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Taliban Claims Responsibility as Coordinated Explosions Rip Through Afghan Capital

Taliban Claims Responsibility as Coordinated Explosions Rip Through Afghan Capital

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban launched a series of coordinated attacks on as many as seven sites across the Afghan capital on Sunday, targeting NATO bases, the parliament and Western embassies. Militants also launched near-simultaneous assaults in three other eastern cities.

At least two assailants were killed and five people wounded in Kabul, where fighting was still raging hours after it began. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility, saying in a statement that scores of suicide bombers were carrying out strikes in the capital and three other provinces – Paktia, Nangarhar and Logar.

The attacks were the most spectacular in the heavily guarded capital since September, and demonstrated the insurgents’ resolve heading into the spring fighting season, when warmer weather typically brings increased attacks. The scale and scope of the violence also underscored the Afghan security forces’ struggles to protect even the heart of national power as the U.S.-led international force speeds up the transfer of security responsibility ahead of the end of the NATO mission in 2014.

The Kabul attack began Sunday afternoon with explosions in the central neighborhood of Wazir Akbar Khan, where a NATO base and a number of embassies, including that of the U.S., are located. Gunfire erupted soon after the blasts, forcing people caught out in the street to scramble for cover.

More than 10 explosions in all rocked the city, and heavy gunfire crackled across the rooftops for hours as smoke rose over the skyline and sirens wailed.

In an e-mailed statement, Mujahid said the attacks were targeting NATO headquarters, the British and German Embassies, the Afghan parliament building, the Serena and Kabul Star hotels, and sites along Darulaman road, where the Russian Embassy is located. At the same time, Taliban fighters launched assaults on Afghan and NATO installations in the capital cities of Nangarhar, Logar and Paktia provinces, he said.

“In all these attacks, tens of mujahedeen fighters equipped with light and heavy weapons, suicide vests, RPGs, rockets, heavy machine guns and hand grenades are attacking their targets,” Mujahid said.

He told The Associated Press in a phone call that the insurgent group had planned the assault for two months to show the extent of their power after being called “weak” by NATO forces.

“We are strong and we can attack anywhere we want,” he said, adding that the assault was in advance of the insurgency’s spring offensive, which would be announced soon.

Taliban Claims Responsibility as Coordinated Explosions Rip Through Afghan Capital

AP

The American Embassy said in a statement that there were attacks “in the vicinity of the U.S. Embassy.” The German Foreign Ministry said there was some damage to the grounds of the German Embassy, but it did not appear that anyone had been hurt.

Militants holed up in a tall building still under construction were firing rockets in different directions, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene. It was not immediately clear what they were targeting, but shots appeared to be focusing on the nearby British Embassy.

Britain’s Foreign Office could not provide details of the attack.

“We can confirm that there is an ongoing incident in the diplomatic area of Kabul,” a spokeswoman said on condition of anonymity in line with government policy. “We are in close contact with embassy staff.”

Across town, residents reported a blast near parliament as militants took over a nearby building and opened fire.

Mohammad Nahim Lalai Hamidzai, a lawmaker from Kandahar, said opened fired from parliament on a nearby building under construction where militants were hiding out.

“I shot up to 400 or 500 bullets from my Kalashnikov at the attackers,” Hamidzai said. “They fired two rocket-propelled grenades at the parliament. The fight was around the parliament, the Russian Embassy and Vice President (Mohammed Karim) Khalili’s house.”

Militants also launched mortars at international military bases on Jalalabad road on Kabul’s outskirts, according to an AP reporter at the scene. A joint Greek-Turkish base came under heavy fire and forces were responding with heavy-caliber machine guns.

A police officer said a suicide bomber had occupied a building near the bases and was shooting toward the Kabul Military Training Center. The officer spoke anonymously because he was not an authorized spokesman.

At least five people were wounded in the violence across Kabul, said Kabir Amir, the chief of the city’s hospitals.

