52 Percent of Americans Want All Troops Brought Home This Year from the Afghanistan War

Fed up with the brutal, futile war in Afghanistan? Join us on March 12 for "Rethink the Cost," a worldwide Meetup day organized by Rethink Afghanistan: http://www.meetup.com/Rethink-the-Afghanistan-War/

Defense Secretary Robert Gates today tried to spin Americans on the "progress" of the Afghanistan War. Despite his assertions, the facts are clear: insurgent attacks jumped 64 percent this year; more civilians died than any prior year of the conflict; and the "security bubbles" talked about in Helmand and Kandahar provinces situated in increasingly violent parts of the country.

The war isn't making us safer, and it's not worth the cost. Join us on March 12 as Rethinkers across the country and around the world get together to rethink the cost of this war: http://www.meetup.com/Rethink-the-Afghanistan-War/

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[grendelcatt]

and, thus another empire dies in the hills of Afghanistan...

[Dahgrostabphri]

I wonder what (after history finally has a good look at what American has become) what will they call us? We're not really a republican, we certainly not a democracy, we like a secret dictatorship where they corporations control the puppets we elect to office. - I just wonder what the name for it will be

[Dewdaahman]

"..shall be drawn to the gallows, not walking or carried.."

[landlogger]

@gotama420 It is all so awful and I get sad and angry. None of us get listened to anymore!

[thunderon100]

i heard robert gates is at the BILDERBURG group meeting in switzerland... wats up with that?

[LatifAhmadi]

Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

peace....

[35THIRTYFIVE]

going nowhere, still schemes to finalise.

35

[JawiiJiwaa]

because the jews wants to see more muslims be killed, they see it as entertainment

[landlogger]

85% of Canadians want our troops out now. So why the hell are we still doing there??