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Subscribe to RSSUpdated at 8:30 p.m. ET: KABUL, Afghanistan - Six U.S. soldiers were killed in a bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials confirmed to NBC News, on a day where a total of 29 people died from roadside bombs and insurgent attacks.
The identities soldiers were withheld pending notification of next of kin, NBC News chief Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski reported.
The deaths take the number of NATO troops killed in the last two days to eight, one of the deadliest periods of violence for foreign troops in weeks.
In addition to the six NATO deaths, bombs and attacks killed 16 Afghan civilians, five policemen and two members of the U.S.-led coalition in southern Afghanistan, Afghan and NATO authorities said Sunday.
The civilians, including women and children, were killed in three blasts in Arghistan district, along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan.
Kandahar province spokesman Ahmad Jawed Faisal said one bomb exploded when a minivan ran over it Sunday morning. A second went off when other civilians riding a tractor arrived to help the wounded. A third explosion occurred about two hours later when a civilian vehicle hit a roadside bomb in another area of the district, killing two women.
At least 10 civilians were injured in the three blasts.
Ahmad Jamshid / AP
More than ten years after the beginning of the war, Afghanistan faces external pressure to reform as well as ongoing internal conflicts.
On the same day, major donors in Tokyo pledged $16 billion in development aid for Afghanistan over the next four years as they try to prevent it from sliding back into chaos once most foreign troops have left by the end of 2014.
NBC News' Jim Miklaszewski, the Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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Maybe if we send them EVEN more money and weapons they will like us....the REAL Axis of Evil, BushChenyRumsfield, should go over and live there and help them out!!
NATO is a Global Military Force that has been marching the globe bringing destruction and chaos anywhere it goes. Just look at Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan ect ect ect. It is not American, and I would advise not supporting it.
Mission accomplished, opium production is at record high again 10 years after the Taliban ban.
What part of "bring the troops home" did obama not understand when he read it from the teleprompter.
Congressman Joe Wilson got it right.
Yea and Obama is no different. Now he is back pedaling on bringing the troops home. He is looking at ways to leave a force there. We die over there and the Chinese get the mineral rights.
Oh yeah thanks again for allowing the Opium Production to increase. Look around the streets of America and you will see a huge spike in Overdoses of heroin due to those addicts who are use to the Mexican street tar heroin and now the Afghan Kush Heroin is here and its killing people. Look into the real reason for "Fast & Furious".
Good luck with that! These people have been fighting one another for THOUSANDS of years. What makes anyone think that they will ever stop? This "war against terrorism" is just a pause for them, plus they like it, they still get to keep fighting and killing and dying and breeding hatred into their children so they will do the same!
Time to pack up, leave, and then tell them to leave us alone or face nuclear annihilation!
This should not come as a surprise to anyone. Well, what did NATO expect (flower and olive branch, maybe?) after Friday's Obama's drone attack that killed 22 Pakistanis? Were they all terrorists? It could be anyone's guess! So many children and women are getting killed every week by these drone attacks. Pakistani intel ISI is informing anyone to CIA as terrorists (and raking in millions) whoever is opposed to Pakistani military and oppose current Pak administration.
There's a parallelism between NATO and US behavior in Afghanistan and Israeli behavior in the middle-east...
I think its time for NATO to call it quits and run as fast as they can. NATO has taken US side on this war and that does not bode well for people in that region of the world. They should rather play a neutral role and ease tensions among the warring parties...
Under new terminology 'enemy combatant' or 'terrorist sympathizer' is anyone in the vicinity of a drone attack. Also under the new terminology, NATO means Americans. If it is another nation's soldiers killed then the country is named, as in UK troops or Canandian troops.
The Taliban are no longer our enemies under the new guidelines, and terrorist attacks made on US troops on US soil by radicalized Muslims in the military are now "work place violence.'
How many has Obama killed already, and how many more will he kill, including American citizens, without due process?
Why, again, are we still there?