Sediq Sediqi, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said two suicide attackers were killed – one who was firing from a building under construction behind the Kabul Star Hotel and another in the fighting near parliament.

The coordinated assaults showed a sophistication that is reminiscent of the last sustained attack in the heavily guarded capital in September 2011.

In that strike, six fighters with heavy weapons took over an unfinished high-rise and fired on the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters about 300 meters (yards) away. They then held out against a 20-hour barrage by hundreds of Afghan and foreign forces. By the time the fighting ended, insurgents had killed 16 Afghans – five police officers and 11 civilians.

That attack was blamed on the Haqqani network, a Pakistan-based group allied with the Taliban.

Fighting was also continuing Sunday in the three capital cities of Logar, Paktia and Nangarhar provinces.

“In Logar, the attack is still going on and the area is surrounded by police. In Paktia, the area has been surrounded by police, but a gun battle continues,” ministry spokesman Sediqi said.

In Paktia province, Afghan security forces had surrounded militants who were holed up in a building across from a university in the city of Gardez, said the deputy provincial police chief Mohammad Zaman. The deputy governor, Abdul Rahman Mangal, said two or three suicide bombers are believed to be involved in the attack.

In Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province, militants launched separate attacks on a military airfield used by NATO and Afghan forces as well as a smaller NATO base nearby.

NATO forces killed three attackers wearing suicide vests who tried to storm the entrance to the airfield, said Amir Khan Lewal, deputy provincial police chief. He said one militant escaped.

At the nearby base, two attackers were shot dead before they could breach the base’s defenses, but there was also an explosion inside the base, Lewal said. It was not immediately possible to reconcile his figures with those of the Interior Ministry.

NATO said it was aware of reports of an explosion in the proximity of a coalition installation near Jalalabad but could provide no details about the blast.

In what NATO said was an unrelated attack, an international service member was killed by a bomb in the east on Sunday. No further details were immediately available.

This post has been updated since it was first published.

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  • KangarooJack
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:36pm

    These well coordinated and planned events are nothing more than the Taliban Media Blitz parade. Yes, YES! True sons and daughters of the prophet-blow yourselves up for our Gee-had {sorry at this point expect for my post to be put ‘under review’}. Yes, come one come all. We will GLADLY pay for your second born son or many daughters or mentally challenged kids to blow themselves up in the name of Moooohamedd.
    An illiterate, backward People who have not progressed beyond the point of stoning other people shall become the new shinning light of Eeslam.
    And We (the United States) are supposed to shudder at the terrible forces we face??? WE DON’T FACE THEM-THOSE COWARDS HIDE OUT UNDER BURKAS AND BUSHES.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 9:21pm

      .
      Tell me again what our goal is in Afghanistan?
      Democracy? Get serious.
      Ally? Ha, ha.
      Save America, get out today.

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    • duhwut
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:19pm

      I’m not sure why we are still there. It was a knee jerk reaction on our part to head there and fight the taliban, but now its just pointless. The “security” forces that were trained by coalition forces are retarded and worthless. our boys talked about how lazy and stupid they were when trying to train them. their lives literally consist of doing nothing. let natural selection do its job in that part of the world. we dont need it.

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on April 16, 2012 at 1:28am

      @DuhWut……..There was nothing knee-jerk about invading Afghanistan. It was planned well in advance of 9/11.

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  • JokerWatcher
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 5:28pm

    explosions, shooting very close, going on right now, started 0130, usually early in the morning, seems to be coming from Eggers, Iranian embassy, MOI area.

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 5:22pm

    Obama’s foreign policy takes shape. Next will be rampant beheadings for pro-Democracy sympathizers and their children. So predictable it’s written in stone. Been written in stone since the beginning of warfare and terror tactics.

