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“The Insurgents Are Losing”

Moon of Alabama | August 11, 2011

Reading through the comments on various news sites not one person seems to believe this Washington Post story:

A group of “less than 10” insurgents, including the fighter who allegedly shot the Chinook helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade, were tracked down at a compound in eastern Afghanistan early Monday and killed in airstrikes by F-16 fighter planes, according to Marine Gen. John R. Allen, the top commander in Afghanistan, and other military officials.

One wonders why the military felt the need to come out with this obvious fairytale.

It hurts its own credibility with such a story.

The Taliban deny it and claim that the fighters had immediately left Wardak province after trapping the helicopter. That story actually makes a lot of sense.

But there is even more unbelievable U.S. propaganda further down in the Washington Post piece:

“All across Afghanistan, the insurgents are losing. They’re losing territory, they’re losing leadership, they’re losing weapons and supplies, they’re losing public support,” [General Allen] said. “More and more, the insurgents are losing resolve and the will to fight.”

We know that the number of districts with Taliban activity is up, the number of IEDs is at a record high, the number of assassinations by the Taliban is up, the number of U.S. and Afghan security forces’ casualties is the highest ever and the number of civilian casualties is up sharply. But all that does not count. The insurgents are losing – the General says so, so they must be.

But who does he think will actually believe him?

August 11, 2011 - Posted by | Deception, Mainstream Media, Warmongering

4 Comments »

  1. Tell the American people the truth because you are not able to come up with a convincing lie that could stick.

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    B.Benhamid's avatar Comment by B.Benhamid | August 11, 2011 | Reply

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  3. this is all about ensuring that we stay there forever

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    henry's avatar Comment by henry | August 11, 2011 | Reply

  4. There is only one US general I know of worthy of respect and quotation, that is Major General Smedley Butler. His speech titled, ‘War Is A Racket’ has not been surpassed by anyone in fact, nor before.

    I found a video link of an actor reciting it that runs 9 minutes.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3_EXqJ8f-0

    On the civilian side there was first of all, Ralph Waldo Emerson with his ‘Civil Disobedience’ from which I offer this small excerpt.:

    ‘……The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus,(7) etc. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt…….’
    http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil1.html

    I am mindful of Eisenhower’s famous speech warning about the danger of the military industrial complex, but he was only reading it, it is perjury based on his career and parting shot as president when he gave the proverbial green-light to the joint chiefs in the pentagon for what became ‘Operation Northwoods’ and updated to become 9/11.” http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/northwoods.html

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    Bill Mitchell's avatar Comment by Bill Mitchell | August 12, 2011 | Reply


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