“Five years after the fall of the Taliban,
By on Dec 3rd, 2006 at 9:25 pm
“Five years after the fall of the Taliban,
a joint report by the Pentagon and the State Department has found that the American-trained police force in Afghanistan is largely incapable of carrying out routine law enforcement work, and that managers of the $1.1 billion training program cannot say how many officers are actually on duty or where thousands of trucks and other equipment issued to police units have gone.”
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“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 – 1945), Speech, September 22, 1936
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:38 pm—George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)
Your tax dollars at work!
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:38 pmmission accomplished
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:39 pmAnother f..kup US style.Courtesy of GW Bush.
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:43 pmAnother Bushite failure.
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:45 pmFubar Mission Accomplished.
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:48 pmAnother Cluster F*ck brought to you by your NeoCon Leaders.
That story was hard to read through, it was so bad.
When are we going to get rid of this nightmare?
December 3rd, 2006 at 10:11 pm‘Mission Accomplished’…or “Gone With The Trucks”..!!
December 3rd, 2006 at 10:13 pmAmerican-trained police force in Afghanistan is largely incapable of carrying out routine law enforcement work…
And we expect Iraq to be different how?
December 3rd, 2006 at 10:18 pmThere is no mystery here. The trucks and other equipment have gone to the bushco members in charge of the record heroin production. How else were they to get the stuff to market? All of you that claim that King George the Dumb was a business failure should recalculate your decision making processes. He has orchestrated the biggest business coup of recent times. He has taken the minor illegal heroin production business in Afghanistan from a small pain in the posterior portions of the world to a major money making operation. And all of this accomplished by using only your money and mine. Talk about a profit margin! Fortunately I can advocate impeachment for the sorry son of a bitch while, unfortunately, I cannot shoot him and save us all a lot of expense. However, I will delight in sending him. or his designated driver, an E-Mail each week celebrating his stay in Leavenworth. There is Justice in this World after all!
December 3rd, 2006 at 10:20 pmDon,
Hi there!
December 3rd, 2006 at 10:29 pmWhy the name change, if I may be so nosy?
Oh, he’ll have a legacy alright!
Worst President Ever!
Sorry, Dubya, No coins. No bills. Just (hopefully) prison time!
December 3rd, 2006 at 10:31 pmHeckuva job!
December 3rd, 2006 at 10:31 pmAnother great success story brought to you by the most incapable collection of mentally challenged citizens turned executive power abusers.
December 3rd, 2006 at 10:37 pmAnyone ever find the missing 9 billion doallars yet?
Then the what was it, 1.73 trillion that Rummy announced was unaccounted for back in………..??
Lots of “loose change” floating around here.
December 3rd, 2006 at 10:38 pmBrought to you by the people that gave you “thousand points of light, stay the course, the new world order, 9/11 changed the world, bring it on, etc.”
What a waste of the only thing Bush did correctly. Take out those harboring the terrorists that attacked us. Too bad that job will go unfinished and half-assed. It could have helped him inthe history books like he wants so badly. Afghanistan will be just another wing in his liebrary with bad lighting, leaky pipes and moth-eaten books.
December 3rd, 2006 at 10:49 pmFive years after we’d scattered them, you mean. They’re mounting a bigger comeback than Newt Gingrich.
Assclowns of the Week is back with a vengeance. In my 52nd edition, George Bush, Dennis Prager, Steve King, the Atlanta Police Dept., Mort Kondracke make the list and much, much more!
Enjoy.
December 3rd, 2006 at 10:57 pmMission Accomplished Redux?? Where’s the grinning ape with the sign behind him?
December 3rd, 2006 at 10:58 pmEverything that man touches is f**ked up.
December 3rd, 2006 at 11:12 pmNo matter how much everyone else regrets the day W was born, when he screws up everything, W always manages to come up from the s**thole smelling like roses, and his bank accounts full.
But, that may end with this presidency – history will record him as the worst human disaster to ever hit the USA.
FUBAR was coined with people like him in mind.
Shock and awe folks,shock and awe.
I`d like to hook that guys nuts up to a 440 outlet.
December 3rd, 2006 at 11:20 pmBush is Bizarro King Midas.
-GSD
December 3rd, 2006 at 11:26 pmAll of you that claim that King George the Dumb was a business failure should recalculate your decision making processes. He has orchestrated the biggest business coup of recent times.
And you think this was the idea of a man who can barely spell cat and finds My Pet Goat puzzling? Maybe we should point fingers to Negroponte, Bush I, Kissinger and Wolfowitz.
December 3rd, 2006 at 11:32 pmAnd teachers who teach girls are tortured and killed. And the poppy crop is record breaking. Bush ought to be ashamed. The war in Afghanistan is a JOKE. Men are dying over there and it’s looked upon as a annoyance. We have accomplished nothing because the Bush administration didn’t think it was legacy fulfilling enough. It wouldn’t provide enough profit. There was no oil.
BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER.
