Comments on: The Army’s New Afghan Target: The CIA http://www.frumforum.com/the-armys-new-afghan-target-the-cia Building a conservatism that can win again Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:50:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: SFTor1 http://www.frumforum.com/the-armys-new-afghan-target-the-cia/comment-page-1#comment-70599 SFTor1 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:09:40 +0000 http://www.newmajority.com/?p=14542#comment-70599 MI-GOPer, could you please state for the record why we are occupying Afghanistan? (This is not a rhetorical question. I would like to hear your reasons.) MI-GOPer,

could you please state for the record why we are occupying Afghanistan?

(This is not a rhetorical question. I would like to hear your reasons.)

]]> By: ottovbvs http://www.frumforum.com/the-armys-new-afghan-target-the-cia/comment-page-1#comment-70233 ottovbvs Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:53:13 +0000 http://www.newmajority.com/?p=14542#comment-70233 6 balconesfault // Oct 29, 2009 at 10:34 am "Shouldn’t we have thought about this … oh … like 7 years ago?" .........You mean 8 years ago.......having invaded the country Bush and Cheney forgot it so they could concentrate on their idee fixe of Iraq which had something like 170,000 troops at its peak while Afghanistan at the time had around 25,000.........Personally I've never believed you could fix this place but even if there was a minute chance for maybe a year after they invaded the country Bush and Cheney threw it away........now we have another Bush/Cheney debacle on our hands........which the president is trying to figure out how to fix while the right carp and Cheney, who had his thumb up his bum for seven years, accusing him of dithering........he is a total slimeball 6 balconesfault // Oct 29, 2009 at 10:34 am

“Shouldn’t we have thought about this … oh … like 7 years ago?”

………You mean 8 years ago…….having invaded the country Bush and Cheney forgot it so they could concentrate on their idee fixe of Iraq which had something like 170,000 troops at its peak while Afghanistan at the time had around 25,000………Personally I’ve never believed you could fix this place but even if there was a minute chance for maybe a year after they invaded the country Bush and Cheney threw it away……..now we have another Bush/Cheney debacle on our hands……..which the president is trying to figure out how to fix while the right carp and Cheney, who had his thumb up his bum for seven years, accusing him of dithering……..he is a total slimeball

]]> By: balconesfault http://www.frumforum.com/the-armys-new-afghan-target-the-cia/comment-page-1#comment-70109 balconesfault Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:34:36 +0000 http://www.newmajority.com/?p=14542#comment-70109 <b>Every day that goes by and more US & NATO troops are killed in Afghanistan, the Taliban is emboldened.</b> Shouldn't we have thought about this ... oh ... like 7 years ago? Every day that goes by and more US & NATO troops are killed in Afghanistan, the Taliban is emboldened.

Shouldn’t we have thought about this … oh … like 7 years ago?

]]> By: ottovbvs http://www.frumforum.com/the-armys-new-afghan-target-the-cia/comment-page-1#comment-70103 ottovbvs Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:10:36 +0000 http://www.newmajority.com/?p=14542#comment-70103 mi-goper // Oct 29, 2009 at 10:04 am "Karzai is just another Obama with a little fashion sense." ........So you agree we shouldn't waste any more effort trying to prop up these jerks. mi-goper // Oct 29, 2009 at 10:04 am

“Karzai is just another Obama with a little fashion sense.”

……..So you agree we shouldn’t waste any more effort trying to prop up these jerks.

]]> By: MI-GOPer http://www.frumforum.com/the-armys-new-afghan-target-the-cia/comment-page-1#comment-70100 MI-GOPer Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:04:26 +0000 http://www.newmajority.com/?p=14542#comment-70100 ottoBS whines: "More moderation and rationality from the Republican activist". And you give us your daily dose of New Majority Village Idiot. Every day that goes by and more US & NATO troops are killed in Afghanistan, the Taliban is emboldened. Every day Obama the Ditherer continues to act like the Celebrity in Chief instead of a Commander in Chief, our men & women are placed in Harm's Way without the support and materials they need to complete their mission. Obama lied to get elected. This isn't what he thinks is a "Necessary War"... this was the war he couldn't oppose during the election and still win. Obama is as big a coward as Slick Willy and JimmineyCricketCarter. Democrats have always been against the military, against projecting America's might to advance freedom and liberty abroad. I would have thought that Obama and his Thugs would have found more in common with a vote frauding, drug-dealing, corrupt Afghanistani president... Karzai is just another Obama with a little fashion sense. ottoBS whines: “More moderation and rationality from the Republican activist”.

And you give us your daily dose of New Majority Village Idiot.

Every day that goes by and more US & NATO troops are killed in Afghanistan, the Taliban is emboldened. Every day Obama the Ditherer continues to act like the Celebrity in Chief instead of a Commander in Chief, our men & women are placed in Harm’s Way without the support and materials they need to complete their mission.

Obama lied to get elected. This isn’t what he thinks is a “Necessary War”… this was the war he couldn’t oppose during the election and still win.

