Help these men to know of our love and appreciation for them. We pray for Your comfort and peace upon their families and for Your help in securing a lasting victory against these terrorists. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Posted on 07/13/2008 2:38:51 PM PDT by neverdem
KABUL, Afghanistan, July 13 — Taliban insurgents mounted a large-scale attack on an American forward operating base in eastern Afghanistan in the early hours of Sunday, killing nine American soldiers in fierce fighting that continued through the day.
Mark Laity, a spokesman for NATO, confirmed that nine soldiers had been killed and 15 more wounded, but did not give their nationality. Separately, a senior American military official confirmed that the nine soldiers killed were Americans. Four Afghan soldiers also were wounded, Mr. Laity said.
The Taliban assault on the base was the deadliest single attack on the NATO security force in Afghanistan, known as ISAF, in several years.
The American commander of ISAF, Gen. David D. McKiernan, said in an interview on Sunday afternoon that Taliban insurgents had mounted the attack and that fighting was continuing, but he did not give details on casualties.
The attack was the worst of several reported on Sunday in Afghanistan, including a suicide bombing that killed 25 people, 20 of them civilians, in the central part of the country. They add to a asualty count that has already made 2008 the deadliest year in Afghanistan since the United States-led military intervention in 2001. Casualties of American and allied troops for the last two months have been higher than those inflicted in Iraq over the same period. Nearly 700 Afghan civilians were killed in the first five months of the year, a marked increase on previous years, United Nations officials have said.
General McKiernan, who commanded allied land forces during the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and took over command in Afghanistan in June, said that there were several reasons for the increase in violence this summer. He described the spring and summer as the “high season” for fighting...
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In the eyes of dimbulbs like John Kerry and Jack Murtha, it is 9 less terrorists to terrorize Iraqi citizens.
The US losses were probably the result of an ambush that started the battle. Waiting for word on Taliban losses, which are hopefully heavy.
Think it is time to turn North Waristan into a parking deck.
Hey Walter Cronkite! This is your Tet-offensive cue to re-emerge and call for an allied surrender.
Besides a friendlier regime in Pakistan, the Taliban benefit from a recent influx of foreign jihadis fleeing the rout of terrorist forces in Iraq. It is likely as well that the latter have brought their financial and western ideological and propaganda support with them.
Expect the left-liberals in this country to drop their phony bait-and-switch support for the Afghan operation and return to the full-blown defeatism sedition that characterized their position before the Iraq invasion.
For example, note that the NYT characterizes the Afghan operation with the leftist weasel-word “intervention,” even though we went into Afghanistan in response to a direct attack on our own soil by forces aligned with, and harbored by, the Taliban.
Prayers for these brave young men and for their families. May God give them strength and comfort in the coming days.
This war against Islam is not over. This sad news reminds us of our duty to support our troops in every way.
Info here :
Last update I saw (3 hrs. ago) was 10...
We need to let Pakistan know they must do something drastic in a certain amount of time or that we will. Unless the militants in Pakistan are done away with the war will not end.
Help these men to know of our love and appreciation for them. We pray for Your comfort and peace upon their families and for Your help in securing a lasting victory against these terrorists. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Just Napalm the area first, then we’ll think what to do with it.
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Crap.
Exterminate all these Talibani cockroaches so badly that not even Keith Richards could survive!
The commander in Afghanistan had just recently asserted they needed more support, Reid and Pelosi are not supporting the Military, but they have no problem last year passing legislation for illegal immigration amnesty in an instant.
May God hold their souls. May God bless their families.
Reid and Pelosi are withholding support, from;
Thursday, July 3, 2008;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/02/AR2008070202010.html
In April, Mullen told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the United States was not doing all it should in Afghanistan
FULL COMMITTEE MEMBERS
DEMOCRATS
Carl Levin (Michigan)
Chairman
Edward M. Kennedy (Massachusetts)
Robert C. Byrd (West Virginia)
Joseph I. Lieberman (Connecticut)
Jack Reed (Rhode Island)
Daniel K. Akaka (Hawaii)
Bill Nelson (Florida)
E. Benjamin Nelson (Nebraska)
Evan Bayh (Indiana)
Hillary Rodham Clinton (New York)
Mark L. Pryor (Arkansas)
Jim Webb (Virginia)
Claire McCaskill (Missouri)
REPUBLICANS
John McCain (Arizona)
Ranking Member
John W. Warner (Virginia)
James M. Inhofe (Oklahoma)
Jeff Sessions (Alabama)
Susan M. Collins (Maine)
Saxby Chambliss (Georgia)
Lindsey O. Graham (South Carolina)
Elizabeth Dole (North Carolina)
John Cornyn (Texas)
John Thune (South Dakota)
Mel Martinez (Florida)
Roger F. Wicker (Mississippi)
The reference link to the Senate Armed Services Committee members;
http://armed-services.senate.gov/members.htm
Robert C. Byrd (West Virginia) What is this fella doing on any committee that has responsibility for our Service Members lives?
Carl Levin (Michigan) Hot seat
Hillary Rodham Clinton (New York) real hawk there
John McCain (Arizona) what’s your excuse? how about your VP? Joseph I. Lieberman (Connecticut)
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Seems we have a procrastination that’s worse than not recieving body armor,
In April, Mullen told the Senate Armed Services Committee
April?
“For example, note that the NYT characterizes the Afghan operation with the leftist weasel-word “intervention,”
What would the proper word be?
“What would the proper word be?”
“Operations,” “military action,” “war” even “invasion,” would all be accurate. “Intervention” is a loaded term implying that it was really someone else’s fight and we had no real warrant or direct cause to be there.
It is a weasel word though because one can ignore this connotation and point out that we did in fact intervene in the conflict between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance. This would only be in the same sense that we “intervened” in the existing Sino-Japanese conflict after Pearl Harbor, however.
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