ReDiscover 9/11

On May 30, we passed the $1 trillion mark for the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

That’s a trillion dollars we could have used to create jobs, keep people in their homes, or make sure sick kids can see a doctor. Politicians and pundits throw the word “trillion” around like it’s chump change, and that means most people don’t have any idea how much $1 trillion actually is.

To get you thinking about the true cost of the wars, rethinkafghanistan.com has created a game that asks: “How would YOU spend $1 trillion?”

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
May 26, 2010

“It’s near-impossible to find anyone in Afghanistan who doesn’t believe the US are funding the Taliban: and it’s the highly educated Afghan professionals, those employed by ISAF, USAID, international media organizations – and even advising US diplomats – who seem the most convinced,” reports the Guardian today. “The US has an interest in prolonging the conflict so as to stay in Afghanistan for the long term,” said one Afghan.

It does not take a lot of research to prove the Taliban — and al-Qaeda — were fabricated by the CIA in league with Pakistani and Saudi Arabian intelligence.

Steve Lendman
sjlendman.blogspot.com
20 May 2010

Writing on May 12 in Alternet.org, Mariam Abu Ali headlined, “My Brother Faces a Lifetime of Solitary Confinement on a Spurious Terror Conviction,” saying:

He “spent the past five years in solitary confinement, under 23-hour lockdown, in a 7 x 12 cell,” and overall has been treated horrifically “in a dungeon, over 20 meters beneath the ground.”

An April article by this writer explained what they’re like – http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/04/harmful-effects-of-prolonged-isolated.html. Material from it is repeated below.

Abu Ali wasn’t charged or convicted for violence. He’s not at Guantanamo or secret detainment abroad. He’s in Florence, CO Supermax hell, like state-run facilities the only federal one evolving from a “get tough on crime” philosophy to keep hardened offenders separate from others, the greater prison population safer, and the public secure knowing these prisons are escape-proof. Over the last two decades, nearly 60 were built in over 40 states, currently for over 20,000 inmates.