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New White House spin: Taliban not really an enemy, has role in Afghanistan’s future
Hot Air ^ | 10/08/2009 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 10/08/2009 2:19:07 PM PDT by fiscon1

No foolin’. They’re looking for any way they can to avoid giving McChrystal the troops he says he needs to secure the country, so they’ve come up with a way out. If the people we’ve been fighting for eight years aren’t the enemy, then the country no longer needs to be secured from them, does it?

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 1600smuslimmole; afghan; alqaeda; obama; taliban
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1 posted on 10/08/2009 2:19:07 PM PDT by fiscon1
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To: fiscon1

Good grief! OBOZO is extraordinarily stupid or a mole for the mooooslums.


2 posted on 10/08/2009 2:20:13 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: newfreep

One thing that the article didn’t point out is that this is a rejection of a major tenet of the Bush doctrine. In his speech immediately following 9/11, he said, “we’ll make no distinction between the terrorists and the regimes that house them”. At that point, we made the Taliban our enemies along with Al Qaeda. We also made the assertion that if your regime houses terrorists, we consider you an enemy along with the terrorists. If Obama goes back on this, that’s a major rejection of the Bush doctrine.


3 posted on 10/08/2009 2:23:23 PM PDT by fiscon1
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To: fiscon1

Total surrender is just around the corner. I guess they can’t wait until people are beaten in the streets and executed in stadiums again and women are subjugated.


4 posted on 10/08/2009 2:23:40 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: newfreep

Remember when these quislings said Afghanistan was the “real war” and Iraq was just Bush’s bloodthirsty war for oil?

Anything to avoid the reality and get back to their social engineering.


5 posted on 10/08/2009 2:26:28 PM PDT by Callahan
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To: fiscon1
Please, if your not going to fight to win pull our soldiers out now. They deserve better.
6 posted on 10/08/2009 2:26:55 PM PDT by JoSixChip (The only thing broken in this country is the government.. .)
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To: fiscon1

In a just and sane world, the only role those people would have in the future would be as fertilizer.


7 posted on 10/08/2009 2:27:22 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: fiscon1
Right. We initially requested, then demanded, that Afghanistan turn over binLaden and his henchmen. When they refused, we went in. Harboring binLaden was the original and just cause for the action, and that cause still exists today, so far as anyone knows.

Leave it up to the ahistorical Marxist to rewrite the story out of thin air and redefine the facts to suit his agenda. Obama delenda est.

8 posted on 10/08/2009 2:28:05 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Truth--The liberal's Kryptonite)
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To: fiscon1

The liberal mantra: “Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory”


9 posted on 10/08/2009 2:28:38 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: fiscon1
So he wants to turn Afghanistan over to the Taliban's (many/most of whom are not native Afghans) tender mercies. If NOW were honest, they would be looking to drag Obama from the White House to tar and feather him for how the Taliban treats women. Instead, NOW will keep giving him big liberal smooches because his politics here are vastly more important than throwing millions of women back to the 7th century.
10 posted on 10/08/2009 2:29:32 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Rio: Gold / Madrid: Silver / Tokyo: Bronze / Obama: Lead weight.)
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To: fiscon1

I’m telling you, The Once is a whackjob Islamofascist extremist!

Now, if I wanted to believe in ANY kind of conspiracy theory about 9/11 being an inside job...I would point straight at this man and his arabic/muslim/liberation theology harpies in the Chicago mafia!!!

You have to understand, this man HATES Americans especially successful white Americans! Eight years ago he was a powerful young man in his 40’s, a young man who had spent 3 weeks in Pakistan at the young age of 20, at a time when they were recruiting FOR THE TALIBAN! On a passport that NOBODY knows exactly where it came from!

HINT CLUE, HINT CLUE!


11 posted on 10/08/2009 2:30:44 PM PDT by RowdyFFC (Nancy Pelosi...please deny her any health care....)
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To: hinckley buzzard

That’s correct but it also has serious consequences for all sorts of rogue regimes. They can harbor terrorists and not fear that we go after them.

I remember in the week leading up to Bush’s speech there was a bit of debate about whether or not he would consider the Taliban our enemy. I say a bit because it was pretty much agreed upon by everyone outside of the really looney that they would. That’s important because it frames the way we see the GWOT. If you are a regime allied with terrorists, you are now no longer necessarily our enemy.


12 posted on 10/08/2009 2:32:21 PM PDT by fiscon1
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To: fiscon1

Appeasement.

Pure and simple.

Hoping Americans will be the last ones eaten by the Taliban.
Well, maybe by their honored guests from Al-Queda and Allah-Only-Knows
what radical Islamic terrorists they wish to host when they retake
Afghanistan after Obama BENDS OVER. (runs up the white flag and
mumbles platitudes about serving the cause of “world peace” while
plenty of Afghans that made a bad bet with the USA...to their deaths)


13 posted on 10/08/2009 2:37:00 PM PDT by VOA
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To: fiscon1
All is forgiven. Go ahead and whack off a few heads. We're not judgmental, y’know.
14 posted on 10/08/2009 2:38:14 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: fiscon1

Bring out the clips where the Taliban demanded that citizens come to the local stadium to watch the beheadings. Fox News needs to remind folks of this little inconvenient truth. Some of us do not have a short memory.


15 posted on 10/08/2009 2:39:10 PM PDT by RatRipper (I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
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To: newfreep
The Taliban's role in Afghanistan is to make it an extremist magnet and safe haven for terrorist to operate from. We have weaklings and amateurs in the white house.
16 posted on 10/08/2009 2:39:12 PM PDT by peeps36 (Democrats Don't Need No Stinking Input From You Little People)
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To: newfreep
Oh I get it. Those mysogonistic creeps who throw acid in the faces of little girls on their way to school are really our pals.

Nice work Bozo.

17 posted on 10/08/2009 2:39:44 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: fiscon1; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ..

The list, ping


18 posted on 10/08/2009 2:40:03 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: fiscon1

Legitimizing is a product of Liberalism.
Liberalism in dealing with terrorism = fail.
Barry and his goons of libtards = FAIL!

Legitimizing has never and will never end the threat of terrorism.

No doubt, it will take a few more 9/11-type incidents to occur before many libtards and advocates of Liberalism get the picture and even then, I personally have my doubts.


19 posted on 10/08/2009 2:43:29 PM PDT by cranked
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To: fiscon1
So President Obama says the Taliban have a role / future in Afghanistan but candidate Obama said we may have to nuke Pakistan due to the same Taliban.

Am I missing something here...

20 posted on 10/08/2009 2:44:39 PM PDT by fatez ("If you're going through Hell, keep going." Winston Churchill)
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