Afghan Meltdown - Democratic Underground

unhappycamper

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Tue Aug-10-10 07:41 AM
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Afghan Meltdown

Afghan Meltdown
08.09.10 - 10:07 PM

An NYU political scientist grad student took Wikileaks' Afghan War Logs, ran them through open source statistical programming and software tools, and came up with a graphic image of an insurgency that has metastasized. Or, as Wired puts it, "exactly what you wouldn't want to see as a war drags on."

unhappycamper comment: Want to see what our future is in the Stan? Read "Retreat from Kabul".

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w8liftinglady

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Tue Aug-10-10 09:06 AM
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1. as long at corporations make big bucks...we're staying

http://s3.amazonaws.com/corpwatch.org/downloads/AfghanistanINCfinalsmall.pdf

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/21/top-defense-contractors-s_n_431542.html

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Jkid

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Tue Aug-10-10 09:08 AM
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2. And they do not care how much damage is done.

They want the sweet sweet cash.

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girl gone mad

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Tue Aug-10-10 09:46 AM
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3. Yep. The real welfare queens.

Living large off of the productive economy, picking fights with third world peasants.

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loudsue

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Tue Aug-10-10 09:53 AM
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4. That's it in a nut shell. War is for the money and drugs and arms deals.

People are collateral damage in a profit system of government. And that is exactly what globalization is: government for profit.

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