ISAF TROOP DEPLOYMENTS IN AFGHANISTAN. (BBC) Source: ISAF

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1. Preface: Nato Dying in Afghanistan

While the US corporate media played out the Obama-Clinton soap opera, many respected organisations indicated “dire” problems within the structure of NATO and with its objectives in their Reports.

Bush is not interested in reading reports. Rice preferred meeting important people and visiting command posts rather than talking with the suffering people in Afghanistan.

US-NATO was in denial. “I don’t think that there’s a crisis, I don’t think there’s a risk of failure.” said Robert Gates in Vilnius.

The US inverted logic of “success” in Afghanistan is confusing. “Success” means more troops needed and a huge military budget, at US taxpayers expense but indeed a ‘success’ for corporate coffers.

European nations were not so sure about ‘more troops.’ Gates slapped wrists: “From our perspective, I worry that for many Europeans the missions in Iraq and Afghanistan are confused.”

U.S. Senator Lugar was also confused. "I'm not sure that we have a plan for Afghanistan,"he said.

Mike Whitney responded: “Europeans don’t need to occupy foreign nations to meet their energy needs. Eventually, the Europeans will see the futility of the war and leave. And that will be the end of NATO.

Not getting their way, the US went into their repetitive PsyOps Red Alert Mode: "US warns of more terror in Afghanistan."

A Winter’s Tale for Afghans meant either freezing or starving to death, or having limbs amputated during the fiercely harsh weather. Alternatively they were being killed by those who were giving them “freedom and democracy.”

"For anyone with eyes to see it is clear that the reasons for the clash of the United States with the world today—while its presidential candidates traipse around the electoral circuit speaking of the new wars to come—are to be found in that complex of historical, social and political factors and the false values, which constitute today’s Americanism. That is, “our way of life,” in the name of which our increasingly illegitimate political leaders pontificate and send our troops, “our boys”, around the world, which, far from defending social justice or the downtrodden, serves to separate the people of America from the rest of the world." Gaither Stewart, Best Cyrano (11.02.08)

The battle between Psyops and Reality in Afghanistan will continue.

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(click on the subject in which you are interested)

1. Prologue: NATO Dying in Afghanistan
2. Reports
3. Media Response to Reports
4. US Response to Reports: Denial, Censorship, New Base. Military Budget
5. Contractors
6. Contracts
7. US - NATO
8. US-Nato Coalition
9. Human Rights
10. Some NATO deaths
11. Future Deaths
12. References

Also see INDEX on AFGHANISTAN: DISASTER, A WINTER’S TALE I: FEBRUARY 2008 (03.03.08)

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