The Taliban's Great Escape

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  • Posted By: Trooper101st @ 06/18/2008 9:08:30 AM

    The faster the US coalition bombs the hadji's camps and compounds in Pakistan the better. The p-stani's scream about thier sovereignty while they cede more and more territory to the t-ban/AQ. The T-ban is the government in these areas, so its really not part of P-stan. Bush still clings to Musharraff, and this policy should be history. The Frontier Corps aid, abet, report on US troop movements, and now were caught fighting for the taliban. They got wat they deserved, a dozen or so 500lb bombs down thier throats. Karzai is right, the border must be crossed if Afghanistan is to become stable. The policy should be: Stop them or we will. Stay out of the way. If P-stani warplanes enter the AO, splash them. The p-stani's hate us. Its time they reap some of that hatred.

    • Posted By: onepoker @ 06/18/2008 10:56:32 AM

      Those Pakistani soldiers may have been attempting to fight against the Taliban we just don't know.

  • Posted By: onepoker @ 06/18/2008 10:55:15 AM

    Just one more reason why keeping Terrorists in Cuba is a good idea.

  • Posted By: scottryan1 @ 06/18/2008 1:28:07 AM

    do you think that they spend 12 billion a month on the iraq war, the money goes to diffrent places, dapa, cia, new weapons. what you really think that they spend all 12 billion $ a month, come on mate, think about it.

  • Posted By: scottryan1 @ 06/17/2008 9:32:55 PM

    who the fuc- dose Chinese President Hu Jintao think he is, he kills his people. he thinks he is god, what is he on, he is scum, and one of the scumes people alive,
    he just wants America to abandon its nuclear weapons, thats because he noes that he could not beat America with nuclear weapons, America will never get rid of there weapons.
    The people in china can not even go to any web sit, what free rights, i would rather die then be ruled by china, they want to start a war 100%.
    I think that the Chinese think that they have new weapons that are out of this world, and I think they think America does not have weapons like that. 1thing they have, is a bomb that can take away radiation after a nuclear bomb goes off, so we will drop 100 nuclear bomb on china, then after they are all dead, we will fire the bombs to take away most of the radiations.
    I can not believe china.
    Its is really like a Hitler in place.
    President Hu Jintao Thanking Mr Brown for keeping together the European alliance, that???s just a Hitler that will try take out America with out Britain getting involved, then take out Britain next, unbelievable.
    Never should of given china a market so they can spend 60 billion $ a year on making new weapons.
    Winston Churchill would be rolling over in his grave, saying, what did we say, never let them do it again, instead of watching them build up a massive army and new weapons, we should learn from the past,, Nazi Germany and attack before hand,
    Lest we shale never forget and learn from al mistakes, so it never happens again.
    I don???t think we are remembering what he said
    Building new subs, sneaking up on Americans war ships to test them, plus for the last 5 year hacking defence computers, putting spy???s in America to steal technology, spending massive amounts on new weapons, plus loaning how to shoot down satellites, what eals do we need to see, its plane and clear what they are going to do.
    If they won the war and took out America Britain, and say Russia was left, I bet in the end they would take out Russia as well 100%.
    Lets just say if ww3 did come and America took out china, they better to Russia north Korea and all communist at the same time, even communist countries with out nuclear bombs, and set the would right, invade every country and make them a democracy.

    • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 06/18/2008 12:23:32 AM

      Finaly someone to crucify the Isrealies for selling weapons to CHINA AGAINST THE ARMS BANN, WITH OUR BLESSING????

    • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 06/18/2008 12:21:47 AM

      First you nike idea will leave us with out an entire planet!
      Second if China is a fear factor why do you agree with the USA to allow the Isrealies sell weapons to China against the arms bann, weapons that make ours look like toys, to boot!???
      We have a bomb so does China and Russia! ONE IMPLODES ONE ENTIRE PLANET so what's the beef?
      The Al-Queda is right where they always have been, the REAL ONES! Not the suedo-media if it goes boom its Al-Queda.Queda! We were there, now we are not, and he grew into a grew into a great big snot! Our LEADERS fault! We has him between our toes to stomp, and outsourced it? They did not follow us home! They followed the trail of politics, which ran there country, and even warned us in the 80s! We just never listen! We still find ourselves caught in between Iraqui on Iraqui violence, which has nothing to do with us! It's a crime against Iraq! No different than a drive by [walk by, if they need gas] by the Bloods against the Crips! No different at all, and not an attack on the US! A bomber at a check post, yes is an attack on the Colilition, and as such a terrorist act. Top all this off with the fact that it would take China,Russia,and another 1/3 of the nuclear world to even get close to what we never disarmed, as we signed on the treaty for. We promised Russia we would help remove nuclear componets, if they disarm, they did, we did not, they rebuilt! gee wounder why? Read this i would build one to!

