Taliban ‘deadlier than ever,’ despite Karzai rhetoric.
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Taliban ‘deadlier than ever,’ despite Karzai rhetoric.
Today in an ABC interview, Afghan President Hamid Karzai stated, “Neither has the U.S. failed, nor the Taliban coming back,” he said. “Al Qaeda is defeated.” But according to The Blotter, “Coalition forces in Afghanistan are fighting a deadlier Taliban than ever, as jihadis returning from Iraq use techniques like suicide bombings and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to challenge NATO forces.”
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YEAH. RIGHT kARZAI, WHATEVER YOU SAY.
April 9th, 2007 at 1:37 pmoops caps sorry
April 9th, 2007 at 1:37 pmBut… but… Clinton! Pelosi! FDR!
April 9th, 2007 at 1:42 pmPerhaps Karzai has been sampling the opium; now plentiful, and easily obtained in Afghanistan under his hapless rule.
April 9th, 2007 at 1:43 pmNot surprising. We have provided in Iraq the greatest training camp ever for terrorists. Thanks, bushco.
April 9th, 2007 at 1:44 pmKarzai worked for the oil giant Exxon prior to being put in charge of Afghanistan.He owes his existence to Bush thus he will say anything to support his master.
April 9th, 2007 at 1:45 pmSo Karazy, if the Taliban is not coming back then who are our forces fighting? Their ghosts?
April 9th, 2007 at 1:45 pmAnother “Mission Accomplished” moment brought to you by the Bush Administration and Big Oil.
Stay Tuned for more.
April 9th, 2007 at 1:54 pmSmart guy Karzai – you defininely don’t want crazy Bush focusing on Afghanistan’s terrorists again. Look at the mess he created in Iraq.
April 9th, 2007 at 1:55 pmAnother “Mission Accomplished†moment brought to you by the Bush Administration and Big Oil.
Stay Tuned for more.
Comment by Bob — April 9, 2007 @ 1:54 pm
hmmm….are you saying that NATO is ran by President Bush?
April 9th, 2007 at 1:59 pmIf al Qaeda is defeated, can we call off the War on Terror? Can we stop torturing people?
April 9th, 2007 at 2:02 pmThings are getting better, we have turned a corner, mission accomplished, they are in their last throes, the surge is working…nothing to see here, move on.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:02 pmYou people are amazing! It’s almost as if you want the enemy to win. These lunatics are never going to go away and if we don’t get them first, they will get us. When are you going to get beyond your 6th grade education and recognize what is going on here?
April 9th, 2007 at 2:03 pmbut….but…..mccain says it’s not. i thought it was no “armor” humvees. and you can walk out and about shop for bread drink tea with the lovely neighbors. not to mention the 500 armed guards and 2 choppers flying above.
they are accomplishing the mission folks.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:04 pmPrior to Bush arming the Afghani jihadis, Afghanistan had a secular society. When the jihadis, with US help, came to power, they morphed into the Taliban. End of secular society and any hope of democracy.
Prior to invading Iraq, Saddam Hussein not wihstanding, there was an educated and secular Iraqi middle class. Now there are jihadis. A lot of them.
I have to assume that this was George Bush’s/neocons ultimate goal. Nobody could “succeed at failing” this spectacularly unless they planned for it.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:04 pmhmmm….are you saying that NATO is ran by President Bush?
Comment by Captain Kirk — April 9, 2007 @ 1:59 pm
Afghanistan was just a political stepping stone to get to Iraq. Bush got Nato in there, then essentially abandonded them to pursue the war to liberate Iraqi oil.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:07 pmTime for Karzai to return to Unocal. He was in place to facilitate the cross country oil pipeline. Bush-loving bootlicker. They are all rotten to the core, war profiteers.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:07 pmhmmm….are you saying that NATO is ran by President Bush?
Comment by Captain Kirk
Bush cant run anything. Come on, you have seen him trying to define sovereignity.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:11 pmHowever, US hawks run NATO, of course. Just ask Russia who had the idea of having a defence system in Ukrania and other bordering countries. Reagan and Gorbachov had a pact, where the Berlin wall would fall but NATO wouldnt threat Russia.
#13…thank you for realizing how amazing we are. The rest of your post is a lie.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:13 pm“#13…thank you for realizing how amazing we are. The rest of your post is a lie.