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  • zoro51
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 4:49pm

    again what have i been saying… MURDERING MUSLUMS care less whom they KILL save THAT THEY KILL they are in a MAN MADE CULT OF HATE N DEATH.. plain n simple ALL MUSLUMS MURDER

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    • Ded-Bred
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:51pm

      Zoro, you’re correct. It’s so troubling when I hear those who believe that al Quaeda , Taliban Shi’ites, etc. are small groups of radicals while most Muslims are peace loving & worship the same God as Jews & Christians, just have a different name. Lies, all lies. They have a “holy book” instructing them to kill Jews & Christians over 150 times, & numerous times call for chopping off limbs as well. Our Bible was inspired by God, a God who tells His children to love even our enemies. Muslims believe they must fight and kill to defend their allah. Christians & Jews have God who protects them & it’s ridiculous we could defend God, who is Creator, and life giver but also is life taker and can & will destroy eternally body & soul.But…we aren’t to kill even Muslims. We are to show love, & tell all the good news. They may become your brother in Christ!

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  • cal_105
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 4:24pm

    Brings to mind the Tet Offense in Vietnam in 1968. If Pinko Walter Cronkite was around, he would be telling us the war is lost now.

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  • possom
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 4:22pm

    Peace and tolerance hit‘s the street’s, don’cha just love it.

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  • GoodStuff
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 2:41pm

    I guess Afghanistan doesn’t have community organizers. I heard they stop crime…or something.

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  • macpappy
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 2:11pm

    For those of you who might think that this is a bigger event than you are being told by AP, and realize that the whole truth is not the real agenda of theblaze; please enlighten yourself on this matter as it really is. You can start here, but don’t stop, keep looking and you be amazed at what our media is keeping from us.
    http://rt.com/

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    • EndTheFedNOW
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 2:17pm

      Listen to what that man just said people. Hes not telling you what he thinks is right and wrong. Hes telling you to find the truth yourself. Hes damn right. End the military industerial complex. Listen to Eisenhower!

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    • GoodStuff
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 2:40pm

      God Bless the Military-Industrial Complex. Keeping sorry Paulbots safe for decades.

      It’s either us or the Chinese who have global military dominance. You choose.

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    • Mateytwo Barreett
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 2:42pm

      @EndtheFed
      Excuse me sir. It is not the military- industiral complex. It is the miltary- industrial-CONGRESSIONAL complex. . . I was 11 when I saw Eisenhower’s farwell speech . I still remember those words and how Ike tried to warn the people.

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    • macpappy
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 2:52pm

      @GoodStuff
      Do you know the history of the US and Chinese relationship? Why are they our enemy?
      Because you have been told that. That is why. Remember the Flying Tigers, Manchuria, how about them loaning the US so much money? Does any of that sound like an enemy to you? Are they the enenmy because they are communist? Don’t be sheeple people, don’t believe what your government is telling you. Do your own research, they controll the media, but you have other avenues of research.

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    • macpappy
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 2:55pm

      @Mateytwo Barreett
      Thats right, without the Congressional part the rest would not be a threat, now would it.

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  • Robert Hawk
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 1:41pm

    The Taliban is a well funded soviet subversion force in the Middle East. The will create the state of Crisis need in order for a regime change to occur once the US troops are out of the Middle East. With George Soros quite possibly holding the purse strings to both US candidates for presidency, the Taliban and Russia knows its only a matter of time now before one the US will be out of the Middle East. Eventually the soviet subversion will be complete and the entire Middle East will be controlled by a Muslim based Socialist or Communist order. Iran (Persia) will rise to get power as will Iraq (Media). Boys and Girls this matches to the biblical prophecy given by Daniel. You will find it written in the 8th chapter of the book of Daniel. The deadly wound is placed under this one world communist system which is being moved into place by the Russians via their soviet subversion. Its very likely that George Sorors is the funding arm for the soviet subversion in the USA and possibly the Middle East.

