“Taliban suicide bombers
By on Jun 16th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
“Taliban suicide bombers
launched a second day of attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least four people in the capital and a northern city, raising tensions in areas that had been considered relatively secure.”
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Go Team Terror!
June 16th, 2007 at 5:15 pmYay, now we can retreat from Afghanistan too.
June 16th, 2007 at 5:26 pmSo according to the Bush Administration, this means were making progress in the Middle East, right?
June 16th, 2007 at 5:45 pmsome interesting reading :
http://www.infowars.com/articles/iraq/shrine_bombing_us_complicit_in_blast.htm
June 16th, 2007 at 5:46 pm#
Yay, now we can retreat from Afghanistan too.
Comment by Nirvision — June 16, 2007 @ 5:26 pm
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Actually, Bush cut and ran from Afghanistan long ago. The problem is, that is where the terrorists actually are. Bush does not want his terrorists friends to get hurt, so he surrendered to them in Afghanistan long ago. That is why he did not like it when Clinton was sending cruise missiles into Afghanistan. Bush was afraid that his friend Bin Laden might get hurt.
June 16th, 2007 at 5:50 pmToday’s violence was brought to you by the letter “B”.
June 16th, 2007 at 5:55 pmB as in Bush, as in bully to the world, as in braggadocio, as in bumpkin, as in befuddled, as in bellicose, as in bucolic, as in belligerent…
Comment by celtic cynic — June 16, 2007 @ 5:55 pm
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The violence in Iraq was brought to you by the letters “C, n, and H” and the number 2.
CnH2n+2
Chemical composition of crude oil.
June 16th, 2007 at 6:03 pmAfghanistan: the war Bush should have won, could have won, but lost. Bush is a failure of historical proportions. He will live out his final days a pathetic, drunk pariah.
June 16th, 2007 at 6:11 pmAnd here you are again, wringing your hands, blaming Bush and crying about how we should just give up and surrender.
June 16th, 2007 at 6:15 pmMeanwhile, back at the Ranch:
Bush warns he’ll use veto power to rein in spending
POSTED: 11:42 a.m. EDT, June 16, 2007
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/16/bush.radio.ap/index.html
Republicans in the House vow to support Bush vetos on any spending bill that exceeds what He requested, beginning with a Department of Homeland Security bill just passed by the House.
So, after 6 years of “tax-cut and off-budget deficit spending” funding Wars in two countries, Bush says he doesn’t want to return to the days of “tax and spend.”
Don’t you wish you, too, could have a blank check to borrow and spend on anything you wanted, leaving it up to your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren (ad infinitum) to pay it off?
June 16th, 2007 at 6:21 pmMAF54 sez:
Surrender to whom?
June 16th, 2007 at 6:27 pmI thought MAF 54 with either “holed up” somewhere, back in Rehab, or soon to be executed??? WTF???
June 16th, 2007 at 6:31 pmBush warns he’ll use veto power to rein in spending
POSTED: 11:42 a.m. EDT, June 16, 2007
Comment by Briseadh na Faire — June 16, 2007 @ 6:21 pm
Correction:
BVSH WARNS HE VILL VSE VETO POVER TO REIGN IN SPENDING SPREE!!!
June 16th, 2007 at 6:35 pmErratum: post #13) should read -
BVSH VARNS HE VILL VSE VETO POVER TO REIGN IN SPENDING SPREE!!!
June 16th, 2007 at 6:36 pmPRIMVS INTER PARES sez:
Either you don’t know how to spell, or you’re trying to be clever.
Either way, it’s not working.
June 16th, 2007 at 6:37 pm#
And here you are again, wringing your hands, blaming Bush and crying about how we should just give up and surrender.
Comment by MAF54 — June 16, 2007 @ 6:15 pm
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Where has anyone said that? Oh, you must be talking about Redstate. Most dems support the war in Afghanistan. Republicans don’t because they love the terrorists and hate the troops. Most republicans go to bed each night jacking off to the swastika and listening to recordings of concentration camps and torture screamings.
