Platform against the war in Afghanistan in Burgos Greetings. We inform that we have created a platform Burgos against the war in Afghanistan Internationalist Solidarity Initiative consists of Burgos, Burgos Anti-Capitalist Left, and the Communist Party of Spain from Burgos.
not be ruled out that more accessions.
incluyéseis We would like you in your list of accessions as Internationalist Solidarity Initiative Burgos, Burgos Anti-Capitalist Left, and the Communist Party of Spain from Burgos. Also
send you a statement signed by the 3 organizations if you want to publish on the web. We have already made in our own and we've sent to the press (to see if we are lucky and we publish something.)
A greeting and thank you very much.
troops out of Afghanistan! The current Afghan war will last and that of Vietnam.
are maintained about 90 000 soldiers, 50 000 of them American, English and 1579. Died about 2000 soldiers, of which 92 are English. The number of low occupancy has increased, with 60 deaths in 2004, 131 2005, 191 in 2006, 232 in 2007, 295 in 2008, 521 in 2009 and so far in 2010 and are on 340.
Not to mention the number of civilian casualties ranging between 11 000 and 31 000 so far this war.
few days ago replaced the commander McChrystal Obama criticizes this policy in Afghanistan. Commander Petraeus, substitute McChrystal, said that "the war in Afghanistan is at a critical time."
also just met the filtration of 90 000 documents related to the war in Afghanistan where it is recognized that the war is going worse than shown on television, as well as civilians killed by NATO are much higher it is recognized.
Something like what happened to so-called "Pentagon Papers" that showed the true hardships of war Vietnam.
This shows that this war is far from won.
Thus, the participating countries are forced to increase their troops, with the costs involved especially in a situation of economic crisis. In fact, last Wednesday the U.S. Congress approved spending U.S. $ 33 000 million to Afghanistan.
From all this it is also responsible for the English Government, which is still taking us out of Iraq, to \u200b\u200bqualify as an illegal war, illegal and unjust, increase troops in Afghanistan, although as Iraq war is also illegal, illegitimate and unfair.
The same things that had to get out of Iraq there are to get out of Afghanistan.
After coming to power of Zapatero, Spain had 485 soldiers in Afghanistan. In July 2004, expanded to 540. In May of 2006 to 690. In May of 2008 to 780. In September of 2009 to 1000. There are currently 1579. These figures show how, instead of going to progress toward a withdrawal of occupation forces, they have increased. It is noteworthy that since Obama came to power, Zapatero has increased by 2 the number of troops.
By participating in the occupation, the English government seeks to improve its image in NATO and the G20.
English troops and the rest of NATO are responsible for one third of killings of civilians.
According to data provided by UNAMA, the UN mission in Afghanistan, 44.2% of the children who lost their lives in the country last year did so in actions attributable to Allied forces against the Taliban insurgency country.
Even President Karzai came to the White House to request the cessation of bombing after they died over a hundred civilians in 2 villages that were targets of attacks.
also created problems for Germany, for an air operation conducted by the army killed some 90 civilians. The German Chief of Staff had to resign for withholding information on the event.
To make matters worse, the current strategy of U.S. and NATO is expanding the war to Pakistan. This implies a serious risk of destabilizing a country that, with the support of Western powers, has nuclear weapons. We
leaving Spain for NATO and the dissolution of this, plus the dismantling of U.S. military bases on English soil.
The occupation is fighting terrorism, but encourages it because it increases hatred that feed the armed groups.
War in Afghanistan is an episode of the struggle between Western countries to dominate the Middle East, both in terms of geopolitics, and because of its natural resources, especially energy.
In fact, before the invasion, Unocal, U.S. oil, had tried to build a pipeline to transport natural gas from a giant oil field in Turkmenistan through Afghan territory to reach the Indian Ocean. The project was halted in 1998 but recovered after the invasion.
This is a clear example of the West's energy interests in Afghanistan.
has not brought democracy to Afghanistan. Karzai's current administration is accused of corruption and incompetence, even by U.S. authorities who installed.
The democracy in the country is a farce: the recent elections were universally recognized as fraudulent, but continues as President Karzai.
has not been freed Afghan women: Karzai has even passed a law by which men can rape their wives.
8 in 10 women suffer domestic violence and 60% are forced into marriage before age 18, according to UN data. It is impossible to convict anyone for rape, the judge released the accused after paying a bribe. Afghan women have little access to education in rural areas live in extreme poverty.
can not leave without the permission of her husband. 85% of women are illiterate, in the case of men the percentage is 50%. 95% of girls who start do not finish primary school.
Parliament has 64 MPs, representing 25%, but can barely speak or intervene in the laws.
Things have not changed since they left the Taliban and the country was occupied by foreign troops.
The country needs much reconstruction, but it will not come from armies, missiles and tanks, but from the hand of civilian forces, mainly the country. Now, the "reconstruction" is multimillion dollar contracts to foreign companies in exchange for road projects, schools, etc. many sometimes do not stop, or do not work when completed. With the military occupation are enriching some U.S. companies, but the Afghan people is worse than ever.
The crack of capitalism in its meat are suffering people throughout the world, but not the military machine. In Spain, the army and war industry are greased in 2010 with over 18,000 million euros of public money.
The New York Times, Afghanistan is the largest importer of U.S. arms and therefore the world. 93 out of 100 euros for Spain and Afghanistan is the world military spending, and the remaining 7 follows a military logic.
We urge the government to cancel the sending of troops, and to immediately withdraw troops currently involved in the Afghanistan war.
The only solution is to end the occupation. We say that a withdrawal would produce more conflict, but Afghanistan has suffered nearly 30 years of war due to foreign intervention. It is time to allow the Afghan people to decide their own future without interference, and rigged elections, if support from the international responsibility and civil restitution of all the damage done.
We give our solidarity to the Afghan people so that they can lift their country without occupation, without the Lords drug war and that it entails.
troops out of Afghanistan!
Internationalist Solidarity Initiative Burgos, Burgos Anti-Capitalist Left, and the Communist Party of Spain from Burgos August 2010
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