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Former Afghan president calls decision to drop massive U.S. bomb 'treason'
Reuters ^ | April 15, 2017 | By Mirwais Harooni

Posted on 04/15/2017 7:26:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai accused his successor on Saturday of committing treason by allowing the U.S. military to drop the largest conventional bomb ever used in combat during an operation against Islamic State militants in Afghanistan.

Karzai, who also vowed to "stand against America", retains considerable influence within Afghanistan's majority Pashtun ethnic group, to which President Ashraf Ghani also belongs. His strong words could signal a broader political backlash that may endanger the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan.

"How could you permit Americans to bomb your country with a device equal to an atom bomb?" Karzai said at a public event in Kabul, questioning Ghani's decision. "If the government has permitted them to do this, that was wrong and it has committed a national treason."

Ghani's office said the strike had been closely coordinated between Afghan and U.S. forces and replied to Karzai's charges with a statement saying: "Every Afghan has the right to speak their mind. This is a country of free speech."

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; moab
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Should have duct taped him to the bomb


21 posted on 04/15/2017 7:42:58 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No one has ever tamed Afghanistan and we should quit trying.


22 posted on 04/15/2017 7:43:36 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The bomb, at 21,600 pounds, is not even eleven tons, not all of which is explosive. But, even rounding up and counting it as if it were all explosive, that 11 tons amounts to 0.011 kilotons, hardly “equal to an atomic bomb”. A ‘tiny’ nuke of 1 kT yield delivers about 90 times more energy, and both the atomic bombs, of low yield by today’s standards, dropped on Japan in WWII were more than a 1000 times more energetic.


23 posted on 04/15/2017 7:44:34 AM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: miss marmelstein

24 posted on 04/15/2017 7:45:17 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: PGR88

My position is that Afghanistan should have become a glass-covered parking lot all the way from it’s mountains and valleys right down to its plains. Every frigging inch of it.

It will never be brought out of whatever century it is in and it can never be rehabilitated if the indigenous people there are allowed to propagate themselves.

The Russians wasted precious lives there, the Americans wasted even more lives there in a futile attempt to build a nation where no real foundation could ever hope to be laid. It is the religion coupled with abject unwillingness to learn anything worthwhile, plain and simple.


25 posted on 04/15/2017 7:46:27 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Has anyone ever seen British actor Ben Kingsley, and Karzai in the same place at the same time? I DONT THINK SO.

26 posted on 04/15/2017 7:46:56 AM PDT by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I give this guy the same credence I will Carter, Bush 1 or 2 , The Bent One, and Bathhouse Barry on matters of national sovereignty/security.


27 posted on 04/15/2017 7:47:18 AM PDT by Delta 21 (The minority demands NOTHING !)
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To: Enchante

The MOAB kills with the shockwave. If you drop one on an Afghan valley, like we just did, everyone on the other side of that ridge line probably survives unhurt. Nothing survives in that valley, however.


28 posted on 04/15/2017 7:48:09 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Karzai kind of is forced to say that, considering he is surrounded by kooks. Privately I bet he is happy.


29 posted on 04/15/2017 7:50:40 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nah, he lives in Quahog.

Giggity, Giggity!

But seriously: what are our options?

There’s the Muslim Brotherhood backed rebels (under Clinton we were set to endlessly help advance the MB as Obama had)

There’s the Iranian backed rebels

There’s ISIS/ISIL

And there’s Assad ... the guy the left and the MB want gone.


30 posted on 04/15/2017 7:51:24 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Vic S

maybe that’s what was in those caves...


31 posted on 04/15/2017 7:52:40 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: PGR88

You discount the possibility that ISIS could rise to the top.


32 posted on 04/15/2017 7:53:20 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: Tallguy

They need to be dropped in coordinated fashion to create “valleys” between their detonations.


33 posted on 04/15/2017 7:54:12 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"How could you permit Americans to bomb your country with a device equal to an atom bomb?" Karzai said at a public event in Kabul, questioning Ghani's decision.

You're a ignorant b!itch, Hamid Karzai. Are all former Afghan Presidents this stupid?

That bomb was nowhere near even the tiniest of nuclear bombs, you misinformed clown.

Go f--k yourself, and when the US drops something like a nuclear bomb on Afghanistan, you'll know it, you dumb bastard...

34 posted on 04/15/2017 7:54:14 AM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: BigEdLB

Drummer Steve Smith

35 posted on 04/15/2017 8:02:47 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What hyperbole

MOAB is not equal to an atom bomb.

It has about a 500 meter blast radius, zero radioactivity, and zero residual effect.


36 posted on 04/15/2017 8:06:51 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

As the old saying goes, Afghanistan is where Empires go to die.


37 posted on 04/15/2017 8:07:09 AM PDT by Wolfie
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""If the government has permitted them to do this, that was wrong and it has committed a national treason." "

That's stupid - treason is an action against your own country, not someone else's.

38 posted on 04/15/2017 8:12:32 AM PDT by jackibutterfly (We have to stop saying "How stupid can you get". Too many people are seeing it as a challenge.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another scorpion, just doing what scorpions do...

Because it is their nature...


39 posted on 04/15/2017 8:21:12 AM PDT by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
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To: Enchante

He makes it sound like we nuked them. Does he think we dropped an actual nuke with radioactive fallout? Maybe he gets his news from CNN?


40 posted on 04/15/2017 8:24:08 AM PDT by nhbob1
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