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How about first we kill all of you Jihadi Motherfuckers. . . CNSNews: Karzai’s Response to Obama’s Apology: Put U.S. Troops on Trial and Punish Them (CNSNews.com) - Three days after President Barack Obama dispatched his ambassador to Afghanistan to...
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Newsmax: Afghan President Criticizes Anti-Terror Strategy Monday, 30 Aug 2010 President Hamid Karzai has again criticized coalition strategy in fighting Afghanistan's stubborn insurgency, saying it has thus far produced nothing but civilian deaths....
- Maybe Gates Didn't Get The Memo. . .
Offer valid through July 2011 only. Certain restrictions apply. See your local insurgent for details. In the event of bowing groveling or apologizing on by the leader of the Free World (such as it is) to persons formerly known as enemies this offer may...
- Obama Dithers, Troops Die
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- Taliban Rebuffs Karzai's Negotiation Offer
President Hamid Karzai offered to meet with the Taliban leader and give militants a government position, but a spokesman for the militant group on Sunday said it will “never” negotiate with Afghan authorities until U.S. and NATO forces leave the country.Karzai...
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Don't Call Us Occupiers When We're Dying for Your Country, U.S. Tells Karzai
It's about time someone said it:
The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan warned Sunday that the American people are growing weary of being viewed as “occupiers” by the leaders of a country where so much American blood has been spilled.
Karl Eikenberry’s candid and impassioned remarks came a day after President Hamid Karzai in a televised speech accused U.S.-led foreign troops of being in the country “for their own national interests.”
On Sunday, Karzai met with Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi – on the first ever official visit by Iran’s top defense official – and the two discussed problems arising from “the presence of foreign forces” in Afghanistan, according to reports in Iranian state media. Last week Karzai held talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the sidelines of a Eurasian summit in Kazakhstan, and similar sentiments were expressed.
More than 1,500 U.S. troops have lost their lives in Afghanistan – some 177 this year alone – since U.S.-led forces invaded to topple the Taliban regime following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. More than 900 military personnel from other nations have been killed over that period.
There are around 100,000 American troops deployed in Afghanistan, and the first in a series of phased withdrawals is due to take place in the coming weeks.
Without mentioning Karzai by name, Eikenberry took aim Sunday at the increasingly harsh anti-coalition rhetoric emanating from the president, calling it “hurtful and inappropriate.” The ambassador, who will leave his post over the summer, made the remarks at the end of a speech on the future of U.S.-Afghan relations, delivered to several hundred students at Herat University.
“When Americans, who are serving in your country at great cost in terms of lives and treasure, when they hear themselves compared with occupiers, told that they’re only here to advance their own interest, and likened to the brutal enemies of the Afghan people, my people in turn are filled with confusion and they grow weary of our effort here,” Eikenberry said.
“Mothers and fathers of fallen soldiers, spouses of soldiers who have lost arms and legs, children of those who’ve lost their lives in this country – they ask themselves about the meaning of their loved one’s sacrifice,” he continued. “I have to tell you, when I hear some of your leaders call us occupiers, I cannot look at these mourning parents, these mourning spouses, these mourning children, and give them any kind of comforting reply.”
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How about first we kill all of you Jihadi Motherfuckers. . . CNSNews: Karzai’s Response to Obama’s Apology: Put U.S. Troops on Trial and Punish Them (CNSNews.com) - Three days after President Barack Obama dispatched his ambassador to Afghanistan to...
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Newsmax: Afghan President Criticizes Anti-Terror Strategy Monday, 30 Aug 2010 President Hamid Karzai has again criticized coalition strategy in fighting Afghanistan's stubborn insurgency, saying it has thus far produced nothing but civilian deaths....
- Maybe Gates Didn't Get The Memo. . .
Offer valid through July 2011 only. Certain restrictions apply. See your local insurgent for details. In the event of bowing groveling or apologizing on by the leader of the Free World (such as it is) to persons formerly known as enemies this offer may...
- Obama Dithers, Troops Die
Newsmax: Obama Rejects Afghanistan Options Wednesday, November 11, 2009 6:55 PM WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to...
- Taliban Rebuffs Karzai's Negotiation Offer
President Hamid Karzai offered to meet with the Taliban leader and give militants a government position, but a spokesman for the militant group on Sunday said it will “never” negotiate with Afghan authorities until U.S. and NATO forces leave the country.Karzai...