JCT: The news is full of Canuck casualties in our war in
Afghanistan for what the Taliban had done to Canada. Hey?
What did the Taliban ever do to Canada?

George Bush explained the Amerikan invasion of Afghanistan
as a chase after Bin Laden who George Bush said had
masterminded 911 by calling NORAD up on the telephone and
tricking the generals into believing he was George Bush so
he could order US Defence Forces to all stand down.

Bush told us Bin Laden was the evil monster who managed to
demolish 3 sky-scrapers with 2 plane loads of aviation fuel,
kerosene and he didn't need to present any evidence to the
Afghan government to extradite him.

Bush demanded the evil one who pulled off the NORAD stand-
down and the 3-buildings for 2 planes demolition had to be
handed over with no evidence of he'd invade. And then he
invaded.

Of course, now we know that the US Air Force generals
weren't that stupid but were diverted from their duties by
the White House, not Bin Laden.

And more and scientists and engineers are saying out loud
that kerosene can't melt steel girders, let alone slice them
up with laser-like precision for easy removal and
destruction of the evidence.

We're faced with the fact that the lies of George Bush are
now the main staple on the Comedy channel, if not the major
presstitute media.

So Bush got Amerika to invade Afghanistan knowing Bin Laden
wasn't the mastermind of 911. His puppet-master was.

Everyone who refuses to believe kerosene can melt steel or
that it was Bin Laden who fooled the generals into standing
down must accept that Afghanistan was innocent of Bush's
charges of harboring the man who did 911 when Bush did it.
(It was probably over a pipeline, Karzai being an oil
industry executive or CIA wanting to end Taliban's
prohibition of heroin cultivation.)

So innocent Afghanis were invaded under false pretenses and
fought back. And somehow, Canada is now in on this illegal
and immoral invasion of an innocent nation.

When I see pictures of Canada's latest dead war heros, I'm
reminded I once wore that uniform and wonder what I would
have done if I had been faced with service in a immoral but
Parliament-sanctioned overseas invasion?

Eric Margolis is one of my favorite writers in non-
economic current history. Though he thinks inflation is
Shift A too much money chasing the goods whereas my Miracle
Equation shows it's Shift B same money chasing less goods
after foreclosure, and his financial articles are wrong, his
political history articles are usually right:

>The War in Afghanistan Is Only the Beginning
>by Eric Margolis
>July 6, 2006

EM: Something has gone terribly wrong in Afghanistan. The
heaviest fighting there since the 2001 U.S. invasion has
recently erupted. Many Americans, who were then assured by
neocons and their media trumpets that their nation had
triumphantly won the war in Afghanistan and crushed the
Taliban, are dismayed and bewildered.

In 2001, unable to withstand high-tech U.S. forces,
Taliban's leader, Mullah Omar, ordered his men, who had been
fighting the Afghan Communists and pro-Russian Tajiks, to
disband, exchange their black turbans for white ones, and
blend into the civilian population.

JCT: I used to joke that the invasion of Iraq should be
called "Belfast times 10." It's no joke that invading
Afghanistan mountains is "Baghdad times 10."

EM: At the time, this writer, who covered the 1980's Great
Jihad in Afghanistan and ensuing birth of Taliban, warned
war would resume in about four years, just as it did after
the 1979 Soviet invasion. This prediction was greeted with
jeers, and accusations of idiocy and lack of patriotism.

Now, as predicted, Taliban forces have taken the offensive
against U.S. and NATO troops, often employing deadly new
tactics, like roadside and suicide bombs, learned from
Iraq's resistance. Casualties are mounting on both sides.

JCT: And as more and more Captain Canucks come home in
coffins, revenge will be more and more wanted and we'll more
and more have to "stay the course" because "cutting and
running" would be an insult to their sacrifice.

EM: Significantly for an independent-minded people unused to
cooperation of any kind, the Taliban movement has been
joined by many other political and tribal groups to form a
national resistance against foreign occupation. Prominent
among them: Hisbi Islami, led by former CIA protege Gulbadin
Hekmatyar, the most effective guerrilla leader in the 1980's
anti-Soviet jihad, and renowned mujahidin leader, Jallaludin
Haqqani.

Small numbers of foreign jihadis have also come to fight.
Most important, growing numbers of "khels," or clans of the
Pashtun (Pathan) tribe - the world's largest tribal group,
numbering 40 million - have joined the resistance. Pashtuns
comprise half Afghanistan's 30 million population. Another
28 million Pushtuns live just across the border, known as
the Durand Line, in Pakistan. The Durand Line is an
artificial border created, like so many others in Africa and
Asia, by British imperialists. Most Afghans reject the
legality of the line, which sunders their people.

JCT: We'll see how they do against a couple of thousand
"never-been-to-war-before" Canucks.

EM: The U.S./NATO campaign is increasingly directed against
warlike Pashtun tribes like the Afridi and Orokzai, and
their civilians, rather than against so-called "Taliban
terrorists." However, distinguishing between "Taliban
militants" and ordinary farmers or merchants is extremely
difficult from fast-flying fighter aircraft and attack
helicopters. The U.S./NATO policy seems to be shoot or bomb
first, then label the casualties as "terrorists" or
"collateral damage caused by Taliban hiding in civilian
homes."

JCT: Remember, these terrorists are all innocent of the 911
charges. Bush did 911 and NATO is invading an innocent
nation.

