Obama’s Solution For Afghanistan: Pay The Taliban To Stop Fighting

Why do all of Obama’s solution seem suspiciously alike? Car sales slow? Pay people to buy cars. Lending slow? Pay people to take out loans. Business not hiring? Pay them to do government make-work jobs.
Terrorists in Afghanistan won’t back down? Pay them to stop fighting.

The defence Bill due to be signed by US president Barack Obama yesterday contains a new provision that would pay Taliban fighters who renounce the insurgency, Senate armed services committee chairman Carl Levin has said. …
Reaching out to moderate Taliban members is part of the Obama administration’s plan to turn around the eight-year war in Afghanistan. Mr Levin has also advocated trying to convince Taliban fighters to change sides by luring them with jobs and amnesty for past attacks.
Under the legislation, Afghan fighters who renounce the insurgency would be paid for “mainly protection of their towns and villages”, Mr Levin said.

This is somewhat similar to the successful tactic in Iraq that had the US military cooperating with Iraqi militia groups to get them to protect their own neighborhoods and fight the foreign al Qaeda and Iranian-backed terrorists. The problem is that in Afghanistan the terrorists are the Taliban. And paying them to stop fighting would be akin to paying off Iran or al Qaeda to stop fighting in Iraq.
And besides, the strategy in Iraq was developed by military experts like General David Petraeus. Not Senators like Carl Levin.

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  • http://www.2plus2equals5.net/ winston smith

    i haven’t heard of that. do you have a link to it? who said that? was it the fascist obama or the fascist bush? or did you make it all up in your seriousally corroded, fascistic, lying brain?

  • http://www.2plus2equals5.net/ winston smith

    In Uruzgan province, both U.S. and Australian Special Forces have contracted with a private army commanded by Col. Matiullah Khan, called Kandak Amniante Uruzgan, with 2,000 armed men, to provide security services on which their bases there depend. That case was reported in detail in April 2008 by two reporters for The Australian, Mark Dodd and Jeremy Kelly.

    Col. Khan’s security force protects NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) convoys on the main road from Kandahar to Tarin Kowt, where more than 1,000 Australian troops are based at Camp Holland, according to the The Australian in April 2008.

    Col. Khan gets 340,000 dollars per month – nearly 4.1 million dollars annually – for getting two convoys from Kandahar to Tarin Kowt safely each month. Khan, now police chief in Uruzgan province, evidently got his private army from his uncle Jan Mohammad Khan, a commander who helped defeat the Taliban in Kandahar in 2001 and was then rewarded by President Karzai by being named governor of Uruzgan in 2002.

  • sayanything-4625

    You don’t buy that Obama is ignoring the troop request? Who’s being partisan now? McCrystal and our NATO allies are BEGGING him to go ahead and approve the additional 40,000 troops that McCryrstal has asked for. Why do you back McCrystal when he backs a program you like but suddenly his request for more troops becomes a “Republican” argument..

  • sayanything-2

    Poor woofie, too stupid to make any sort of valid point. Why is that, chap8?

  • sayanything-12

    Hannitized:

    And of course, he is never correct in his history, and seldom understands what he is talking about.

    LOL. Self-referential statement if I’ve ever seen one.

  • http://www.2plus2equals5.net/ winston smith

    what are you talking about, you little fascist liar?

  • sayanything-3960

    Do the commanders on the ground want this? Got proof of that, lyingcourt?

    Have you ever known a commander who did not want every tool they could get?
    But as a matter of fact I do. From a CNN article http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/28/afghanistan.taliban.pay/index.html:

    "Most of the fighters we see in Afghanistan are Afghans, some with [a] foreign cadre with them," said Gen. Stanley McChrystal in a July 28 Los Angeles Times interview. Most are not ideologically or even politically motivated, he said in the interview. "Most are operating for pay; some are under a commanders charismatic leadership; some are frustrated with local leaders."

  • http://www.2plus2equals5.net/ winston smith

    i can tell the future! i see the soviet union. they have lost the war somewhere. they couldn’t afford it. i can their empire falling. wait a minute. it wasn’t the soviet union. it was america!!!

    i’m going to laugh at you when that happens. when been there for 8 years. the dollar is worth 4 cents. it’s going to get ugly for our economy and our liberty if this keeps up. but you want that, don’t you, you little fascist?

  • sayanything-9974

    you are right – This is something he knows about. Maybe we should yeild to his judgement and expertise on this. Chicago is as corrupt as Afghanistan.

