Afghanistan, the - good war?'

"Americans are coming out of the worst financial recession in a generation, as we're spending billions of dollars to back up Afghanistan's one percent, you know, many Americans are against that, scratching their heads--why are we spending $2 billion a week on this conflict, again, with no appreciable benefit?" she said.

[Colorado Chick]

The statement above in the title said it all..HOW can it NOT be a bad war..WHEN Americans are pumping their hard earned bucks into it..allowing for whatever they are spending the $2 billion on..WHILE decent jobs are scarce here. So yeah, it is a "Good War", cuz we are helping their economy WHILE our own suffers..

[Jeff Brightone]

Clearly, the Mozlem Brother sympathizer Obama who treats the Taliban terrorists that kill our US troops as freedom fighters for the spread of Shariya laws keeps using his state liberal media with lies about killing #2 ‘Libi’ that are being sold by the NY Times and AP to the American people for the Obama re-election campaign. However, the Obama’s lies are discovered time and again including his claim that he was born in Kenya to Mozlem Brother communist father and was raised in Indonesia where he became Indonesia national thanks to his stepfather. While there are only few al Qaida terrorists in Afghanistan, Obama claimed using drone to kill #2 of al Qaida based on “official” and talking to Afghans villager on the ground that saw damaged house and car. Clearly, Obama stopped using the CIA interrogations and he does not enjoy the cooperation of Pakistan on the ground. The leaking top secrets by the Obama regime about Obama’s daily killing list using drones is unconstitutional and anti-American type of brutality from the skies. Will US Congress stand up to find the leaker of top secrets even if he is Obama himself and demand his impeachment?

[rider]

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Rex 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984, was a secretive "scenario and drill" developed by the United States federal government to suspend the United States Constitution, declare martial law, place military commanders in charge of state and local governments, and detain large numbers of American citizens who are deemed to be "national security threats", in the event that the President declares a "State of Domestic National Emergency". The plan states events causing such a declaration would be widespread U.S. opposition to a U.S. military invasion abroad, such as if the United States were to directly invade Central America.[1][2][3][4][5][6] To combat what the government perceived as "subversive activities", the plan also authorized the military to direct ordered movements of civilian populations at state and regional levels.[7]

Rex 84 was written by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, who was both National Security Council White House Aide, and NSC liaison to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and John Brinkerhoff, the deputy director of "national preparedness" programs for the FEMA. They patterned the plan on a 1970 report written by FEMA chief Louis Giuffrida, at the Army War College, which proposed the detention of up to 21 million "American Negroes", if there were a black militant uprising in the United States.[1][8] Existence of a master military contingency plan (of which REX-84 was a part), "Garden Plot" and a similar earlier exercise, "Lantern Spike", were originally revealed by journalist Ron Ridenhour, who summarized his findings in an article in CounterSpy.[9]

Transcripts from the Iran-Contra Hearings in 1987 record the following dialogue between Congressman Jack Brooks, Oliver North's attorney Brendan Sullivan and Senator Daniel Inouye, the Democratic Chair of the joint Senate-House Committee:[10]

[Congressman Jack] Brooks: Colonel North, in your work at the N.S.C. were you not assigned, at one time, to work on plans for the continuity of government in the event of a major disaster?
Brendan Sullivan [North's counsel, agitatedly]: Mr. Chairman?

[Senator Daniel] Inouye: I believe that question touches upon a highly sensitive and classified area so may I request that you not touch upon that?

Brooks: I was particularly concerned, Mr. Chairman, because I read in Miami papers, and several others, that there had been a plan developed, by that same agency, a contingency plan in the event of emergency, that would suspend the American constitution. And I was deeply concerned about it and wondered if that was an area in which he had worked. I believe that it was and I wanted to get his confirmation.

Inouye: May I most respectfully request that that matter not be touched upon at this stage. If we wish to get into this, I'm certain arrangements can be made for an executive session.
Exercises similar to Rex 84 happen regularly.[11] For example, from 1967 to 1971 the FBI kept a list of over 100,000 persons to be rounded up as subversive, dubbed the "ADEX" list.[12]

The basic facts about Rex 84 and other contingency planning readiness exercises—and the potential threat they pose to civil liberties if fully implemented in a real operation—are taken seriously by scholars and civil libertarians.[13][broken citation]