie Zelter and two members of the London Catholic Worker.
Northwood HQ located in suburban London is HQ for all British forces deployed abroad and houses a NATO centre
See Peter Marshall's report and pics on Indymedia UK:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/05/431182.html
More photos of wedding party arrest at Northwood HQ
http://tinyurl.com/NorthwoodPics
you moan about the wars which are going on all over the world but what about the war in this country, you have been killing each other for years, but i guess thats ok???
The red arrows are a display team and the planes are not used in war, the pilots may have been depolyed to war areas.
The letting off ballons is an idea but what happens if one of those ballons gets stuck in the engines, what would happen then??? I guess you would say its not are fault.
Jim,
You surely can not be serious. Is the fact that so many innocent people are murdered mean nothing to you.
You say would the left not support this war? Usually leftists are anti-war so your statement lacks substance....
-NO TO WAR-
As a former United Nations peacekeeper, I fully support the GAAW call for the withdrawal of Irish troops from Afghanistan. These soldiers are part of a NATO force that is trying to impose a corrupt regime on the people of Afghanistan, against the wishes of the vast majority of the Afghan people. The Irish Government will try to argue that these soldiers are explosives specialists simply giving advice to NATO staff. Since explosive devices are one of the most effective weapons that the Afghan insurgents have against the occupiers of their country, then any military assistance given to their enemies constitutes a breach of Irish neutrality and participation in a war in which NATO and the US are trying to prevent the people of Afghanistan from achieving self-determination and freedom. This Afghan war is very similar to the war waged against the Afghan people by the Soviet Union in the 1980s and it will have the same inevitable result, with very similar drastic costs in human life and suffering for the people of Afghanistan. It also has similarities to the war of independence waged by Irish insurgents against the British empire.
The arguments put forward by Tony Blair in 2001 and by others in the meantime that it is necessary to prevent the Taliban from ruling Afghanistan because of the flow of drugs from Afghanistan, is a lie. The United Nations drug control agency issued several reports confirming that the Taliban government has virtually eliminated drug production in Afghanistan during the years immediatly prior to 2001. The US and the UK made deals with the drug producing warlords in 2001, in which briefcase loads of US dollars were distributed to these drug barons in order to get there support for this unlawful and unjustified war.
I also call, and urge the GAAW to call for a withdrawal of Irish troops from Chad, which is a so-called EU peace mission. However, this Chad EUFOR mission is a thinly disguised neo-colonial mission to prop up French client dictator General Idris Debe. Irish troops should be serving overseas only with fully justified United Nations missions, under United Nations command and control. The argument that the UN is inadequate to maintain international peace must be countered with the assertion that Ireland and other UN member states have a duty to reform the UN to ensure that it has the necessary powers and support of international law to enable it to be genuine keeper of international peace, and not a perpetrator of war. UN support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan means that the UN is in breach of its own Charter.
2 min 40 sec video GAAW peace vigil in Galway. 7th anniversary of war in Afghanistan.
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America was attacked by Islamic terrorists on 9/11and the vicious Taliban extremist government were their guardians who gave them a safe haven in Afghanistan. The Taliban and Al-Qaeda want to set up a global Islamic Caliphate.
If you are a socialist, an internationalist, a supporter of freedom and democracy and human rights you should support the NATO action in Afghanistan.
The primitive barbaric ideology of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda is the anti-thesis of everything that the Left stands for.
The new left wing African American President of the USA , Barack Obama supports this war and that is good enough for me.
This report drips with sectarianism. A former member of Militant, the predeccessor of the Socialist Party, is referred to as "a former ultra-leftist" in what purports to be an official report/statement on behalf of GAAW about their Afghanistan protest. If one is to follow the logic of Galway Alliance Against War are Joe Higgins and Clare Daly current and still practicing "ultra-leftist[s]"?