IMAGINE! China Invades America! [A must watch]

I really like the message sent to Americans.. 
can they Imagine what they/their government does in the rest of the world?

From M16 rifles to boots, Afghan troops feel slighted

“Afghans feel disrespected, the soldiers say. Handing out inferior equipment is disrespectful; burning Qurans, however accidental, is disrespectful; urinating on dead bodies, even if Taliban, as video that emerged in January showed U.S. troops doing, is disrespectful.”

“A soldier named Abdul Karim said he’d prefer a 30-year-old Russian-made Kalashnikov to an M16. The Americans “are giving us old weapons and try to make them look new with polish and paint. We don’t want their throwaways,” he said.”

“At the firing range, the complaints flew thick and fast. Col. Abdul Haleem Noori grabbed a young recruit’s foot to show a gash in the heel of his boot.

“It’s only two months old and it is falling apart, and we are told it is supposed to last one year,” he said. The footwear was made by a manufacturer under contract to the Afghan Ministry of Defense.

Even the 3-year-old army band bemoans their equipment, including soldered trumpets dating back to the 1970s.”

” The foreigners don’t let civilians drive in front of their convoys even if they are rushing a sick person to treatment, referring to the heavy security measures U.S. troops impose around their vehicles.”

“In May last year, a U.S. Army team led by a behavioral scientist released a 70-page survey that revealed both Afghan and American soldiers hold disturbingly negative perceptions of the other.

According to the survey, many Afghan security personnel found U.S. troops “extremely arrogant, bullying and unwilling to listen to their advice” and sometimes lacking concern about Afghans’ safety in combat. They accused the Americans of ignoring female privacy and using denigrating names for Afghans.

U.S. troops, in turn, often accused Afghan troops and police of “pervasive illicit drug use, massive thievery, personal instability, dishonesty, no integrity,” the survey said.”

Why I refused to return to fight in Afghanistan's brutal occupation | Joe Glenton



At the same time as the Taliban attacks there has been a rise in atrocities. We have recently seen British soldiers convicted for raping children, as well as the stabbing by a squaddie of a 10-year-old Afghan boy. A multinational operation in all respects, the US has done its share; kill teams, SS flag-waving, photographing bodies, urinating on corpses and the Panjwai massacre carried out, according to the witnesses, by 15 to 20 US troops. When young men are shaped for war and sent to fight there are consequences – even in “just” wars. The training involves two-way dehumanisation – both of our soldiers and of the enemy – as Giles Fraser highlighted lately. These acts are coming thick and fast at the end of a long, dehumanising, failed war. Conscientious objection was a hard road for me, but while I was in military prison I received 200 letters a day, which helped. As did the support of my fellow soldiers.


 The Taliban clearly has broad support from Afghan people. Conscientious objection is a right and obligation in a failed war.

No insurgency can survive without broad support from the local population. The insurgent relies upon the people for intelligence, support, safety and more. The fact that insurgents now control great swaths of the country virtually unchallenged tells us the people have been lost, partially due to the occupiers’ bumbling efforts. The argument that Afghans are rejecting the Taliban falls flat.

US Soldiers Find Themselves Being Terrorists in Afghanistan [worth a watch]

As the US continues to step up war efforts in Afghanistan, the number of American soldiers refusing deployment to war zones is also increasing. Author and Independent Journalist Dahr Jamail tells RT that U.S. soldiers in combat zones find themselves being terrorist.

“Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.” - Albert Einstein
Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein
letssharestories: This is they way they are trained to kill no heart no feelings there is no humanity left any more they are animals and this inhuman call us terrorist huh  revolutionwatch: How war make man’s heart to stone. Real world example! danceswithfaeriesunderthemoon: This makes me feel sick. taqwaacore: One of my friends brother said something similiar to this. My friends said he needed to get some of his “aggressions off”. He said he wouldn’t care who he shot, civillian or not. This guy is openly racist & he doesn’t care about it. Immigrants must leave “his country”. Why do they send racists to foreign countries? Why? Such people are sent to Afghanistan (mostly). I have seen thousands of similar posts from soldiers over the past years. And when they do kill civilians, they didn’t mean it, it was accident, they were mentally ill. Do they even know the ” towel” they call it, is Afghanistan’s traditional men attire?. Everyone wears that, all the civilians.
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letssharestories:

This is they way they are trained to kill no heart no feelings there is no humanity left any more they are animals and this inhuman call us terrorist huh 

revolutionwatch:

How war make man’s heart to stone. Real world example!

danceswithfaeriesunderthemoon:

This makes me feel sick.

taqwaacore:

One of my friends brother said something similiar to this. My friends said he needed to get some of his “aggressions off”. He said he wouldn’t care who he shot, civillian or not. This guy is openly racist & he doesn’t care about it. Immigrants must leave “his country”.

Why do they send racists to foreign countries? Why?