When Bush let Bin Laden escape through Tora Bora, we should have left...if we actually cared about our Veterans and Military Personnel.
Pathetic Party of No...
The talebans like alquida, hamas,hezbollah are a vicious brainwashed mass murdering pyscho group.Thousands of people in New York died because of them.They will never get close to power again except in some villages The world was burnt once by the taleban regime in Afghanistan and has a red line for them. And that includes China,Russia,Europe the U.S Japan and really almost all the world.They know what that taleban regime did.. The talebans are dead ducks just wriggling around.Their chance of taking over the presidential place is zero..On this one the world has spoken.Ask Russia and China who support Syria.On this one there is no confusion.They.. like most of the world strongly shout "death to the talebans.No ambiguity no indecison.Both in Russian and Chinese the talebans are dead ducks!
It's simple to me. We main there more service members and innocent civilians die. We leave the killing stops. We have no business in their lives. For 11 years the government and defense contractors has used 9-11 to sell wars. If they want the wars let them send their children to fight.
Sandtrich you´ve been standing on your head.The killing would increase a hundredfold.And if the talebans win the country would return to a massive international terrorist base. That´s why the talebans were defeated and that´s why they will never get in power again.It like saying" oh if we just let the nazis alone they won´t bother anyone". They were left alone too long and 20 million people died in Europe.The talebans are just the same ."The killing will stop if the U.S and others leave" Give me a break!.You are sacrificing millions of people who can be their victims!!
Thank you clinton for the fire works and party favors, we can kill nato troops faster with the weapons you supply !!!!!
CAN WE PLEASE REMOVE THIS ADMINISTRATION BEFORE WE HAVE NO COUNTRY LEFT ! NOW OBAMA IS HAVING THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD EGYPT PRESIDENT HERE IN SEPT> TO SUPPLY THEM WITH BILLIONS TO KILL US !!!!
mike,
Don't get your panties in a wad, Egypt is an ally.
Do you not remember the video clips of Bush Jr hosting Taliban leaders at the Governor's mansion in TX? Of course you don't, that doesn't suit your agenda of ignorance and hate.
Prior to the US invading Iraq there was no religious violence and no roadside bombs--they had electricity 24/7. Prior to the US invading Afghanistan the Afghans lived in relative peace. It's not relevant to us what god they follow or what laws they pass. Not out country.
Try that spell check feature on the top right of the tool bar or buy a Mac
My son's over there on his 3rd tour. It time they come home. He's tired, his wife and kids are tired, I'm tired, the American people are tired. This should have never started.
After 9/11, if we would have put the good will of the world to good use, al queda, the actual perpetrators, could have been stopped with a lot less money and far less innocent blood. Ah... but then the likes of Haliburton, KBR, Blackwater and a handful of others would not be as well off as they are now.
I say bring our troops home, glass that sh!thole and call it a day!!!
NATO troops/ aka US Soldiers.
Of the 1289 US troops killed in Afghanistan 70% were under Obama.
I certainly agree that Bush, Cheny, Rumsfeld (and others) deserve to be publicly disgraced for their misconduct of this war, but, we are not there to be liked. We came there to deny Al Qaeda its safe haven under the rule of the Taliban, and to find and kill as many of the people deemed responsible for the 9/11 attacks, most particularly, Osama bin Laden.
That has been accomplished to the greatest degree possible. Osama bin Laden is dead, his body consumed by the fish and plankton of the Indian Ocean. A "friendly" government has been established in Kabul, one which will not likely harbor our enemies, at least not openly.
That it. That is "End Game". We do need to leave, but not precipitously, and not totally. We should follow the established time table for departure, and, we need to maintain as much of a presence there as is practically possible. As we learned 11 years ago, ignorance is not bliss, and what happens in these obscure parts of the world can hurt us.
I am sure that the muslims will begin to accept the west with just a little more money...maybe a few hundred billion. If they will not harbor terorists that is all we can hope for...even tho they will most likely but not in our faces with them..maybe, sure is a big IF.
