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	<title>Comments on: AFGHANISTAN AND AMERICA:  FIXING BOTH</title>
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		<title>By: Savannah</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2009/10/05/afghanistan-and-america-fixing-both/comment-page-1/#comment-27308</link>
		<dc:creator>Savannah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I dont think that is a right thing to do Obama!</description>
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		<title>By: duffster</title>
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		<dc:creator>duffster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;a few things:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1.&#160; Money gets split between groups....none of which can spend it..or they would give up power....having money is power.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. Much of the oil taken was never paid for...stolen by...guess who&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3.&#160; I actually work with Iraq on this issue....development, sewers, water supply, housing finance, commercial banking, oil marketing, security, power plants.....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are lots of talented people in Iraq but the situation needs to settle...stabilize.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Depending on the US...as a hammer...to play cop keeps them from fixing their own home....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;this is what I think.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I like Iraq and its people.&#160; i think Iraq will be fine, despite our help.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;g&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>a few things:</p>
<p>1.&nbsp; Money gets split between groups&#8230;.none of which can spend it..or they would give up power&#8230;.having money is power.</p>
<p>2. Much of the oil taken was never paid for&#8230;stolen by&#8230;guess who</p>
<p>3.&nbsp; I actually work with Iraq on this issue&#8230;.development, sewers, water supply, housing finance, commercial banking, oil marketing, security, power plants&#8230;..</p>
<p>There are lots of talented people in Iraq but the situation needs to settle&#8230;stabilize.</p>
<p>Depending on the US&#8230;as a hammer&#8230;to play cop keeps them from fixing their own home&#8230;.</p>
<p>this is what I think.</p>
<p>I like Iraq and its people.&nbsp; i think Iraq will be fine, despite our help.</p>
<p>g</p>
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		<title>By: Notorious Kelly</title>
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		<dc:creator>Notorious Kelly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What happened to Iraq paying for the war with oil money?</description>
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		<title>By: Cynic2</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cynic2</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not a bad idea, atall, Tom.</description>
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		<title>By: pmacdonald</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2009/10/05/afghanistan-and-america-fixing-both/comment-page-1/#comment-27105</link>
		<dc:creator>pmacdonald</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>General McCrystal and President Obama should read and hear

Peter Macdonald 465 Packers falls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217
	Will (always) the reason for Death by Cop be turned around to “how could that person put such a burden on a cops mind”?  A person can yell for help but if no one listens was that person really here?  The reasons for cops to exist turned to enforcers of the BLUE WALL first and protect the image of the government second.   Cops forgot to serve and protect the people are their basic reason and job.  Suicide by any means is still the death of a person.  One must see the reason for such a dramatic act to get to the root of preventing others from following the same logic.   A U.S. Military veteran is a child that had all his child hood logic removed and replaced with killing to save the U.S. way of life.  The mind of a child is deployed with no safe guards to enable this human being to return back into a civilized society.  The brutality of living like a pig and performing some of the most inhuman acts of humanity on other human beings day after day engulfs the mind.   The actual act is driven into the mind day after day of just trying to survive to make that return home alive.  You walk down a street and see the deplorable daily living conditions of these people as you bond.  Your survival safe guards can never turn into trust because at any moment any one of these children can turn on you.  The lucky ones come home to a joyous occasion with family and friends.  You’re uncalled for reactions and inconsistent personality is rationalized to make you feel wanted.  The similarity of where you have been to where you are makes no since.  Society after a few years back rejects you as a loser.  The once friendly cop pushes you until the light goes out.  The conflict in your head between your child hood social up bringing to the need to kill the enemy amounts too how to follow military protocol.  Death becomes the only solution to make the world see that what they are doing is wrong.  The cop is the uniformed enemy that needs to be reclaimed to protect and serve the people. 
	You know today in the Veterans Today web paper I read an article “Afgan and America fixing both”.  The article in it’s own way tells what is wrong back here.  People do not hear so are they really talking.  The waste of mental talent and money to destroy the innocent lives of our children so politicians like Bush that never served can rain power.  The logic of our society where the power of the BLUE Wall or the incentive of our politicians has turned against the people to self-serving directions of wrongful acts.  The sleeping demons that those that have been there unwillingly learn have been labeled different names after each war.  The treatment has changed but the logic of learning and understanding the instinct has not.  General McCrystal that never actually has been there will direct those that have. 
	The logic of death by cop is illustrated by my first sentence.  Don’t turn the subject around to your meaning.  I took that child’s life as a U.S. Marine and I am proud of it.  People tell me what I did was wrong and turn it around to there had to be a way to talk it out with out killing.  Even the VA doctors will not listen because my VA medical was stopped.  You will see the logic in this also as society turns it around getting ready for the next war to send our future children to fight.  Was I really here?
Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper fi</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>General McCrystal and President Obama should read and hear</p>
<p>Peter Macdonald 465 Packers falls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217<br />
	Will (always) the reason for Death by Cop be turned around to “how could that person put such a burden on a cops mind”?  A person can yell for help but if no one listens was that person really here?  The reasons for cops to exist turned to enforcers of the BLUE WALL first and protect the image of the government second.   Cops forgot to serve and protect the people are their basic reason and job.  Suicide by any means is still the death of a person.  One must see the reason for such a dramatic act to get to the root of preventing others from following the same logic.   A U.S. Military veteran is a child that had all his child hood logic removed and replaced with killing to save the U.S. way of life.  The mind of a child is deployed with no safe guards to enable this human being to return back into a civilized society.  The brutality of living like a pig and performing some of the most inhuman acts of humanity on other human beings day after day engulfs the mind.   The actual act is driven into the mind day after day of just trying to survive to make that return home alive.  You walk down a street and see the deplorable daily living conditions of these people as you bond.  Your survival safe guards can never turn into trust because at any moment any one of these children can turn on you.  The lucky ones come home to a joyous occasion with family and friends.  You’re uncalled for reactions and inconsistent personality is rationalized to make you feel wanted.  The similarity of where you have been to where you are makes no since.  Society after a few years back rejects you as a loser.  The once friendly cop pushes you until the light goes out.  The conflict in your head between your child hood social up bringing to the need to kill the enemy amounts too how to follow military protocol.  Death becomes the only solution to make the world see that what they are doing is wrong.  The cop is the uniformed enemy that needs to be reclaimed to protect and serve the people.<br />
	You know today in the Veterans Today web paper I read an article “Afgan and America fixing both”.  The article in it’s own way tells what is wrong back here.  People do not hear so are they really talking.  The waste of mental talent and money to destroy the innocent lives of our children so politicians like Bush that never served can rain power.  The logic of our society where the power of the BLUE Wall or the incentive of our politicians has turned against the people to self-serving directions of wrongful acts.  The sleeping demons that those that have been there unwillingly learn have been labeled different names after each war.  The treatment has changed but the logic of learning and understanding the instinct has not.  General McCrystal that never actually has been there will direct those that have.<br />
	The logic of death by cop is illustrated by my first sentence.  Don’t turn the subject around to your meaning.  I took that child’s life as a U.S. Marine and I am proud of it.  People tell me what I did was wrong and turn it around to there had to be a way to talk it out with out killing.  Even the VA doctors will not listen because my VA medical was stopped.  You will see the logic in this also as society turns it around getting ready for the next war to send our future children to fight.  Was I really here?<br />
Peter Macdonald Sgt USMC Semper fi</p>
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		<title>By: Leon</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2009/10/05/afghanistan-and-america-fixing-both/comment-page-1/#comment-27100</link>
		<dc:creator>Leon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Good stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Robert Greenwald has some video on point at: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJjtanf7MqU&amp;feature=channel&quot;&gt; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJjtanf7MqU&amp;feature=channel&lt;/a&gt; [www.youtube.com]&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good stuff.</p>
<p>Robert Greenwald has some video on point at: </p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJjtanf7MqU&amp;feature=channel"> </a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJjtanf7MqU&#038;feature=channel" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJjtanf7MqU&#038;feature=channel</a> [www.youtube.com]</p>
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		<title>By: duffster</title>
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		<dc:creator>duffster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Barrie can grow a beard and become a mullah.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can see it now.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;g&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Barrie can grow a beard and become a mullah.</p>
<p>I can see it now.</p>
<p>g</p>
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		<title>By: duffster</title>
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		<dc:creator>duffster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;It is more out of hand than even Iraq.&#160; The Vietnam analogies aren&#039;t just kidding.&#160; These morons actually believe it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Marines have made such a noise over the past 40 years about successes in I Corps that now people believe it worked.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;g&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is more out of hand than even Iraq.&nbsp; The Vietnam analogies aren&#8217;t just kidding.&nbsp; These morons actually believe it.</p>
<p>Marines have made such a noise over the past 40 years about successes in I Corps that now people believe it worked.</p>
<p>g</p>
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		<title>By: barrie w.</title>
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		<dc:creator>barrie w.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>mr. barnes, personally typing, this is your best post ever. maybe even the best idea yet to surface.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mr. barnes, personally typing, this is your best post ever. maybe even the best idea yet to surface.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Barnes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tom Barnes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Why don&#039;t we try something radical for once?&#160; Lets get to the heart of the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lets fund MODERATE madras&#039; all over the Middle East to teach MAINSTREAM Islamic interpretations of the Quran so that groups steeped in Wahabist Reactionary Islamist nonsense are neutralized.&#160; We could do this for one ten thousandth&#160;of the cost we have paid for these wars.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All we would have to do is set up a series of madras so that Islamic Quranic studies, coupled with FREE univesity level education relative to pragmatic subjects would be open to all people in the Muslim world of the Middle East.&#160; You get four hours of Quranic studies each day under the direction of a mainstream moderate Mullah or Imam and four hours of technical education every day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Free.&#160; Paid for by the American people.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;They would not be able to keep the kids away.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why don&#8217;t we try something radical for once?&nbsp; Lets get to the heart of the problem.</p>
<p>Lets fund MODERATE madras&#8217; all over the Middle East to teach MAINSTREAM Islamic interpretations of the Quran so that groups steeped in Wahabist Reactionary Islamist nonsense are neutralized.&nbsp; We could do this for one ten thousandth&nbsp;of the cost we have paid for these wars.</p>
<p>All we would have to do is set up a series of madras so that Islamic Quranic studies, coupled with FREE univesity level education relative to pragmatic subjects would be open to all people in the Muslim world of the Middle East.&nbsp; You get four hours of Quranic studies each day under the direction of a mainstream moderate Mullah or Imam and four hours of technical education every day.</p>
<p>Free.&nbsp; Paid for by the American people.</p>
<p>They would not be able to keep the kids away.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>By: Mike M.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike M.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Cheneys pick to run the war? That ought to send off the alarm bells! KBR will make millions of dollars with this one as well. Same as it ever was!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cheneys pick to run the war? That ought to send off the alarm bells! KBR will make millions of dollars with this one as well. Same as it ever was!</p>
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