Such people are sent to Afghanistan (mostly). I have seen thousands of similar posts from soldiers over the past years. And when they do kill civilians, they didn’t mean it, it was accident, they were mentally ill. Do they even know the ” towel” they call it, is Afghanistan’s traditional men attire?. Everyone wears that, all the civilians.

CNN: “No US Access to Sites of Afghan Killings”, But Did US Ask for Access?

Late last night, MadDog repeated a speculation he has raised several times regarding how Bales could have been undetected when he left the outpost twice on the night of the killings:

Given the 3 points above, I’ll again wonder as I’ve done here before whether Bales himself was an individual assigned to provide the very security that he’s purported to have breached.

The CNN article confirms that very fact:

The official said Bales, 38, was meant to have been on duty guarding the base that night, and would have had full body armour and weaponry as standard.

A point that I raised in an early post on this incident was that we would be able to tell how serious the US is in determining whether Bales truly acted alone or if other soldiers were present and fired weapons during the killings would be to observe how fully the US carries out forensic examinations of the crime scenes:

Although the bodies appear to have been buried already, we will know just how serious the US is about establishing the number of shooters involved in the attack if they actually visit the homes invaded to recover shell casings and bullets. Even rudimentary forensic evaluation should be able to establish conclusively how many weapons were fired. Slightly more advanced forensics can determine whether all the weapons involved were in the possession of the soldier who has turned himself in.

Remarkably, over two and a half weeks after the attack, we now learn that the US has not yet had “access” to the crime scenes:

U.S. military officials have yet to gain access to the sites in which 17 Afghans were killed in Kandahar, an obstacle that could impede efforts to prosecute the American soldier accused of the multiple homicides.

U.S. personnel had not been able to collect DNA from the sites or access the areas, although DNA collected by Afghan investigators may have been received, an official said.

However, DNA has been found in blood on the clothing of the suspect, Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales.

“We do not have access to the crime scene,” said the U.S. official, who has knowledge of the investigation but did not want to be identified discussing an ongoing inquiry.

With so much time having passed, it seems to me that the question of access now becomes moot. It seems virtually impossible that Afghan officials have sealed off the crime scenes and limited access there only to their own investigators, so any evidence gathered at this point is rendered virtually meaningless.

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Inside The Kandahar Massacre; Grieving Survivors Describe Afghan Mass Murder

(please watch and share)

SBS “Dateline” received unprecedented access to the survivors and investigation of the Kandahar village massacre by US forces.
Grieving survivors describe Afghan massacre; US military war crimes & Genocide against Pashtuns in Afghanistan
Reporter Yalda Hakim of Australia’s SBS network has become the first western journalist to visit the villages where a U.S. soldier allegedly killed 17 people.
In a remarkable report she talks with some of the survivors and some Afghan guards on duty at the military camp from where Staff Sergeant Robert Bales left on his killing spree.

The War in Afghanistan

Please spare few minutes to watch this video and get informed.
“A video about what is happening in Afghanistan, I know it’s sad, but sadly it’s what’s happening…”

“Everything is backwards nowadays: War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” George Orwell

“Political speech is designed to make lies honorable and murder respectful.” George Orwell

Very sad, the fact that we Afghans are unable to get justice from our murderers. They are protected, their murders covered up and absurdly justified by the US government. Any crimes committed by the US soldiers are ignored and covered up or even if they convict them, the sentence given are few years, that also eligible for parole half way and they walk out free. while those fighting to defend their country their homes and their families are labeled terrorists and are either killed instantly or locked up for years. For Afghans, The US and NATO are invading Afghanistan. If it was the other way around and the Afghans were the ones invading the US even the Americans would have us killed its called self defense its called protecting our selves and defending our lands. Go back to your country if you don’t want to be killed, but us? we have no choice we are already in our country, being murdered by these invading forces. So don’t say what about the US soldiers that die in Afghanistan. All those who kill or involved in killing innocent people & children deserve to die.You will see, At first few times the Afghans accepted apologies when civilians were killed, but then when it got too much and more children were being killed, the afghans protested and no more apologies were accepted and sooner or later a time will come when the afghans will realize that even the demonstrations and protests wont do anything, it wont bring them justice, as we witnessed recently, The kandahar massacre & how nothing was done about it. So they will start to take justice into their own hands. Instead of the Taliban only, every afghan will carry a gun and shoot any US or NATO soldiers at sight, because they will be fed up with the system, fed up with no justice fed up with losing families and children.
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Very sad, the fact that we Afghans are unable to get justice from our murderers. They are protected, their murders covered up and absurdly justified by the US government. Any crimes committed by the US soldiers are ignored and covered up or even if they convict them, the sentence given are few years, that also eligible for parole half way and they walk out free. while those fighting to defend their country their homes and their families are labeled terrorists and are either killed instantly or locked up for years. For Afghans, The US and NATO are invading Afghanistan. If it was the other way around and the Afghans were the ones invading the US even the Americans would have us killed its called self defense its called protecting our selves and defending our lands. Go back to your country if you don’t want to be killed, but us? we have no choice we are already in our country, being murdered by these invading forces. So don’t say what about the US soldiers that die in Afghanistan. All those who kill or involved in killing innocent people & children deserve to die.

