Why are we fighting in Afghanistan?part of a longer article ..by Edward C Corrigan
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Canadian National Newspaper - Toronto,Ontario,Canada (For much more info on DU see LINK) Now another generation of US, Canadian and British soldiers are being sent to war by politicians, most of whom who never ...
In a more recent study it is reported that more than 73,000 US Military service men have died since the First Gulf War. These figures do not include Iraqi civilian deaths estimated at more than one million in the First Iraq War and the period of sanctions and an additional 1.2 million in the current war in Iraq. Over 20,000 civilians have been killed in the War in Afghanistan. ...
Apparently the Bush administration does not want the
73,000 dead veterans to be
compared to the 55,000 U.S. soldiers killed in Vietnam. What the Bush Administration is doing is counting only the soldiers that die directly in action in Iraq or Afghanistan. Injured soldiers are quickly taken out of the war zone for medical treatment. Any soldier who is shot in the war but is removed from the war zone before they die is not counted as a causality of the war.
According to reports more than
1,820 tons of
radioactive nuclear waste uranium were exploded into Iraq alone in the form of armour piercing rounds and bunker busters, representing the world’s worst man made ecological disaster ever. To compare 64 kg of uranium was used in the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. The U.S.
Iraq Nuclear contamination represents more than fourteen thousand Hiroshima's. It has been suggested that the nuclear waste the U.S. has exploded into the Middle East will continue killing for billions of years and could possibly wipe out more than a third of life on the planet. Gulf War Veterans who have ingested the uranium will continue to die off over the next few decades from cancers and other horrific diseases.
Birth defects are up 600% in Iraq. Being exposed to the same radioactive contamination we can expect a massive increase in birth defects in the children of U.S. veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Our Canadian soldiers are being exposed to the same radioactive contamination and other environmental hazards.
This information is not being addressed in the North American mainstream media. However, this information is readily available on the United States Department of Veteran's Affairs,
LINK.
According to Lord Ashdown, “NATO has ‘lost in Afghanistan’ and its failure to bring stability there could provoke a regional sectarian war ‘on a grand scale." ...Ashdown delivered his dire prediction after being proposed as a new "super envoy" for Afghanistan.
Lord Ashdown’s pessimistic assessment of the war in Afghanistan is shared by Great Britain’s Chief of Defence Staff,
Sir Jock Stirrup. He recently has said the military cannot resolve the situation in Afghanistan alone. The Chief of Britain’s Armed Forces warned “that British troops could remain in Afghanistan for "decades." He also said that even then the conflict will only be resolved by a political deal - after talks with Taliban leaders.”
Is Stephen Harper’s Afghanistan war the kind of war that Canadians want? We need to very loudly ask our political leaders why are we fighting a war in Afghanistan?
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Shame that Labour couldn't see sense here or Plaid and give the voters a chance to vote against offence and vote for defence without american coporations such as Raytheon and military training without inviting into our culture agressive us military agression.
