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The administration's stated reason for the changes is to simplify the sale of weapons to U.S. allies, but potential spinoffs include generating business for the U.S. defense industry, creating jobs and contributing to Obama's drive to double U.S. exports by 2015.

This is why we remain in Afghanistan and Iraq. Because our government is ruled by big business. The people need to stand up and take our rights back. Big business does not need help. Big banks do not need help. Try to get a loan for your house our your business. Good Luck!

Yesterday the US House of Representatives failed to represent the majority of Americans who believe we should end the US led military occupation of Afghanistan and close the open ended military commitment to the second most corrupt government on earth. Instead, the US government will borrow an additional $33 billion to fuel the growing escalation of US military forces in the longest war in the history of the United States.

Americans, WAKE UP, are you all stupid morons? The very people that you voted for to represent you are not doing it. They are clearly listening to someone else. Throw the crooks out. Don't give them any more votes. Sure the WikiLeaks is more proof that the war is a big mistake, but really, did you need more evidence that it is a stuped, immoral war? We need to get out and get out now. Use the money we will save to help the many people in the US that need it. Funding this war only puts money in the pockets of the Big Businesses that profit from the expenditure of our tax dollars on their products. No wonder so many people around the world think the US is crazy. We are acting that way.

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says that US forces in Afghanistan are carrying out what he referred to as "battlefield executions" of prisoners.

"One of the great tragedies of my country is that Mr. Obama is looking the other way, because equally horrible things are happening to prisoners, to those we capture in Afghanistan," Hersh said during a discussion at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference last month in Geneva, where he was also the keynote speaker. "They're being executed on the battlefield."

Hersh, who broke the Abu Ghraib prison abuse story in 2004, says that five or six people had told him about the battlefield executions of prisoners. A video of his comments was uploaded to Michael Moore's YouTube Channel on Tuesday.

Every american citizen has to be aware of what is happening in Afghanistan today. We are killing innocent people. We are spending Billions Of Dollars every day. The result is simple: The muslim world sees us as the enemy and this helps the terrorists recruit members. The US has the opportunity to take a leadership position to mend the division in the world. We have no place in Afghanistan. We need to come home now and fix our problems here. God knows, there are plenty!