At least MSNBC finally changed the headline from NATO troops to US troops.
VirginiaDemocrat78
mike,
Don't get your panties in a wad, Egypt is an ally.
Do you not remember the video clips of Bush Jr hosting Taliban leaders at the Governor's mansion in TX? Of course you don't, that doesn't suit your agenda of ignorance and hate.
Yes I saw the taliban @ the white house BEFORE 9/11 and before they were killing U.S. troops. egypt has elected a muslim brotherhood islamist and THAT makes them NOT AN ALLY ! we should not give them billions to use against us and if you cant see that. why dont you go over there and say hi and see what happens to you, we will watch a video of you being beheaded as THEY CHEER ! put your money were your mouth is !!!!
Wonder if this will make the big news all day tomorrow? Maybe just a blimp on the screen. Where are all the anti-war activists that you heard of night and day during the Bush admin.? Somehow everyone has remained silent.
A woman who was surrounded by men was brutally executed in Afghanistan the other day. Where are all the human rights activists who were vocal during the Bush admin.? All I hear is silence.
Well its Monday morning and I was correct. Good Morning America mentioned it about 15 minutes into the program and it was a very short mention.
If Bush had been President it would have been the top story on GMA and they would have had a video to go along with it. They then would have had an anti-war activist on the program for their comment, blah, blah, blah.
BRING HOME ALL OF OUR TROOPS LET THE WORLD TAKE CARE OF ITSELF
and here I'll type something else
How ignorant of you to leave out the Commander In Chief for nearly the last 4 years.
Because the current CIC didn't start this war. He's trying to wrap it up as soon as possible, but his predecessor created quite the mess.
He's wrapping it up? Really? Looks like he's gonna need an Afghani base or two after he starts in with Iran.
VirginiaDemocrat78:
It is people like you who are also a main problem with our country. You Put your Blinders on, Nuzzel into your Feed Bag, and think the World is all rosey....
You seem to be one of those who after being told by the Weather Man there was No Chance of Rain today and when you go outside you get drenched, ya still won't believe it is Raining Out, Because someone told you was not going too.
OPEN YOUR EYES and do some research on your Own... Take the Blinders off and put down the feed bag... Look Around you and see what is happening to this (Once) Great Nation... Look with YOUR OWN EYES and not thru the eyes of someone else.
The real axis of evil is the Congress and the President. It's time to end these wars. It's time for our military to defend our country's borders.
China and Russia are becoming successful again because they are spending so little on their military budgets now. We are the only country on this planet that spends anywhere close to this amount of money on our military.
You guys only complain when troops are killed, I don't see any complaint for the mere fact that they are there in the first place....
nice post proud2beeavet. unfortunately it's incorrect.
george bush IS responsible for the mess in Afghanistan. if he and his fellow chicken hawks had focused on there instead of starting a 2d war in Iraq this war would've been over long ago. using YOUR "logic" blamimg Obama for the mess in Afghanistan is like blaming Nixon for the mess he inherited in Vietnam. You just don't walk away from it. We started it and by our actions since way too many there have come to hate us.
It might behoove you to stick to soldering as your posting leaves a lot to be desired.........
From a fellow vet.
The money is for stability with the intentions of buying their resources in the future.
It is an investment.
16 billion to create stability for human rights? Lmfao
Proud2BaVet: You mention about opening their eyes to the reality. It is hard for you to make a point if you do not state the point. Were you suggesting he is an Obama sheep? Were you suggesting he was not understanding that Obama cannot get out of Afghanistan? There are too many questions as to what you are trying to prove. It is people like you who think they are intelligent, but they actually lack the cognitive thinking to make a valid point.
And if you truly believe that this "(Once) Great Nation" is no longer a great nation, why don't you move out to what you would call a better nation? You are a vet? I bet most vets would be disappointed in you for saying this nation is no longer a great nation. I know my veterans friends love this country, as do I...