  • Hanni

    Hahaha….2Hotel never fails to represent the crystal meth induced ramblings from the white trash party.

  • sayanything-2

    You watching the roller coaster? People are going to be losing their minds before this week is over. http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/marketsummary/

  • sayanything-2

    Then why do you care, e?

  • sayanything-2

    No, hioney. You supporting Muslim terrorists against real humans in creating a never ending cycle. But you know that.

  • sayanything-2

    And you do understand that fascism, socialism, Marxism, communism are all the same thing. You just switch words back and forth, alter definitions, rewrite history to support your anti-American sh%t.

    Now, explain for the class how being against government encroachment into private industry and individual liberty is fascism. This drivel ought to be funny as hell.

  • sayanything-2

    Poor little socialist, now it is a poser, too. Cry us a river. Surrender, why is that your first option, socialist ass?

    As for veteran and active duty funerals, been involved since the 1980s. Surrender to America’s enemies is exactly what all those American soldiers want, right? Tell us about how groveling on our knees will bring peace with Muslim terrorists. We love laughing at morons like you.

  • Lioncourt

    And yet you skip over what else they have to say. Nice pickin’!

    Who are they? You asked me if the commanders on the ground approved of this and I show you that the Commander in Afghanistan does.

    Oh give me a break. If this were bush you’d be whining about making deals with terrorsts.

    Really, show me when I ever said paying the Sunnis was a bad idea. I’ve even advocated for buyng off North Korea with food to stop them from making nukes (with the added bonus of saving alot of lives.) I think we don’t use money enough. And paying young men not to be Taliban might actually work. What I don’t understand is why you are opposed to giving the commanders this option?

    What I really think is going on here is that you didn’t do any research on the program, as usual. You didn’t know the money was to come from the commander’s discretionary fund. If you knew that McChrystal supported it you would have supported it in hopes of embarrassing Obama. But you thought that this was an idea of Levin supported by Obama so you naturally had to criticize it when you knew nothing about it.

    It is your typical style. And now you are too proud to admit that you were wrong.

  • sayanything-2

    Ah, ain’t that cute? e thinks it has an opinion. She must have finally got her tampon to stop leaking.

    Whats wrong, honey? Did you forget you were using your suckpuppet in this thread?

  • http://www.2plus2equals5.net/ winston smith

    i have a hell of a cleanex bill, alright. but if for our soldiers. you see, i am a member of the Patriot Guard Riders, so i have been to more funerals of military personnel this year, and i don’t want to do it anymore.

    i wish i could be like you. a chicken hawk who lies about every thing.

    please tell me, what funerals of military people did you attend? i guess about none. it would burst your bubble about how glorious this war is.

    one thing i can tell you about you. other than your a chicken hawk. you don’t have the brains enough to think five minutes into the future. i don’t think you have brains at all.

    i’d would feel sorry for you, but you’re not worth it.

  • sayanything-2

    No, dumbass, “a” General wants it. Others do not. You really are a stupid liar, you should work on those skills, if you ever want to be a lawyer, dumbass.

  • robert108

    The Browning Automatic Rifle, invented around the time of the First World War. It’s basically a hand-fired small machine gun, using a .30 cal cartridge.

  • http://www.2plus2equals5.net/ winston smith

    i agree that we should send more troops into afghanistan. that way we could run more taiban into pakistan to create more trouble there. then when pakistan falls we could invade them for “national security” sake. that is, unless the pakinstani military secret service, the ISI, don’t take over the government. the ISI happened to like the taliban. i wonder what they’ll do with their nuclear missiles?

    but i like war with pakistan. we’re bombing them already. let’s add a 100,000 more troops over there. i say war in pankistan! i don’t care how many of our troops die. i am PATRIOTIC!!!! i don’t care how much worthless money we have to print. i am PATRIOTIC!!!!

  • sayanything-2

    You are busted again. This is too easy.

    You have to remember, when you are commenting as more than one person in a thread you have to keep straight which one you are where. Now go change that leaky tampon, come back and post that PM. Thats and order.

  • http://www.2plus2equals5.net/ winston smith

    you left something out. And you do understand that fascism, socialism, Marxism, communism, AND CAPITALISM are all the same thing. You just switch words back and forth, alter definitions, rewrite history to support… i mean if your going to alter definitions, why not go for the gusto?
    why either bother with definitions when you can made them up. why, you’re a genius!!!

    you a republican, aren’t you? this from “The Reality of Red-State Fascism”.

