Comments on: Afghanistan Facing "Downward Spiral"

National Intelligence Estimate Draft Report Highlights Afghanistan's Accelerated Deterioration

[displeased]

Why don''''t they GROW THE F*** UP?
Posted by Demongirl60

They''re not capable. If they grow up, they would have to be responsible and accountable for their actions. My guess is, poverty and lack of education, education they seem to avoid and refuse to the women, and their strong religious principles, will keep them about 400 years behind the rest of the world.

[antoniof123]

If you stupid libruls hadn''''t mired our military down in Iraq with your ignorant ideas of liberation, we would have the troops to win Afghanistan.

Posted by paidGOPshill at 08:43 AM : Oct 10, 2008

Hey GOPer West Virigina has moved to toss up from strong McCain Virigina has moved to Obama the reason you paid shill is because American siwng voters are through with the hardliners.

You can scream and holler all the way down but you were warn in 2006 to moderate now we swing voters will moderate you in a more permante way.

How''s that sound do you like it. I am swing voter that in the past has always given the GOP and Democrats a fair vote this election like most swing voters we are voting democrate and you know it.

[cariboubarbi]

We''re spending 10 billion dollars a month in Iraq while Afghanistan continues to unravel and the people who were actually responsible for 9/11 continue to grow stronger.

Why are Bush and McCain so clueless?

[richtr1]

The Russians didn''t do to well there, I wonder why we think we can do any better.

[tincup356]

I just wonder how long it will be before everyone wakes up and sees,the economy will not begin to get better until we stop the leak of stupid financial spending, the two wars we are fighting.This is a nation at war because someone sold the fact to us that it was the only thing to do.But as we the people see it in reality,the war has not accomplished anything it was supposed to, and everything it wasn''t.God help us to find a way to end both of them soon before we shoot our last dollar at an invisible enemy that our so called war on terror is after.This war has been and always will be a lie.I sit back and think about all the conspiracy theories and now wonder,put them all together and it begins to look like a well placed plan to completely changed the face of this world and give ultimate power to those behind it.No one persons actions got us to where we are.

[petro49l]

Why fight this war against Arab Peasants for OPEC? This move only rationalizes the high price for oil. The Cartel has seriously reduce the output of petroleum from the Persian Gulf. John McCain is wrong. Arab Peasants are being killed to open farms for the production of exotic poppies. Tar heroin makes money for Osama Bin Laden so he can finance terror all over the world.

[xzonz]

have you watched the movie "Charlie Wilson''s war" ? Yes now America has spent and will maybe have to continue spending more in resources and troops in Afghanistan. Afghanistan was not imp than now suddenly its imp

[skysoldier75]

They''ve been having bumper poppy crops the past few years too.

The Taliban had virtually eliminated opium production when they were in charge, since they saw it as an evil influence according to their religious beliefs.

The US has simply ignored the poppy growing resurgence - the current wisdom is that as long as they''re busy farming poppies, they are not shooting at us so much.

The Taliban sees the renewed poppy cultivation as the lesser of two evils; it provides a LOT of vital income to them, and they trust that after they have thrown us out (priority #1) they can easily go back to executing poppy growers again afterward.

The Afghan government is totally corrupt. Ancient Tribal politics are just too deeply ingrained in the culture itself to ever really change the political dynamics appreciably, for very long.

US taxpayer money, meant to build roads and schools and such, simply disappears into a black hole somewhere. Nobody really knows where it actually ends up, but it''s sure not building any roads or schools.

Contractors that were used initially on a variety of building projects have all but dried up now. The Taliban and Al Queda target the contractors relentlessly, so it''s just become too dangerous for them to go on taking contracts anymore.

It''s a real mess over there now, and not apt to get any better for many, many years, if ever.

[tapsettle]

Afghanistan Facing "Downward Spiral"

Just like america then.

[jerr11]

Another MISSION ACCOMPLISHED moment for the Liar-in-Chief.