Comment by Republicans are the fear and smear party — April 9, 2007 @ 2:13 pm”
Mind pointing out the lie?
April 9th, 2007 at 2:18 pm“You people are amazing! It’s almost as if you want the enemy to win. These lunatics are never going to go away and if we don’t get them first, they will get us. ” michael
no one here wants our enemies to win. idiot. pretending our enemies aren’t there aren’t going to make them go away either. idiot. what “we” want is an adminstration that actually does things to fight the “terrists” instead of letting them get away (see tora bora) and doesn’t create more “terrists” in countries where they aint. idiot.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:18 pmWhat amount of pride swallowing is needed to accept the fact that our war of terror on the world has ended in failure? It’s OVER…we lost miserably due to poor leaders (not soldiers), and an unjust cause. Even if all the troops in Iraq were shifted to Afghanistan, it’d get just as bad, if not worse.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:25 pmWe want the Taliban back, say ordinary Afghans
The British Government calls the Taliban “terrorists” and “extremists”, but people in Kandahar associate it with security. Before the 2001 invasion, they say, they could walk the streets safely as long as they complied with the movement’s strict interpretation of Islamic law. Now even a simple outing to the local market is seen as a risk, and the Taliban, established as a response to lawlessness in the 1990s, is gaining fresh strength.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:26 pmmichael,
The enemy is Exxon, BP, etc, so yes I want the freedom fighters to throw out those who wish to steal their natural resources. If our troops are part of this “theft”, by all means they should die as well.
Why aren’t you over there fighting?
April 9th, 2007 at 2:29 pmA Mercyless US Commader is in charge of Nato troops as from 2-3 months ago
we should expect to see many civillians killed with the ruthless US commander of course only adding to the problem that most Afghans want the taliban back in power,
April 9th, 2007 at 2:30 pm#24
April 9th, 2007 at 2:32 pmAmen preacher. I’m actually rooting for the terrorists..ahem, i mean the people DEFENDING THEIR COUNTRY! I want them to destroy pipelines, fuel boats, everything of interest to our government. Be alot better blowing those up than US military. They can take the Blackwater losers and their friends too for all I care.
“no one here wants our enemies to win. idiot. pretending our enemies aren’t there aren’t going to make them go away either. idiot. what “we†want is an adminstration that actually does things to fight the “terrists†instead of letting them get away (see tora bora) and doesn’t create more “terrists†in countries where they aint. idiot.
Comment by bob (not the hacker) — April 9, 2007 @ 2:18 pm”
You don’t want the enemy to win? Then how do you explain some these things that you people found acceptable:
-forcing our government to print more pictures of Abu Grhaib?
-accusing our soldier of terrorizing women in the middle of the night?
-accusing our soldiers of flushing the koran down the toilet?
-comparing our soldiers of being like Nazies?
-revealing intelligence gathering methods?
-revealing some of our secret prisons?
Only a party headed by cowards and traitors would do things like this. Idiot!
April 9th, 2007 at 2:34 pmKarzai acknowledges meetings with Taliban
Afghan President Hamid Karzai acknowledged for the first time yesterday that he has met with Taliban militants in attempts to bring peace to the country, but offered no details of the talks or sign that a serious dialogue is under way.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:36 pmWhen are you going to get beyond your 6th grade education and recognize what is going on here? Comment by michael
You always talk about how smart you are michael, yet you never seem to read anything or acknowledge the fact that OIL fuels terrorism. Everyone is stupid except for michel the king of the question mark.
Sheesh.
In fact, U.S. law does ban virtually all commerce with the rogue nations, but there’s a loophole that G.E., Conoco-Phillips and Halliburton have exploited: The law does not apply to any foreign or offshore subsidiary so long as it is run by non-Americans.
