First U.S. official resigns in protest over war in Afghanistan

[gigobait]

RT will give 3 minutes of air time to a janitor who left cleaning halls of the CIA if they find one :)

[globengo]

donot eat afgan & iraqi people flesh & donot drink their blood ,they are doing since last 10 years its enough now if they are human beings must leave afgan & iraq immediately if not they are about to finish with utmost defame & doomsday judgement.

[omgfmlwtfsmb]

We aree Eminerica, the toughtest milirary in the world

[TheBilderturdGroup]

These perpetual wars for perpetual peace are a racket the elite financial crowd and their controlled media use to help the rich get richer. It's just a con game according to Major General Smedley D. Butler in his book "War is a Racket"..

[slewofdamascus]

Russia Today - thanks for real journalism.

[BLUEANGEL7777777777]

anyone Question? Russia today, with british and american new anchors??? Talk about lacking Representation.

[killgreed]

Pesident Hamid Karzai's brother Al-Imed Wali Karzai ( Opium King Pin) Drug Lord, is on CIA payroll. Funding throu payoffs, or giving money to know soliders who may have kill U.S. Soldiers, amnesty, & Money if the will leave the taliban. OR the funding of Tim Osman (Bin Laden) CIA operative in Afghanistan just to name a few!!!!!!!!

[verdaderevoluciona]

American Friends Listen to This Men !!!

End all wars : Afghanstan, Palestina, Georgia, Iraq, Iran, Colombia ... go back to look after your own people and get started getting those imperialists out of power so we can free the rest of the world!!.

peace 4 all from latin america!!

[joefriendly]

What Hasan did seems no more condemnable than what he heard soldiers tell him they were doing in Iraq and Afghanistan and what, in fact, they are doing: Horrible things, like revealed in Winter Soldier testimonies of veterans.

The US invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan are criminal violations of the UN Charter, according to the US Constitution the Supreme Law of the Land.

Hasan naturally identified with Muslim victims of US war crimes. That's not enough to rant against Muslims.

[MarielaSimons]

The American soldiers don't need to be around the world fixing every country, they need to be at home with their families, WAR IS A BUSINESS, and SOMEONE IS MAKING A BIG PROFIT OF IT!!

ON THE NAME OF FREEDOM AND PATRIOTISM!!

[sjvietboy408]

@MarielaSimons, because of the false incident at "Gulf of Tonkin" that gave the US government an excuse to send US troops to Vietnam in the name of "protecting our freedoms". The US government claimed that if South Vietnam falls to communism every other country will fall as well like the "domino theory". Turns out North Vietnam reunited Vietnam and fought the communist Chinese, Cambodians, and they fought Axis power Japan. Turns out North Vietnam never intended to dominate the entire region. LIE

[killgreed]

Isn't the Taliban on the payroll?

[diah4]

@killgreed, PROVE IT. Dont start rumors unless you have facts to back it up.

[killgreed]

It has I believe, The end justify the means type of thing. I do not have the time to re reaseach it, but I will, & post my findings here later, out the door, busy.

[killgreed]

How about Carter's, & Brzezinski, funding of the Taliban 6 months before the invason by Russia, & the creation of the Mujahideen ,or Al qaeda. Also the brother of Al-Imed Wali Karzai

[diah4]

So your saying that we funded the creation on Al Qaeda?

What the hell! Where'd you get that info?

[envanje]

I remember on television during soviet occupation of afghanistan.

Zbigniev Brzezinsky who was defence minister during Carter administration beïng present at the US weapons delivery to the taliban loudly outcalling to the Taliban : "God is with you" !

[killgreed]

To combat the russians when they invadeded Afghanistan in 1980, the u.s. funded the resistance, with Arms, etc.. Reasearch it look up karzai's drug lord brother, or type, Taliban on payroll U.S., Also the giant pipe line of oil through the country. The U.S. has always developed countries the bankrupt them then seize their assest, & infrastructure.

[diah4]

I typed in Taliban on payroll, and I found articles about Bush paying locals there to switch sides and to protect the locals & from the Taliban. Thats different than paying an enemy to kill us.

I do see the risk, though. They can set us up bny using the money to kill us while agreeing to protect locals. One thing is for damn sure, they are not trustworthy. Why not protect ourselves over here?

Am I the only one who feels wide open for terrorist attacks?

[coffeebuzzz]

Only Americans are in constant fear of terrorism, the rest of the world is smart enough to realise it poses a miniscule risk in the big scheme of things. You have more chance of dying in the US because you can't afford to see a doctor than you will by any act of terrorism.

Considering that the US is home to the internet, it is very surprising that US citizens are the most ignorant people in the western world.

