[v911t] Afghanistan military Contractors Outnumber Troops massively
Zee Source
Journal<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125089638739950599.html>
Afghanistan Contractors Outnumber Troops Despite Surge in U.S.
Deployments, More Civilians Are Posted in War Zone;
Reliance Echoes the Controversy in Iraq
by August Cole The number of military contractors in Afghanistan
rose to almost 74,000 by June 30,"
How many more are being added, at what costs? .... WHY? Who pays?
Why not pay for it with NEW TAXES?
rather than printing paper money on killers for hire;
why nor spend it for universal health care, SAVE LIVES?
Afghans Detail Detention in Black Jail at U.S. Base
US Still Running Secret Prison in
Afghanistan<http://www.truthout.org/topstories/112809ms03> Saturday
28 November 2009
http://www.truthout.org/topstories/112809ms03 by: Alissa J. Rubin
| The New York
Times<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/world/asia/29bagram.html?_r=1&hp>
Kabul, Afghanistan - An American military detention camp in Afghanistan
is still holding inmates for sometimes weeks at a time and without
access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according
to human rights researchers and former detainees held at the site
on the Bagram Air Base.
The site consists of individual windowless concrete cells, each
lighted by a single light bulb glowing 24 hours a day, where detainees
said that their only contact with another human being was at
twice-daily interrogation sessions.
The jails operation highlights a tension between President Obamas
goal to improve detention conditions that had drawn condemnation
under the Bush administration and his desire to give military
commanders leeway to operate.
In this case, that means isolating certain prisoners for a period
of time so interrogators can extract information or flush out
confederates.
For more on the secret prison, click
here<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/world/asia/29bagram.html?_r=1&hp>.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/world/asia/29bagram.html?_r=2&hp
While Mr. Obama signed an order to eliminate so-called black sites
run by the Central Intelligence
Agency<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/ce
ntral_intelligence_agency/index.html?inline=nyt-org> in January,
it did not also close this jail, which is run by military Special
Operations forces.
http://tinyurl.com/ylspzo7 Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us
twice, shame on us.
- fact that progressives and Democrats spent so many years screaming
bloody murder over Bush's use of indefinite detention, military
commissions, state secrets, renditions, and extreme secrecy --
policies Obama has largely and/or completely adopted as his own.
Obama's Civil Liberties Record Understandable?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/28-5
http://nader.org/
http://nader.org/index.php?/archives/2153-Advice-on-Afghanistan.html ......
"articulate doubts about the strategic purposes of your Administrations
military presence in Afghanistan. He asks, Why and to what end? His
letter of conscience and protest concludes by noting the limitless
effects on our foreign and military policy, and on our country and
its economy.
Your staff estimates each U.S. soldier is costing $1 million a year,
in addition to the horrific toll on these soldiers and the Afghan
people. You owe the American people an un-Bush-like explanation.
Why are you not receiving these groups of American from varied
backgrounds and experience at the White House on this pending Afghan
decision?
They may wonder, by contrast, why you have so many White House
meetings with major corporate CEOs from Wall Street, from the health
insurance companies and the drug companies. Is not the White House
the peoples House? Along with many other citizens in our country,
I look forward to your response. Sincerely, Ralph Nader
See also:
Letter to President Bush from Christian Religious Leaders Against
the War in Iraq<http://www.nader.org/exit.php?url_id=423&entry_id=2153>
Letter to President Bush from Environmental Organizations Against
the War in Iraq<http://www.nader.org/exit.php?url_id=424&entry_id=2153>
Letter to President Bush from University of Chicago Political Science
Professors Against the War in
Iraq<http://www.nader.org/exit.php?url_id=425&entry_id=2153> Letter
to President Bush from Business Executives Against the War in
Iraq<http://www.nader.org/index.php?/archives/2151-Letter-to-President-Bush-f
rom-Business-Executives-Against-the-Iraq-War.html> Letter to President
Bush from Local Civil Officials Against the War in
Iraq<http://www.nader.org/index.php?/archives/2152-Letter-to-President-Bush-f
rom-Local-Civil-Officials-Against-the-War-in-Iraq.html>
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/108905 Afghanistan
military Contractors Outnumber Troops massively - WHO PROFITS, who
pays for what result?
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