Sunday, January 25, 2009

America Continues To Spread Democracy And Hope Around The World

U.S. troops in Iraq kill couple, wound daughter in raid on home

"U.S. forces killed a couple and wounded their 9-year-old daughter during a raid on their home in northern Iraq early Saturday, U.S. military and Iraqi officials said."

Death toll hits 21 in US strikes on Pakistan

Obama’s new foreign policy team prepares escalated bloodletting in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Afghan President: US Forces Killed 16 Civilians

But wait. Didn't the Obama administration just name that well known "peacekeeper" Richard Holbrooke as the US Special Envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan?

"A little known chapter in Holbrooke's career in the US government is his complicity in Indonesia's campaign of genocide against East Timor. Holbrooke was head of the State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs during the Carter Administration. On December 7, 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor, which it continues to occupy today, killing over 200,000 Timorese in the process, approximately 1/3 of the pre-invasion population."

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