“These three companies, as far as we were concerned, appear to have violated the spirit of the law,†says Thompson. “In the case of Halliburton, as an example, they have an offshore subsidiary in the Cayman Islands. That subsidiary is doing business with Iran.â€
Do you recognize what is going on? We cannot fight terror on the one hand and then allow these companies to fuel it on the other.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:36 pmdoes anybody know the mission in Afghanistan same mission as Iraq ……. theres no mission so until that point ,,, american troops should leave both countries
April 9th, 2007 at 2:39 pmComment by michael — April 9, 2007 @ 2:34 pm
I presume what you say makes some sort of twisted logic in your head. You should recognize that what you are doing is creating straw men, which most people here will ignore, while avoiding the actual topic of discussion. You’re attitude is “win at all costs”, but you don’t even know what you are winning. You think, I suppose that you are “winning” security. The crop that will be harvested from what your leaders have sown is the antithesis of security.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:40 pm26- Iron Chef
I think most liberals/progressives are afraid to call them what they are.. FREEDOM FIGHTERS.
fukc BP, Exxon, Haliburton and the rest of them crooks, the sooner the world has run out of oil, the better for all man kind. And the sooner America runs out, or is forced to discover alternative means of powering our Xbox360’s the better off we are, and we really should do it NOW, while we have oil to build our next infrastructure.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program…
April 9th, 2007 at 2:40 pm-forcing our government to print more pictures of Abu Grhaib?
As if the people in Iraq need pictures to know what goes on there.
-accusing our soldier of terrorizing women in the middle of the night?
As I recall those soldiers were charged with rape and murder of a innocent girl
-accusing our soldiers of flushing the koran down the toilet?
This story is old and irrelavent to the topic at hand.
-comparing our soldiers of being like Nazies?
I haven’t heard of any such a thing, the people here want the troops out of Iraq.
-revealing intelligence gathering methods?
That was debunked some time ago.
-revealing some of our secret prisons?
We should never have secret prisons this is a democracy not a dictatorship.
Really michael go back to reading that garbage the pundits spew and that you swallow daily
April 9th, 2007 at 2:42 pmThen how do you explain some these things that you people found acceptable:
Comment by michael — April 9, 2007 @ 2:34 pm
Anybody who thinks secret prisons are ok, that torture is acceptable, and defends illegal “intelligence” gathering methods, needs to have his head checked.
Anyone who engages in these despicable practices needs to be exposed. There is absolutely no shame in that. Quite the contrary.
michael, you are one blathering idiot.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:43 pmmichael aka Amerikan-Nazi-Party
Why do you condone those tactics in the first place?
Torture, secret prisons, why are you a Nazi sympathizer?
why do you do things which need to be lied to cover up?
Why can’t you treat even the enemy as a human, and prove you are better than they are?
Why do you suck so badly?
April 9th, 2007 at 2:44 pmWow, this is really a celibration of ignorance. I doubt that anyone on this board has talked to an Afghani, there is just assumption. If you were to talk to an Afghani, you would realize that there are really now 2 different Afghanistans.
There are the tribes in the North (Uzbeks, Tajiks, etc.) who will fight the Taliban to the death because they were killed and tortured under the Taliban rule and the Pashtuns in the south who the Taliban are related to. The Taliban are basically the proxy army of the ISI who want control over Afghanistan like they did before. Do you think that the Pakistanis would let the Afghanis have control over their resources? Hah.
The Taliban are about as popular as the Khymer Rouge or the Contras.
Every Year the Taliban say “This year we are going to set Afghanistan on fire, we have 10000 suicide bombers!”, All you ever get from these guys is rhetoric and propoganda. I’m unimpressed.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:44 pmOh, and micheal,
since you’ve now made a statement -please explain to us why secret prisons are ok, and how they are compatible with human rights.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:46 pm“You always talk about how smart you are michael, yet you never seem to read anything or acknowledge the fact that OIL fuels terrorism. Everyone is stupid except for michel the king of the question mark.
Comment by X~B — April 9, 2007 @ 2:36 pm”
First of all I have never claimed how smart I am although reading some of your collective posts it’s easy to see how smart you liberals aren’t! Of course this is about oil. It’s about not letting the terrorists control its flow. I know it’s so much easier for you cowards to blame big oil companies instead of acknowledging that Islam is the problem and if we don’t control them, they will control future generations.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:48 pmmichael, you are one blathering idiot.
Comment by Gregor Samsa
He’s like a tape recorder for inane and irrelavent media pundits.
If I want to hear what Ann Coulter, Limbaugh, Goldberg, Beck, or any pther shill thinks michael I will ‘punch it up’. Quit repeating that crap as if it’s gospel. Sheeshus Cripes O’ Mighty.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:48 pm“Taliban as deadly as ever!” Thats like saying “Sharks deadly as ever!”.
