The following article is short. It is my reaction to our disgusting reporting on the war. American news services and Canadian ones reporting on Afghanistan are carrying messages that from the start the U.S. was in Afghanistan to help it.
Like hell it was.
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That corner of Afghanistan had just defeated the Russians after 20 years of war. Us old folks remember these things. That's why George W. Bush, the least intelligent of American presidents, decided to invade. And there was no talk of going there to help those Afghanis who had just defeated the Russians. The U.S. gave no reason at all for it - though it probably hoped to move in on regions of Afghanistan that were rich in natural resources.
It may also have had something to do with aquiring a springboard for an attack on Russia. It's really hard to say.
But it doesn't matter. The U.S. was not in Afghanistan to benefit anybody but itself. It fought an especially brutal war which included mass murder of Afghanistan children, a new method of warfare developed by the U.S. in Africa.
But today's American news doesn't mention that. Nor does Canadian news.
Canada did some killing there, too. And there was no reason for that. The Canadian Legion, which should have been protecting our military from wars that had nothing to do with us, cheered a Canadian government which should have known better. It was a 'kiss American killers war" that had nothing to do with Canada.
(The Legion said our military was "fighting for Canada". I have no idea what the hell that was supposed to mean. It's just brainless sloganeering. And most Canadians, alas, were too thoughtless to wonder what that meant.)
For seventy years and more much of the world has fought wars. That is not good for anybody. That is simply going to lead us into the biggest and bloodiest war this world has ever seen. And soon.
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Oh, Canadians also fought in Afghanistan. from 2001 to 2012, some 20,000 Canadian soldiers fought. And they fought, like the Americans, to murder and to deliver captives for torture. Those captives included children as young as three. This killing of children was much liked by the Americans who also gratefully accepted the handing over of children (as young as three) who were sent off to American prisons for torture.
Yes. torture. That was quite common. Doesn't that make you proud to be a Canadian? Perhaps the Canadian Legion should have a TV programme on Canadian gallantry.
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And yes. The western coverage of the Afghanistan war is disgusting. The media coverage of what is going on there is disgusting.
And, dammit, the Canadian Legion should be protecting our soldiers, and not sending them out to fight American Nazi wars.
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