You will see, At first few times the Afghans accepted apologies when civilians were killed, but then when it got too much and more children were being killed, the afghans protested and no more apologies were accepted and sooner or later a time will come when the afghans will realize that even the demonstrations and protests wont do anything, it wont bring them justice, as we witnessed recently, The kandahar massacre & how nothing was done about it. So they will start to take justice into their own hands. Instead of the Taliban only, every afghan will carry a gun and shoot any US or NATO soldiers at sight, because they will be fed up with the system, fed up with no justice fed up with losing families and children.

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Laughing US soldiers shoot dead 16 Afghans, including 9 children.



KABUL, Mar 12: Western forces shot dead 16 civilians including nine children in southern Kandahar province on Sunday, Afghan officials said, in a rampage that witnesses said was carried out by American soldiers who were laughing.
One Afghan father who said his children were killed in the shooting spree accused soldiers of later burning the bodies. Witnesses told Reuters they saw a group of US soldiers arrive at their village in Kandahar’s Panjwayi district at around 2 am, enter homes and open fire. 

Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the rampage as “intentional murders” and demanded an explanation from the United States. His office said the dead included nine children and three women. An Afghan minister earlier told Reuters that a lone U.S. soldier had killed up to 16 people when he burst into homes in villages near his base in the middle of the night. Panjwayi district is about 35 km (22 miles) west of the provincial capital Kandahar city. Haji Samad said 11 of his relatives were killed in one house, including his children. Pictures showed blood-splattered walls where the children were killed.

“They (Americans) poured chemicals over their dead bodies and burned them,” a weeping Samad told Reuters at the scene.    

trails of the burnt ground

“I saw that all 11 of my relatives were killed, including my children and grandchildren,” said Samad, who had left the home a day earlier.       

Neighbors said they awoke to crackling gunfire from American soldiers, whom they described as laughing and drunk.      

“They were all drunk and shooting all over the place,” said neighbor Agha Lala, who visited one of the homes where the incident took place. “Their bodies were riddled with bullets.”     

Q:Hello. My name is Aleks and I'm a U.S. Marine. I've been to Afghanistan four times now. I'm proud of who I am, but not of what I, and my fellow soldiers, have done. I would like to go back to the Middle East, but not for war, but for what made my times there bearable: playing soccer with the civilians, teaching kids how to skateboard, sharing meals with civilian families.. I want to apologise for everything yet... I'm just one soldier. Does my apology count for something? Anything?

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I hope the troops just withdraw sooner than later and leave Afghanistan for good. This war is not really doing any good for either side. Afghans are the ones who suffer the most out of it.

An apology from you, just one soldier, or the whole US marines in Afghanistan, it wont change a thing for any Afghan who lives in Afghanistan and suffers under this oppression. Unless an action follows and something really changes.

The only good thing out of an apology would be for your self, as it will help to make you a better person in future and realize the right from wrong. and hopefully wont stop at that, but rather do something about it and stand against these horrible things committed by the US troops in Afghanistan.

Many of the soldiers had their chances to either do things they are proud of & really help the people. And believe me you are not the first marine sending me a message saying they have done things they are not proud of and they wish they had done good rather than bad there. But, whats the use of feeling sorry about it later on when you come back to your home?

You soldiers had your time to do good to Afghan people rather than these things you are not proud of, you people could have done something you are proud of. Then, instead of this message you would be writing and saying ” Unlike most of the soldiers out there, i feel i actually did help the people in Afghanistan, if not many, atleast few. I cared and i tried. I played with the children and had meals with civilian families, and i can proudly say i didn’t commit things that i regret or that I’m not proud of”

But unfortunately no one says that to me, all they say is that they have done bad things and how they are sorry for it.

I thought Americans had freedom & you could always choose what to do and what not to do. I thought your opinion is respected?  But i guess everyone does things they don’t like because actually they don’t have a choice, because they aren’t free to choose. They just obey. Even if they dislike or disagree to what they do.

Alot of marines have told me that, they couldn’t disobey their commander’s order to kill civilians or to bomb random houses because they thought them suspicious without proof, because they were scared they’d be punished for it or something, now tell me is that freedom? Not being able to stop doing something that you know deep down it is wrong and you shouldn’t because you are scared of someone?

It does nothing to Afghan people. An innocent kill can not be just forgiven by an apology from anyone. It will not make us feel any better, Nor it will ease our losses. It will not bring our brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers back to life. It will not build our destroyed homes nor feed our orphans due to this war.