June 16th, 2007 at 6:38 pmComment by TripMaster Monkey — June 16, 2007 @ 6:37 pm
Yeah, that’s why I corrected that post with post #14’s Erratum, jackass.
June 16th, 2007 at 6:38 pmPRIMVS INTER PARES sez:
You don’t seem to get it, dolt. Your perceived “error” in post #13 was not the reason I told you it wasn’t working.
June 16th, 2007 at 6:42 pmYou don’t seem to get it, dolt. Your perceived “error†in post #13 was not the reason I told you it wasn’t working.
Comment by TripMaster Monkey — June 16, 2007 @ 6:42 pm
You don’t seem to get.
I don’t give a fukc what you meant, it just so happened that your rude post #15 was most likely written before my post #14 had appeared on your page, and I, being, like you, a jackass, couldn’t resist but to write you a rude message of your very own. YAY!!! We’re both special!!!!!!
June 16th, 2007 at 6:46 pmGermans Want to End Afghan Mission
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – Most people in Germany would support their country’s withdrawal from the main battleground of the war on terrorism, according to a poll by Infratest-Dimap. 54 per cent of respondents think the government should bring back soldiers serving in Afghanistan
June 16th, 2007 at 6:50 pmPRIMVS INTER PARES sez:
First of all, don’t try to flatter yourself. It’s unseemly. You aren’t anything ‘like me’. Not on your best day, Junior.
Second, I know you “can’t resist”. Being a troll, you can’t help yourself. Don’t worry…I forgive you.
June 16th, 2007 at 6:52 pmComment by PRIMATE INTER PARES — June 16, 2007 @ 6:38 pm
Hey, I thought someone said you were a student. You sound like some scolding old harpy grammar school teacher. Why don’t you go outside and start shouting at random people on the sidewalk… That’s where your future lies
June 16th, 2007 at 6:53 pmNATO Image Problem: Civilian Deaths
KABUL, Afghanistan – NATO has an image problem in Afghanistan _ and a U.S. soldier who fired a Humvee’s machine gun into a crowd of civilians after a deadly suicide bombing Saturday shows why.
Despite the Taliban quickly claiming responsibility for the car bomb attack on a U.S. convoy that left four Afghan civilians dead, people on the street became enraged only after American bullets landed in the crowd, killing one and wounding two.
Some 50 to 100 people began chanting “Death to America,” and others jabbed their fingers at Afghan police.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5983112/
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ANOTHER SOURCE
http://english.aljazeera.net/English
Following the attack, foreign soldiers shot dead a civilian and wounded three more, police said.
It was not clear why the US soldiers had fired on the crowd that gathered at the site of the suicide car bombing.
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Time to leave it really is
June 16th, 2007 at 6:55 pmDear Toby,
Your name is Toby!!!
Dear Mr. Monkey,
Well gee, thanx!!! I don’t know what I’d do if you stayed sore at me, golly!!!!!
Dear Trollskinner,
What the fukc are you talking about? I do that already.
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.
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In the words of our Honorable Vice President of the United States of America,
Go Fukc Yourselves,
GAIVS IVLIVS CAESAR OCTAVIANVS AVGVSTVS
June 16th, 2007 at 6:59 pmGo Fukc Yourselves. -PIP
As if thats gonna solve any problems.
June 16th, 2007 at 7:03 pmWow, a few attacks and you guys are all ready to declare Afghanistan lost. Oh by the way we’ve killed two of the Taliban’s top commander’s in the past three months, but of course to comment on that would mean you would have to admit we are doing things right, and you would rather fall on your swords then to admit that. And before you start in on your, “well if you support it so much why don’t you join and fight” I’ve been serving in the Army for the past 5 1/2 years and I’ve been to Afghanistan and Iraq already.
June 16th, 2007 at 7:05 pmI’ve been serving in the Army for the past 5 1/2 years and I’ve been to Afghanistan and Iraq already.
Comment by Chris
Salud.
So whats the answer?
June 16th, 2007 at 7:11 pmEver since Senor PrimateTroll arrived on this thread, it’s gone “bananas”. I can’t make much sense of anything this troll says so it’s time for a good movie. Later, friends!