    “In short, what we have alive in the US is an updated and Americanized fascism. Why fascist? Because it is not leftist in the sense of egalitarian or redistributionist. It has no real beef with business. It doesn’t sympathize with the downtrodden, labor, or the poor. It is for all the core institutions of bourgeois life in America: family, faith, and flag. But it sees the state as the central organizing principle of society, views public institutions as the most essential means by which all these institutions are protected and advanced, and adores the head of state as a godlike figure who knows better than anyone else what the country and world’s needs, and has a special connection to the Creator that permits him to discern the best means to bring it about.

    The American right today has managed to be solidly anti-leftist while adopting an ideology – even without knowing it or being entirely conscious of the change – that is also frighteningly anti-liberty. This reality turns out to be very difficult for libertarians to understand or accept. For a long time, we’ve tended to see the primary threat to liberty as coming from the left, from the socialists who sought to control the economy from the center. But we must also remember that the sweep of history shows that there are two main dangers to liberty, one that comes from the left and the other that comes from the right. ”

    you can read it her.–> http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/red-state-fascism.html

    all i could say about individual liberty is the Patriot Act.

    i didn’t give you too much to read, did i? i don’t want to give you a headache, you little fascist.

  • sayanything-4625

    A) Unless we personally disburse the money ourselves, how are we going to make sure it gets to the local?
    B) The Afghan Army pays $110 a month. If they won’t join the Afghan Army for $110 per month why would they fight for us for $20 per month?

  • sayanything-2

    You must have a hell of a cleanex bill, all that crying you do when your Muslim terrorists heroes get the sh%t stomped out of them. Now, screech some more, its always good for a laugh.

  • sayanything-42

    It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
    To puff and look important and to say:—
    “Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
    We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”

    And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
    But we’ve proved it again and again,
    That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
    You never get rid of the Dane.

  • robert108

    BTW, moron; fascism is State control of private enterprise. Only Obama is trying to turn the US into a fascist country with his takeovers of parts of the private sector.

    Try to get an education.

  • sayanything-8606

    What happens when the cash runs out?

  • sayanything-2

    “The Reality of Red-State Fascism”

    More socialist screeching. Let us know when you wake up and get a clue, socialist screecher.

  • Doug

    The cash will be laced with Anthrax. Or soaked in that deadly isotope that killed the Russian.

  • Lioncourt

    This would allow the commanders on the ground to use a discretionary fund for this purpose. It would be their decision in their AOR.

    Why would you not want them to have all the tools they can at their disposal?

  • sayanything-2

    Ohio Ordnance http://www.ohioordnanceworks.com/ makes a good product, just some times you get a lemon.

    I think the mate up between barrel and receiver is screwed, in some mystical metallurgical way. Maybe we should try some voodoo! Really hate to give up on a rifle, but there it is.

  • Dragonfly

    Lets see, didn’t the Guantanimo Inmates who were released say they would never resume fighting and weren’t they recaptured in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Weren’t the opium poppy farmers paid to grow other crops and didn’t they take the money and keep growing opium poppies, so do you think the Taliban will just take the money and quit fighting? Has former President Bush restored the tradition of Democracy to Iraq after finding the Weapons of Mass Destruction?
    It will not work! Save the TAXPAYERS money!

  • sayanything-3960

    How come nobody can explain to me why commanders in the field are ill equipped to make this decision?

    Come on conservatives, this is a challenge.

  • robert108

    The Sunnis are a religious sect; the Taliban are a terrorist group.
    False equivalence.

  • sayanything-3960

    McChrystal is in favor of it. You know, the commander in Afganistan.

    And Obama is not ignoring the commanders, he has ordered a review of the strategy, as he should. He met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff today. It is just the Republican mantra that he is ignoring them.

    But you don’t seem to answer a simple question. What is your objection to this program? It certainly doesn’t seem to be a principled stand. You didn’t even know what the program was when you wrote this post.

  • sayanything-3960

    So we just pay them forever?

    Do you plan on being in Afghanistan forever? Well, I know it is not you personally, we both know what you think about military service.

    You pay them for as long as we are there. They defend their villages and you take away a resource from the Taliban fairly inexpensively.

    You than mount operations to go after the more hard corps cadre of the Taliban.

    They are not paying the high level leaders of the Taliban. They are paying the disaffected youth who is their recruiting base. The military commanders in Afghanistan want this authority, why are you opposed? What do you know that they don”t?