  • Posted By: scottryan1 @ 06/17/2008 11:17:08 PM

    they do need us, the Taliban was killing them before we went there, it was bad, they run every think in a very bad way. there is no way you can say we should let them sort out there own people.
    did you think that before America went there, that all the afghan men and women were getting pissed with the Taliban & having a lol. I don???t think so, they were being bashed/ shot/, forced to join the Taliban, so I do think that America should be there. Bush is a dick head,.,., that personal to me, thanks bush, ideas are nothing to you. he has no idea about loyalty, if some one helps you win a war, I would call that more than loyalty, and would at lest thank a man that did,,,, so *** him, but he did the right thing, and maybe in 1 - 7 years, people may think different about him,, but let me make this clear,, bush or any American did not come up the surge, or new Iraq plans, that is making them win the war now.,,
    What do you think, they just come up with that idea over night out of 3 years. don???t think so.

  • Posted By: R Lawrence @ 06/17/2008 8:22:36 PM

    It appears that the Talaban are indeed back and stronger than ever. Their strength is part due to the lack of attention that Afganistan has not gotten because of our disasterous war in Iraq that drained all the resources that were needed to complete the job in Afganistan. Additionally, and maybe more important is that fact that Pakistan has been playing a cat and mouse game with Washington and Nato regarding thier fight against the Terrorists and Talaban in Pakistan. It appears that the Pakistan Army or certain branches of the the military are actually assisting the Talaban in their fight in Afganistan and maybe even in their campain in Pakistan itself. Why? Probably because it suits their own regional agenda to the Talaban fighting so that they it can serve their personal regional power interests and to also keep some people in power and well funded in the drug trade and military funding from the West to fight the so called War On Terror. Nato, the US and the United Nations need to get serious and address the root problems that are orginating in Pakistan and only then can the problems in Afganistan related to the Taliban can be solved.

  • Posted By: scottryan1 @ 06/17/2008 7:27:23 PM

    the Afghanistan war must be won, troops from the iraq surge must all be sent to afghanistan asap.
    the terrorist just blow up the jail, to free there men, maybe they are runing short of men or want the people that are not fighting with them any more to show that they are starting to make ground.

    It shows how desperate they are, they need more men to fight with them, they freed the men to get more numbers, & to try get the terrorist that have seen the allied forces start to win the war, that they are fighting back trying to get the men that wonted out, back into the Taliban.
    Desperate times men desperate mashies, you no??????.
    I real think they have heaps of numbers left, but can see what is happing , and need to try change tactics if they are to win.
    But its to late for the Taliban , game over. Iraq war is going so good, soon 10 of thousands of the troops from Iraq, will be heading to Afghanistan from Iraq.
    I think you will see a new plan like the surge, mixed with new tactics to deal with all the terrorist in the caves as well.
    Bush is to afraid to take troops out off Iraq, but he should, the war is one, the Iraq army in now in good hands, they only need 10 of thousands of troops to stay near Basra / sadar city, every where eals will be ok, its time for the Iraq troops to spread out across the country, and us troops stay near hi risk places, like Basra / sadar city, the only places that could re start a half big war again.
    But after they build the cement wall all the way around sadar city, its game over, once they have finished building it, it will stop any weapons getting inside the cement wall, there for if the terrorist started to fight, there weapons would run out in weeks, if that, because the Iraq army is now going home to home inside the wall to take away all weapons. The war in sadar city is over..
    The only thing the Iraq army needs is air seaport???.
    The American should send 40,000 troops to Afghanistan right now, and really crush the terrorist /Taliban, as fast as they can, with most of the tactics they used in Iraq, along with other new tactics.

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