This is a mid-evil culture thrown into the internet age with modern weapons.
You all can scream, cry, rant...it doesn't matter. But let's not blame our fellow Americans. Republican or Democrat.
We have a very, very transformative time at the moment. It will be ugly. But I do believe that information is key, and after a few decades (yup, that kind of sucks, doesn't it) most of the hate and ignorance (from both sides) will be swept under the carpet. Granted, we will always have those who want to kill and gain power, but in the information age, things will change. Look at it this way, anyone with a cell phone can communicate. Fifty years ago, that concept would be abstract. But these 'wars' have been going on for centuries. West v. East. There is a lot of history, sure. But it won't go on. As long as we don't elect a president who says something like "crusade."
You can't fix stupid, but fortunately, stupid won't be in charge much longer. Ten more years, maybe twenty. But this war has been going on since 500 A.D. I'm fine with twenty, if that's what it takes. Let's wrap it up.
This planet is FAR better than this.
get the eff out of the middle east, and everywhere else we are on foreign land !!
if we are threatened, strike by air,,never by land, period !!!!!!!!! end of story.
let these countries figure it all out by themselves.
Yep, continue to THROW money at the problem while roadside bombs kill people everyday, or there is another blue on green attack, or there is another woman MURDERED.
Wait a minute.....Afghanistan is corrupt to the core however they are now one of our STRONGEST NON-NATO ALLIES and those "Peace Talks" with the Taliban are working so well.
Time for this administration to gather in the "Situation Room" and think this one out....just make sure the mole is present so he/she can release details to the media (the Taliban will not read the follow up article).
Nice one, SFVCYCO
you are correct. Afghanistan is a failed state just like it was 40 years ago. 40 years from now it will
still be a failed state.. did we not learn anything from the Soviets? in the mean time we continue to
lose soldiers for a still undefined mission other than occupation. why is Afghanistan more important to
Washington than america? thanx to tax payer money, Pakistan is amassing nuclear weapons faster
than any other country on the planet. this is a country Washington accuses of providing safe haven to
terrorist and yet embraces them as a major ally against terrorism. SAY WHAT!! just like on 9/11, I have
QUESTIONS.. and to my fellow AMERICANS, YOU SHOULD TOO!!!!
Bush- 587 US Loses
Obama- 1400 US Loses
Source icasualties.org/oef/
Don't you find it amazing how the press reported and counted every loss when Bush was president and Obama gets a free ride... Start to question your media.
Not only do they not name and show the picture of every US Soldier who is injured or dies, they don't even give them the title of US Soldier anymore...NATO DOES NOT HAVE AN ARMY...
With major allies like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, one does not need enemies!
Pakistan has been backstabbing big time since 2001.
Saudi Arabia has been keeping us busy in wars and manipulating oil prices. This is double kicks in one!
Now Saudis and co want us to be busy in Syria and Iran!
How convenient you left out Iraq....
you shoud question your sanity
You do realize more troops have died under Obama's watch then Bush's right?
See above
i casualties isn't the best source they're only showing 1 for 2012 if that tells you anything
Stop feeding the military industrial complex MONSTER! Stop these stupid wars and bring everybody home NOW!
Reality-1947736:
First Off... I placed NO BLAME... Just stated a fact, that a person should do their own research and not believe everything they are told. PERIOD... No Blame!
An as for you second statement:
"And if you truly believe that this "(Once) Great Nation" is no longer a great nation, why don't you move out to what you would call a better nation? You are a vet? I bet most vets would be disappointed in you for saying this nation is no longer a great nation. I know my veterans friends love this country, as do I.."
What I said "Once a Great Nation" is true.... At one time the US of A was RESPECTED, FEARED, TRUSTED and LOOKED UP TOO.... What are we now? A country that apologizes every time a Country (That we are at war with) gets pissed at us, and then we offer them BILLIONS of Dollars so they will be our Friends.