  • sayanything-3960

    What happens when the cash runs out?

    Well, from my research they are planning to pay $20 a week. It will take along time to run out of cash.

  • sayanything-12

    winston:

    why don’t you smack me with the truth about how its wasn’t done with george bush even though he had a congressional and a senate majority in 2003 or so. you remember that don’t you?

    Very narrow senate majority in 2003.

    The Democrats are riding on nearly veto proof.

    Apples to oranges comparison.

  • sayanything-4625

    Saying in Afghanistan – “You can rent an Afghan, but you can’t buy him.”

    They would not take money to fight the Russians, just weapons.

    In Iraq, the Sunni’s could be paid to fight Al-Queda which was a foreign led and foreign entity trying to impose its will on Iraqi’s. In Afghanistan, the fighters are locals .

  • http://www.2plus2equals5.net/ winston smith

    that goes for 2hotel9, too. it no wonder how the libs portray us as dumbasses.

  • sayanything-2

    And now the Taliban has rejected Barri, just like Americans have. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2010/01/28/Taliban-rejects-inclusion-offer/UPI-75141264702200/

    Money shot?”"They think the mujahedin will be enticed by money or by positions of power,” a Taliban statement read. “Such thoughts are baseless and futile and have no truth.” There it is.

  • Lioncourt

    Taliban answers Bambi on his offer: “ask your wife for a key to the safe with your testicles”. That’s a loose translation. The more precise one reads: Taliban consider the U.S. measure “a sign of weakness and complete despondency of the enemy.
    More waffles Bambi?

    Our field commanders want to use the strategy, their leaders don’t want us to try the strategy.

    Why are you siding with the Taliban?

  • sayanything-4625

    Were you looking in the mirror when you wrote that Hanni?

  • robert108

    If I could decipher your incoherent ramblings, winston, I would smack you with the truth, but I really don’t understand, with the missing words and the egregious misspelling, what you are on about.

    Your list is one that describes what conservatives want to reform, and have been trying to reform, since at least 1964. You commie Dems have blocked any resolution of any of those troubled areas and have, in fact, increased their size and expense, thus making all of them worse.

    Again, I can only guess at your meaning, due to your incoherence.

  • AKA WOOF

    Both religious groups,
    both blow up US troops
    and civilians.

  • robert108

    You’re the intolerant fascist here, winston. Stop your lying.

    Two has called you on your lies, and has smacked you with the truth. As a leftie, it’s time for you to cut and run, just like you want us to cut and run from the terrorists.

  • sayanything-2

    Prove America has claimed Afghanistan as its territory, socialist liar. Or can you not do that? Why would that be?

  • sayanything-2

    Poor sanni, all that meth and alcohol withdrawl is making him cry. Don’t worry! Your ACCESS card should be monied up by Tuesday, and you can party your live away again. At least till you empty that welfare account again.

  • http://www.2plus2equals5.net/ winston smith

    we’re not going to have victory in afghanistan. hate to tell you that.

  • sayanything-2

    And had a terrible situation today that reminded me of you! I have finally marked that BAR down as NDG. First rifle in a long time I couldn’t square away. Damned shame.

  • http://www.2plus2equals5.net/ winston smith

    don’t tell him, but i sold him soap powder last time he bought for me. he is so stupid that he wouldn’t notice any difference. after all, its affect the brain, something 2hotel9 doesn’t have any of.

    but he does make me laugh!!!

  • sayanything-9974

    Good Question – Ask Obama the same thing – The Ditherer in Chief hates the thought of a US military victory. What if freedom broke out.

  • sayanything-2

    Well, been fun, but now I am off to make some money. Take this BAR out and see if I got its squirrely ass settled in. Twice back to the manufacturer, I’ve torn it down 3 times, hopefully this is the one. Otherwise I am going to suggest he sell it to a museum as a display, cause it is a balls up as a rifle. So far.

  • sayanything-2

    I’m not Jewish.

  • sayanything-2

    Do the commanders on the ground want this? Got proof of that, lyingcourt?

  • sayanything-2

    And yet you skip over what else they have to say. Nice pickin’!

    For you, since you are so myopic, Afghanistan is different from Iraq. Many Afghanis take up arms simply because someone, anyone, nationality irregardless, from outside their tribal area is in their tribal area. That includes people from the other side of the mountain or the world, religion is merely window dressing. And giving them money does not buy their loyalty, and little of their cooperation.

