Comments on: An Afghan Hail Mary

By: Smilin' Jim

Smilin' Jim — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:31:56 +0000

OK, I’ll cut you some slack. He did spend time enough in Iraq with JSOC to claim the al-Zarqawi hit. And if that was a JSOC cadre you talked to, their mission was counter-terror.

By: Smilin' Jim

Smilin' Jim — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:12:06 +0000

Are you having a senior moment, Johnson? This guy’s rap sheet shows him not in Iraq but at Bragg between 2003 and 2008 and in Afghanistan before that. Have the nefarious military constructed a chronosynclastic infundibulator where they can station personnel in two places at once? Hellofa idea, solves the manpower problem and save them a small fortune in reenlistment bonuses.

Now what you should have said: They got rid of a straight leg man and replaced him with a snake-eater. Good move if you are going to ditch a Westmoreland war and are going to concentrate on a rural affairs strategy ala Rufus Phillips.

If they had done that after the first coup my life would have been simpler…… and we’d have 50,000 more taxpayers.

By: I'm a Linda too

I'm a Linda too — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:02:23 +0000

Yes, I think we ALL (here) feared that.

By: foxyladi14

foxyladi14 — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:01:05 +0000

we should just get the flock out of there.as the old rooster said,itis going to be a downpour..

By: foxyladi14

foxyladi14 — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:58:04 +0000

I DID.

By: stodgie

stodgie — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:15:24 +0000

shadow, that thought makes me shudder!

By: J_Gocht

J_Gocht — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:07:05 +0000

It was Rudyard, MrMike…

When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.” … Kipling

BTW: “Civilian casualties due to an over reliance on air power is a direct result of not having enough boots on the ground…” … “…and lack of an efficient counter insurgency plan and popular countryside infrastructure.

By: shadow

shadow — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:41:48 +0000

And we’re gonna release Gitmo detainees into America and give them welfare. And this guy is keeping us safe?

By: I'm a Linda too

I'm a Linda too — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:37:55 +0000

Yes, it is.

By: Animal Control

Animal Control — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:36:52 +0000

The historian of Alexander the Great?

By: NomNomNom

NomNomNom — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:06:20 +0000

I don’t believe for a second that the government ever thought either of Iraq or Afghanistan was winnable in a military sense, only winnable in a “defense” contractor sense. Now there, their strategy ($) is working!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JE48XHKG64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6-fWrJQ2bk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YENbElb5-xY

Here is Bush 1 promoting the UN, Al Gore saying we should destroy Saddam Hussein, & Dick Cheney describing why invading Iraq would be a disaster.

:Twilight Zone Music:

They are all in this sh#t together.

By: Carmen

Carmen — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:49:57 +0000

So let me see if I understand this. We will no longer scan containers for nukes coming in on ships. We will not close the borders, and we will give citizenship, welfare, health care, social security, and civil rights to just who the Hell ever wanders in here. But our soldiers fighting a WAR that the Presidents sent them too will go to prison for killing people.
And this man is a legitimate American. Yea, right!

By: stodgie

stodgie — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:36:25 +0000

geez linda, it is just plain depressing isn’t it?

By: I'm a Linda too

I'm a Linda too — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:27:00 +0000

I’ve already heard Iran is Obama’s Iraq and then Pakistan is Obama’s Iraq.

Looks like Obama’s just going to be the worst imaginable of our history yet. WHO KNEW!

By: JozefAL

JozefAL — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:08:07 +0000

Sorry, there was supposed to a

SNARK OFF

between the two paragraphs. (I made the mistake of formatting it wrong.)