"The War You Don't See" (film)

topdocumentaryfilms.com
(jdenselow)

John Pilger says in the film: "We journalists... have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else's country... That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is. For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions not at a far away country but at you at home... In this age of endless imperial war, the lives of countless men, women and children depend on the truth or their blood is on us... Those whose job it is to keep the record straight ought to be the voice of people, not power."

Occupy IRAN (comic)

Wisdom Quarterly, Gildedageperiod89, ABC News
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Since the people of Iran cannot hope to occupy Tehran -- due to our imposition of military dictators backed by a draconian clandestine force on the people after pulling down (illegally subverting, deposing, and replacing) the Shah in 1979 -- the US military-industrial complex is likely to do it for them.

The fast and furious plot to occupy Iran
(AJ) Washington is looking to increase sanctions on Iran as a result of the plot to kill a Saudi ambassador. Iran's supposed "threat" could simply be the US government's way of distracting Americans from problems at home. No one ever lost money betting on the dull predictability of the US government. Just as Occupy Wall Street is firing imaginations all across the spectrum -- piercing the noxious revolving door between government and casino capitalism -- Washington brought us all down to Earth, sensationally advertising an Iranian cum Mexican cartel terror plot straight out of The Fast and the Furious movie franchise. The potential victim: Adel al-Jubeir, the ambassador in the US of that lovely counter-revolutionary Mecca, Saudi Arabia. More

Iraq: No Immunity for US War Crimes
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (ABC) - The prospects of the U.S. keeping a modest [just 40,000 or 50,000 "trainers"] military force in Iraq after the Dec. 31 deadline to withdraw nearly all troops was thrown into question Tuesday when leaders in Baghdad suggested that American soldiers would NO longer have immunity from prosecution [for US war crimes] as of 2012.



Washington has long been working under the assumption that immunity from prosecution was a crucial component of the pact that was signed with Iraq three years ago involving any U.S. soldiers who stay behind to train [the way we "advised" during our war on Vietnam] national forces.

Need to borrow more money on credit for the imperial war machine? Xie-xie!

However, Iraqi leaders, after a meeting with President Jalal Talabani, said that while they would welcome training and military equipment, "there is no need to give immunity for trainers." [So I guess it's on to Iran, an indefinite occupation, and further immunity from our war crimes there.] More

The US War on Iraq was created by Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice,
Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, and Presidents Barry/W/Herbert Bush (dear kitty)

US Military fueling War on Afghanistan (video)

See full episode. FRONTLINE.

Americans are tired of the US military's longest running war in history. Why does it continue in spite of our pleas and votes to withdraw? Why does Obama increase troop levels and hostilities? Frontline (PBS) investigates.

NIGHT RAIDS: Fueling Afghanistan
Botched night raids and harrowing accounts from Afghan citizens have raised serious questions about the precision of intelligence and the rate of civilian casualties.

Last year the Times of London exposed a horrifying night raid gone wrong in which Afghan investigators found that Special Forces dug bullets out of the bodies of two pregnant Afghan women in an attempted cover-up.

Night raids are also controversial because they violate Afghan cultural norms. Tactics that are considered particularly offensive include troops entering a home where women are present or using dogs (which are considered impure) in their search. ...

• The truth about Afghanistan (InvisibleHistory.com)
• British troops killed in Afghanistan doubles this year

Bring Our Troops Home
Congress.org
Dear Mr. President,
You bring home 10,000 troops, and the rest by 2014. That is a drop in the bucket, too little too late. The Middle East War has to end right away. We have no business over there. We cannot afford it. It is an offensive action on our part.

Our military over there loses their lives, their sanity or they are injured horribly; there is no one that comes home from war the same person. The only reason we are over there is for special interest groups like oil bar[on]s and arms dealers that make a great deal of profit off of war.

In the meantime, at home our economy goes down the tube along with our jobs. If you want to have a war, go fight it yourself, and take all those people that like war with you. See how fast you solve the problem then. Stop the propaganda about all the good we are doing over there. ...

QUOTES

"According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the [Afghan] Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan..." Zbigniew Brzezinski

• "Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity." Mohsen Makhmalbaf