Yea, deadly but managible.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:49 pmOf course this is about oil. It’s about not letting the terrorists control its flow. -michael
Yet thats exactly who they pay off for protection of the pipelines and to allow it to flow.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:52 pmmichael aka NaziDood says:
Islam is the problem
No ignorance is the problem, on both sides, you wacky Christians who kill 600,000, and then wonder why they want to fly planes into buildings. There are extremists on both sides, that’s part of life, but you and the wars you support only create more people wanting to “come here” and harm Americans.
I think most people just want to be left alone to raise their children, and live their way of life.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:53 pmOf course this is about oil.
Comment by michael — April 9, 2007 @ 2:48 pm
Of course we knew. But the Bush administration has denied it time and again. Oh, I forgot, you are ok with the White House lying to you.
It’s about not letting the terrorists control its flow. [...] Islam is the problem and if we don’t control them, they will control future generations.
So, who is the problem -Islam or terrorists? Or are they both the same to you?
What you are saying then is that all Islamic nations need to be controlled, so the US can have access to their oil. I guess stealing is also ok with you.
Lies, and theft: two of the lovely “family values” promoted by the reich-wingers. Two others are torture, and murder.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:54 pmMind pointing out the lie?
Comment by michael — April 9, 2007 @ 2:18 pm
It’s almost as if you want the enemy to win.
LIE noobody wants the enemy to win.
These lunatics are never going to go away and if we don’t get them first, they will get us
FACT “these lunatic are never going away”
LIE “if we don’t get them first”
How are we going to get them first if they are never going away. There is always a new supply of lunatics. Have you looked in the mirror lately.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:55 pmAnd more are created every day so how will we GET them all. So are we supposed to stay in a never ending war until every last lunatic is destroyed. Are you waiting for the Rapture and are in a hurry to see the end of civilization. Then you’re the lunatic that is the most dangerous to this country.
First of all I have never claimed how smart I am although reading some of your collective posts it’s easy to see how smart you liberals aren’t!
I am not a ‘liberal’ in your definition of the word. And yes you always TRY to make yourself seem smarter, which is laughable, by ASSUMING everyone else only has a sixth grade education.
Really you Fanatic CONS are such hypocrites and outright liars.
April 9th, 2007 at 2:55 pmFOXNews.com – Group Plans ‘Terror Free’ Gas Station in Omaha …
It urges Americans to only buy oil products that originate from countries that do not support terrorism. Click here for FOXNews.com’s Energy Center. …
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,245900,00.html
Stop supporting Terror michael. Since you seem to be a Fanatic Lunatic of the FOX Noise society— DO What FOX news tells you to do michael. =)
April 9th, 2007 at 3:02 pmLoony reich-wingers: Tireless advocates of free markets, and letting the “invisible hand” work its magic, until they realise it is easier to send others to kill and die in order to have cheap access to another country’s natural resources.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:05 pmYou people are amazing! It’s almost as if you want the enemy to win. These lunatics are never going to go away and if we don’t get them first, they will get us. When are you going to get beyond your 6th grade education and recognize what is going on here?
Everything in bold is a lie. The part about us being amazing, that’s correct. Amazing: adj causing suprise or wonder esp. because of qaulity or quantity.
Example: Shane is amazing when he/she smacks down the lying trolls who infest this board.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:08 pmYou don’t want the enemy to win? Then how do you explain some these things that you people found acceptable:
You have zero idea what I find acceptable. idiot. you would rather pretend that bush is right than admit you were suckered. lied to. conned and frightened into tearing up the constitution so you can sleep at night. your pride is blinding you to the terrible truth. but don’t worry, us libs will return your constitutional rights as soon as we can. in 2008 we’ll elect a real president who can catch and jail terrorists, just like clinton did. and we’ll know we’ve won the war on terror when you self-rightous republicans spend 80 million dollars looking into the president’s sex life.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:10 pm“michael aka Amerikan-Nazi-Party
Why do you condone those tactics in the first place?
Torture, secret prisons, why are you a Nazi sympathizer?
why do you do things which need to be lied to cover up?
Why can’t you treat even the enemy as a human, and prove you are better than they are?
Why do you suck so badly?
Comment by Xbox360Fan — April 9, 2007″
Torture? I didn’t see any torture did you? I saw a picture of some animal with panties on his head, torture? I saw a picture of someone standing with a hood over him and a wire attached to his finger, torture? I saw a picture of someone with a dog collar attached to him, torture? Treat the enemy as human? The problem is you pinkos have more sympathy for our enemies than you do our soldiers!
