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

The Taliban are ethnic and tribal, as well as purely ideological and religious. It is their turf in the end - but I have no doubt they will accept help and influence from ISIS or anyone else. Even our dear friends, the Saudis, will be in there, trying to gain influence.

that is why immigration to USA from all of South Asia must be stopped.

41 posted on 04/15/2017 8:25:34 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
a broader political backlash that may endanger the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan

And what mission is that, exactly?

42 posted on 04/15/2017 8:28:15 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: xzins

.011 per online conversion scale. Not exactly “Hiroshima type blast” as media would have us believe...


43 posted on 04/15/2017 8:30:08 AM PDT by donozark (Lock HER up! Lock HIM up! Kick 'em out! Build the wall! GO TRUMP!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Since they obviously don’t want us there, we need to get out.

Today.

Even if they DO want us there, we need to get out.

Today.

Not tomorrow.

Today.


44 posted on 04/15/2017 8:32:29 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This former president pocketed a billion dollars... and he is alive and well while running his mouth against the USA. Someone should authorize the hit and return his ill gotten gains to the US Treasury.


45 posted on 04/15/2017 8:32:49 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: PGR88
All I know is, the minute the USA leaves, the Taliban are back in power

Calling Captain Obvious.

Ann Coulter was right.

The options are:

1) Invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity.
2) Make a sufficiently forceful punitive expedition against the enemy axis Riyadh-Islamabad that Islam is content to remain within its existing borders.
3) Surrender and make the United States an officially Islamic nation.

By refusing to do 1) or 2), 3) will eventually be inevitable.

46 posted on 04/15/2017 8:34:02 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: Mariner

Not before we utterly destroy everything standing, including the people.

L


47 posted on 04/15/2017 8:35:59 AM PDT by Lurker (America burned the witch.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maybe we should drop a MOAB on that corrupt SOB and confiscate the billions of dollars he and his family have in Swiss bank accounts.


48 posted on 04/15/2017 8:36:58 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: donozark

Zero emp. Should also think about that.

This was nothing like a nuke.


49 posted on 04/15/2017 8:39:34 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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To: mountn man

lol yeah!


50 posted on 04/15/2017 8:42:10 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

ISIS said nobody was killed. What’s the big whup?


51 posted on 04/15/2017 8:45:04 AM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

K probably lost a small fortune in opium production when we took out Isis.


52 posted on 04/15/2017 8:53:20 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Don't bother with fake news about Trump on MMS. FR has Trump's Tweets and his real news each day!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Where is that phony Afghan Karzi living and whining these days?


53 posted on 04/15/2017 9:11:51 AM PDT by zerosix ( Native Sunflower)
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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

Karzai is trying to play to his own crowd for his own country's politics, but the US shouldn't tolerate it - we can't allow a politician we've protected and supported like Hamid Karzai to use anti-Americanism as a political strategy.
54 posted on 04/15/2017 9:15:13 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Gaffer
I actually know a couple of Afghan women who were kinda educated in the late '60s-'70s, left for London where they trained as hair stylists and own & run salons in the Midwest today.

Other than fighting like banshees with each other, they are not living in the 8th century

Plus, some Afghan tribes and communities use to make grand rugs!

55 posted on 04/15/2017 9:19:38 AM PDT by zerosix ( Native Sunflower)
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To: zerosix

Yet those two ladies you know are not now in that country, are they?

The loss of Afghan-anything in this world wouldn’t be missed. How many thousands of American soldiers’ lives would you be willing to trade for rugs? My count is damn near 7,000. We didn’t lose a damn thing there except American blood and treasure.


56 posted on 04/15/2017 9:26:03 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Allow ?

ROTFLMAO ....


57 posted on 04/15/2017 9:40:11 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Gaffer
Quite th contrary, they are here and are citizens,

Not justifying the murderous things that happened in Afghanistan and continue as we speak.

Just that they had a country with a monarch, long before the Taliban moved in to subjugate and murder anyone that didn't agree with their Islam extremism.

They were backward from western standards but were never into the terrorism that the country later became.

58 posted on 04/15/2017 10:31:02 AM PDT by zerosix ( Native Sunflower)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Karzai should just STFU. He is nothing but a corrupt scumbag.


59 posted on 04/15/2017 11:02:26 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: jospehm20
Karzi said that he didn't want us to use his nation to test out it's military capabilities.....after the Moab drop.....which immediately sided him with Isis and the Taliban. He should have been grateful ....obvious not and so he's no friend of the US...he's made his choice.
60 posted on 04/15/2017 11:06:48 AM PDT by caww
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