{"id":872,"date":"2004-09-10T05:29:39","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T08:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/?p=872"},"modified":"2011-06-05T15:21:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T20:21:11","slug":"remember-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/remember-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember Afghanistan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Taliban Say Attack Shows They Can Strike at Will<\/strong><br \/>\nKABUL (Reuters) &#8211; A rocket attack aimed at Kabul&#8217;s international airport showed the Taliban have the ability to target anywhere in Afghanistan, the GROUP said on Friday, warning the Americans the country would become their &#8220;burial ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm&#8230; where have heard that before. Comical Ali in Iraq?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8220;Although the four rockets fell well short or wide of their target, Mullah Dadullah Akhund &#8212; the Taliban&#8217;s military commander and a member of its 10-member ruling council &#8212; said U.S.-led forces in the country were pinned down in their bases. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Somehow this &#8220;deadly&#8221; attack didn&#8217;t seem to hurt anyone or anything.<br \/>\nOOH the Coalition Forces must be soooooo scared!!!!<\/p>\n<p>In all fairness to President Bush, he has done two things in office which I approved. One was the &#8220;Roadmap to Peace&#8221; (Which was actually brilliant. Too bad Arafat and Sharon didn&#8217;t want to play), and the other was to send troops INTO Afghanistan to kick the Talibastard&#8217;s asses for hiding and harboring Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p>Not enough for me to say he deserves re-election, but hey&#8230; I like to give credit where credit is due.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/clock\/osamaclock3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"94\" align=\"right\" \/>Now to those who have wrongly labeled me and others like me as &#8220;Anti-War&#8221;, I have to ask:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If we were going to bring Democracy INTO the Middle East, why not start with a firm commitment to Afghanistan? We had (and still have) the world&#8217;s support for going there. It&#8217;s been a shithole since the Soviets occupied it in the late 70&#8217;s. And we promised the Northern Alliance back in 2001 we weren&#8217;t going to do a &#8220;hit &amp; run&#8221; again.<\/li>\n<li>18,000 troops in Afghanistan and 250,000 troops in Iraq. What&#8217;s wrong with that picture?<\/li>\n<li>Ted Rall is an asshole for his ridicule of Pat Tillman&#8217;s death and calling soldiers in Afghanistan a &#8220;tool&#8221;. (Not really a question. Just something that needed to be repeated.).<\/li>\n<li>If the &#8220;NEW&#8221; rationale (excuse) for invading Iraq was to &#8220;Fight terrorists over there than over here in the U.S.&#8221;&#8230; why not have their cowardly asses hide in caves the same way we had Al-Qaeda and the Taliban on the run?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the eve of the anniversary of September 11th, is it terribly un-American of me to ask we finish what we started in Afghanistan and crush these shit-talking Talibastards once and for all? It&#8217;s like they have Attention Deficit Disorder or something over at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with Al-Sadr&#8217;s gang in Iraq that can&#8217;t be cured with a few nukes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban Say Attack Shows They Can Strike at Will &#8211; KABUL (Reuters) &#8211; A rocket attack aimed at Kabul&apos;s international airport showed the Taliban&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-gossip","category-political-cannon-fodder"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Remember Afghanistan? - WHUZZUP!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/remember-afghanistan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Remember Afghanistan? 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