    Stopping the Taliban and Al Queda from perpetuating their lies that Americans are in Afghanistan to steal their country from them is the primary goal, and the best way to do that is killing all Al Queda and Taliban leadership. And killing all mullahs these groups have installed in the rural provinces. You do understand that is how they operate, right? Hello? McFly? Anyone home?

    Just handing out money will do nothing.

  • robert108

    winston: Once again I’m in the position of having to inform you of facts that are public knowledge. The Dems filibustered every Republican reform in the Senate. In addition, the fact that the MSM is essentially the Dem Ministry of Propaganda enables them to lie their way to public support, no matter how unAmerican they are.

    Your ignorance of the facts is your problem, not mine.

    BTW, whose little sockpuppet are you? You keep mouthing all the Soros memes here, just any number of lefties. None of you has an original thought between you.

    I call you commies because that’s what you are. What real American values do you support?

  • jk

    “Some people really take themselves too seriously.”

    Spoken like a true narcissist.

  • sayanything-2

    Quit being a socialist nutbag, you have already admitted you’re a lib dumbass, take the next step, leftard, still time to save your sole.(wonder if it will figure out that is the wrong word?)

  • Hanni

    This site is about two star grades higher than bathroom wall ramblings.

    Some people really take themselves too seriously. What a joke.

  • sayanything-2

    And yet here you are, spewing and crying like a little beeatch, Why is that, if this “site” is so terrible? Could it be your drug and alcohol fueled self-destructive masochism?

  • sayanything-3960

    And what do you think happens when we leave Afghanistan genius?

    If we’re smart we do what we promised in the late 80s and 90s and help them with economic development.

    Why do you oppose this if the commanders want this authority?

    The funds come from a commanders discretionalry funds for projects like infrastructure development. You could make a principled argument that you believe that these payments do not do as much good as developing infrastructure. But that does not appear to be your argument. You simply use the mantra that we shouldn’t pay terrorist. But that is not what we are doing. We are paying very young men to not become Taliban. I don’t know if this will work, but I am willing to let the experts make the decision. The commanders on the ground want this and the civilian leadership in Washington seem willing to give it to them.

    Your objections seem totally partisan.

  • sayanything-2

    A reproduction made by Ohio Ordinance. The owner sent it back to them twice, I tore it down 3 times. Action has a hang, won’t move smoothly, feed from mag is unreliable, and it won’t stay zeroed. I even super glued the rear sight aperture in place, within 5 shots it was loose and hitting 6 inches off mark, from the vise no less.

    It is one of their first production run rifles, and it just ain’t right. Nothing we have done has helped. I told Tig to sell it to someone for a display, it will never be a reliable rifle. Looks nice, though, has the bakelite stock and foregrip, metal is real good looking. Just don’t shoot worth a sh*t.

    Thanks for asking. Nice to vent on things like this. It bothers me to have to deadline any weapon.

  • sayanything-9974

    Dumbass – the generals want more troops to win. Dems always want to spend more money.
    Throwing more money into the moneypit is not always the answer.

  • sayanything-2

    Oh, and we are helping with economic development and building infrastructure. The Taliwackers are really, REALLY pissed about that. Schools, roads and jobs undermine their campaign of religion fueled ignorance. But hey, you are all about keep the people of the mid-east ignorant and starving. It is your Big Plan. That way your heroes, Muslim Terrorists, will continue to kill innocent children and women and you get your sexually jollies from all the pics and video. You really are sick.

  • sayanything-9974

    Afghanistan is the poorest country on the face of the earth. The money should be spent on the people that are willing to help defeat the Taliban/islamo fascists. Al Qaeda and the Taliban will be laughing all the way to the bank if we move forward with this moronic plan. The joke will be on them if the dollar maintains current pace. Obama can just print as much as needed.

  • robert108

    They will just buy more guns and ammunition. Duh.

    Just what we need; well-paid terrorists! Obama will just create another subsidy bubble in Taliban numbers.

  • AKA WOOF

    We’re paying the Sunni’s .
    Wonder who did that

  • sayanything-2

    The same tired assed history revisionism. Nothing new, and certainly nothing original in any of e’s screeching. Which ever name she posts under.

  • sayanything-2

    Oh, and it is a 1918A3 SLR repro. I have shot several others, love them. This b@tch just ain’t right.

  • robert108

    BTW, thanks for admitting that you’re a dumbass.

