US War Casualties - 24-Nov-09

[IndianaGreen]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 926-09

November 24, 2009
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DOD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

Spc. Jason A. McLeod, 22, of Crystal Lake, Ill., died Nov. 23, west of Pashmul, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with mortar fire. He was assigned to the 704th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13153

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 925-09
November 24, 2009
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DOD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

Staff Sgt. Matthew A. Pucino, 34, of Cockeysville, Md., died Nov. 23 in Pashay Kala, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 20th Special Forces Group of the Maryland Army National Guard in Glen Arm, Md.

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13152

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 924-09
November 24, 2009
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DOD Identifies Army Casualties

The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died Nov. 22 in Zabul province, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked their vehicle with an improvised explosive device. They were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.

Killed were:

Sgt. James M. Nolen, 25, of Alvin, Texas; and

Pfc. Marcus A. Tynes, 19, of Moreno Valley, Calif.

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13151

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 923-09
November 24, 2009
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DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Sgt. Briand T. Williams, 25, of Sparks, Ga., died Nov. 22, in Numaniyah, Iraq, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using small arms fire. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 10th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Ga.

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13149

[Techn0Girl]

1. And we can't show their faces....

and we can't show their caskets ... because, you know, people might actually be repulsed if they saw thousands of young men and women - dead.

And that would be bad for business.
WTF happened to America !

[DCBob]

2. If ever there was a "legitimate war", Afghanistan would be it....

9/11.

[IndianaGreen]

3. The US created the Taliban

A reader's comments regarding Obama's Afghan surge

mcoyote November 24th, 2009 8:53 am

Oh... but, but ,but it is the rights of women that Obama cares about.

In 1978 the Afghan government of Mohammed Daoud Khan moved against the leading Afghan opposition political party, the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA). A leader of the party, Mir Akbar Khyber, was murdered and most of the leadership of the party were arrested during his funeral (reportedly at the instigation of the CIA). In response, the remainder of the PDPA staged an uprising which won power in April of 1978. The party immediately published a series of reforms which echoed the failed attempts at reform in Afghanistan going all the way back to the overthrow of the "reformist King", Amanullah Khan, in 1929.

Within days, the CIA began to organize and fund the reactionary and Islamist "opposition forces" in the countryside of Afghanistan, who had already been the fundamental barriers to reform for over a century. This was 2 years BEFORE the Soviets intervened in Afghanistan. Zbigniew Brzezinski has openly bragged that the purpose of the U.S. operations was to FORCE Soviet intervention.

The issues on which the CIA organized were the PDPA's Land Reform and the elimination of debts in the countryside (both of which attacked the power of the rural "warlords"), religious freedom (or the elimination of Sharia Law), and, most important of all, the granting of equal rights for women (which had also been central to the overthrow of Amanullah in 1929).

For the first time in Afghan history, a woman - Dr. Anahita Ratebzad, had become a member of the ruling Revolutionary Council. Less than one month after the uprising, Ratebzad wrote a famous May 28, 1978 New Kabul Times editorial which declared: "Privileges which women, by right, must have are equal education, job security, health services, and free time to rear a healthy generation for building the future of the country ... Educating and enlightening women is now the subject of close government attention."

In response, the CIA distributed leaflets throughout Afghanistan with Dr. Ratebzhad's face displayed prominently on them.

Obama must not have any sense of irony and his "moral high ground" sits lower than the Marianas Trench. The Taliban was created out of whole cloth by the U.S., hatred of women's rights and religious freedom were the pillars of that creation, and the hand wringing now, concerning those "poor Afghan women", is light years beyond hypocrisy.

SIMPLE FACT- US INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN IS ILLEGAL

The invasion of Afghanistan was not legitimate self-defense under article 51 of the Charter because the attacks on September 11 were criminal attacks, not "armed attacks" by another country. Afghanistan did not attack the United States.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/24

[DCBob]

4. The Taliban are crazed dangerous hyper-religious hate filled lunatics..

Left to their own devices they will likely repeat 9/11.

[IndianaGreen]

6. Lunatics that the Obama Administration is going to give money to

or haven't you read the latest news about our plans to buy off some of the warlords and the Taliban.

BTW, Karzai's regime has been a abuser of women's rights, bringing religious wackos and warlords into the government. Or haven't you kept up with the speeches and interviews given by Malalai Joy? Google her name and you will see!

[DCBob]

10. Apparently there are many Taliban "moderates" who can be persuaded to give it up for cash..

Thats fine but there are still those who are determined to go down in flames.

[IndianaGreen]

11. There is no such thing as a Taliban moderate

anymore than there was an Iranian moderate at the time Reagan was sending cake and Bibles to the Ayatollah during Iran-Contra.

[Djinn]

12. for large numbers of people across the world it's

AMERICANS who are crazed dangerous hyper-religious hate filled lunatics who ARE left to their own devices and who kill MANY MANY MANY more than died in the 9/11 attacks each and every year.

[catnhatnh]

5. F Co 704 Maint Bat 72'-73'....

He was one of my people and I mourn.He was most likely a wrench as I was.May God rest his soul....

[IndianaGreen]

9. Condolences to their families

coupled with a firm commitment to bring our troops home, alive!

[Clio the Leo]

7. Thank you for doing this.............

...... it's too easy to see the fallen as numbers on a page and not living, breathing human beings with lives and stories.

One of my friends was one of the 3,000 fallen citizens of the world who died in one day at the hands of al qaeda. Her name was Jakki and she was a living, breathing, beautiful woman with a story.

If this is something you want to do for every fallen solider, I think it would be an honorable thing.

[IndianaGreen]

8. I have been posting in the Indiana forum the obits of Hoosiers killed

in these wars. Here is a recent one:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=151x7201

[emilyg]

13. Thank you. We need to be

constantly reminded.

[RepublicanElephant]

14. a war for pipelines and opium. nt