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CentCom planners study massive move of equipment to Afghanistan

29-Nov-09

How do you marshal billions of dollars in equipment to escalate one war in Afghanistan while scaling back another in Iraq?

Following Afghan Election, NATO Intensifies Deployments, Carnage By Rick Rozoff

07-Sep-09

Not, never, willing to acknowledge that the Afghan war is in fact a war, Washington and Brussels from the time of the summit until now have attempted to justify their troop buildups in South Asia as motivated primarily by insuring that the second presidential election in Afghanistan since the joint U.S.-NATO invasion of 2001 proceeded uninterrupted. A ruthless counterinsurgency and bombing campaign was thus portrayed as another war for democracy.

Philippe Leymarie, “From Blunder to Blunder in Afghanistan”

12-May-09

Aware of the disastrous effect of th[ese] kind of incidents, President Karzai regularly denounces these ‘mistaken’ airstrikes, which add to the population’s hostility to the ‘occupying forces’ and to his own government, which is already accused of inaction.