December 3rd, 2006 at 11:37 pmThe only Taliban that have done any falling since 9/10 were about ten of them who somehow hit Towers 1 and 2 in jet liners in spite of the existence of NORAD. Those liners do not travel at anywhere the speed of sound. Since then, the Taliban have been breeding like fleas in a rabbit colony.
December 3rd, 2006 at 11:39 pmJuan C. is exactly right.
Bush Sr. and company are the devil incarnate to be sure.Sr is running this administration through his kid.
Nobody can tell me otherwise.It is like deja vu from Bush sr`s political career.Old home week if you will.
And the gang is all there.They are the terrorists we should fear and depose.
December 3rd, 2006 at 11:58 pmCan someone please hijack this thread?
December 4th, 2006 at 12:28 amIts been a slow sunday. :(
Prosecuting pot at home and subsidizing heroine and opium in Afghanistan.
December 4th, 2006 at 12:34 amNice job.
oh my… late night catching up on my reading before bed…
think this will get on the today show, good morning america?
any nightly news? … so f’d up…
i almost feel guilty for all the laughing and grinning reading the comments of gb’s legacy… but glad for it…
g’nite all…
December 4th, 2006 at 12:35 amSweet dreams regardless. But here it’s not even 8 pm…
December 4th, 2006 at 12:39 amAfghanistan, the CIA, bin Laden, and the Taliban
Aid to the mujahideen, who Reagan praised as “freedom fighters,” increased-
In March 1985, the Reagan administration issued National Security Decision Directive 166,29 a secret plan to escalate covert action in Afghanistan dramatically:
Between 1986 and 1989, the mujahideen were also provided with more than 1,000 state-of-the-art, shoulder-fired Stinger antiaircraft missiles.
By 1987, the annual supply of arms had reached 65,000 tons, and a “ceaseless stream” of CIA and Pentagon officials were
visiting Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) headquarters in Rawalpindi and helping to plan mujahideen operations:
In 1988, with U.S. knowledge, bin Laden created Al Qaeda (The Base): a conglomerate of quasi independent Islamic terrorist cells spread across at least 26 countries,” writes Indian journalist Rahul Bhedi. “Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
In 1994, a new group, the Taliban (Pashtun for “students”), emerged on the scene. Its members came from madrassas set up by the Pakistani government along the border and funded by the U.S., Britain, and the Saudis, where they had received theological indoctrination and military training….”
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Afghanistan/Afghanistan_CIA_Taliban.html
December 4th, 2006 at 5:13 am[...] And also from Think Progress… the “old terrorism” returns… “Five years after the fall of the Taliban, a joint report by the Pentagon and the State Department has found that the American-trained police force in Afghanistan is largely incapable of carrying out routine law enforcement work, and that managers of the $1.1 billion training program cannot say how many officers are actually on duty or where thousands of trucks and other equipment issued to police units have gone. In Afghanistan, the failure has contributed to the explosion in opium production, government corruption and the resurgence of the Taliban. [...]
December 4th, 2006 at 6:28 am“How do you ask a man to be the last to die for a bully’s ego?”- Paul Krugman, Two More Years.
December 4th, 2006 at 7:21 amit doesn’t matter where the trucks and equipment went so long as the money for the equipment went to cronies and contributers.
December 4th, 2006 at 7:35 amrecalling something heard on randi’s show… her plan for leaving iraq:
1. APPOLOGIZE PROFUSELY to the iraqis
2. contractors leave now
3. troops leave now, using some to guard them while doing so
4. leave ALL equipment and tools behind – the iraqis know what to do with it all
(something like that)
December 4th, 2006 at 9:52 am…
i should say, leave equipment behing as PARTIAL PAYMENT to the iraqi people to help rebuild their country…
December 4th, 2006 at 9:53 amThe American trained police force in Afghanistan is trained in part by military, but mostly by a defense contractor, Dyncorp, originally from Irving Texas. Just another get-rich-on-war-profiteering friend of the White House.
December 4th, 2006 at 9:58 amSee “Iraq for Sale.”
Sorry for the repeat post – my posts from yesterday were vanishing, but they’re back today!
December 4th, 2006 at 10:00 am#15 trueblue – should we now start referring to W as WPE?
December 4th, 2006 at 10:38 am41, Katy, Let me add to Randi’s list.
5. Write Iraq a check for $50-$100 Billion and let them fix their country as they see fit. They can put their own citizens to work which may be enticement to reduce the fighting.
6. Prosecute Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and all the neo-cons who pushed the Iraq War/Occupation. This, more than anything else, will impress the Iraqis and the world that America is serious about holding its leaders accountable and reclaiming our leadership position in the world. If we truly want to spread Jeffersonian democracy around the world nothing, absolutely NOTHING, would speak stronger than prosecuting our highest leaders on television before the entire world. Heck, if I were an Iraqi and saw Bush being tried on TV I’d think to myself that that Democracy is one helluva’ political system.
December 4th, 2006 at 10:54 am