Jay P. Hailey wrote, in part: > > When Bush went after Afghanistan, all the people who thought Bush was > dumb > > thought he'd end up like all the other "conquerors" who invaded > > Afghanistan. > > Trouble was, Bush wasn't out to "conquer" Afghanistan and proved the > > critics > > blindingly wrong. > > Have you read any accounts of anyone else's war in Afghanistan? > > Hmm, the British in the 1840s went in, managed to mug the ruler and his > standing armies. The wound up controll Kabul and the lowlands, while the > moutain regions filled up with warlords and whack jobs with guns.
And they held an election, when? > And when the Soviet Union invaded they set up a puppet government which > held > Kabul and the low lands while the mountains filled with warlords and > maniacs > with guns. And they held an election, when? > So now the United States has come in and installed a puppet government. I see. Do you also hold that the Japanese, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Bosnian, Greek, Kosovar, Norwegian, Taiwanese, Phillippino, and South Korean governments (and a few more that I'm surely forgetting) are "puppet governments"??? > The mountains are now full of warlords and maniacs with guns, Like these? http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=44107&SelectRegion=Central_Asia&; SelectCountry=AFGHANISTAN Or these? http://www.afghannews.net/index.php?action=show&type=news&id=1292 Perhaps these? http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/16/content_2225756.htm Of course, the real key in the past was the fact that the ordinary people were supporting warlords. So, the current popular support for the "warlords and maniacs with guns" shows that Bush was stupid. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Dec2004/n12022004_2004120201.html > while Hamid Karzai hides in Kabul behind an American body guard. Yup. Karzai has fewer body guards than Bush does. Are you now going to say that Bush is a puppet? The Karzai body guard story is two years old, as is the somewhat shaky status of the government. But it keeps getting stronger and more stable and is slowly pushing back the warlords. See: http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/arr/arr_200412_151_2_eng.txt > But you're so desperate to believe that Bush doesn't suck when he says > "Well > we planned it that way" you geek for it. Keep grasping at straws, Jay. Keep repeating, "Bush is a dummy. Bush is a dummy...." Lowell C. Savage It's the freedom, stupid! Gun control: tyrants' tool, fools' folly. _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [email protected] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
