you know as well as i do we do not need there oil. we have enough of our own here if we did all the drilling we should be doing. the pentagon is not forcing the islamists to be the thugs that they are. the islamists have an agenda of their own making. you can not blame the pentagon on the islamists stated set of goals and their killing of innocents all over the world. you need to put the blame where it belongs with the islamists. i don't agree with alot of the things the pentagon does either but ya can't blame everything on them .

I most certainly can!

General Wesley Clark: Because I had been through the Pentagon right after 9/11.

About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, "Sir, you've got to come in and talk to me a second." I said, "Well, you're too busy." He said, "No, no." He says, "We've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq." This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, "We're going to war with Iraq? Why?" He said, "I don't know." He said, "I guess they don't know what else to do." So I said, "Well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?" He said, "No, no." He says, "There's nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq." He said, "I guess it's like we don't know what to do about terrorists, but we've got a good military and we can take down governments." And he said, "I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_...

nobody is saying that the pentagon doesn't do their crap but they can not be blamed for what the islamists have been and trying to do around the world. we all know its complicated but we need to put blame where blame belongs. pentagon has its fair share of crap they are accountable for. Islamists are responsible for what they do to.

Photos of U.S. and Afghan Troops Patrolling Poppy Fields June 29, 2012

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Even More Photos of US/NATO Troops Patrolling Opium Poppy Fields in Afghanistan
September 5, 2011

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