  • sayanything-2

    A commander wants this, others don’t. It is all dependent on the AO. A point you are too stupid to get, obviously.

    Ever heard of “Danegeld”, dumbass?

  • http://www.2plus2equals5.net/ winston smith

    i would link to those sites, but you won’t read them. all you can do for a reply is the no-thought-involved “More socialist screeching.”

    you are nothing.

  • http://www.2plus2equals5.net/ winston smith

    i like your comments. i will look them up. no telling me i’m a socialist nut job, just facts as you see them. :O)

  • sayanything-2

    And the socialist screeches some more. Yawn.

  • Lioncourt

    The Sunnis are a religious sect; the Taliban are a terrorist group.

    The big question Robert is why don’t you want to give the commanders on the ground this ability to make this decision?

  • sayanything-2

    Yep, there is that “America is an evil, empirialist empire” lie. You are certainly hitting all your talking points.

  • sayanything-2

    No, because we are not their to take it from the Afghanis. Or are you going to screech that America is an evil, imperialist empire?

  • sayanything-2

    Where is all that proof that America has claimed Afghanistan as its territory?

  • sayanything-2

    This was reported a couple of weeks ago, never heard about it again. Basically it will be a part of getting local villagers to side with Afghani government forces, and it will only work in some areas, in other they will take the cash and still support the Taliwackers.

    Read this y’all. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102603394.html?wpisrc=newsletter

    Valley-ism. An excellent way to say it.

  • sayanything-2

    elinas? You are back to your usual incoherent babbling. Do you think anyone actually believes any of your crying and rat sh$tting?

  • Mongol

    Taliban answers Bambi on his offer: “ask your wife for a key to the safe with your testicles”. That’s a loose translation. The more precise one reads: Taliban consider the U.S. measure “a sign of weakness and complete despondency of the enemy.
    More waffles Bambi?

  • sayanything-2

    Since you are a lib you are a dumbass. Admitting it is the first step.

  • http://www.2plus2equals5.net/ winston smith

    we should leave afghastan alone.

    Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

    ~A pirate, from St. Augustine’s “City of God”

  • sayanything-3960

    The smart thing to do is to let the generals win the war.

    Thanks for paying attention dumbass. The generals want this plan.

  • sayanything-2

    And you just can’t walk away from it. Got to keep screeching your socialist lies. Self destructive masochism. You got it bad.

  • http://www.2plus2equals5.net/ winston smith

    why don’t you smack me with the truth about how its wasn’t done with george bush even though he had a congressional and a senate majority in 2003 or so. you remember that don’t you?

    oh, i know. you don’t know why, but its them commie liberal democrats have done it. that what rush told me, and he don’t lie.

  • sayanything-2

    Oh, and since you, e, are already in this, provide that list of the thousands and thousands of American citizens persecuted under the Patriot Act. Or are you going to continue to pretend you are “winston smith”? Ride that busted flush down in flames, sweety.

  • sayanything-51

    If it wasn’t for paying off the locals in Iraq the surge would have failed.

  • sayanything-1714

    I will admit, Robert can spell, and his words are put together correctly, but all they ever say is:

    Typical commie, leftie spin. I will smack you with the truth. You lie again.

    And of course, he is never correct in his history, and seldom understands what he is talking about.

  • sayanything-3960

    Link please to McChrystal being in favor of it. I certainly don’t believe you.

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2009-08-09-mcchrystal-afghanistan_N.htm Gee that was tough. Almost took two minutes to find.

    And I don’t buy the Republican argument that Obama is ignoring the troop request. He has authorized over 20,000 support troops to be sent and he is doing a review of military strategy to decide how many combat troops to send.

    But I answered your question.

    Answer mine.

    What is your principled objection to this strategy. You know, now that it has been explained to you, because you certainly didn’t know what it was when you wrote this post.

  • sayanything-9974

    You just exposed the problem – ‘If we are smart’. obviously not refering the the current President and Congressional leadership. Democrats have not been right on a Defense issue since the Cuban missle crisis. Hell, JFK would be considered a right winger by today’s standards. The smart thing to do is to let the generals win the war. Bribery and corruption are favorite Dem/Lib tactics and tools but only temporary solutions. Any Kindness is viewed as weakness in that part of the world. Win the War, dictate terms for peace and regain the respect that has been lost by the paper tiger Democrats (Carter, Clinton and now Obama).