April 9th, 2007 at 3:11 pmHowever, Krugman adds, even though “the GOP’s reversion to the Little Lie technique is a symptom of political weakness, of a party reduced to trivial smears because it has nothing else to offer,”
Sounds alot like our king of the question mark: King Michael.
Hehx3
April 9th, 2007 at 3:12 pmnow we’re “pinkos”! you are such a little clown michael. you don’t even know where that phrase came from do you. go back to being jake’s fluffer.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:17 pmTorture? I didn’t see any torture did you? I saw a picture of some animal with panties on his head, torture? I saw a picture of someone standing with a hood over him and a wire attached to his finger, torture? I saw a picture of someone with a dog collar attached to him, torture? Treat the enemy as human? Comment by michael
So now your saying it’s okay to show the abu ghraib pictures?
Seems you have twisted yourself into a knot. Hehx4
April 9th, 2007 at 3:17 pmI know it’s so much easier for you cowards to blame big oil companies instead of acknowledging that Islam is the problem and if we don’t control them, they will control future generations.
Comment by Great White Bwanna—
So you’re ok with US soldiers dying for oil? Isn’t that what you just said?
Your kind of fake concern, the troops could definitely do without.
And if you don’t think it’s torture, let’s meet somewhere, and I will do those things to you, and you can proclaim on camera that it’s no big deal. Bring your own feces, as you will be required to lie in it. I’ve got a neighbor with a viscious Rottwiler that he’ll let me borrow; I’ll bet you don’t last a half-hour.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:22 pmmichael supports the murder of US troops by herr dubyah. Yeah, we all know he supports the enemy and hates US troops…it’s the reich-wing GOPigs. Fact.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:27 pmOnce was a troll named michael
April 9th, 2007 at 3:28 pmhe couldn’t write or spell
pundit speak he would yell
he was of the 101st keyboard class
ran amok showing his chickenhawk ass
listened he to the crowing craniums
and the drug addict on the radio station
I know it’s so much easier for you cowards to blame big oil companies instead of acknowledging that Islam is the problem and if we don’t control them, they will control future generations.
Comment by Great White Bwanna
GWB is quite communist and extremely Nazi-like. He wants to “control” Islam. Wow. How typical of the reich-wing GOpigs.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:29 pmMichael,
so if a terrorist rapes your mother, and films it, we can just call it an educational film showing your father how to please a woman?
you’re still a puss…
April 9th, 2007 at 3:33 pmThe problem is you pinkos have more sympathy for our enemies than you do our soldiers!
Comment by michael — April 9, 2007 @ 3:11 pm
Who is the enemy? Iraqi citizens killing each other in the middle of a civil war is now our enemy? You reich-wing GOPigs insisting our US troops stay in the middle of that civil war is proof that you subhuman filth have ZERO sympathy for our troops.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:33 pmthey will control future generations.
Comment by Great White Bwanna
The Sky is falling great bwanna!
Really do you forget that Britain created the state of Iraq?
Most Americans (and no doubt many around the world) would be astounded to learn that Iraq was created in the interests of British imperialism. And now it will likely split into three smaller states.
April 9th, 2007 at 3:36 pmThe problem is you pinkos have more sympathy for our enemies than you do our soldiers!
Comment by michael
Yet George has spent and lost billions trying to create a nation for these people you call ‘terrorists’. Have you forgotten Michael that it was call Operation Iraqi Freedom?
How are you gonna rationalize the fact that you and your idiotic ilk have purchased a welfare state and that your tax doallrs are being spent on a ‘terrorist’, as you say, country?
Remember democracy in Iraq michael?
April 9th, 2007 at 3:40 pmmichael is really confused. He is calling Iraqi Freedom a war, which was a UN/US police action to enforce debuked WMD claims, and those poor people, those victims that suffered under Saddam terrorists, and yet now he wants to torture those same people again while at the same time giving them billions of dollars in financial aid in an effort to turn Iraq into a democracy and to rebuild the ‘terrorists’ infrastucture.
Do you realize what a twisted and confused hypocrite you are michael? You can’t have it both ways now can you?
April 9th, 2007 at 3:50 pmX~B
Slow down you’re really confusing michael.
