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Taliban urges Obama to end Bush's foreign policies
ap ^ | nov 12, 2008

Posted on 11/11/2008 7:19:41 PM PST by Mount Athos

Taliban insurgents battling the U.S.-backed Afghan government urged President-elect Barack Obama to change course in U.S. foreign policy and withdraw American troops from both Afghanistan and Iraq, an Internet monitoring service said Tuesday.

The message posted on a Web site used by the Taliban claimed Obama's victory "reveals the collective willingness of American people not to continue the current despicable and anti-human wars in Afghanistan and Iraq," SITE Intelligence Group said.

The authors claimed that Obama had promised to end Bush's policies pledging to "recover the dwindling American economy and find a niche in the comity of nations."

But while Obama has said he intends to draw down U.S. troops levels in Iraq, he has repeatedly called for an increase in troops in Afghanistan to combat a resurgence of the Taliban and al-Qaida.

The president-elect has also backed U.S. military strikes in the lawless and rugged border region of Pakistan, which the U.S. says has become a safe haven for extremists carrying out attacks in Afghanistan.

The Taliban message, the authenticity of which couldn't immediately be determined, said if the Democrats continued in the steps of Bush, "then it is clear that the fate of the Democrats will be even more shameful and despicable than the Republicans."

Three days after the election, two Iraqi insurgent groups posted separate Internet messages reported by SITE calling on Obama to withdraw troops from Iraq. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, self-styled head of the al-Qaida front group Islamic State of Iraq, said "You do not interfere in the affairs of our countries. We, in turn, will not prevent commerce with you, whether it is in oil or otherwise."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: digg; wearesoscrewed

1 posted on 11/11/2008 7:19:41 PM PST by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

Obama already has claimed he intends to do just that


2 posted on 11/11/2008 7:20:31 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Mount Athos

Taliban calling us “anti-human” - amazing....


3 posted on 11/11/2008 7:22:57 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Mount Athos

If he will talk to Iran without preconditions, he will talk to the taliban. We are so screwed.


4 posted on 11/11/2008 7:24:09 PM PST by allmost
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To: pissant
Any sane person who holds the best interests of his nation above all else would respond to such a ridiculous request with;
"The answer is 'No'. Because you wish it."
5 posted on 11/11/2008 7:24:16 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Peace means one guy has a bigger stick than the other guy.)
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To: pissant
The authors claimed that Obama had promised to end Bush's policies pledging to "recover the dwindling American economy and find a niche in the comity of nations."

And if we act now, we are promised double the recovery and only have to pay shipping and handling on future promises.

Guaranteed for life with the owner of course.

6 posted on 11/11/2008 7:28:19 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Mount Athos
Note to Obama: If you get a chance to meet Mullah Omar, please give him the Pasto New Testament I promised him in early 2001. Afghan Bibles
7 posted on 11/11/2008 7:30:46 PM PST by JeepInMazar (http://www.truthformuslims.com)
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To: allmost
We are so screwed.

Me thinks a search on those four words will bring about a very fulfilling return as of the 5th of November of this year....

8 posted on 11/11/2008 7:32:39 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Mount Athos
Taliban urges Obama to end Bush's foreign policies

I urge 0bama to end the Taliban.

Gordo chance.

5.56mm

9 posted on 11/11/2008 7:33:08 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: EGPWS

I never thought to search the keywords, or add them, I just did a search and nothing came up post election for “wearesoscrewed”. A good one to add though.


10 posted on 11/11/2008 7:40:29 PM PST by allmost
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To: Mount Athos

ok they will be meaner


11 posted on 11/11/2008 7:40:40 PM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: Mount Athos
The Taliban message, the authenticity of which couldn't immediately be determined, said if the Democrats continued in the steps of Bush, "then it is clear that the fate of the Democrats will be even more shameful and despicable than the Republicans."

The fate of the democrats will be even more shameful and despicable than the Republicans regardless of what Obama does in Afghanistan and Iraq.

12 posted on 11/11/2008 7:40:50 PM PST by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: Mount Athos; PureSolace; netmilsmom; StarCMC; narses; fanfan; murphE; Mjaye; GodGunsGuts; ...
Digg it
13 posted on 11/11/2008 7:42:13 PM PST by kanawa
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To: Mount Athos

LOL. Please stop sending infidels here. They are killing us.

Sad thing is, he probably will listen to them.


14 posted on 11/11/2008 8:11:42 PM PST by TheOgre
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To: Mount Athos; Registered

Could somebody please make a picture of the Presidential Seal, but with the ring of text instead reading: Doing the Bidding of the Enemy


15 posted on 11/11/2008 8:18:24 PM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: kanawa

Dug and shouted. ;o)


16 posted on 11/11/2008 8:24:09 PM PST by jan in Colorado (For Barack Hussein Obama TRUTH FILE see my homepage!)
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To: Mount Athos

Per Jpoe the Biden.

You will be tested bho.


17 posted on 11/11/2008 8:30:14 PM PST by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Mount Athos

Please, our religion is a joke, our virgins are ugly, be like Jimmy Carter and/or John Kerry and throw us a bone. Just leave and let us pretend we won. Please Hussein, please, don’t be like that pigdog Bush who thinks of nothing but America. America this, America that, America safety. Bah. Prove you are a citizen of the world, and pull down your military pants.


18 posted on 11/11/2008 8:37:21 PM PST by aWolverine
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To: Mount Athos

We had these jack-aZZZs on the verge of breaking and now we have a muslim sympathizer in the whitehouse. great. All the lives and money that are going to be “rolled back” when we could have crushed these jerks and saved future lives. The left/communist in this nation are intolerable.


19 posted on 11/11/2008 8:44:12 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (Join the Constitution Party)
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