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Jump To Comment: 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1A10, you could not make it in Ireland so you went over to the US and could not make it as a civilian (no brain I guess) there either. So you took the easy option out (the looser one) and drafted yourself into the military.
Regards sleeping. Hitler was also sleeping well while millions of people were murdered on his watch. Good one A10. It must feel great wearing a uniform because without it you feel like shit. Am I right???
You are probably the one who has to clean the toilets in the barracks with your toothbrush, while your commanding officer is standing over you getting his relief.
Oh PLEASEEE lay of the blood on your hands guilt trip!!!!It doesnt work with me .I had it from moronic Irish kids all my school life because I was half German,I was a Nazi and baby killer.Sorry,I didnt shove any Jews into the gas chamber,nor have I killed any Afghans,Iraquis etcetc.I sleep well at night as well.Also I am Irish and the US mil gave me a job and college education.More than this little shit rock country ever gave me .
Oh BTW it wouldnt even be worth shoving you of somwhere for interagation.You give yourself more importance than your actual worth.
A10, I am really scared of you, please don't find out where I live, please. I promise I will keep my mouth shut from now on. Please don't put me on a secret CIA flight to these torture states your country is allied to.
You really got a great job and it also pays well you said. You are right! Its paid with the blood of innocent civilians who's countries you invaded. Its really something to be proud of. Why did I not think of that a few years ago, all that education for nothing. Whilst you got a great job, without education everything paid for and all you have to do all day is killing people in foreign lands and step on their human rights while they alive.
Do they still look for foreign recruits? They must, because your HR department was recruiting Mexicans recently. Hopefully I am not over qualified.
Kill one Afghani woman and it's murder, kill an entire village and it's a statistic.
You hit the nail on the head. The Taliban were good enough prior 9/11 to visit Texas on discussions about an oil pipeline running through Afghanistan. There was no problem shaking hands with these medieval butchers then.
But as you said its about business and that's what idiots like A10 are wasting their life for. So that some sack like Dick Cheney can add a couple zeros to its already 9 digit bank balance. But of course its all in the name of freedom, democracy and most important national security.
The US propaganda machine is not required to assist in blackening the name of the Taliban. The Taliban have no objection to being called what they are, abusers of women who believe that men and men alone count and that women have no other role to play in society other than obey and be submissive to the will of their men. Afganistan, under the Afgan government was a good place for women with all being educated and allowed to hold positions retained for men only in other similar countries. This all changed when the US which felt obliged to fight against anything the Russians did elected to arm the Taliban. So the Taliban, just like Pol Pot, Saddam etc etc is a child of the US, a bold child who has like the rest turned to bite the hand that fed it. War's sure good for business ain't it.
Ernst
There was recently a report about the US Army having a high number of neo-Nazis among their ranks. Especially those serving in Iraq.
A10, you must be one of them.
Still putting words in other peoples mouths I see.
So what exactly would he prefer?These people are not going to listen to any happy clappy Western Infidils proposing to give their women rights or remove their opioum crop.That group will be soon on the Net wearing orange jumpsuits and getting a close Al Quieda shave.
Notice also it was the Holy UN that refused the BG and transport.Go and whine there. If NATO hadnot gone into Ghanistan,the place would still be a medival shithole,now atleast it is becoming somwhat civilised since proably the time of Alexander the Great.
Anyway must go and bash a few more of the crusties climbing over the fence.[Oh for the day they arm us with plastic bullets :]] [Shame these slugs aint real ,just to hear those anti American crusties squeal.] you know the song 10cc?
Its all american media spin. I don't believe one thing they say about the Taliban or about anyone for that matter. One thing is for certain ,the truth was the first casualty of the war on terror.
I see when A10 is not busy trying to get more troops into Shannon (or at least supporting troop movements through Shannon - it brings jobs to the local community, y'know?) he's busy mis-interpretting Pat C.
A10, you'll notice if you read Pat C's piece that he says that although the invasion and occupation should be opposed, the opposition in Afghanistan (i.e. The Taliban) should not either be supported.
I don't mean to talk for him, but I presume he'd like to see a more pluralist and secular opposition to the NATO forces.
Now, get your refuelling hand out, there's a plane about to land in Shannon.
Mark.
The messages here are of solidarity and nothing is black and white.
Ireland is being debased (loved to death) by the global corporations
that attack , rebuild and 'bring democracy' to these regions.
KMPG-Tara, Shell-Rossport, an aluminium plant in Pallaskenry.
Id's for citizens, immigrants.
45-50% electoral turn-out.
erosion of citizen -rights.
Cultural debasement.
Language debasement.
Rights of assembly removed.
gender imbalanced power structures.
Unconstittutional legislations.
vested interests taking over hospitals/schools
pushing by-passes for landgrabbers.
Prisons in shit.
Sex laws that debase and abuse women.
We are part of the hegemony that feeds on the people debased by empire.
we trade our basic rights because we are afraid that we are next.
we freely give the corporations the right to abuse our liberty in exchange for
the knowledge that we will not be that woman- shot in the head because she was
involved in educating and empowering people against the Taliban.
Every EU state is bringing in identical laws that ensure a compliant 50% electorate,
a sense of safety and a sense that the war is 'over there' . It is not 'over there'
it is a different methodolgy of abuse. We live under the illusion of democratic freedom,
when in fact we are living in an unjust , unbalanced and unfair society that is responsible for
her death- by refusing to recognise the greed that drives western democracy to rape and
abuse finite resources to fund a way of life based on oil, conspicuous consumption
and capitalism. Its called expansion of Market and its out of control.
Some people from this country have opposed that and recognise our complicity
and some refuse to look at the reality of the situation in which we find ourselves.
We held the gun to her head by allowing the troops through Shannon, by
being complicit in US/UK beligerence. No-one asked them to open an oil
corridor . In terms of 'peace-keeping' and ensuring democratic freedoms
for afghani's- who bugged the UN, who obfuscates the work of the aid agencies,
the peace-keepers and empowerers- the ones with the $ interests. no-one asked
Blair/Bush to be the world police but no-one stopped them either?
or...... They go in take what they need, leave chaos=death
of some people here.Oppose the US/UK NATO invasion of afghanistan,so what little freedom Afghan women have can be trampled back into the medival ,ignorant and savage treatment of women by the hands of the Taliban is much better.Is that what you are saying???
Not much solidarity with the Sisters in Afghanistan then.
Interesting website by Afghan women themselves -Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
http://www.rawa.org/
I saw this with sadness, many women are victims of war violence
especially those who are working for parity and justice in conflicted
regions. Margaret Hassan's death in Fallujah, Rachel Corrie.
The women who are raped, can't access basic health/sanitation/maternity services.
There is a link to war violence against women in the Amnesty site.
http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/index-eng
The consistent invasions to 'liberate' other cultures by the US/Uk have given free
reign to the lawless and there is a good report in the Observor about the Taliban
(Sunday 24/09/06)
Heres another report. It looks as if Ms Amajan had not been given adequate protection. Full story at link.
pat c
In a conservative region where most families keep wives and daughters cloistered indoors, she was able to attract hundreds of women to schools and vocational courses.
Her requests for secure official transport and personal bodyguards had not been granted by the government. At the time of the attack, she was travelling in a taxi.
A spokesman for the UN agency overseeing development in Afghanistan condemned the "senseless murder of a woman who was simply working to ensure that all Afghan women play a full and equal part in the future of Afghanistan".