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2005-05-26 Afghanistan/South Asia

Taleban leader sez Karzai sold Afghanistan to the US

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Posted by Steve White 2005-05-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I say let's sell it back to them.

One large cup of STFU oughta do it and we will transfer the whole thing to you.

Posted by badanov">badanov 2005-05-26 00:49|| http://www.rkka.org]">[http://www.rkka.org] 2005-05-26 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 bad - You're onto something there, bro. But I bet they'd pay us in poppies. They'll all have these funny little scars on 'em. We'll be polite and pretend not to notice. That is our way.

Posted by .com 2005-05-26 01:12|| 2005-05-26 01:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Can we call the bank and put a stop payment on the check?

Posted by ed 2005-05-26 01:40|| 2005-05-26 01:40|| Front Page Top

#4 They'll all have these funny little scars on 'em.
Say what? The heroin brought to the USA from Afghanistan gets our kids hooked, not Muslims' kids. It's our kids who bear scars not Karzai's people's kids. We made a pact with the Devil - we "respect" drug lords rights' for poppy agriculture so they would not fight our soldiers' presence in Afghanistan. I'm not sure who got the better part of that bargain.

Posted by Elmath Snealet4325 2005-05-26 01:42|| 2005-05-26 01:42|| Front Page Top

#5 And #2 was sarcasm, start to finish. I don't favor any notion in any form that we "respect drug lords' rights", Ellie baby.

There is zero doubt on my part that it's gonna have to be TOUGH SHIT regards the difference in income between normal textile or edible crops vs. poppies. Nobody gets a pass, as far as I'm concerned, to grow poppies and produce heroin, no matter whose kids it's to be sold to.

Karzai & the various Afghan lords, (war, dope, whatthefuckever) will just have to adjust to the reality that we can't allow that game to go on. And I have no doubt that he is fully aware of this and your supposition and assertion that the US is in cahoots with him and the drug lords is total fucking bullshit. That's a DUmmy Talking Point of purest insanity.

Is that, um, clearer, now?

Posted by .com 2005-05-26 01:52|| 2005-05-26 01:52|| Front Page Top

#6 I have a teenager and I don't take kindly to jokes about drugs. And no, we are not in "cahoots" with drug lords in Afghanistan, but we have certainly needed to turn a blind eye to what our Afghan allies engage in for income in Afghanistan to keep the peace.

Posted by Elmath Snealet4325 2005-05-26 02:01|| 2005-05-26 02:01|| Front Page Top

#7 The Brits are in charge of the drug problem in Afganistan. LOOK IT UP.
The US disagreed with their methods but we are fighting they are suppose to be cleaning....

Posted by 3dc 2005-05-26 02:06|| 2005-05-26 02:06|| Front Page Top

#8 ES - Okay, I won't pick nits with you - I totally sympathize regards children. I am so incredibly thankful mine has already transited the minefield of youthful temptation. She's so sane, level-headed, and just downright conservative and boring that I'm the wild-eyed risk-taker of the family. Whew! You have my sincere best wishes - children today do not often have a chance to even be children, to be vulnerable, to grow and learn, without the constant cacaphony of predatory and delusional influences, such as the gay porn manuals being distributed in school - a story from the weekend, IIRC. Sigh. I wish they all had more time before the deluge. Regards.

Posted by .com 2005-05-26 02:16|| 2005-05-26 02:16|| Front Page Top

#9 "...and can insult Afghans,â Omar said
That's what he's worried about, we might insult his beard.
Seriously though, who the f*ck would want to buy Afganistan? No matter how you'd pay, it'd be too much.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2005-05-26 08:17|| 2005-05-26 08:17|| Front Page Top

#10 âOur resistance would strengthen shortly because our motherland has been sold openly ... we will continue our struggle for the independence of our motherland and revival of religion,â he said.

I thought I saw Karzai's name as a User ID on Ebay the other day. That's what he was selling. Wonder if Uncle Sam is a User ID...I'd like to pick up some real estate in Afghanistan (/sarcasm off/).

Posted by BA">BA 2005-05-26 08:43|| 2005-05-26 08:43|| Front Page Top

#11 I'd trade the whole da$$$$ country for 40 acres of Colorado mountain property and a mule. I need the mule to remind me I'm dealing with the Federal Government, and how that has to work...

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-05-26 13:42|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-05-26 13:42|| Front Page Top

#12 BA...We have a developement 10 miles out of Spin Boldak (50 cents a acre 5 cents down) called 'Bouncing Betty Bolders'.

Lovely neighborhood...Please enjoy all of our recreational pleasures. All you have to do is keep your head.

Posted by Minni Mullah 2005-05-26 14:03|| 2005-05-26 14:03|| Front Page Top

#13 MM, I'll have to consider your offering! lol!

Posted by BA">BA 2005-05-26 15:33|| 2005-05-26 15:33|| Front Page Top

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