Top 10 Bush''s accomplishments:

1. Al Quaeda resurgent in Afghanistan.

2. Bin Laden enjoying quiet retirement in Waziristan.

3. American Taxpayers paying $12 billion a month Sunni warlords to keep the surge going.

4. Iraq delivered to the Iranian mullahs at the cost of $3 trillion and over 4000 Dead American troops.

5. Meanwhile back at home, homeowners losing their homes.

6. Dow off the cliff.

7. Unemployment at all time high.

8. But there''s a silver lining here: Halliburton''s profits are through the roof.

9. ******** Cheney is laughing all the way to the bank.

10. G W Bush getting ready to enjoy his retirement in 99 acre ranch in Paraguay.

[inventagod2]

Tip your head back slowly, sip the koolaid. You will believe everything the Pentagoons say, and you will not remember why you resisted. Your eyes are getting heavy. You will worship Dubya.

[misha128-2009]

The ultimate irony of Iraq is Bush merely accelerated Iranian influence though his appalling incompetence. So, a continued "presence is critical" to exactly what?

Posted by alphaa010 at 11:36 PM

then Protection of Chinese Oil Contracts.

[winnerindia]

In the history book one will read in the future "it too the entire world to defeat the german armies in ww2, to defeat the american empire, it took 15 terrorists and a couple of planes".
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Posted by andrew_693 at 11:00 PM : Oct 09, 2008
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Not just 15 ''terrorists''. They are ''goat herders''. I don''t understand that with all the latest weapons, satellites and other equipment why can''t we kill those goat herders (terrorists/Taliban etc. etc) ??????

You may or may not agree we can''t put the blame on Pakistan. Why didn%u2019t we blame them in 2001 by the time we deployed our troops in Afghanistan? What are we doing in Afghanistan since 2001? Maybe only sending more and more troops without delivering any results on ground? There had been and has been not a single day since than that we heard some good news. Instead of putting blames on other countries, we should learn to tie up our own panties.

Afghans (including *** terrorists) are 1000 years backward in every aspect as compared to the U.S/Allied NATO and still they are pumping our ***. WHY?
Further, who is allowing them to cultivate drugs and sell in our streets?

[whitemale08]

I love how George Bush followed the Soviet Unions downfall by the script.

Defeated in Afganistan which help led to our economic defeat as well.

We are a fallen empire who lost the so-called Cold War.

Thanks trickle-down Ronny.

[whitemale08]

George Bush did it again, another failure to chalk up to his long list of failures.

Now watch John McCain say "This is what success in Iraq will look like in 5 years, just like Afganistan".

John McCain is a poor excuse for a leader.

[getreeltex]

Another day and more Bush/Republican failure.

Stay the course with McSame?

Thanks but no thanks!

[andrew_693]

In the history book one will read in the future "it too the entire world to defeat the german armies in ww2, to defeat the american empire, it took 15 terrorists and a couple of planes".

[andrew_693]

the terrorists are probably wanting to see another GOP victory in the next election so ayatollah bush and his christian followers finally finish destroying the country that once was the beacon of freedom, equality and an example of democracy and free market where the government didn''t intervene and the people could decide their future. Ayatollah bush now will control the country by buying the banks and the state will have all the power, just like in Stalin''s soviet union. In the near future, if you want a loan to go to college you will have to ask the state if it''s ok with them and maybe they will let you out of the mine for a few years.

[cdfoxtrot4]

If only the moron-in-chief hadn''t sent all those resources to "Eye-Rack" five years ago and during all the years since. Vote McSame for more of the same.

[shoebox119]

Raised by COMMUNISTS; Socializes with a TERRORIST; Sat in a pew for over 20 years listening to a RACIST.

OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT?

Posted by krisinal

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If that bothers you, then you must be really afraid of John McCain. For 30 years, he''s been chum buddies in the Senate with Senator Robert Byrd, a former KKK member (the Ku Klux Klan is currently on the FBI''s list of terrorism organizations) and former Senator Strom Thurmon, who was a strong proponent of segregation and Jim Crow laws.

Guilt by association, right? Then John McCain is absolutely un-American and would be very, very dangerous as president.