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2007-03-08 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2007-03-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Tallybunnies you haven't been doing too well in the battle. Better leave it alone unless you want your sorry asses kicked some more.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-03-08 00:30|| 2007-03-08 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Spring has sprung - time to ramp it back up to 50 Talebs KIA per day. Singed beards ahoy.

Posted by Howard UK 2007-03-08 04:50|| 2007-03-08 04:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Several towns in Helmand, Afghanistan are already surrounded. NATO planned a rendering operation, and they are already well on the way to crushing the Taliban. By May, they won't have a single terror staging ground.

As long our UN dues keep paying for phony Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan, the terror will continue. Think of all the new Midtown housing that could be built on what is now UN land. The UN was put on US soil because of the devastation in post war Europe. Let the Euros have it.

Posted by Sneaze 2007-03-08 05:50|| 2007-03-08 05:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Subject to the ROPers definition fighting, I presume?

Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-08 06:44|| 2007-03-08 06:44|| Front Page Top

#5 From RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press Writer

Making it clear once again whose side the AP is on.

Should be fun. The MSM is going to be crapping in their pants when they see the bad guy body count. Wonder how they are going to bury this story.

Posted by Icerigger 2007-03-08 07:22|| 2007-03-08 07:22|| Front Page Top

#6 And then Mullah Abdullah said, "I'll huff and puff and blooow your house down." And then the three little pigs started down the road with 46 Canadian tanks and full air support and lots of fully trained soldiers. And then Mullah Abdullah told his 16 year old, poorly trained, poorly equipped kids, "I'll huff and puff and blooow their house down, so stand your ground, and I'll supervise with my cell phone in Quetta."

Posted by whatadeal 2007-03-08 07:36|| 2007-03-08 07:36|| Front Page Top

#7 And, as usual, I'm sure Mullah Abdul will be right out in front leading the charge.

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-08 09:15|| 2007-03-08 09:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Is it just me, or is the Spring Offensives™ recently become more and more like simple target practice for NATO?

Posted by BA 2007-03-08 09:19|| 2007-03-08 09:19|| Front Page Top

#9 More taliwackers to allan and his goat virgins. And there is a down side to this?

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-03-08 09:51|| 2007-03-08 09:51|| Front Page Top

#10 This immediately brought to mind the old Bill Cosby routine about having a coin toss at before the start of a battle.

"Captain Custer this is Captain Sitting Bull, call the toss Cus'. Custer called heads.....it's a tails (Heh)......."

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2007-03-08 10:41|| 2007-03-08 10:41|| Front Page Top

#11 AP's RAHIM FAIEZ

same asshat who happened to orchestrate the last post car bombing party. the one with the "outraged" Afghani farmer and march last week.

Posted by RD 2007-03-08 10:49|| 2007-03-08 10:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Reminds me of the dialogue between the French guard and King Arthur in Monte Python movie:

Substitute talibunny for French guard and NATO for King Arthur and you have it.

I wave my private parts at your aunties, you cheesy lot of second hand electric donkey-bottom biters.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-03-08 17:36|| 2007-03-08 17:36|| Front Page Top

#13 The Taliban is trying to pull a Tet in Afghanistan, since they do NOT have a military chance in Hell of winning. Tet was a military disaster of the first order for the VC/NVA but it served as a major political victory because of Walter Cronkite; the Taliban is trying for the same type of victory. Not going to happen this time around.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-03-08 22:36|| 2007-03-08 22:36|| Front Page Top

#14 AlanC: that is a classis routine. LOL!

On a serious note: why not drop a load of Agent Orange on the poppy fields when the Taliwahackers are hiding in there? I am sure we still have some left over and this would give us a place to dispose of it and save a bundle on the enviromentally friendly way of breaking it down. Removes the coverage for the NATO guys and then in 20 years or so, when the bad guys start coughing up lungs or whatever, we can then place them there and they will not be able to deny it. As for the 'innocent farmers', give then 24 hour notice to shag ass outa town.
just a thought.

Posted by USN, ret. 2007-03-08 22:37|| 2007-03-08 22:37|| Front Page Top

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