6 more of our Military are dead in a country that was just given the title of Non-NATO Ally, Women being Excuited in the middle of the street while on-looker cheer... One Hell of an Ally if you ask me...
Vietnam had their Hanoi Jane, and we have our Kabul Hillary
During the 1970s Carter using the CIA & ISI; funded, supplied arms, and trained the radical Muslims in Afghanistan. The same people the USA has been fighting for the last DECADE...
During the 1990s Clinton used these same radical Muslims in Bosnia, while IGNORING the bombings of US Embassies and deaths of US service members. Also remember that the; funding, training, and placing the key terrorist in the USA for 911 occurred during Clinton's watch...
George Bush and the UK, turned the Afghanistan 'Nation Building' over to the UN and 52+other countries, Dec 2001...
Obama was the one that doubled, then doubled again the US Troop levels in Afghanistan, while also placing his 'hand picked' Generals in charge. One which he FIRED because they did not support Obama's POLITICAL agenda...
Now after KILLING twice the numbers of US Troops and spending Trillions of US Tax dollars, in half the time of Bush. Obama proudly points at KILLING ONE MAN, resulting from intel methods that he had outlawed when assuming office...
ProudToBeAVet: No, YOU are what's wrong with this country: YOU beat the drum when the Neo-Con runs the war and attack, attack, attack when the Democrat's running it, YOU ARE A FALSE PATRIOT! YOU act like when the weatherman says it's not going to rain and it rains anyway due to a tropical storm that we should shoot the weatherman and question whether his f#$king birth certificate is real. You aren't proud of anything you don't agree with or are offended by and in America, YOU have NO RIGHT to demand that everyone elect a leader YOU LIKE all the time, YOU have NO RIGHT to not be offended! GET OVER YOURSELF!
Wife4ID: There should've been AT MOST four years TOTAL of war in Afghanistan ONLY and it should've ended in 2004/05!! The casualties you are referring to are the fault of the MORON who let Bin Laden GO in Tora Bora and attacked THE WRONG country, taking away precious resources for the actual, rightful mission and widening our war to 2 countries. Hellllooooo?
A woman executed for being raped while 150 men applaud and the west pledges 16 billion dollars. How about 16 billion dollars of daisycutters and no need to put in another dime or drop of NATO blood.
AMEN Allen !! Are our leaders completely stupid or what !! ?
Hey viginia dummycrap, keep sucking the hind tit of the public sector unions
Even the reporting has become a joke!
"major donors in Tokyo pledged $16 billion in development aid for Afghanistan over the next four years as they try to prevent it from sliding back into chaos once most foreign troops have left by the end of 2014."
They are assuming that there is no chaos right now!
Reporters are talking of women and children injured. Are they reporting from Pakistan and Afghanistan or some where else?
maybe the usa and it's allies (nato) should learn to mind its own F'N business and these people would still be alive
Yup. GTFO.
you conveniently forgot to mention anything about 9-11
maybe YOU should get a lawyer... your lobotomy was a failure
and thousands more !!
The name says it all
Maybe if the Taliban had not helped sneak-attack the US we wouldn't be there in the first place.
So are you for or against this occupation? So far, in just 2 posts, I've seen you play both sides of the coin.
If attack on the US was the primary cause, then US should have attacked Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
Instead, Bush, Jr got Iraq and Afghanistan on the map!
Afghan President Ahmad Karzai has amassed a fortune of over $300 million since assuming office. The vast majority of it comes from the American taxpayer (via contract kick-backs) and drug money.
I would bet he is on the first plane out of the country (with his $millions) the moment we leave in 2014.
Oh people just wait a minute...Afganistan is now another of the USA's key non-NATO allies and it can now obtain training and equipment for its maintainence of the "peace". Not that anyone in Afgan... knows what peace is anymore. But being a key ally to the US gets Afgan... a direct deposit from our treasury...not a bad deal. We'll be shoveling $$$ over there for the rest of our lifetimes and our kids too probably. Meanwhile we fret that we can't afford our social programs any,more. Simple isn't it?
