[MEG33]

This is simply excellent...We do forget..and the Afghan elections only drew attention over wrong ink used to mark voters!

[nuconvert]

"President Bush put in place a military campaign that did in two months what everyone had said was impossible: defeat an entrenched, fanatical, ruthless regime in a territory that had forced the great British and Soviet empires into ignominious retreat. Bush followed that by creating in less than three years a fledgling pro-American democracy in a land that had no history of democratic culture and was just emerging from 25 years of civil war."

Exactly

[nuconvert]

This is excellent.
You should ask the Mods if they can add a "Must Read" after the title.

[cake_crumb]

I remember Russia insisting that we could never defeat teh Taliban because the Soviet Union lost to the mujahadeen. I further rememer German experts insisting we could never destroy the al Qaeda/Talibunnys' because the Germans designed those bunkers to be indestructible.

Then there were the daily assurances by the news media that Afghanistan would be our Next Vietnam, because if the Soviet Union failed the US never stood a chance of succeeding...not to mention that our troops would become Bogged Down in the Northern mountains, due to the Brutal Afghan Winters and the Bloody, House to House Fighting in the Streets of Kahbul.

And yes, most Americans - in fact, most in the WEST - forgot those details the moment Hollywood started throwing Geirge Cloony's military expertise around, predicting Iraq would be Our Next Vietnam, that the US could never win a war against Iraq because Iran threw hundreds of thousands at Saddam and still lost, we'd be Bogged Down by the Heat and Sandstorms (this was before "Quagmire" became the Iraq keyword du jour) and that there would be Bloody, House to House Fighting in the Streets of Baghdad.

[gulfcoast6]

I heard Rubin on Fox yesterday and he said Kerry would get Afghanistan fixed but never mentioned Iraq, an apparent statement leaving them out.

[nuconvert]

Outsourced? The entire Afghan war was outsourced. How does Kerry think we won it? How did Mazar-e Sharif, Kabul and Kandahar fall? Stormed by thousands of American GIs? They fell to the "warlords" we had enlisted, supported and directed. It was their militias that overran the Taliban.

"Outsourcing" is a demagogue's way of saying "using allies." (Isn't Kerry's Iraq solution to "outsource" the problem to the "allies" and the United Nations?)"

EXACTLY!

[hershey]

Rats, evildoers, and America haters world wide want us to forget what GW and the troops accomplished in Afghanistan...and are doing in Iraq. It's nothing less than a miracle.

[carl in alaska]

It's also important to remember that Kerry Betrayed the U.S. by Supporting the Enemy During the Vietnam War. His wretched history of betrayal did not end there. With a shocking lack of concern for America's serivcemen, Kerry Betrayed American POWs With Lies About the Vietnam War.