EM: Until recently, million of dollars in monthly cash
bribes from CIA to Afghan warlords kept key areas under
nominal authority of the U.S.-installed Karzai regime. The
writ of this long-time CIA "asset" barely extends beyond the
capitol, Kabul. Only Western bayonets keep him in office.

JCT: Canadian bayonets too.

EM: Karzai's popularity among Afghans is best judged by the
fact that he is constantly surrounded by 100-200 U.S.
bodyguards kept just out of range of western TV cameras.

JCT: Canadians defend the US puppet too!

EM: As for claims the western powers are rebuilding
Afghanistan, it's worth recalling the Soviets also built
schools, clinics, and roads in Afghanistan, held
"democratic" elections and branded the resistance "Islamic
terrorists." The U.S./NATO occupation follows an identical
pattern, complete with candy for kids, platitudes about
women's rights and nation-building, and rigged elections.

JCT: Canadians get news stories of our nation-building
efforts too.

EM: But the Westerners won't be any more successful in
winning hearts and minds of Afghans than the Russians -
particularly after the flood of U.S. $100 dollar bills
renting temporarily loyalty begins to dry up once Washington
cuts back on the now nearly $2 billion monthly cost of the
occupation. Or once it ceases employing 25,000 soldiers and
hundreds of CIA agents in the search for Osama bin Laden and
Ayman al-Zawahiri.

JCT: Right. It's dying time for the patsies left to hold
territory of an illegal invasion. And Harper said today that
if our Canucks are willing to fight, he's willing to let
them. They had no choice, they were ordered there. What a
sleaze to say he's letting them stay because they are
willing to stay.

EM: The biggest difference between the Soviet and U.S.
occupation is that since 1989, Afghanistan has become a
total narco-state. Most of the national income comes
from export of opium and morphine/heroin. Afghanistan
supplies 80% of the world's heroin. Washington's allies,
members of the Karzai regime and Afghan Communists
(Northern Alliance) are accused of being deeply involved
in the drug trade.

JCT: Eric should have mentioned that the puritanical Taliban
had almost wiped out the heroin trade and the CIA only got
back on track after the US invasion! The CIA's heroin
traffic is a second reason as good as the pipeline to get
rid of the successful anti-heroin Taliban.

EM: Sending troops to Afghanistan was marketed to Americans
as a crusade against terrorism and revenge for the 9/11
attacks, with nation-building as a sub-theme.

JCT: How was participation in an invasion based on false
pretext marketed to Canadians? Did every member of
Parliament believe the Taliban were harboring the man who
pulled off 911? I didn't. But I didn't hear any MP seem to
know the truth at the time they let Canada join the
invasion. Parliament did it. I never agreed to support
Bush's invasion.

EM: Blaming "terrorists" for the current upsurge in fighting
obscures the natural and inevitable growth of resistance to
foreign occupation among Afghans. The longer foreigners stay
and bomb villages, the more they are hated by the xenophobic
Afghans.

JCT: And Canadians kids are being put in the line of fire to
fight an enemy who will put the righteous combat of the
innocent party. And Canadians now patsies for the guilty.

EM: Claims by Washington of political progress in
Afghanistan are wishful thinking. It is the classic Afghan
way to smile and pocket bribe money, and tell foreigners
what they want to hear, only to attack them in the night.
Tribal and clan loyalties trump all other links. Most
Afghans working for the foreign occupation are secretly in
touch with the resistance.

JCT: Hey, 2000 Canuck invaders facing millions of angry
innocent invadees seems a pretty fair odds to Parliament and
the Canadian media who keep hyping how our soldiers bravely
think their mission worth their lives.

EM: All those ponderous U.S. search-and-destroy operations
are telegraphed long in advance to the resistance. Of
course. Afghans know one day Americans and other foreigners
will go home, just as did the Russians, British and
Alexander's Greeks.

JCT: Maybe our Canadian boys will prevail where all the
others over history have failed.

Eric Margolis, contributing foreign editor for Sun National
Media Canada, is the author of War at the Top of the World.

JCT: The really sad part about Canada slipping quietly into
a war, even if it's not yet called "Canada at war," is that
as soon as the Taliban "enemy" ever hit Canada at home,
Harper's going to pull out the new version of our War
Measures Act waiting in the wings to be introduced at the
first emergency. Like the Amerikan Patriot Act, everyone is
going to give up civil rights and put on handcuffs to ensure
no terrorists will remain free. The Patriot Act has ensured
few terrorists remain free in the US by taking away
everyone's civil rights. And you can bet Harper's got the
legislation ready to rush through Parliament at the first
emergency. After all, if Bush is slated to be "War
President" forever, why not a "War Prime Minister" forever?

So, what would I have done had I been faced with serving in
an illegal immoral invasion of an framed innocent nation?

There are only two choices, to serve and not complain, to
serve and complain, or to refuse to serve.

A) Losing by service overseas in this war crime is to die.
B) Losing by service with complaint is also to die.
B) Losing by refusal to serve, after all legal avenues are
exhausted, is jail until the invasion of the innocent nation
is finally proven evil.

Being a consummate winner, I think I know what I would have
done. I hope some potentially dead war heros use their
brains and come to the same conclusion.

When you realize it's all over money, it disgusts. That's
why Major Clifford H. Douglas, original Social Credit
Engineer, said that economic war (competition for life-
support tickets) leads to real war. Throughout most history,
war was over getting money and not being foreclosed on in
the mort-gage death-gamble.


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