———————
michael,
Just say “But Clinton did it too”
April 9th, 2007 at 3:55 pmTreat the enemy as human?
Comment by michael — April 9, 2007 @ 3:11 pm
This is what the Japanese thought of their American prisoners during WWII. It gained them war crimes convictions.
Also, if the pictures of Abu Ghraib are not repugnant and do not depict torture, then what’s the problem with showing them? The fact that these were ordinary Iraqi citizens with nothing to do with the insurgency, let alone terrorism, should not be a problem, should it?
And you still haven’t answered my question: how are secret prisons compatible with a country that claims to respect human rights?
April 9th, 2007 at 4:24 pmTake it away, Hamid Karzai and John McPAIN!!!!!
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(With Apologies to Mr. Harry Belafonte)
April 9th, 2007 at 7:23 pmThe Democrats are using the war on Afghanistan as a wedge issue, claiming that Iraq is the “bad†war, while Afghanistan is the “good†war. It is important to remember that both political parties are parties of global imperialism. The Democrats, as a whole, are not opposed to global imperialism; they merely oppose the war on Iraq because it’s going badly. This is illustrated by the “U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Health and Iraq Accountability Act†passed recently by the house.
April 9th, 2007 at 7:44 pmRegarding Afghanistan, the House bill states that, “The bill significantly increases funding to defeat al Qaeda and terrorists in Afghanistan.†Similar to the Iraq war, the war in Afghanistan is an immoral war initiated under false pretenses. Under the Orwellian title of “Operation Enduring Freedomâ€, over 1,000 tons of depleted uranium weapons (DU) have been used in Afghanistan. (Link: http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2298/) DU is a genetic poison, which poisons indiscriminately. The use of DU runs counter to all mores of civilized behavior, and is illegal under international law. It is difficult to credibly claim that you are liberating the very people whose genetic future you are destroying.
The manufactured pretext for the Afghan war was the removal of the Taliban, who supported Osama bin Laden, and the disruption of al Qaeda terrorist training camps located there. Seymour Hersh, in his New Yorker article entitled “The Getaway†, describes an operation dubbed “the Airlift of Evil’ in which 3-4,000 trapped hardcore Taliban and al Qaeda fighters were airlifted from Kunduz, Afghanistan to Pakistan in November of 2001. This operation was enabled by the U.S. government. Hersh states, “…the Administration ordered the United States Central Command to set up a special air corridor to help insure the safety of the Pakistani rescue flights from Kunduzâ€. (Link: http://www.prisonplanet.com/the_getaway.html ) Needless to say this operation undercuts the very justification for the invasion of Afghanistan and reveals the sham nature of the so-called “war on terrorismâ€. No doubt these are the very Taliban fighters, who have re-entered Afghanistan and who are currently fighting the U.S. troops there.
So what is the purpose of the war on Afghanistan? As previous posters have noted, control of the Central Asian gas and oil fields plays a role. We shouldn’t, however, overlook the importance of the heroin trafficking operations. After petroleum, global narcotics trafficking is easily the number two business on the planet, worth an estimated $900 billion a year. (Link: http://www.acunu.org/millennium/Global_Challenges/chall-12.html). During the 1980’s Reagan/Bush I and the Saudis funded the Afghan mujaheddin in part by setting up a global heroin trafficking operation. According to expert Alfred W. McCoy, “Once the covert war started, opium production in Afghanistan boomed, going from 200 tons in 1981 to 2000 tons by 1991, a tenfold increase.†He further states that Afghanistan and western Pakistan provided, “…sixty percent of the US heroin supply and about 80 percent of Europe’s illicit heroin.†(Link: http://www.derrickjensen.org/mccoy.html) Now we see that, currently, with Bush II in charge, Afghanistan supplies 90% of the world’s heroin and produced a record 5,644 metric tons in 2006. (Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/01/AR2006120101654.html) Quelle coincidence!
Whoops! That should have been a record 5,644 metric tons in 2006 of opium. Mea culpa.
April 9th, 2007 at 7:48 pmThe problem is you pinkos have more sympathy for our enemies than you do our soldiers!
No, Mikey, the problem is your IQ. And the fact that you love it that our soldiers are magnets for violence so you don’t have to worry about anything. Wimp.
April 9th, 2007 at 9:01 pmMission Accomplished, right George?!!
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