    THese attacks by the Taliban are warnings to the solders who have sided with the US Military. Once we pull out of the region (and we will pull out very soon) then these folks lives will be in danger. The Taliban will focus on those Afghan military and eliminate them before they can build up to a force which could threaten Taliban control over the region.

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    • macpappy
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 2:29pm

      The truth as you spoke it……two months ago. Today, despite what our media tells us, these goal have already been achieved. You just aren’t being told that. Look elsewhere for more facts, you won’t find them here.
      Here is why….take the author of this story, based on an AP new story.
      Madeleine Morgenstern
      was a 2010-2011 Hatchet campus news editor. Originally from Los Angeles, Madeleine wrote for The Hatchet since her freshman year.
      Do a little research on that paper and campus and you will see that dear Madeleine is a bonified liberal that was up until hired by the blaze writing for a very liberal paper in a very liberal campus.

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  • JokerWatcher
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 1:31pm

    a lot of shooting in our neighborhood today, sounded like Chicago…
    It may be that Geraldo just ****** them off (heard he’s in town, no doubt to save us, end the conflict, save the children, save the whales, you know, noble things like that..)

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  • MrKnowItAll
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 1:10pm

    Many times all day I wonder What the President is thinking about at that exact moment of my day.
    Then I remember….He is on vacation or out Golfing.

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  • SilentReader
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 1:09pm

    And these despicable Taliban terrorists are the rogues that this Obama administration is negotiating with! You don’t negotiate with a terrorist! They’re killers!

    It‘s time to pull our troops out of that hornet’s nest that they call the Middle East, where the Islamist terrorists are killing Christians left and right at the behest of this Obama administration who is bowing down to our enemies and alienating all our allies, and giving our hard-earned taxpayer money to Egypt and their Muslim Brotherhood-installed treacherous government and the al Qaeda in Libya now!

    No one, except the Clintonistas and Carter, has done more harm to America than this Occupier-in-Chief and his top coward Nation-of-Cowards Fast-and-Furious Eric Holder who only prosecutes White people!

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    • YOUR NOT GETTING MY GUNS
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 3:25pm

      If there is no intent to win this so called war, we and our allies need to start comeing home. The sooner and faster the better.

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  • FloridaFarmGirl
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 12:47pm

    We need to get out of there right now. No good will come of this. My little brother is over there again and I will continue to pray for all of our troops but they need to come home now!!

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  • blackyb
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 12:24pm

    They don’t want the U.S. over there, so they can settle it themselves. We should not helpt any country who has teated our soldiers as they have ours. Those UN soldeirs have no business givng our men orders, for they are never in favor of anything the U.S. proposes. The U.N. is not pro USA. We should get out of that money sucking mess.

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  • TRILO
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 12:17pm

    Quotes from the “Art of War” by Sun Tzu:
    ” Though the enemy be stronger in numbers, we may prevent him from fighting. Scheme so as to discover his plans and the likelihood of their success. Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots. Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient”.

    “When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, the men’s weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened.”

    “In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.”

    It seems that our enemies have read and learned. Our country has not strived for victory since WWII. We have had alternative motives for every war since WWII.

    Our faliures since 9/11 are not just at the hands of Obama. When George Bush said that the “War on Terror” was going to take years it was the beginning of the downfall of our efforts. In war, nation building is never an objective.

    On a side note: Isn’t it odd that the Partiot Act just happened to be ready for implementation so soon after 9/11? Isn’t it odd that now Afghanistain has become the largest producer and exporter of marijuana, in addition to heroin. Isn’t it odd that heroin use is on the rise especially with teenagers, even in smaller midwestern communities. Isn’t it odd that one of the largest US foreign military bases is

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    • momrules
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 12:33pm

      Your post is very interesting. I hope you will finish what you were going to say.

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  • momrules
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:43am

    We can talk about the problems with the Taliban in Afganistan, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the Palastinians attacking Israel, the Boko Haram in Nigeria and Muslim atrocities across the globe but we always forget about us, the USA.

