Remember bush the Idiot said "the Taleban are no more"? Heh guess what?

[LynnTheDem]

He was a wee bit in error;

02/03/06 agencies: Afghan militants getting sophisticated arms
Al Qaeda and Taliban militants are coordinating attacks on Afghan government troops and foreign forces and using increasingly sophisticated, and deadly, weapons, Afghanistan‘s defense minister said on Friday.
http://www.localnewsleader.com/brocktown/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=136131

Gee, now that the Taleban are no longer our buddies, and in fact they probably really dislike us now...this is a bad thang, right?


02/04/06 Reuters: Afghans flee scene of biggest battle in months
Hundreds of Afghan villagers have fled their homes after the biggest battle in months between Taliban insurgents and U.S. and Afghan government forces, provincial officials said on Saturday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/04/AR2006020400484.html

02/03/06 Aljareera: Taliban attack police convoys
Taliban fighters have launched four attacks on police convoys, killing at least three policemen in the southern Afghan province of Helmand.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9A15859C-8E3C-4897-9D30-297EB7359C88.htm

And a whole bunch more day by day by day of death & destruction at The Forgotten War;
http://www.icasualties.org/oef/

[enigma000]

1. People should know when they are defeated

Of course would you? Would I?

[LynnTheDem]

3. The Taleban & AQ in Afghanistan (& Pakistan) sure don't seem to.

Perhaps bush can tuck his 3 prs of rolled socks back down his nifty military uniform and fly a jet to Afghanistan to show them idiot Taleban & AQ a "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" sign.

That oughta git it through their heads! Worked before. Right? Hello?

[enigma000]

4. Members of the Taliban can self-destruct for the next 20 years

It won't change the the reality on the ground. There will never be an Taliban as the Afghan head of state. Few, if any senior cabinet officials will ever be Taliban. No Taliban will ever be the Afghan ambassador to the UN.

They lost - with or without a photo op of the Shrub.

[LynnTheDem]

5. Hmmm...and yet there's Talaban in the Afghan govt as we type.

As in right now.

Who lost?

[enigma000]

10. So they get a few seats in Parliament

Perhaps even a Taliban governor of a province. Thats about as far as I expect them to go - a second tier political party, like Canada's NDP. Two or three dozen seats at the federal level & a couple of provincial governments.

[LynnTheDem]

13. Heh.

They also have control of 4 provinces and large and growing public support.

So much for "the Taleban are no more".

[leftchick]

2. I remember alright. Does the M$M?

Hell No, they never remember any of his fucking LIES! :grr:

[leesa]

6. Hey, if you were stupid enough to believe that a tactic, 'terrorism' used

for millenniums by peoples under occupation, could be defeated by bombing some country that had nothing to do with a group occupying them under terrorism, then you deserve some sort of first class gullibility prize...or is it just a 'being a stupid American' prize??



Why on earth would you think bombing Afghanistan for 10 months would do ANYTHING to solve the crime perpetrated on 9-11???????

[LynnTheDem]

8. Answer: rightwingnuts believe anything bush-god tells them.

Stupidest MFers on the planet.

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. Well, golly gee! Unca Dick did GIVE them $40m back in 2001

Am sure that helped out some with the Taliban bills and opium field production. :sarcasm:

[FreedomAngel82]

9. I still remember

sometime shortly after November 2nd, 2004 Laura Bush went to Afghainstan and she came back shortly after that (about two/three days I believe) and she said everything was fine and dandy and than later that week a report came out about a woman who was gang raped. :(

[soothsayer]

12. omigod! Was Pickles a part of that gang rape????

edited to capitalize pickles

[LynnTheDem]

14. May 3, 2005 Afghan woman stoned to death for adultery

http://www.peacewomen.org/news/Afghanistan/May05/executed.html

March 10, 2005; Afghan Women No Better Off
http://www.rawa.org/

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. Another "failed insurgency". "Bring it on", he said.

At least somebody is listening to the Boob-in-Chief.