Why Don't ...Repug POTUS Candidates Want to Leave Afghan?

[elleng]

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/03/at_least_one_gop_presidential.html

[Historic NY]

1. That will change once the military industrial complex sends him some cash.

[txlibdem]

2. Yummy pallets with piles of cash... too tempting

I heard yesterday that one of the Iraqi foreign ministers declared (on the official declaration forms we all have to fill out) that he carried on his person US $64 million in cash. He legally declared it so they did nothing about it. Where did that cash end up at? A Swiss bank or a numbered account in the Caymans? Or a cave on the border with Pakistan? Who knows???

The flights with unaccounted for pallets full of cash that fuel the bribes and fund the wars are a shameful example.

[OwnedByFerrets]

3. Military Industrial Complex.....I suppose its

more profitable than building things that arent engineered to kill things.

[bemildred]

4. They don't care about anything but keeping their jobs and playing the bigshot. nt

[PurityOfEssence]

5. Quoth George Carlin: "Pull out? Doesn't sound manly to me. I say we keep it in there and get

the job done. After all, that IS what we're doing to that country..."

(About Vietnam, from "Class Clown".)

[yurbud]

6. a pipeline carrying oil from Caspian basin through Afghanistan to Pakistan & India

TAPI pipeline:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Afghanistan_Pipeline

Part of why we are perpetually pissed off at Iran is they can offer competing routes, denying US backed companies of a monopoly:
http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2009/08/war-on-terror-shift-to-pakistan-over.html

I'm sure Wall Street likes having a piece of the opium action too:
http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2009/02/were-fighting-to-hold-afghanistan.html

[elleng]

7. I expect there's a lot of truth in what you say; nothing like a pipeline!

[old mark]

8. Money. nt