Combat veterans are lobbying Congress against Afghan surge - video

These veterans are not lobbying for profit; they are men who have returned from the Afghanistan battlefield, and know a thing or two about the front lines. They are making themselves heard in the halls of Congress, hoping to sway the opinion of Republicans in favor of a 'troop surge'.

One of the men who agrees with them is Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who is against any type of surge in Afghanistan. He has reminders in the etageres of his office by way of photographs: he fought alongside the mujahideen thirty years ago, when the US was training the Taliban to repel the Russians from the very same country.

It is anticipated that President Obama will be announcing a troop surge on Tuesday in his national address; these men see a different picture however. It is no longer about those who attacked us on 9/11, but more about nation building and paying large sums of money to the enemy (as we did in Iraq) to buy their loyalties. They call themselves war insurgents, and don't want to see any more of their comrades die.

Interestingly, we are seeing more headlines indicating that al-Qaeda is regrouping in the Yemen area, as well as other havens in North Africa. An article in OpEdNews by Sherwood Ross suggests that once again, this war is all about oil.

Source:examiner.com