  • http://www.2plus2equals5.net/ winston smith

    yeah, and we won’t the things that republicans won’t touch with a tell foot pole. things like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public (i.e., government) schooling, farm subsidies, education grants, immigration controls, drug laws, trade restrictions, the Federal Reserve, the SEC, the Departments of Education, Commerce, Labor, and Energy, and on and on.

  • robert108

    “And you do understand that fascism, socialism, Marxism, communism, AND CAPITALISM are all the same thing.”

    You couldn’t be more wrong, moron. In the first place, what we have in the US is the free enterprise system, not “capitalism”. The free enterprise system is founded in free people making free choices, which is the exact opposite of the central control of socialism/fascism/communism.

    Of course, since you just an ignorant shouter, you know nothing about the facts here.

  • robert108

    “Typical commie, leftie spin. I will smack you with the truth. You lie again.”

    The shoe fits. If you want to hear something different, change your commie tune and start telling the truth and stop making up fairy tales starring yourself.

  • sayanything-2

    Perhaps you would like to show us were America has claimed Afghanistan as its territory? Got any proof of that, socialist liar?

  • sayanything-12

    Also, I had no idea what your point was here:

    yeah, and we won’t the things that republicans won’t touch with a tell foot pole. things like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public (i.e., government) schooling, farm subsidies, education grants, immigration controls, drug laws, trade restrictions, the Federal Reserve, the SEC, the Departments of Education, Commerce, Labor, and Energy, and on and on.

    The Republicans tried to reform many of these and lacked the votes in the Senate to get reform.

    That’s good news if you didn’t want reform I suppose, but I’m not sure why you claim they wouldn’t touch them with a “ten” foot pole. When the Republicans are in the majority, the Democrats are always on the warpath defending their own sacred cows.

    Like right here.

  • sayanything-3960

    Can one of you conservatives who love to expound about how you support the troops explain to me why this bill allowing the commanders in the field to use their discretionary funds for this? It is the commanders on the ground who will make the determination if it is beneficial to their mission.

    Why do you want to deny them this tool? It has worked before.

  • robert108

    You must have started drinking early, ellinas. Your incoherent babbling is at a peak level. You make no sense, and seem unable to follow even a simple line of thinking.

    Maybe, like a woman, you have no control over your emotions.

  • sayanything-13047

    The military is a FIGHTING force not bankers the last time I checked. As much as you libs like to pretend you know everything you don’t so go get on the short bus and be quite like a nice little boy.

    Now for my two cents:
    The commanders on the ground had a very different plan than the presidents. They wanted troops not more money. Throwing money at terrorist is asking for them to come and kill you. These people live in a harsh society were physical strength is valued most, this action will be seen as a sign of weakness instead of power.

  • mplsbob

    bribery? the Chicago way!

  • MarkSD

    Do you suppose the military was consulted about this? I highly doubt it. We thought the Carter administration were a bunch of chicken shits. This one has him beat, hands down.

  • sayanything-101

    You can’t pay someone to change their psychotic ideology.

  • sayanything-453

    Ah, ain’t that cute? e thinks it has an opinion. She must have finally got her tampon to stop leaking.

    Whats wrong, honey? Did you forget you were using your suckpuppet in this thread?

    Ah, ain’t that cute? hotel thinks he made a point and has an opinion. She must have finally got her tampon to stop leaking.

    Whats wrong, honey? Did you forget you were using your suckpuppet in this thread?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    So we just pay them forever?

    Uh, brilliant strategy. I guess.

  • bikebubba

    Loading the cash with enough polonium to kill someone would cost about ten million bucks a pop. I’m with 108 here; they’ll just get a few more crates of 7.62 Kalishnikov and a few more rpgs with the money.

  • sayanything-453

    Since you are a neocon/con you are a dumbass. Admitting it is the first step.

  • sayanything-3444

    Who is going to loan them money for this? Iran?

  • sayanything-453

    2hotel9

    Prove America has claimed Afghanistan as its territory, socialist liar. Or can you not do that? Why would that be?

    Prove that any American has claimed Afghanistan as its territory, fascist liar. Or can you not do that? Why would that be?

  • sayanything-453

    Which model is the B.A.R.?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    Which commanders want this lioncourt? Aside from your comments I haven’t heard anything about the military leadership wanting it.

    But even if they do want it, they also want more troops and Obama is ignoring them.

    Why isn’t he listneing to the commanders? Huh? Huh?

