Congress Funds Failed War, Not the Jobless

July 27, 2010: Congress has passed the Afghanistan Spending Bill for $59 billion. It's come to light in the last weeks (even the mainstream media) that the war in Afghanistan is failed... a real waste of time and money, and most importantly human beings. At the same time, WikiLeaks uncovers critical data confirming just that. The crazy-making is getting thick.

Jon Stewart takes on the dismal coverage of the leaks by the media. LOL!

Robert Scheer sums up the war: 

What WikiLeaks did was brilliant journalism, and the bleating critics from the president on down are revealing just how low a regard they have for the truth. As with Richard Nixon's rage against the publication of the Pentagon Papers, our leaders are troubled not by the prospect of these revelations endangering troops but rather endangering their own political careers. It is our president who unnecessarily sacrifices the lives of our soldiers and not those in the press who let the public in on the folly of the mission itself.

What the documents exposed is the depth of chicanery that surrounds the Afghanistan occupation at every turn because we have stumbled into a regional quagmire of such dark and immense proportions that any attempt to connect this failed misadventure with a recognizable U.S. national security interest is doomed. What is revealed on page after page is that none of the local actors, be they labeled friend or foe, give a whit about our president's agenda. They are focused on prizes, passions and causes that are obsessively homegrown.

Our fixation on al-Qaida has nothing to do with them. President Barack Obama's top national security adviser admitted as much when he said last December that there were fewer than 100 of those foreign fighters left in Afghanistan. Those who do remain in the region are hunkered down in Pakistan, and as the leaked documents reveal, that nation is just toying with us by pretending to cooperate while its intelligence service continues to support our proclaimed enemies. ...  Read on...

When presidential press secretary Robert Gibbs intones, "We are in this region of the world because of what happened on 9/11," he is mouthing a dangerous half-truth. The opposite is the case: 9/11 happened because the U.S. was in the region, and not the other way around.

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