Obama is as big a coward as Slick Willy and JimmineyCricketCarter. Democrats have always been against the military, against projecting America’s might to advance freedom and liberty abroad. I would have thought that Obama and his Thugs would have found more in common with a vote frauding, drug-dealing, corrupt Afghanistani president… Karzai is just another Obama with a little fashion sense.

]]> By: ottovbvs http://www.frumforum.com/the-armys-new-afghan-target-the-cia/comment-page-1#comment-70092 ottovbvs Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:35:34 +0000 http://www.newmajority.com/?p=14542#comment-70092 .......We followed that strategy with success in Iraq......so why are hundreds still being killed in bomb attacks, a very bad one the other day, despite the fact we have 120,000 troops still in Iraq?.......the fact is both countries are in an awful mess and we'd need to find some way of disengaging from both of them with the least damage to US interests...........The big investment David mentions?........is he aware of the ratio required of troops to indigenous population that are required to fight a counter insurgency campaign (Petraeus' numbers not mine). It would require a force of around 600,000 men for Afghanistan's population of 33 million........Is David willing to sign off on that number for what could be a period of decades?.......The problem with the armchair generals they either are unfamiliar with the facts or prefer not to mention them preferring to indulge in a bit of presidential trashing regardless of the fact that his predecessors dawdled away for seven years whatever admittedly small chances of success we might of had there........ The fact that the Karzai Brothers are corrupt and incompetent and one of them seems to be being paid by both sides should demonstrate just what a mess we are trapped in.........there is no conceiveable reason why we should be sending young Americans to die to prop up the govt of this pair. …….We followed that strategy with success in Iraq……so why are hundreds still being killed in bomb attacks, a very bad one the other day, despite the fact we have 120,000 troops still in Iraq?…….the fact is both countries are in an awful mess and we’d need to find some way of disengaging from both of them with the least damage to US interests………..The big investment David mentions?……..is he aware of the ratio required of troops to indigenous population that are required to fight a counter insurgency campaign (Petraeus’ numbers not mine). It would require a force of around 600,000 men for Afghanistan’s population of 33 million……..Is David willing to sign off on that number for what could be a period of decades?…….The problem with the armchair generals they either are unfamiliar with the facts or prefer not to mention them preferring to indulge in a bit of presidential trashing regardless of the fact that his predecessors dawdled away for seven years whatever admittedly small chances of success we might of had there…….. The fact that the Karzai Brothers are corrupt and incompetent and one of them seems to be being paid by both sides should demonstrate just what a mess we are trapped in………there is no conceiveable reason why we should be sending young Americans to die to prop up the govt of this pair.

]]> By: ottovbvs http://www.frumforum.com/the-armys-new-afghan-target-the-cia/comment-page-1#comment-70089 ottovbvs Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:20:36 +0000 http://www.newmajority.com/?p=14542#comment-70089 mi-goper // Oct 29, 2009 at 8:39 am "“The real news is the sourcing of that information to senior military officers, culminating in this on-the-record doozey from the chief of military intelligence in Afghanistan, Maj.-Gen. Michael Flynn: “The only way to clean up Chicago is to get rid of Capone.”” That’s a great bumber sticker line to argue why we shouldn’t allow Obama a 2nd term. The only way to clean-up the widespread corruption in Washington is to get rid of Obama and his Democrat Thugs." ...........More moderation and rationality from the Republican activist mi-goper // Oct 29, 2009 at 8:39 am

““The real news is the sourcing of that information to senior military officers, culminating in this on-the-record doozey from the chief of military intelligence in Afghanistan, Maj.-Gen. Michael Flynn: “The only way to clean up Chicago is to get rid of Capone.””

That’s a great bumber sticker line to argue why we shouldn’t allow Obama a 2nd term. The only way to clean-up the widespread corruption in Washington is to get rid of Obama and his Democrat Thugs.”

………..More moderation and rationality from the Republican activist

]]> By: MI-GOPer http://www.frumforum.com/the-armys-new-afghan-target-the-cia/comment-page-1#comment-70083 MI-GOPer Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:39:09 +0000 http://www.newmajority.com/?p=14542#comment-70083 David, the real shocker isn't that various groups in Afghanistan are playing hardball with peoples' lives in Afghanistan... it's that Flynn came so close to truth with this very, very apt line: "The real news is the sourcing of that information to senior military officers, culminating in this on-the-record doozey from the chief of military intelligence in Afghanistan, Maj.-Gen. Michael Flynn: “The only way to clean up Chicago is to get rid of Capone.”" That's a great bumber sticker line to argue why we shouldn't allow Obama a 2nd term. The only way to clean-up the widespread corruption in Washington is to get rid of Obama and his Democrat Thugs. David, the real shocker isn’t that various groups in Afghanistan are playing hardball with peoples’ lives in Afghanistan… it’s that Flynn came so close to truth with this very, very apt line:

“The real news is the sourcing of that information to senior military officers, culminating in this on-the-record doozey from the chief of military intelligence in Afghanistan, Maj.-Gen. Michael Flynn: “The only way to clean up Chicago is to get rid of Capone.””

That’s a great bumber sticker line to argue why we shouldn’t allow Obama a 2nd term. The only way to clean-up the widespread corruption in Washington is to get rid of Obama and his Democrat Thugs.

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