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| Outgoing Afghan president takes one last swipe at US |
| 2014-09-24 |
[ARABNEWS] Outgoing Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... used his farewell speech on Tuesday to take one last swipe at the United States, capping a long-testy relationship with the accusation that America hasn't wanted peace in Afghanistan. The only president Afghanistan has known since the 2001 US-led invasion said the United States wanted war in Afghanistan "because of its own interests." Karzai's relationship with the US has grown increasingly fragile in recent years, but the US-Afghan relationship may get a reset on Monday, when President-elect Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. Ahmadzai will be sworn in. The United States has spent more than $100 billion on aid in Afghanistan since 2001 to train and equip the country's security forces, to pave crumbling dirt roads, to upgrade hospitals and to build schools. But Karzai in his speech thanked a slew of countries for their help -- India, Japan, China, Iran, Turkey, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , South Korea and Germany -- without mentioning the US The speech fingered the US and the military leaders of neighboring Pakistain as the powers backing perpetual war. "If America and Pakistain really want it, peace will come to Afghanistan," Karzai said. "War in Afghanistan is based on the aims of foreigners. The war in Afghanistan is to the benefit of foreigners. But Afghans on both sides are the sacrificial lambs and victims of this war." More than 2,200 US forces have died in Afghanistan operations since 2001. Nearly 20,000 have been maimed. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 spike his heroin with the pure stuff |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-09-24 14:56 |
| #5 I've had a front row seat to this shit show since my first trip in Dec 2001 to re-open the embassy to this very day. We paid in blood so f*&^ him and the horse he road in on (that we paid for). |
| Posted by: Bangkok Billy 2014-09-24 12:15 |
| #4 g(r)om, of course the answer is "both". |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-09-24 07:22 |
| #3 Ingratitude and loathing are emblematic of the breed. Politicians or Muslims? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-09-24 07:10 |
| #2 Ingratitude and loathing are emblematic of the breed. It can't be helped. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-09-24 07:05 |
| #1 John is really upset his Afghan man is leaving... He is whistling this tune... |
| Posted by: Snakes and Company2083 2014-09-24 00:17 |