Evans Politics, December 1, 2009
Kucinich on Afghanistan on Fox News:
‘On The Record with Greta Van Susteren’
Retrospective from November 29, 2009 looking back on Obama’s Decision to send about 30-35,000 more troops to Afghanistan. See Obama Issues Order for More Troops in Afghanistan, The New York Times, December 1, 2009, by Eric Shmitt: “WASHINGTON — President Obama issued orders to send about 30,000 additional American troops to Afghanistan as he prepared to address the nation Tuesday night to explain what may be one of the most defining decisions of his presidency.”
In this video, Kucinich demolishes former Senator and Fox News analyst Rick Santorum as he makes the case for disengagement in Afghanistan and Iraq and focusing on the United States’ domestic problems. Fox News video – 6:29.
News on the Iraq – Afghanistan theater
Read An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore, Michael Moore.com, November 30, 2009, by Michael Moore.
Read Tonight Obama’s escalation will be IMMEDIATELY opposed, OpEdNews, December 1, 2009, by Harvey Wasserman, with a calendar of events (on page 2) from United for Peace.
Read the shocking (to some readers) Chilcot inquiry hears Bush began Iraq war drumbeat three days after 9/11, Guardian.co.uk, November 30, 2009, by Haroon Siddique: “Blair foreign policy adviser David Manning says US president talked up possible links between Saddam and al-Qaida.”
Read Iraq Inquiry bombshell: Secret letter to reveal new Blair war lies, Mail Online (U.K.), November 29, 2009, by Simon Walters:
“An explosive secret letter that exposes how Tony Blair lied over the legality of the Iraq War can be revealed.
The Chilcot Inquiry into the war will interrogate the former Prime Minister over the devastating ‘smoking gun’ memo, which warned him in the starkest terms the war was illegal.
The Mail on Sunday can disclose that Attorney General Lord Goldsmith wrote the letter to Mr Blair in July 2002 – a full eight months before the war – telling him that deposing Saddam Hussein was a blatant breach of international law.
Watch Rachel Maddow, Another secret U.S. prison comes to light, MSNBC YouTube video – 1:28. There’s a CIA black site inside Bagram air base.
Watch the MSNBC YouTube videos, Grayson: ‘The Constitution Didn’t Contemplate a Standing Army, Much Less an Army Standing in Kabul’ and Rep. Alan Grayson: President Obama is Leaving His Base.