PS, sending your country broke trying to fight the boogeyman is pointless.

[diah4]

I dont believe that the war in Iraq has anything to do with terrorism. They say the soldiers are over there to protect us. That made me think. Why would they have to go across seas to protect us? It sounds more like they are over there protecting the people over there. I think it's all about money and favors.

Shame that human life is being sacrificed for personal favors and money if that is the case.

[NOLIBERALBIAS]

You r so right. Most of them r overweight that they r too lazy to acquire info from any other source than Tv.

[twomiracles]

that person is right. we did. It's common knowledge if you are paying attention. we were trying to help them against the soviet union takeover of their country...we funded AND trained them. (our CIA)...

[Godsoldier2012]

take OUT THE 7 bases that USA just put in COLOMBIA!!

[Godsoldier2012]

God bless this Official, I admired him!!

go USA, stand for your rights, no more troops around the world!

[mikkitiny]

very clever guy speaks pretty obvious things- americans should not stay in Afganistan, should not increase number of troops but rather push all sides to reconcilliation; and then leave the country.

[oh2love4love]

the evil doers involved in the US government are not interested in TRUE justice.. they are interested in their vested interest that creates more wealth for them and their elite few.. fuck you evil doers fuck you!

[hurchel]

good for him,

[911insidejob81]

stop Iraq and Afghanistan occupations

close Guantanamo!!

innocent people are being tortured to death in Guantanamo

RIP more than 1300 000 Iraqi civilians

[newtype64]

Long live the muhajideen! Stay out of Muslim land American Imperialist!

[urbandiscipline88]

short live those stupid muhajideen!

[salman125]

It is a criminal war imposed on Afghan people and will bring down the hegomeny of US invading forces and its allies....there is no accountability of criminals in politics in these western countries...

[Tressco]

Just say "No!" to The (New) Great Game...!!

Will some pawn mention this grand scheme for once, dammit...?!?

[connielane]

Einstein said:

"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service."

Get out of the military, all people of every nation, just say no. Fight for your country only if your country is attacked and invaded by a foreign occupier. The cabals who run the world should be starved of human resources so let them do their own fighting and send their own children off to die for corporate profits.

Give your service to Humanity so the world can live in peace with justice for all..

[ThaigerDon]

@connielane ... and a year later, your comment still rings true, though it's ignored by many who join the service to get money and opportunities in life, not knowing what they do in that field perpetuates the agonies we all face as people on earth...

[Calvert1212]

@connielane the reason peace can exist is because of those who protect you you ignorant fuk. my dads been in the army for 22 years and you tell him he did it for nothing? do you really think that soldiers cause violence? you dont think there arent hundreds of thousands of people who would kill you for the clothes on your back while you preach of world peace? THATS why the soldiers join, because they find honor in protecting YOU.

regards

[kellyelainewright61]

God bless you ! Matthew Hoh

[TheHaightAshbury]

The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that our government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate.

[elucidative]

Man RT was good not long ago, but it is going down fast. This network must have been really infiltrated by the NWO freemasons. because they are losing their reputation now too. They just want this good man to give in to these war-mongering bankers.

[niza310]

Anyone else notice this guy's doublespeak on all the issues? Damned Hegelian Dialectic! Though, American news media certainly isn't any better... RT is a sensationalists wet dream, just read the headlines.

[ARepublicanChristian]

If the U.S. pulls out, the Taliban might ban heroin production again! Poppy production is up over 1000% since the U.S. invasion

[DNchap1417]

Are you serious? Poppy is their livelihood; this is a landlocked mountainous country with no access to the sea and little else going for!

[ARepublicanChristian]

I'm not saying they're against it. If you watch U.S. news they mislead viewers by saying the Taliban are the reason for the rise in production, when in fact the did outlaw it under their rule.

[hhocar]

Send Rambo in!!! lol

[ARepublicanChristian]

Watch Rambo 3, the Taliban are "men or honor" funny how the U.S. stabs ya in the back.

[OfficialFrizzo]

How stupid is the human species? God, this is stupid.

[RealEros1]

lol "can you hear me" haha

[sniper6081]

Well it's about fuckin' time!

[welcomegohome]

wtf, she's nodding like she's understanding him, then she says "I CANNOT HEAR HIM". lol wtf is her problem. but yeah, we're killing our own guys to hunt down a man in a cave. who pulled off the most devastating attack on american soil.

[soetebeer]

@welcomegohome

Unfortunately, now it's a quagmire - the new Vietnam. I think it is time to bring our men and women home. Protect the US soil here.

God Bless our Soldiers!

[fcktheirsystem]

Better late than never......

