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2013-02-24 Afghanistan

Karzai orders US special forces out of Afghan province

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Posted by Fred 2013-02-24 10:47|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top
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#1 Killing too many talibunnies

Posted by Caesar Gray1629 2013-02-24 11:08|| 2013-02-24 11:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Pull everybody back down to Kandahar and start flying them home NOW!

Posted by Besoeker 2013-02-24 11:11|| 2013-02-24 11:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Might as well pull everyone out. Our political leaders lost the fight years ago.

Posted by DarthVader 2013-02-24 12:06|| 2013-02-24 12:06|| Front Page Top

#4 One of the positives of an early withdrawal is that it advances the day we see Karzai upside down on a Kabul lamp post

Posted by PCarroll 2013-02-24 12:14|| 2013-02-24 12:14|| Front Page Top

#5 My guess is that Karzai will step down and be living in Gay Paree before the Talibs retake the govt. It'll be his successor hanging from the lamp post.

Posted by Fred 2013-02-24 12:47|| 2013-02-24 12:47|| Front Page Top

#6 One of the positives of an early withdrawal is that it advances the day we see Karzai upside down on a Kabul lamp post
And doesn't Karzi know it, so expect him to do a runner out of Afghanistan before the 20014 elections when everything will go tits-up.

Posted by tipper 2013-02-24 12:52|| 2013-02-24 12:52|| Front Page Top

#7 for all the US service people and civilians killed due to Caped President Feckless, we should make sure he doesn't leave Kabul alive. Let him know it

Posted by Frank G 2013-02-24 12:54|| 2013-02-24 12:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Come to think of it, Karzai DOES look a lot like Charles Middleton!!

Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-02-24 13:24|| 2013-02-24 13:24|| Front Page Top

#9 One of the things I despised about GWB was his foreign policy implementation of "compassionate conservatism".

He seems to believe in cultural & moral relativism in that everyone is like a Euro Social Democrat if just given a chance.

Posted by Alanc 2013-02-24 13:35|| 2013-02-24 13:35|| Front Page Top

#10 He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. When the count was in, he won(?) by something like 54%. However, the fix was in and the ballot boxes were stuffed. Chicago would be proud of Karzai.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-02-24 14:10|| 2013-02-24 14:10|| Front Page Top

#11 ...see, he learned. However, his departure should also be a lesson to our own governing class, that stuffed ballot boxes aren't willing to give that 'last full measure of devotion' to keep you in power.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-02-24 15:41|| 2013-02-24 15:41|| Front Page Top

#12 Somewhere there is a small village in France or Italy looking for someone to open a kebab place.

Posted by Jack is Back! 2013-02-24 17:17|| 2013-02-24 17:17|| Front Page Top

#13 Ditto as per NON-US NATO SPECOPS???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-02-24 18:30|| 2013-02-24 18:30|| Front Page Top

#14 The last official act of his security detail should be to throw him out the door of the last chopper out.

Posted by tu3031 2013-02-24 19:03|| 2013-02-24 19:03|| Front Page Top

#15 The last official act of his security detail should be to throw him out the door of the last chopper out.

"He tripped," tu. ;-p

Posted by Barbara 2013-02-24 19:41|| 2013-02-24 19:41|| Front Page Top

#16 Karzai's US security detail should be the first element pulled out.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2013-02-24 20:31|| 2013-02-24 20:31|| Front Page Top

#17 Heh, pull our guys out and watch the disappearances and torture increase.

Posted by KBK 2013-02-24 20:37|| 2013-02-24 20:37|| Front Page Top

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