June 16th, 2007 at 7:14 pmI’ve been serving in the Army for the past 5 1/2 years and I’ve been to Afghanistan and Iraq already
Chris can you not find a job that does not involve killing people in the name of nothingness
WHAT IS THE MISSION ANYWAY
70% of Afghans want the Taliban back – Bin Ladens livin it up somewhere
and your protecting a oil pipeline from the caspian sea
WHAT IS THE MISSION
to put the heat on Iran ??????????
I have the time of day for Afghanis I know some in Goa , But I have no time for pathetic killing machines with no morals
June 16th, 2007 at 7:25 pmtheres so many pretentious morons coming to this site like Chris the killer
June 16th, 2007 at 7:30 pmGhost,
I think the answer is not to overreact when something like this happens. Much like Iraq, this war is going to be won by the people of Afghanistan. They are rejecting the Taliban in their towns and villages much like Iraq’s are rejecting Al Qaida. There was a great special on the Nation Geographic channel about two weeks ago about Special Forces units in Afghanistan. In one scene, over 30 tribal elders, some of them walking for two days to meet us, brought a letter in which they said they are rejecting the Taliban in their villages and were asking us to help them. Insurgencys thrive on being able to have a base within the local populace the move about and conduct attacks. We are doing our best to take away that base in Afghanistan and Iraq.
June 16th, 2007 at 7:31 pmTobey,
I love my job and I have a college degree. It is ignorant to think that everyone who joins the military is doing so because it’s their last resort. I could go into the reasons why I joined, but I think they would be lost on you.
June 16th, 2007 at 7:37 pmChris,
I apologize for not mentioning this sooner, but in all sincerity, thank you for your service to our country.
I believe that you will find that most Americans, including many liberals, support what we’re trying to do in Afghanistan. It’s the war in Iraq that was never necessary and which has caused us to become less safe due to the way in which it was botched from the get-go.
Butu we shouldn’t have outsourced the job of getting bin Laden to a group of people willing to be bribed. Anyone willing to be bribed to do something is willing to be bribed by another person to then not do it. And that’s what happened in Tora Bora.
Continued success in your military career, and may you and your fellow troops all come home safe a soon as possible.
Wayne A. Schneider, frmr SSGT, USAF 1983-88
June 16th, 2007 at 8:53 pm“And here you are again, wringing your hands, blaming Bush and crying about how we should just give up and surrender.”
We surrendered Afghanistan 4 years ago in Tora Bora. We have a token sitting duck force now. Good job righties!!!! You are so good at what you do!!! Oh, no. You aren’t.
June 16th, 2007 at 10:56 pm“Wow, a few attacks and you guys are all ready to declare Afghanistan lost.”
You incredible jack-a$$. What exactly has the Bush administration done to win the war in Afghanistan? You and I both know the answer is nothing.
June 16th, 2007 at 10:59 pmWell no. Because apparently the Bush administration isn’t as stupid as you.
Been a while since we’ve seen an Afghanistan update here.
Long spell waiting out all those media articles about successes in targetting Taliban leadership over there has resulted in a lackluster turnout for the long awaited spring offensive eh TP ?
June 16th, 2007 at 10:59 pmGreat to have some bad news to finally report isn’t it. Phew.
“Well no. Because apparently the Bush administration isn’t as stupid as you.”
That is funny, Kilo. You guys don’t do anything to actually win the war in Afghanistan. As a matter of fact you steal troops from the real war to send to that hell-hole Iraq and now you are saying the Bush administration is intelligent? You righties sure are brainy.
June 16th, 2007 at 11:01 pmWhat’s the problem ?
It’s all the middle east right ? All that geography from the Atlantic through to China.
BTW who is “you guys” ?
June 16th, 2007 at 11:24 pmMy country isn’t even part of NATO when it comes to who is in charge of Afghanistan and can direct troop deployments.
My guys have less influence than Canada over there. LMAO.
Damn those canucks and their mis-managed war!!!!
Don’t you wish you, too, could have a blank check to borrow and spend on anything you wanted, leaving it up to your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren (ad infinitum) to pay it off?
