You can follow the link in this article and watch Greenwald's, Rethinking Afghanistan documentary. Peacenik didn't follow the link. Peacenik doesn't like seeing images of dead people. The neo cons don't like Peacenik seeing images of dead people either. The neo cons don't want anyone seeing the consequences of war.
Ironically Obama isn't getting out of Afghanistan. Isn't withdrawing troops. He is trapped. And Canada better start thinking about what Canada's role in Afghanistan will be if Harper gets a majority government. That promise to end offensive military operations. Peacenik doesn't believe it.
Posted by Liliana Segura, AlterNet at 2:30 PM on October 5, 2009.
Robert Greenwald's Rethink Afghanistan brings you jarring images of civilian suffering. Not surprisingly, the NY Times isn't on board.
This past weekend, AlterNet had the privilege of hosting a screening of Robert Greenwald's important new documentary, Rethink Afghanistan, in New York City. It was just one of several screenings to kick off an impressive nationwide campaign by Brave New Films to spread a crucial message about the war in Afghanistan: This is not the "good war" as we have been told by so many for so long. This is a losing battle, and it is costing us dearly: in billions of dollars, in thousands of lives, and in the eyes of the rest of the world.
And of course, it is costing the people of Afghanistan more than anyone. Perhaps one of the most jolting things about watching the film is seeing image after terrible image of civilian suffering: desperate families mired in refugee camps, pain-stricken schoolgirls attacked with acid by the resurgent Taliban, countless injured men, women and children who are the "collateral damage" from errant U.S. bomb strikes. It is a punch-to-the-gut reminder of just how sanitized this war -- which Obama has always called the "right front" of the so-called war on terror -- has been.
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