On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:35:43 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:21:02 -0400, wrote:



Nobody has really explained why we went to Afghanistan in the first
place or why we are still there.

I'll explain it, as I remember it.
We went in to get Osama Bin Laden. Remember 9/11/2001?
Then he fled to Pakistan when we left it to ragheads to do our job in
Tora Bora.
Then we failed again, by not pursuing him into Pakistan.
Killing him was the mission.
Tommy Franks was a **** up. Glad he's gone. Best thing that ever
happened to the U.S. Army.
Of course Bush, Rumsfeld, and that whole crew were **** ups.
We needed a Patton on the battlefield, and had Tommy Franks running
things from an air-conditioned room in Tampa, Florida.
Seems Franks always refers to Osama as "Mr. bin Laden."
Wonder if Patton ever said "Mr. Hitler," or "Mr. Goering."
Osama Bin Laden is still alive.
Shame, shame.
Why are we still there? Can't leave until Bin Laden dies.
It would be an admission of our abject failure.
He'll probably die of natural causes.
Shame, shame.
No vengeance for our victims and our country.
All this talk of the Bush crowd being hard asses.
Biggest bunch of pussies this country ever had.
Talk, talk, talk.
Osama Bin Laden is still alive.
Businessmen running the country. A country isn't a business.
That was Franks' college degree. Bachelor of Business Administration.

--Vic

It's morphed into something larger than bin Laden or al Qaeda. It's
now threatening the further destabilization of Pakistan and access to
nuclear weapons.

We didn't take care of business the first time with the Taliban, now
we've got the same problem the USSR had before Afghanistan helped
cause their bankruptcy.

Brilliant.