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2011-04-03 Afghanistan

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-04-03 05:35|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Oh no! They have decided to launch an investigation! The Afghans responsible had better watch out, or the UN might hit them with a thoroughgoing study!

And, if the fecal matter hits the windsock, the UN might launch an aggressive subcommittee meeting and issue a pre-report on related cost effectiveness that will bring the killer to their knees!

In laughter! Or boredom!

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-04-03 09:06|| 2011-04-03 09:06|| Front Page Top

#2 And the end result of the investigation will be a Strongly Worded Diplomatic Memorandum, which will not assign blame to anyone (except maybe the pastor who burned the Koran).

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2011-04-03 09:35|| 2011-04-03 09:35|| Front Page Top

#3 All very, so very sad. We do not understand them, and they do not understand us or the "democracy" we are attempting to thrust upon them. The sooner we depart, the better for both parties involved. Nothing will change in Afghanistan. Little has ever changed. The butcher's bill for this disaster is a national disgrace, as are those who label it "the good war." The entire region isn't worth the life of a single 20 year old soldier. When we depart, and we eventually will, the tribes will return to their slaughter, narcotics running, smuggling, and kidnapping. It's what they do and have always done. Some things are beyond repair. Afghanistan is excellent example.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-04-03 10:04|| 2011-04-03 10:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Video footage broadcast on Afghan television showed armed police in disarray, some firing in the air, while protestors atop the security walls used cable-cutters to dismantle barbed wire and toppled a guard tower inside a compound corner.

But that would mean that the attack was planned, the protest used as cover and the cops either complicit or reluctant to "shoot their own" (or be targeted for later retribution). That concept would run counter to the existing group-think.

The UN will end up blaming the pastor, methinks.

Posted by Pappy 2011-04-03 10:36|| 2011-04-03 10:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Did the UN blame Newsweek for the deaths after the fabricated 'flushed Koran' story? /rhet question

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-04-03 10:43|| 2011-04-03 10:43|| Front Page Top

#6 The UN will end up blaming the pastor, methinks.

Strikes me that it is like blaming the rape victim for the rape. Like Besoeker says the Aghans would say: "Violence are us." (and always has been).

Personally, I think we should have said phueck em after 911 and removed the mountains from one end of Afghanistan to the other. Maybe northern Pakistan as well. If you are not winning the war, then you are not causing the other side enough pain.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-04-03 10:56|| 2011-04-03 10:56|| Front Page Top

#7 "Send in Judge Richard Goldstone!"

Posted by trailing wife 2011-04-03 12:54|| 2011-04-03 12:54|| Front Page Top

#8 "The UN's chief envoy to Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, blamed Friday's violence in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif on the Florida pastor who burnt the Koran on 20 March.

'I don't think we should be blaming any Afghan,' Mr de Mistura said. 'We should be blaming the person who produced the news - the one who burned the Koran. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from offending culture, religion, traditions.'"

From the BBC. Those lynched deserve sympathy, but the UN is indeed full of predictably craven idiots. No, we can't blame the blood-soaked beheading monsters, let's point the finger of blame at some US priest who engages in archetypal non-violent protest.

Posted by Bulldog 2011-04-03 13:33|| 2011-04-03 13:33|| Front Page Top

#9 The UN ~~Investigates~~ Instigates Outbreak of Savagery,

Fixed it. I guess like SA, the line "reap what you sow" is not in their holy books.

Posted by regular joe 2011-04-03 17:11|| 2011-04-03 17:11|| Front Page Top

#10 I think I smell a Sternly Worded Memo in the offing...

Posted by mojo 2011-04-03 17:48|| 2011-04-03 17:48|| Front Page Top

#11 Time to leave. Let the savages kill one another.

Posted by remoteman 2011-04-03 21:06|| 2011-04-03 21:06|| Front Page Top

#12 Time to leave. Let the savages kill one another.
NO, past time.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-04-03 21:37|| 2011-04-03 21:37|| Front Page Top

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