Summary: The War in Afghanistan: Week of March 14

4 New Items including:

  • Literally: We Can't Afford Afghanistan or Our Military Industrial Complex, If We Want to Advance as a Nation
  • Mainstream Press Ignores Monumental House Debate on Afghan War

David Culver, ed., Evergreene Digest

Paul Szep

Read Huffington Post's Afghanistan Big News Page, Huffington Post
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Thomas Sklarski
Some News So Big It Needs It's Own Page

Literally: We Can't Afford Afghanistan or Our Military Industrial Complex, If We Want to Advance as a Nation, Peter G. Cohen, BuzzFlash.com

  • The way to stop this endless war, this endless brutalizing of their people and ours, this endless drain of borrowed money  and missed opportunities, is to stop funding the war.
  • Cost of War is budgetary "Elephant in the Room"
  • Poverty is hitting the suburbs with more sting

Mainstream Press Ignores Monumental House Debate on Afghan War, Normon Solomon, Media Channel
U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy has a withering assessment of news media coverage: ‘despicable.’ The Democrat says reporters are focusing ‘24/7′ on sexual harassment allegations against a New York lawmaker while ignoring the war in Afghanistan.

Mark Your Calendars for Saturday, March 20th, Leaflet issued by Iraq Peace Action Coalition

  • Out of Afghanistan and Iraq
  • Bring the Troops Home Now