    The Muslims are invading America. They are being brought here by the boatload and settled all across America. New mosques are being built everywhere from large cities to small towns.
    The Muslim Brotherhood is active and thriving through C.A.I.R and assorted other Islamic cover groups on our own soil. They are invited to the White House. They are active on our college campuses.

    We need out of Afganistan, I agree, but we need to pay attention to what is happening here too.
    The Muslims here are quieter, they wear three piece suits, they have lawyers and they have the backing of the President. They are insideous and they are patient and they are active.
    Beware and be aware.

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  • barber2
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 10:22am

    Thanks, Commander-in-Chief . Your Afghan policies are proving as brilliant as your economic policies. I think America was safer when you were a community agitator. Think you have just “Peter Principled ” as President !

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    • stormcrow53
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 10:49am

      This is just one battlefield in a world wide war that has been ongoing since the 7th century. It cannot be won through the methods the Progs have forced upon us since the end of World War Two. And we haven’t won a war since World War Two regardless the sacrifice our warriors have made.
      Immediately and mercilessly; Islam must be destroyed.
      All roots and all branches.

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:23am

      One, wide open rules of engagement.
      Two, no American body guard for Karzai.
      Three, Kill a bunch of T-ban on the way out.
      Four, B-52 strikes on suspected T-ban camps.
      Five, Herbicide on all poppy crops.
      Six, goodbye.

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    • momrules
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 12:03pm

      Stormcrow53……..Correct. Politically correct fought wars can not be won. We are just wasting time and lives.

      Dmerwin……………I very much agree and all six of your ideas should have been carried out years ago.

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  • copatriots
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 10:00am

    Get our troops the HE77 out of there! We have no business being somewhere our Dear Leader doesn’t even want us to win!

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  • pinchanze
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 9:43am

    Is there anyone here who can tell me why we give financial aide to a country that knowingly harbors the Taliban? Stop the aide and you get your Taliban! Think that is too simple? If we can buy off families for the loss of their loved ones for 50gs, then why not offer 10,000 Pakastani’s a million each to turn over all Taliban. Just a thought.

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  • TWO BITS
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 9:17am

    This administration pretends that it is possible to engage in dialogue with the Taliban, but the resounding response from these radicals is bomb blasts across Afghanistan. Obama is buying time and trying to keep the lid on the Middle East until after the election…he will have more “flexibility” then.

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  • The_Almighty_Creestof
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 9:08am

    How can we destroy the great Satan?

    Well, since we don’t care about human life or human rights…let’s fight among ourselves and kill a bunch of people (nobody of any great importance though) and then while one side (of the same side) begs for help and professes a democratic leaning, the other side (again…of the same side) will swear to follow terrorist policies and snuggle with the muslim brotherhood. We’ll get foriegn aid and weapons on one side, and bribes galore on the other…which we’ll use to secretly attack the USA and its allies all over the world. Then when we’ve milked that out as long as possible, we’ll publish fake body counts and stories of torture. The USA will eventually stick its big nose in with troops and while we run to the right, you point to the left and say we went that way. Once we bring them to the brink of financial ruin over something that was never their business…we’ll make friends, swear to be allies, make nicey-nice…for about 5 years before starting the whole thing up again. One day we‘ll own the US as it will be so broke it can’t even continue paying for the UN which hates it.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 9:12am

      Yes, Christof, that sounds about right.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:35am

    Let them fight it out… and we will confront the Winner!

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    • dissentnow
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:44am

      How will we pay for the war with the winner?

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    • lukerw
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 10:19am

      @DIS…
      The same way… we pay for everything, now (we have not had real Money in a Decade)!

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    • dissentnow
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:25am

      So, we will print more money or borrow it from communist China……
      I mean, its worked so well for us in the past, right?

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    • lukerw
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 3:40pm

      @DIS…
      REALITY sucks!

