Have you no shame Mr. President?

Can someone explain to me why we're still in Afganistan? Please don't tell me it's about bringing freedom and democracy. These savages cannot be changed. Don't tell me it's about 9/11. OSB is dead. This is, and always has been about financing the military industrial complex.
We have a president who pays plenty of lip service to being a liberal, but when it comes to killing for fun and profit, he's onboard all the way. He continues to send our young men and women to die, and he does it to keep the money flowing. Have you no shame sir? No shame at all?

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Insurgents beheaded 17 civilians in a Taliban-controlled area of southern Afghanistan, apparently because they attended a dance party that flouted the extreme brand of Islam embraced by the militants, officials said Monday.

The killings, in a district where U.S. Marines have battled the Taliban for years, were a reminder of how much power the insurgent group still wields in the south — particularly as international forces draw down and hand areas over to Afghan forces.

The victims were part of a large group that had gathered late Sunday in Helmand province's Musa Qala district for a celebration involving music and dancing, said district government chief Neyamatullah Khan. He said the Taliban slaughtered them to show their disapproval of the event.

All of the bodies were decapitated but it was not clear if they had been shot first, said provincial government spokesman Daoud Ahmadi.

Information was only trickling out slowly because the area where the killings occurred is largely Taliban controlled, Khan said. The Taliban spokesman for southern Afghanistan could not be reached for comment.

Many Afghans and international observers have expressed worries that the Taliban's brutal interpretation of Islamic justice will return as international forces withdraw. Under the Taliban, who ruled the country from 1996 to 2001, all music and film was banned as un-Islamic, and women were barred from leaving their homes without a male family member as an escort.

Helmand is one of the areas seeing the largest reduction in U.S. troops, as the force increase ordered up by President Barack Obama departs. The U.S. started drawing down forces from a peak of nearly 103,000 last year, and plans to have decreased to 68,000 troops in country by October.

One of the most worrying trends to accompany the drawdown has been a surge in attacks by Afghan forces against their international allies, and another shooting came on Monday morning, though it appeared to be accidental.

Two American soldiers were shot and killed by one of their Afghan colleagues in the east, military officials said, bringing to 12 the number of international troops — all Americans — to die at the hands of their local allies this month.

 

Barrack Hussein is hoping for another Nobel Peace Prize maybe?


Seriously, we should have started packing up the day after <s>Obama Bin Lyin'</s> Osama Bin Laden was assassinated. How any of our bleeding heart anti war liberals still support this asshole is mind boggling.

 

Obviously the left was correct it's all about oil.

That and obama is making it safe for Islam.

 

mostly we are still there because if obama announced we were leaving the republicans would crucify him for being weak on defense.
romney has already said he would increase our effort there.

 

Well he IS the messiah, isn't he?

 

Like I've been saying, there isn't much difference between the two parties whn it comes to making war. The reason is simple enough. They ain't in charge of deciding when and where the wars are fought.

 

you think? the romney side is making plans to add iran to their to do list.

 

We're going to hit Iran regardless of which party is in office.

 

It looks inevitable. Not a question of if, just a question of when.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...bat-next-year/2012/02/01/gIQAkY6GjQ_blog.html



Romney criticizes move to end Afghan combat



LAS VEGAS -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday night blasted President Obama and his administration for “putting in jeopardy” the nation’s military mission by signaling it hopes to end its combat mission in Afghanistan by the middle of 2013.

Appearing at a campaign rally here shortly after landing in Nevada, Romney said Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta’s statement Wednesday that U.S. forces would transition from a combat mission in Afghanistan next year “makes absolutely no sense.”

“He announced that so the Taliban hears it, the Pakistanis hear it, the Afghan leaders hear it,” Romney said. “Why in the world do you go to the people that you’re fighting with and tell them the day you’re pulling out your troops? It makes absolutely no sense. [Obama’s] naivete is putting in jeopardy the mission of the United States of America and our commitments to freedom. He is wrong. We need new leadership in Washington.”

The former Massachusetts governor generally agrees with the United States’ and NATO coalition’s longstanding goal of withdrawing combat troops from Afghanistan in 2014.