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Karzai joins the critics bandwagon
riem 2 Reviews 2876 reads
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With the taliban rearing its ugly head again in afghanistan even our installed president karzai has joined the chorus of critics of how poorly the war on terror is conducted.Interesting how we're all occupied with iraq while our first conquest may have to be reconquered again. I wonder if the lack of interest in afghanistan is lack of natural resources or not much profit there for Halliburton?

This happened a couple of years ago. I believe the mission was called "Anaconda". The Taliban get a little bold so we let them assemble and then we KILL THEM.  

Kerzai let most of the Taliban out of prison when he took over.  He thought this sign of good will would convert these 12th century thugs into good citizens.  

Our biggest problem is we seem to liberate people who are very easily conquered.

The attack on a convoy happened a few days ago, a few GIs killed too...and you say "we let them assemble and then we KILL THEM"?...Today's news is even weirder: a secret CIA plan dealing with Al Qaida & taliban leadership and where they are supposedly hiding(Pakistan) was found and BOUGHT by ABC news in an afghan market....strange how you can conclude that the war on terrorism is being prosecuted effectively.

everytime two soldiers are killed during A WAR you're ready to wave the white flag.  This isn't Somalia and this isn't Clinton.  No more "Paper Tiger".

only chicken hawks.  Let's hear your sound effects.

anyone who is for US troops being deployed into harms way have to have first served? might wanna pass that info along to all the fans here of the drft dodging Road Apple scholar. do we ameand the constitution or are you ruling by fiat?

pass your sign up sheet to hillary, word is she wants to be CIC. i know you want her to notch  a few KIA's first, right?

or is this just a way for you to silence dissenting opinion?

Bush Whacker2024 reads

Crap, your Bush sycophants have  been trying to squelch dissent for 6 years now, and when it starts happening to YOU, you start whining like a pig.


LOLOL


If the Bush apologists and sycophants would actually treat people like they would want to be treated they wouldn't have this problem.

Now maybe TMT can help in providing an exact description of your flawed logic but suffice to say that because "someone else did something to me, therefore I'm justified in doing this to you" is clearly erronous logic.

LOLOL x 2

it might help if anybody who advocates something knows what they're talking about?  

Or has some credibility, ie, did not personally have other prirorities when Uncle Sam wanted them, and did in fact know where they were for drills, instead of paying people to snipe at somebody else's honorable record?  

(I cannot believe that the Repubs, who generally and specifically are chickenhawks like Limblob, and gasbags like Coulter, would set their own people on McCain and Kerry alike, whose records they can only envy.  The reason is because the Repubs collectively have no shame, and they rely on the belief that they can keep themselves above the law.)

Shooting at people, or getting shot at, is not something to be done lightly, or without thought.  However, the current crop of politicians do exactly that.   Maybe we SHOULD have a constitutional amendment requiring anybody who signs to send a man into a combat zone first has to successfully complete boot camp.  Sort of a term limits, desperate appeal for common sense provision.

Unfortunately, we don't get a good selection of politicians, IMHO because of the polarization of politics, which I would lay at the door of the religious right more than anybody else - although there have been groups on the left who are excused only because of their general ineffectiveness, ie, they can't pass the laugh test.

Comparing the draft dodging Clinton to the draft dodging Bush, there are a couple distinctions.  1st, Democrats don't run on a platform of purity; they run on a platform of perversion.  Everybody knows up front that the Democrats are pathetic pervs.   Many of the Repubs actually believe they are pure, and they do their damnedest to convince others they are - when actually, they are a much higher grade of pervert (and liars to boot) than the Dems.   It's the hypocrisy that frosts my ass, because it's much harder to deal with.

So you get Democrats who actually put in time, like Murtha & Kerry.  Find me a Republican who did.  McCain is disqualified, because you folks have already disinherited him as a RINO.  Of course Cheney is the classic.

One of the things I really admire about Republicans is their insistence on gratuitous shit, like referring to Rhodes as "Road Apple", as if it were even relevant to the discussion.   After a while, we learn this is the way this level of person communicates, by gratuitous mud-slinging, and if you want to deal with them, you have to give your customer what he wants, because that's all he understands.  Just another example of how Gresham's law operates.

No, I wouldn't support Hillary, because she doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of uniting the country.   Yeah, the women's libbers need to make up their mind, they can't have it both ways.

Who's silencing dissenting opinion?   Are we hurting your feelings by demonstrating your logical weaknesses?   Again, the Republican hypocrisy gags me - they're such tough guys, until somebody disagrees with them, then they get out their hankies and bawl just like little girls, I mean Democrats.

Get it together, will ya?

in 04 AFTER the Iraq deployment was in fullswing went something like Bush 80% Kerry 20%, it would seem you should be telling his critics to STFU.

figure it out, then get back to me...

suppressed hundreds of military votes in FL during 2000.  I wonder why he would assume that the military wouldn't vote for him?  Hmmmm?

Sean Hannity1902 reads

out of your ass better than I ever could.

My suggestion has been crystal clear, that politicians should not ask others to do what they won't.

Figure it out, and get back to me.

My suggestion has been crystal clear, that politicians should not ask others to do what they won't

bullshit, why then are you posting sign up sheets to civis on this board.

answer the question, or better yet, dont

but once, just once, say "death, what do you guys know about death?"
It's my favortive Sgt Barnes monent


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