Posted on 07/22/2009 12:30:56 PM PDT by Psion
No iPod for Karzai
Hamid Karzai; From Maryland Restaurateur to 21st Century Caligula
President Obama gives cheesy gifts to foreign dignitaries.
An iPod for the Queen of England - - who already has one.
A set of DVDs for Prime Minister Gordon Brown - - a gift, The Guardian called, “about as exciting as a pair of socks.”
But Mr. Obama is infinitely more generous to Muslim leaders.
To display his deep appreciation to the Afghan President for keeping his country under the rule of the strictest interpretaion of Islamic law - - an interpretation that demands death to any Muslim who converts to Christianity and starvation for any woman who fails to submit to the sexual whims of her husband - - President Obama has presented Hamid Karzai, one of the world’s most corrupt leaders, with the gift of three state of the art helicopters that bear price tags of $500 million.
The gifts was purchased without competitive bid or congressional approval from Air Transport Europe (ATE), a Slovak company best known as an ambulance service.
my jaw is still down on the floor...
*groannnn
Wow. Out of a couple of hundred world leaders, he's the most corrupt?
We're spending billions there. Some helicopters doesn't seem out of line to me.
I swear to God, I’m gonna vapor-lock.....
PLEASE,Lord....save us from this guy!!!!!
Karzai’s many decades in the DC area has taught him to appreciate a “pimped out” ride hasn’t it?
oh come on, Karzai is on our side
this post is not being quite on the up and up
We could spend that money here at home, on people who don’t hate us and plot our downfall.
“Karzai is on “our side”
Uh,,,,yeah, if your name is Ahmedinijad!
http://thelastcrusade.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Karzai-Dinnerjacket-Zardari.jpg
“We could spend that money here at home, on people who don’t hate us and plot our downfall.”
But those are the main recipients of government spending here at home too.
How about returning the money to taxpayers instead.
I am starting to wonder about this demonisation of Karzai.
The guy has stood with us and showed enough guts in late 2001.
I’m with you; so he gets a copter, big deal. Guys got jihadis gunning for him daily, Biden throws a tantrum and walks out on him, he hasn’t soured on us, yet, no thanks to us.
Fine, Diem him and then lets see what happens.
Karzai is an American-Jihadnik-opportunist who left Afghanistan when even the Beatles were very young.
He is no friend of the West.
Your tax dollars at work!
Militant
Whatever you say, squire.
He was chosen by Bush and Cheney over the opposition of the Pakistanis and jihadis for some very good reasons. He has held the line against the Talibs the best he could and was right in the middle of firefights with his guys and our SF fighters.
Now you want to denigrate the man, fine by me.
Nice to see you agreeing with the Obama Administration and that paragon of intellectual diplomacy, Joe the Biden.
I wish he would have given every household a cut of that money.
Bush-Cheney or Obambi-Biden
Not much difference when it comes promoting the Caliphate.
“Islam is Peace” (GWBush) Indeed!
Give me a few minutes to corroborate this with the Weekly World News.
By the way, America doesn’t need Monarchs or Messiahs. We don’t need to please the Muslims, they should fear us, not think of us as a source of easy money and dhimmis.
America....get it? Our last “American” president was Reagan.
Son of a bean didn’t ask me for my approval and that’s partly my money...we are in serious trouble folks.
How about returning the money to taxpayers instead.
Absolutely! America does not have to bribe a bunch of primitive Islamists.
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