Hightower Lowdown

Expose the Cover-up - Bring the Troops Home

The seminal event that led America into the quagmire in Afghanistan and Iraq was the alleged terrorist attack of 9/11/2001.

In 2009 there remains scant evidence to support the government's official story as to the confirmed identity of those perpetrators yet there has never been a valid investigation to hold accountable the individuals who allowed the attacks to ultimately succeed.

Most on the 9/11 Commission have since admitted they were "set-up to fail". Counsel to the 9/11 commission, John Farmer recently said in his 2009 book that the government lied to the Commission. ("THE GROUND TRUTH").

Congress was underway with an investigation of the 9/11 attacks in 2002 until Bush and Cheney told them to stop. To date, there has been no valid investigation with sworn testimony and subpoena power.

Failure of the Bush, and now Obama administrations to seek justice not only smells like a cover-up; it poses an un-acknowledged national security risk that America could suffer another attack - either foreign or "domestic".

VETERANS FOR PEACE, INC (VFP) may be the only Peace advocate organizations that's acknowledged the need for an investigation in a resolution passed at this year's national meeting.

Rep., John Conyers who sits as Chairman on the House Judiciary committee is a member of VFP and could be expected to respond to the need for re-opening the congressional investigation that was stopped by Bush and Cheney in 2002.

The families of the 9/11 victims (NYCCAN.org)have been working for the justice of a new investigation since 2002. Recent hope that a referendum of 80,000 New York City voters would bring justice was dashed when the ballot initiative requiring a local 9/11 investigation was denied - first by the City and lastly by an inexplicable decision handed down by the New York Supreme court. As usual, the topic of "9/11" remains "taboo" for corporate media so the nation remains unaware of the gravity and outrage of this "Mother" of all stories in the dawn of the NEW WORLD ORDER.

VFP Resolution:
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Harold Saive - Gainesville, Fl
http://veteransforpeace.org

It's About the Oil

There are four reasons given for the war in Afghanistan, but the reason we are there is never discussed. The United States is in Afghanistan because the Taliban government rejected Unocal's proposal to build an oil pipeline. The pipeline would carry oil from the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan through Afghanistan into Pakistan where it could be loaded into tankers at ports on the Indian Ocean. The negotiator for Unocal was none other than Hamid Karzai, the American-supported President of Kabul. He was/is also a paid CIA informant.

After the Taliban government rejected the pipeline the U.S. media began bemoaning the status of women in Afghanistan. Beforehand, it was strictly a matter of local custom. After 9/11, the Bush administration had the "justification" it needed to invade Afghanistan. Interesting enough, one of the first items of "post-war" infrastructure construction was building the oil pipeline Unocal originally proposed. And where are the bulk of U.S. military forces located? Yes, they are located along the route of the pipeline. I've said enough...Afghanistan IS just another war being fought over oil. But what else could we expect from a wanna-be oil robber-baron, George W, and a real oil robber-baron, Dick Cheney.

Get Out Now

This country, already in such dire economic straits, cannot afford, either financially or morally, to continue this hopeless quest in Afganistan. Think of what this country could have done --with all the money wasted in Iraq and Afganistan so far -- with health care, the environment, infrastructure repair, REAL homeland security improvements -- not that Bush would have done any of THAT, but Pres. Gore would've, in an alternate universe where the 2000 election hadn't been stolen -- I am disappointed in Obama. I voted for him; my spouse voted for a third-party candidate. He regularly reminds me, now, what all my "hope" was really worth. I really am disillusioned with the whole corporate/polital system now. gryzelda

Dems snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

Afghanistan is another example of the Democrats inability to do what a majority of Americans elected them to do. We are the majority in the House and Senate and have a Dem sitting in the White House. With all these advantages we can't pull together on health care reform, education reform, sustainable clean energy policy or the economy.
I know I ain't rich enough to be a Republican (and niether are most Tea Baggers who drank the Kool Aid). Now I wonder if I am rich enough to be a Democrat too. I am depressed.
Mellen

Afghanistan

The fact that the Soviet Union, with all its military might and close proximity, could not subdue Afghanistan and establish any kind of stability there should have been a clue as to what we were in for when we started this military misadventure. In the face of the long-term history of the area, I don't see any other choice but to extract our forces and bring them home. We find it hard to accept the fact that we just cannot stabilize some parts of the world by forcing western-style democracy on the people. Personally, I find the treatment of women by the Taliban society deplorable. But, as a practical matter can we change that in the country outside of Kabul? I don't think so.
We need to leave. We can beef up our intelligence all over the world and our security at home with the resources we'll save by pulling out. If we begin to get out now, this war will go down as George Bush's war which President Obama ended.

AFGHANISTAN

THIS IS A SHITTY MESS CREATED BY THE NEO-CONS AND WE DON'T NEED TO CLEAN IT UP! GET OUT!

It's okay -- and commendable -- to cut bait

vpsmith--Eight years after 9/11 we have not gotten Bin Laden, even though his head was offered to Bill (I'd rather get a blow job than kill Bin Laden or stop sending manufacturing jobs to Mexico).
Al Queida is amorphous and in many countries. Afghanistan means squat to us...no oil, just poppies.
Get out already!

Afghanistan

The above article makes eminent sense to me. Staying in Afghanistan, much less icnreasing our presence there, makes absolutely NO sense at all to me. I see no valid reason for us to be there, wasting our resources and our lives for no rational purpose at all, other than we started it all. I think that starting it at all was our first mistake, as was starting our fiasco in Iraq. Now we seem stuck to two tar babies that willd devour us if we don't get our heads together and get the heck out of both of them as fast and with as little embasrrasment as we can. I hope that Obam will stiffen up and resisit all the smooth talkers that want to escalate this nonsense for some non descript purpose.