    Can’t have it both ways tough guy.

  • sayanything-453

    You’re the intolerant fascist here, winston. Stop your lying.

    Two has called you on your lies, and has smacked you with the truth. As a leftie, it’s time for you to cut and run, just like you want us to cut and run from the terrorists.

    The above quote from robert180 who has famously asserted:

    Telling one lie or even consistently lying about one subject…doesn’t make you a liar…

    robert108 on May 18, 2009 at 03:23 pm

  • sayanything-453

    “The Reality of Red-State Fascism”

    More right wing nut screeching. Let us know when you wake up and get a clue, fascist screecher.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    Link please to McChrystal being in favor of it. I certainly don’t believe you.

    But you can’t have it both ways. If this is all good because McChrystal is in board then why do you give Obama a pass for ignoring the troop requests? And ignoring McChrystal for the most part in general?

    Because you’re a partisan hack that’s why.

  • sayanything-453

    Stopping the Taliban and Al Queda from perpetuating their lies that Americans are in Afghanistan to steal their country from them is the primary goal, and the best way to do that is killing all Al Queda and Taliban leadership. And killing all mullahs these groups have installed in the rural provinces. You do understand that is how they operate, right? Hello? McFly? Anyone home?

    And after you killed their leaders, someone else will assume that “leader” position.

    Never ending cycle. but of course you knew that.

  • sayanything-453

    And you do understand that fascism, socialism, Marxism, communism are all the same thing. You just switch words back and forth, alter definitions, rewrite history to support your anti-American sh%t.

    Now, explain for the class how being against government encroachment into private industry and individual liberty is fascism. This drivel ought to be funny as hell.

    We do understand and have known for years, that fascism, socialism, Marxism, communism are all the similar. You just switch words back and forth, alter definitions, rewrite history to support your fascist sh%t.

    Now, explain for the class who is being for government encroachment into private industry and individual liberty you fascist pig. This drivel ought to be funny as hell.

  • sayanything-453

    Quit being a right wing nutbag, you have already admitted you’re a con dumbass, take the next step, con, still time to save your sole.(wonder if it will figure out that is the wrong word?)

  • sayanything-453

    There were several models produced. Which one were you working on?
    M1918, ………

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    Oh give me a break. If this were bush you’d be whining about making deals with terrorsts.

    You jack.

  • sayanything-453

    2hotel9 :

    Perhaps you would like to show us were America has claimed Afghanistan as its territory? Got any proof of that, socialist liar?

    Perhaps you would like to show us which American has claimed, that some American claimed that Afghanistan is its territory? Got any proof of that, drunk liar?

  • sayanything-453

    What happens when the cash runs out?

    We print some counterfeit money and give it to them.

  • sayanything-453

    blockquote> I certainly don’t believe you.

    And why you don’t believe him? The info is readily available for the not lazy.

  • MarkSD

    Pay them, then they will behead you.

    How nuts is this? And who dreamt it up?

  • sayanything-453

    You are drunk again. This is too easy.
    You have to remember, when you are commenting whilst drunk in a thread you have to keep straight trying to convince us that you are not. Now go change that leaky tampon, and come back and post when you are not drunk. That’s an order soldier.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    And what do you think happens when we leave Afghanistan genius?

    As for military service, remember that we have civilian leadership for a reason. And whatever service you may have rendered (and the way you bring it up all the time makes me think you’re probably lying) doesn’t mean your opinion trumps mine.

  • sayanything-453

    2hotel9

    Where is all that proof that America has claimed Afghanistan as its territory?

    Where is your proof that an American has claimed Afghanistan as its territory?
    You moron.

  • sayanything-453

    Rob in reply to Lioncourt

    Oh give me a break. If this were bush you’d be whining about making deals with terrorsts.
    You jack.

    Oh give me a break. Because this is Obama you are whining that he is making deals with terrorsts.
    You jocker.

  • sayanything-453

    Oh, and it is a 1918A3 SLR repro. I have shot several others, love them. This b@tch just ain’t right.

    Nice of you to try to repair it. Some things though are to be thrown away.
    I shot one in the past, I was impressed.

  • MarkSD

    How in the hell are they going to monitor this?

    The result of this will be we wil be funding the Taliban.

    Suck idiocy!

  • sayanything-5568

    I would loved to been a fly on the wall at this meeting where they came up with this idea…Do they like pound their heads on the table first to see if anything intelligent falls out. All I see is lots more poppy fields…

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