The Taliban?
Today 17 Americans were killed in Afganistan when their plane was gunned down by THE TALIBAN. When I first heard the report, I assumed there was some sort of mistake.....surely, not the Taliban.....we have been told they were defeated. Nope, the freaking Taliban is still strong. As a matter a fact, the 17 that were killed were in a helicopter that was in destination to fight this very Taliban, who was engaged in fierce combat along the Afghanistan border.The Taliban is actually linked to 9/11 (unlike Iraq), and as today proves, that very same Taliban is still operating in Afghanistan. Then consider: Bush took resources out of Afghanistan to go to Iraq. That is a fact. And due to that fact, the Taliban still operates in Afghanistan. Get it? Bush's Iraq war allowed the real culprites of 9/11 to keep operating their terror functions. If Bush had not diverted focus away from Afghanistan, today would not have happened. Hence, Bush's war in Iraq killed those 17 men and women in Afganistan.
And how ironic, Bush is doing all this talking in front of the troops yesterday about Iraq, and its the war in Afghanistan that we could have actually won, with proper management, that makes horrific headlines. Bush could have focused 100,000 troops on Afghanistan and smashed the entire Taliban. Instead, Bush wasted the opportunity because he was determined to attack Iraq. This is the worst president in history, and we are stuck with him for 3 and a half more years. I guess the nation deserves to suffer for the consequences of his reelection.
By Chuck - 6/29/2005
5 Comments:
and did anyone notice that in Bush's speech, he talked about the "coalition". Get serious.
Actually Bush didn't kill those soldiers the terrorists they are fighting killed them. I don't understand why we choose to villanize our own leaders rather than the dictators and terrorist leaders who actualy are killing our troops and citizens. You can question President Bush's decisions all day long and the right and left will never agree. So why don't we look at the leaders we are fighting who organize acts of terror and torture and behead our troops and citizens. I'm just tired of hearing our own people get more mad at our president than those people who truly are trying to hurt us.
Just to clarify my last statement I'm not saying our leaders decisions should not be questioned I'm saying we shouldn't make them out to be murderers.
I get your point, but the bottom line is that his horrible decisions have caused the current mess. That current mess results in deaths, that could have been avoided
The main goal in Iraq is to leave a stable democracy that is a shining beacon in the middle east: We could have done that in Afghanistan.
Instead:
1) bush half-assed afghanistan (sending only 11,000 troops),
2) then he took our best (special ops, etc) out of there to go to Iraq.
3) Result from Bush's decisions: Afghanistan is not where it should be (hence, 17 dead yesterday), AND we are in Iraq (which only people living in fantasy land think is going well)
and sure, the terrorists are worse. that's just a given. but if you want me to say it more often, i'll try.
I mean seriously, "fierce combat" in Afghanistan....from the TALIBAN. what the hell? it is automatic evidence that Bush has failed.
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