Frist to Soldiers who died in Afghanistan - "You Died in Vain"

[Scriptor Ignotus]

AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:grr: :grr: :grr: :wtf:

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/10/02/383378-frist-taliban-should-be-in-afghan-govt

QALAT, AFGHANISTAN — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan war against Taliban guerrillas can never be won militarily and urged support for efforts to bring "people who call themselves Taliban" and their allies into the government.

The Tennessee Republican said he learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support to be defeated on the battlefield.

"You need to bring them into a more transparent type of government," Frist said during a brief visit to a U.S. and Romanian military base in the southern Taliban stronghold of Qalat. "And if that's accomplished, we'll be successful."

[central scrutinizer]

1. I think Halliburton would disagree

As would Kellogg and Root and all of the other war profiteers. How could it be in vain when they were able to secure no-bid, no-oversight contracts and post some of the best quarters their bottom line has ever seen.

[havocmom]

3. Frist and the rest of the rubber stamp GOP turn troops into profits

Blood into money

[Scriptor Ignotus]

4. their profits really soared

during the Iraq debacle. They needed to "nation-build" in order to get those fatty no-bid contracts. I don't think they would have made as much money had we just stayed in Afghanistan.

[Amonester]

6. "Find me a way to do this." (this=invade Iraq: enrich have-mores

using the lower-classes' family members, the working taxpayers' national credit line, and hundreds of thousands innocent victims, many times using torture).



They failed at everything EXCEPT getting themselves and their cronies a lot richer, and everybody else either poorer, maimed, or even just dead. :grr:

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. Bushco has always liked the Taliban - they gave them $43 million

just weeks before 9/11 - they approved of the way they dealt with foreign religious idols, their reliance on faith-based organizations. That's why they abandoned the fight against them so quickly, and let OBL off the hook at Tora Bora. They had a few differences with them, but now that Afghanistan is back in full opium production, they can talk about them like civilized theocrats.

[bklyncowgirl]

5. If the Democrats can't take this and run with it...

They deserve to lose bigtime.

[Scriptor Ignotus]

8. exactly

Bush's big line is that if we withdraw (or cut and run, whatever) from Iraq all those lives will have been lost in vain. Well, looks like Frist is just fine with doing that in Afghanistan.

Oh, wait a sec, wasn't the Taliban the stone-age theocratic govt that provided sanctuary to Bin Laden? Oh, wait a sec, wasn't Bin Laden the leader of Al Qaeda, that group that orchestrated the 9/11 attacks?
Oh, wait a sec, wasn't Afghanistan our response to 9/11?

So Frist wants to surrender to the Taliban, the ones basically responsible for 9/11? What happened to "hard work"? What happened to fighting the WOT on many fronts?

Ummmmm, why are we in Iraq again?

[lwcon]

7. Unlike with Terri Schiavo...

... he paid a house call, so he might actually be right about this.

But, really, who could have anticipated that diverting our troops to Iraq for no apparent reason might cause us to lose the peace in Afghanistan? Man, these guys just can't catch a break.

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[Scriptor Ignotus]

9. other links to this story:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-goldstein/bill-frists-gop-the-pa_b_30795.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-clemons/bill-frist-offers-olive-b_b_30822.html

[zulchzulu]

10. So Frist admits he's "pro-Taliban"? Kewl!!!

Hang that around his neck pronto. Frist is toast.