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
Charming, isn’t it?
June 16th, 2007 at 11:25 pmMy guys have less influence than Canada over there. LMAO.
Damn those canucks and their mis-managed war!!!!
Comment by Kilo
OMG, you’re Albanian! Hey, George wants his wristwatch back. No, not Jeff Gannon’s, HIS…
June 16th, 2007 at 11:26 pmWell no. Because apparently the Bush administration isn’t as stupid as you.
Comment by Kilo
Holy Shi-ite!! A rightie on strong hallucenogenics…
June 16th, 2007 at 11:28 pm“My country isn’t even part of NATO when it comes to who is in charge of Afghanistan and can direct troop deployments.
My guys have less influence than Canada over there. LMAO.
Damn those canucks and their mis-managed war!!!!”
Well, if you are going to avoid responsibility for your views you really aren’t worth talking to.
June 16th, 2007 at 11:29 pm“OMG, you’re Albanian! Hey, George wants his wristwatch back. No, not Jeff Gannon’s, HIS”
LOL!!! That made me spit up.
June 16th, 2007 at 11:29 pmLOL!!! That made me spit up.
Comment by JPark
Sorry about that. Hope you weren’t wearing anything good.
June 16th, 2007 at 11:31 pmNo Republic, it is the weekend, wife-beater and shorts :)
June 16th, 2007 at 11:39 pmNo Republic, it is the weekend, wife-beater and shorts :)
Comment by JPark
What, no lobster bib?
June 17th, 2007 at 12:02 amBush has even screwed up Afghanistan and he wants to attack Iran?
June 17th, 2007 at 12:30 amNo lobster bib. I hate seafood.
June 17th, 2007 at 12:41 amPlus lobster is like $868 a pound here in land locked Wisconsin.
June 17th, 2007 at 12:42 amUh no, that would be you. Were’nt you going to correct your assertion that I was somehow linked to policies that dictate the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq ?
My views posted here are that:
1. TP has held off posting any news about the wider Afghanistan conflict until there was a bad anecdote to quote.
2. Afghanistan isn’t in the Middle East.
3. I’m not American or anyone else who comprises a body responsible for managing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I’ll stand by these. As yet you haven’t provided me a need to as they haven’t been challenged.
June 17th, 2007 at 1:32 amKilo, are you stoned? Do you really think the right wants you to know how “well” Afghanistan is going?
June 17th, 2007 at 1:37 amI get it Kilo, you are a hardcore supporter for every f^cking war but you say “Jeez, I am not from the US so I don’t have any responsibility”. No, jackass, your attitude is exactly the reason we have lost two wars in the last few years.
June 17th, 2007 at 1:38 amI am certainly a supporter of the invasion of Afghanistan, as anyone not wanting to look like a complete c**t after 9/11 will probably want to reconsider themselves.
And it is this support for the war in Afghanistan that has led to you losing it you say ?
That doesn’t make any sense under any circumstances.
On the other hand declaring that a counter-insurgency operation is “lost” after 5 years regardless of what is occurring would certainly qualify as something you could “lose it”.
After all you could win it just as easily by declaring it has been won, regardless of what the developments are.
June 17th, 2007 at 2:07 amBased on them dedicating more space to citing reports from Afghanistan than this place ? Well obviously yes.
Am I stoned ? How about you. What message do you interpret about right-wing blogs wanting to report far less news from Iraq than left-wing blogs do ?
That left-wing blogs don’t want you to know what’s going on ? Huh ? Shouldn’t that be the other way around, smacktard ?
Seriously. How smart do you think you look making comments about others being on drugs when you cannot understand very simple concepts being discussed, cannot hold a discussion on any topic you appear to want to and you continually contradict yourself ?
June 17th, 2007 at 2:12 amKilo, look at Afghanistan. How is it going?
June 17th, 2007 at 2:14 amKilo, I am a fool. I should not respond to some dumb-a$$ that has no clue what the world is actually about. My deepest apologies, Goober.
June 17th, 2007 at 2:17 am