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2006-05-06 Afghanistan

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-05-06 05:32|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 For those who would rather apply, 'duty, honor,
country' towards progressing the reconstruction,
(instead of making offensive and snide comments
about the Paki's, Iraqi's and Islam in general),
tell your SecDef's the Iraqi's and Afghani's
are desparate for those $100B's in aid that's
been pledged for reconstruction, but instead is
being siphoned off to civilian-contractor cronies,
with nothing on the ground after four years now,
(!four years!) except fire-base Anaconda, and a
$$3B marble hole-in-the-ground in the Green Zone.

Where's our indignant rage at theft of US taxes?

Imagine your own town after 4 to 25 years of war,
w/ every building in town pocked with shell holes,
water now undrinkable, sewage plant destroyed and
sewage flowing through your streets, power plants
destroyed so no reliable electricity, generators
in f--king hallways of office buildings for power,
everyone on cell phone cards, no landlines, and
best they can hope is bread and (bottled) water.

Then US perp's of this war come to your town with
their troops, patrolling your alleys and kicking
in your doors in the middle of the night, saying
they promise to reconstruct their damage, but all
you see, on the ground, is humvees and strykers,
mercenaries, bullet-proof LandCruisers,
backroom deals for $B's, but then nothing being rebuilt.

A perverted SNAFUBAR 'Coalition of the Cross'!

The purpose of the Gospels, spoken according to
Luke to the wise, the influential and those of
noble birth, (namely, Americans), appeals to all
of US, and to any who would listen, to take up
their cross, and follow Jesus in a discipleship
characterized by repentance, humility, joy,
generosity, and the purposeful use of one's
worldly wealth and influence to win friends for
ourselves and the Kingdom. Christians are to
become channels or servants of the loving mercy
of God to the poor: to preach good news to the
poor (Lk. 4:18; 7:22), to invite the poor to the
banquet of God (Lk. 14:13, 21), and to promote
justice and protection for the poor (Lk. 8:1-8).

Not just to make egregious profits, by bleeding
away our SSTF/Medicare, for Wall Street coffers.

Posted by Croluper Cromoque5819">Croluper Cromoque5819 2006-05-06 14:14|| 2006-05-06 14:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Let's see .... are you from Evergreen or working as an intern in Olympia? In either case, the inserted carriage returns suggest a cut and paste job.

Sloppy, and lazy to boot.

And that's just the thinking .... the execution was pretty shoddy too.

Posted by lotp 2006-05-06 14:44|| 2006-05-06 14:44|| Front Page Top

#3 They gave all, the highest price, life itself RIP.

Posted by RD 2006-05-06 14:55|| 2006-05-06 14:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Sad, may God bless them and their families.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-06 15:15|| 2006-05-06 15:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Sloppy and lazy indeed, but it left with warm cockles knowing that a blow had been struck for goodness and nutrition.

Posted by 6 2006-05-06 16:03|| 2006-05-06 16:03|| Front Page Top

#6 lotp:

Yes, I went to Evergreen, but to learn to speak French, (not Evergreen's particular brand of furry politics), so I could visit the Middle East and speak a common language which isn't offensive to them, since last time I checked, Bush hasn't made the Middle East into our 51st State, yet.

Lazy? No. I've been to the hot zone (without body armor, weapon or security guards) with a private reconstruction team, which at least earns me the right to post, since last time I checked, Rumsfeld hasn't succeeded in voiding our 1st Amendment.

Execution sloppy? You may be right. $375B down the rathole of DoD, and another $108B in the pipeline, Iraq in total meltdown, Afghanistan tipping that way, and Halliburton-KBR with a 200% increase in stock value since 2003, $8.8M to Cheney's pocket.

You still haven't addressed the dialogue. Where is the $10B Bush promised Kofi for AIDS in Africa, so he could get Kofi's buy-in for UN SC vote on Iraq?
Where is the $10B Bush promised for reconstruction which is already being secretly siphoned back to Iraq defense contracts, and Katrina slush funds?
$35B spent on Katrina, still 300,000 residents of New Orleans homeless, and 30,000 unaccounted for.

May those 10 brave guys and gals on that Chinook not have died for a live-fire war-game 'chimera'.

Look it up.

Posted by CC581">CC581 2006-05-06 16:11|| 2006-05-06 16:11|| Front Page Top

#7 hey,

didn't stop you from cashing our checks now did it CC581 aka Croluper Cromoque5819.

Posted by Halliburton ferrets out trolls div 2006-05-06 17:59|| 2006-05-06 17:59|| Front Page Top

#8 You still haven't addressed the dialogue
Where's my pink 12 foot puppet of dialogue?

Posted by 6 2006-05-06 18:17|| 2006-05-06 18:17|| Front Page Top

#9 "didn't stop you from cashing our checks now"

Not necessarily.

"private reconstruction" sounds like "NGO".

Posted by Fordesque 2006-05-06 19:18|| 2006-05-06 19:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Now why do I think that our troll isn't really interested in dialogue?

Could it be because s/he hijacked an entry to harrangue us on a topic with flimsy connections to the story? Could it be the sweeping allegations and indictments without details or proof?

Yup, it could be .....

but mostly it's because s/he wrote reams and reams of words before it occurred to him/her that it would be politic to toss out a little mention of the deaths of 10 people -- which is what the story is about.

Pathetic.

Posted by lotp 2006-05-06 19:20|| 2006-05-06 19:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Hey CC581: I'm from New Orleans. Don't use me or my city to make your chickenshit political points. Some of us are living in trailers, but there are American flags flying from those trailers.

Posted by Matt 2006-05-06 19:49|| 2006-05-06 19:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Would it be gauche to note the Rachel Corrie special tomorrow at IHOP? S'pose so....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-06 19:54|| 2006-05-06 19:54|| Front Page Top

#13 clanker clank

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Posted by 6 2006-05-06 20:06|| 2006-05-06 20:06|| Front Page Top

#14 God bless them and their families.
NSDQ!

As for you cc581: Shame on you for using a report of the death of ten hero's to spout your chickenshit drivel. You have every right to debate the war, but by doing it here shows are a coward of the first degree that stoops the very lowest levels of humanity. From a soldiers perspective this is not the place to be ranting policy but the place to thank these men and their families for their service. From me to you: Fuck off!

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-05-06 22:51|| 2006-05-06 22:51|| Front Page Top

#15 Bless those troops and their families for what they gave that we might stay free, and to bring the hope of freedom to the Afghanis halfway around the world.

In stark contrast, who would be so stupid to learn French, a language spoken by very few in the Muslim world (some in Morocco, Algeria, and Lebanon, I think, but only those wealthy enough to have been educated in French schools) when they would be so much more effective learning the languages actually spoken over there: Arabic and Kurdish in Iraq, I think Pashto and perhaps Urdu in Afghanistan, Arabic throughout the rest of the Arab world and Egypt. Such innate inability to think clearly is honestly demonstrated by the idiocy of the post. And the poor thing actually thought to change our thinking. Ah,well. At least it can teach French at the secondary level if it thinks to acquire a teaching certificate, and there it can do no harm.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-05-06 23:29|| 2006-05-06 23:29|| Front Page Top

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