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    • dissentnow
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 4:05pm

      So, you agree that we can’t afford to fight more wars. You also agree that we are printing money which creates inflation. You also agree that we are borrowing money from one of our enemies, which makes China stronger and the US weaker in the long run.
      You admit all of this but you still don’t see a need to change our current policies?

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  • disenlightened
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:32am

    Why are there Taliban members still living? I thought we wiped them out a decade ago. Do they multiply exponentially, breeding with goats? Get the troops out . . . they’re not fighting a war anyway, they’re only there to make people think Obama is strong on defense . . . and carpet-bomb the place.

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    • barber2
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 10:26am

      I think your “ carpet ” treatment is really the only solution for this nasty stain of humanity. Terrible to say, but trying to win their “ hearts and minds ” just doesn’t seem to work….

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    • Mateytwo Barreett
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 3:05pm

      I KNOW! The US government agency in charge of those numbers is the USDA! The agency compiles precisely the amount of ground sewn to poppies and marjuana. Since thet have not had enough time to implement a full producer record, the known producers and acrage are used to determine a workable a. number of producers and b. uantiites of the crops available for sale at harvest time. One could suppose that the actuarial data would be invflated as they do in the States to soften the prices. Also, on the Afgan end. he worlsof t the official USDA reporting service will issue numerous claims of elevated produiction in other parts of the world, as well as numerous, undetectible, quality issues with the crop.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:21am

    These are the people that Mr Obama the Gai Jin assumes he can actually negotiate with? He has failed to understand the equation.

    He talks – taliban nod heads – we leave – Taliban rules Afghanistan again.

    Mr Obama is openly and willingly negotiating with the enemies of the US, therefore he is a traitor of the highest order.

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    • EP46
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:35am

      Yes Snow and he has put in place ‘rules of engagement’ that are dangerous for our soldiers. He will not bring them home because it would cause unemployment rates to ‘necessarily skyrocket’. The commander-in-chief is a clear and present danger to America.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:24am

      Why can’t Barry personally go to negotiate with the peaceful Taliban?? With all that gravitas and charm he exudes, he will be sure to persuade these schmata heads that going back to their stoneage ways is the preferable path. He should take Bite Me, Canckles (Hillary for you DEMS), Eric the Red, Nancy P. , Harry the Sly, as examples of good leadership. C’mon Barry, Manup.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 9:10am

      Exactly, Snow.

      They are emboldened because of the reasons that you have noted, and also because the President has given a “timeline” for the allied exit. And because of the many ridiculously profuse apologies over the Koran-burning, which muslims, due to their culture and upbringing, take as weakness.

      What on earth did he think was going to happen? That everybody would be nice and make an effort to get along?

      I am repeating myself, I know, but when it comes to foreign affairs, the President is a blundering amateur. When you add this fact to his less than stellar performance in domestic affairs, I can’t see how he can possibly be re-elected.

      I suspect that the President agrees with me, hence the current rash of distractions and devisive tactics.

      To be followed, in my humble opinion, by a knock-down, drag-out campaign filled with such negativity and nastiness as to surpass any in history.

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    • drbage
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 10:39am

      He sends young Americans into harm’s way and basically puts blinders on them to fight a “kinetic military action” without allowing them to use the technology which we have. He allows the countries where the troops are to dictate where they can go, what weaponry they can use, when they can engage the “kinetic enemy,” etc. He tells the enemy when we are going to leave and with the constraints he has allowed foreign countries to put on the troops, the enemy gets bolder and bolder as each day passes. The countries’ leaders say you can be here, when in reality all they really want is the money flowing from the US treasury.
      Very troubling to me it the tone of what the One is saying to these foreign leaders. Since his meeting with the Medvedev through Cartegena, he is not saying “if” he wins re-election, but “when” he does. We all need to be very vigilant at the ballot box on November 6th.

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  • MittensKittens
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:17am

    At least America is off the list for now, with a “brother” in the White House, the Taliban will leave us alone.

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