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Mandatory Wednesday Malloy Truthseekers check in!! Mission Accomplished Yet? & a new Kitty gif
Call the program LIVE 9PM - midnight ET 877-99Malloy - New Number
These 3 stations say they have Mike on from 9pm to midnight eastern & It seems as though these 3 links work
http://radiotime.com/station/s_45192/KTLK_1150.aspx KTLK delays Mike for a couple of hours! http://www.green960.com/main.html < from 1am to 3am I think http://themic921.com/main.html <12am to 3am central time? http://www.mikemalloy.com / http://www.sirius.com/siriusleft http://stream.am950ktnf.com:8000/listen.pls
These stations Have Mike on from 9pm to midnight Pacific- http://www.am1090seattle.com /
& Here's Mike's station list- http://www.mikemalloy.com/stations / Here's another listing for stations that have Mike Malloy on- http://tunein.com/radio/options/The-Mike-Malloy-Show-p20459/
Here's the Malloy stream link- http://www.mikemalloy.com/members/member.php
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An Important Message
Hi Truthseekers, Mike Malloy here.
We want to thank you all for your incredible show of support of our independent broadcasting efforts these three years we’ve been out on our own. It hasn’t been easy, but we’ve managed to survive without a parent network and the kind of infrastructure other radio programs enjoy, and that’s because we have a secret weapon – listeners like you who appreciate the unvarnished, uncompromised truth.
But now more than ever we need your help.
Progressive talk, especially the take-no-prisoners presentation I bring, comes with a cost. In simple terms, there are powerful forces out there who have targeted this program for destruction and without your assistance, they will win. If it is possible for you to sponsor an hour of the program, or purchase or donate a podcast, or make a paypal donation, it could make it possible for us to keep that fire lit a little bit longer. The stakes have never been higher for this program,
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http://www.mikemalloy.com/2012/05/mission-accomplished-yet/
Mission Accomplished Yet?
Written on May 2, 2012
No propagandized photo shoots on aircraft carriers or staged images of little Afghan girls going to school will ever demonstrate that the Bush Crime Family’s ill-defined mission in Afghanistan was accomplished.
Now the inheritor of that hot mess, President Obama, is stuck with a no-win situation in Afghanistan, a nation that no invading force in 5,000 years of history has ever successfully conquered or occupied. His Liberal supporters want us out of that bloody theater immediately, while those to the right demand the US remain in this masterful disaster created by the Bush Crime Family indefinitely.
Despite the President’s determined tone and forceful speech from Kabul, critics on both sides remain disgruntled with the lack of progress, despite the killing of bin Laden this time last year. The Neocons aren’t happy about that, either. About half of them claim – mysteriously – that is is somehow a victory for the Bush administration and the other say it took Obama too long to do it and/or it wasn’t a necessary action anymore. If the President mentions troop withdrawal, it’s either too late for some or too soon for others. The political war is as un-winnable as the battle on the ground.
The speech had little calming effect on the streets, either, with fresh violence erupting hours after the President’s departure. The LA Times reports:
A team of burka-clad bombers and gunmen stormed a heavily guarded residential compound used mainly by Western contractors early Wednesday, killing seven people, including a carload of Afghan passersby and a student on his way to school, officials said. All four attackers died as well. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, and described it as signaling disgust and anger at a surprise overnight visit by President Obama, who had departed the country shortly before the first heavy explosion echoed across the city.
The President has sent mixed messages about the war from the beginning. On the campaign trail he vowed, convincingly, to remove our troops from Afghanistan early in his Presidency. He reiterated his promise to end that war “in 18 months” after his election in 2009. His message of troop draw-down hasn’t changed, but the timeline is more vague, with no definite timeline for troop pull out, and a new stated commitment to leave troops there until “at least 2024? as part of a U.S.-Afghan “Strategic Partnership Agreement.”
Richard Haass, writing for the Huffington Post, explains it this way:
The bigger question over the president’s speech is not that some U.S. forces are to stay in Afghanistan — U.S. forces have remained in other hot spots for decades and played a useful role — but centers on the purpose and scale of the ongoing commitment. Mr. Obama put forward two rationales. The first is that absent this effort, “al-Qaeda could establish itself once more” inside the country. This is of course true. But it could regroup in Afghanistan even with this effort. More important, it is not clear how this possibility would distinguish Afghanistan from, say, Yemen or Somalia or Nigeria. The global effort against terror is just that — global — and there is no reason for the effort in Afghanistan to be large. It is not the central battleground in a struggle against an enemy with access to dozens of countries.
All of which takes us to the second rationale for the announced policy: to “finish the job we started n Afghanistan and end this war responsibly.” But past sacrifice is a poor justification for continued sacrifice unless it is warranted. The truth is that while the United Sates still has interests in Afghanistan, none of them, other than opposing al-Qaeda, rise to the level of vital. And this vital interest can be addressed with a modest commitment of troops and dollars.
No matter the final withdrawal plan or eventual level of troop commitment, there is no question that entire devastating and pointless act of war has been a disaster of epic proportions, from the human lives lost, to the billions of tax dollars squandered, the damage to our global reputation resulting from scandals like Abu Graib, and the utter failure to accomplish anything there other than economic damage and mass death on both sides.
Or was that the mission all along?
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We're all hanging in there, thanks! Big
s for you and my fuzzy buddy Crook! Please give him lots of ear scratches and tummy rubs from me and the NJ catz! 
How are you, Mr. pig and the fuzzies doing tonight? Big
s and lots of ear scratches and tummy rubs for everybody from me and the NJ catz!Sorry, but it's hard for me to read text anymore. Lots of typos in my posts & lots of edits.
Blagh. There isn't enough box wine in the world.
Happy almost Cinco de Mayo!
Hi ralps. Hello Everyone.