[Mirwaise88]

THis Us official knows what he is talking about when it comes to Afghan you cannot win if your fighting with them you can win only to win there hearts and stop killing innicent people.(AFGHAN 4 Life)

[virgy45]

Like O-baa-ma makes decisions! That Pinnocchio can't make a move without his Gepetto, Federal Reserve/Corporate, strings.

Good for Hoh. I wish more people would resign from their tyranny-dealing minion jobs.

[andrewh23]

Blackwater can change its name as often as they want. Stop paying them money. Fucking war profiteers have taken over our foreign policy. I'm tired of perpetual war!

[navtel]

6 years to come to that conclusion? i realized it right away.. what about general betrayous? what does he say now.. a career soldier who likes to be in control.. this war is disgusting just as the war in vietnam and clearly america never learned its lesson. will they this time? i doubt it.

[soundgarden21]

Truth,

AND heroin production has skyrocketed since we've been there...hmmm......but dont forget about Oil, us being in Iraq and Afgahnistan probably has a little something to do with that as well....

[benevolentcaucasian]

keep watching the statist media and regurgitating what they say soundgarden21! way to go thinking for yourself there *wink*). don't forget to thank our resident leftist lunes for putting a stop to drilling our own oil (and gas), in our own country - so they can turn around and claim republicans are "warmongers for oil" in the next breath. another one of those irrational leftist oxymorons!!!

[yahazif]

We live in an interesting world. With the advent of the internet, English speaking new agencies from adversary nations (eg RussiaToday & Al Jezzera) are presented as legitimate news outlets in America while the one news agency that is pro-American (FOX) is presented by the MSM as if it represents the lunatic fringe. Meanwhile the anti-American/liberal forces follow the script of 1964 Vietnam as if it is their sacred game plan.

[Ristar85]

it wouldnt BE that way if Hannity, O'Reilly, Beck, and to a lesser extent, all the other Fox staff dont

* go crazy

* organise protests, activism

* CREATE stories, and lie

u have to realise that even though u do not like RT, AJ, and other news agencies, they do not do any of the 3 above. personally, i do not like AJ for it's views of the Israeli-Palestinian views, but they dont do wat Fox does.

i also believe that failure to see the world from other perspectives only means that u r arrogant.

[adkinsjr]

Pro-American? lmao, you mean pro-conservative right? Fox news ISN'T NEWS, it's just a propaganda organization for the republican party, just like MSNBC is for the democrats. In fact, fox "news" is much more extreme now that they have Becky the Weeping Virgin on every night.

Americans just don't know when to admit that their country is wrong. They just try to rationalize every foreign policy disaster, and pretend as if the U.S. has never victimized any other nation.

[jreed136]

And only an ignorant American would make such a broad and sweeping generalization and assumption about an entire populace.

You dirty hypocrite.

[adkinsjr]

Oh, excuse me. TOO MANY Americans don't know when to admit that their country is wrong. TOO MANY Americans just try to rationalize every foreign policy disaster, and pretend as if the U.S. has never victimized any other nation.

[jreed136]

Most Americans don't think like that though. Stop watching Fox news buddy.

[KnightTriple6]

Im Just Suprised Fox Broadcasting hasnt Made a T.V Show About the Wars Going On with real people Dying. The T.V Show Would Literally B eCalled "War Inc.". Real

Life War Would Get It Own T.V Show From

All Sides Of the War. If the Ratings Get Low they Can Just Kill An Innocent Person.

[campaign4liberty]

Thank you - posted on dailypaul(dot)com where rEVOLution has home!

[xXU2BerXx]

Let's cut through the bs. We're still over there for one reason only:

Heroin.

Michael Ruppert lays it all out in his book, and it's pretty sickening to find out how laundered drug money has become a major player in the global financial system...

[Psy0pAgent]

wow is that what a man with cajones and honor looks like?

[SheerGenius2]

To attack Al Qaida:Get out of occupying their countries,stop supporting Israel in colonising Palestine,and torturing, killing, raping and oppressing the Palestinians and aknowledge and repent for the HOLOCAUST inflicted on just about every country where supporters of Al Qaida come from! It's not rocket science, just pure common sense! You want to appoint dictators in their own lands,arm them to their teeth to oppress their own people and yet expect people to thank you for that? Wake up America!

[borat443]

the only reason obama has to stay in the middle east is money...

the war profiteers, need a war to funnel money into their companies from the defense department and pentagon...they dont give a fuck who gets killed as long as they can make a buck on war...obama should set a timetable troops should be out in a year..Not to mention the fascist cartels runin the US

[BeatsRoyale]

Strong message from Matthew Hoh!

[troglodyte3344]

matthew ho ? is he a thundercat?

[LarsSeprest]

lmao, yes.