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No Country for Young Men as Old Men Play for Time: The End in Afghanistan is Totally Predictable   : Information Clearing House

No Country for Young Men as Old Men Play for Time: The End in Afghanistan is Totally Predictable   : Information Clearing House No Country for Young Men as Old Men Play for Time: The End in Afghanistan is Totally Predictable By Dave Llindorff May 23, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -- John Kerry, back before he was a pompous windsurfing Senate apologist for American empire, back when he wore his hair long and was part of a movement of returned US military veterans speaking out against the continuation of the Vietnam War, famously asked the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a hearing, “How do you ask a man to be the last one to die for a mistake?”

Osama bin Laden's Goal to bankrupt America is Working   : Information Clearing House

Osama bin Laden's Goal to bankrupt America is Working   : Information Clearing House Osama bin Laden's Goal to Bankrupt America is Working By Albert Foster May 22, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -- Michael Scheuer who was the head of the CIA get bin Laden team under Bill Clinton said bin Laden’s goal was to bankrupt America and thus destroy its influence in the world. With the help of Washington politicians he is well on the way to having met his goal. The national debt was $5.8 trillion on 9/10/2001. Today it is $15.7+ trillion and rapidly rising…almost $10 trillion in just 10 1/2 years. Not a bad start toward bankruptcy if you ask me. The escalation of our debt was totally irresponsible, is unsustainable, and will lead to the downfall of the United States if we do not get it under control very soon. It was not bin Laden who ran up this debt. He just accelerated the process. Americans should be really agitated about this, but they are either ignorant o

War Pay  : The Nearly $1 Trillion National Security Budget   : Information Clearing House

War Pay  : The Nearly $1 Trillion National Security Budget   : Information Clearing House War Pay The Nearly $1 Trillion National Security Budget By Chris Hellman and Mattea Kramer May 22, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -- Recent months have seen a flurry of headlines about cuts (often called “threats”) to the U.S. defense budget. Last week, lawmakers in the House of Representatives even passed a bill that was meant to spare national security spending from future cuts by reducing school-lunch funding and other social programs.