Except it is not the Afghans who get the money. Arms dealers/manufacturers and "private contractors" get the money. The Afghans only get the arms with which to kill & maim.
And just yesterday Secreary of State Clinton stated that Afghanistan is our ally - What country is she representing????
Flocker - Did we not do that for our so called enemy-friend Israel since 1948. US tax payers have shoved in on average $10 billion (in cash and WMD) a year for 64 years, ie, about $640 billion dollars and guess what we got - a lot of grief and we turned everyone in the middle-east into our enemies. O' wait, with a friend like Israel we don't need any other enemies...
Israel and many other countries. My point was that the money does not help the people, but only fills the pockets of those who are in the war business.
flocker:The people who are poor are always under seige and every Administration in Afghanistan is going to be corrupt to a certain point until they have a populace that is more patriotic than religious/criminal (yes, those are two entirely different ways of being but they result in the same amount and same justification for the killing and oppression of the people, so I lump them) and that happens when an Administration is moderate and reliable to the people, which happens when the administration is supported by friends and benefactors in and out of the region. We are affected by the state of Afghanistan therefore we have become one of those benefactors out of necessity. It sucks, but that's life, sometimes.
Ron from Oscoda: If a diplomat (Hillary being the top diplomat in the most powerful country on the planet) were to call Afghanistan out for it's failures publicly it would be like a broken record since it's been that way forever, and destructive to the process of changing it so you don't move Afghanistan in the right direction by trashing them for their failures and not affirming their ally status (which IS how it stands, currently), that's just diplomacy 101 and common sense. Read about diplomacy and it's processes before decrying a NECESSARY DIPLOMATIC RELATIONSHIP with one of the countries that spawned so much anti-western sentiment, and actual terrorism within our borders, please. Not condescention, just a suggestion I think will benefit you.
Well, when the "troops" are holding hands & singing "Tip-toe through the Tulips", it's hard to stay alert. Bring back DADT.
Oh yes, that will fix everything...
So bringing back DADT will only allow real men to enlist? Puhleeze there have been gays in the armed forces for as long as we have had armed forces. My ALCOA stock is starting to drop you need to buy more tin foil for making hats.
Dear idiot (jaques), "handsome" is spelled with a "D" and your inability to spell it probably is an indication that you don't know what it is and therefore aren't really, handsome. Probably fat, short, hideous and couldn't get any if you worked in a ho-house.
U should change your handle to "Jaques asse".
And just yesterday Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that Afghanistan is ?????
Yes, and has Hillary apologized to the Taliban yet?
She should, actually. And to the Afghan people.
Apologise to the Taliban? Really? Afghan people are and have been screwed over by a 7th century mindset that pervades their 'culture' like a cancer. Human life has no value, the only value is following the Koran.
I'm not a rocket scientist, but isn't this expected? When the Nazis invaded other nations, the invadees would do any thing to get the invaders out of their country, and I'm sorry to say, but Afghans are no different. They might not be as educated as in other parts of the world, but they can tell an invader when they see one. What I don't understand is why is it so hard for most Americans to comprehend. Actually, one of the most daring attempts ever was carried out by the Czech resistance under the code name of Operation Anthropoid killing a SS general officer and all Europe, including occupied countries rejoiced. I don't understand why now the rules of engagement and propaganda have to be changed to fit our agenda. I don't think invasions are looked up as something good ever, ergo, leave the damn country and the Afghani civilians, mostly women and children will thank us. Ditto, I'm sure the families of the dead invaders. If the Afghan war wasn't a priority, nor necessary for the retard pervert of Texas and his cadre of war criminals, why for Obama, AKA, Bush the third, has to be any different? Imagine all the billions we could save to put more teachers, more police, fix our fractured infrastructure and provide those wasted dollars in putting America back to work, so the homeless can have their homes back. I don't know how tea partiers, republicans be opposed to more jobs, better conditions for all, except that they don't want that black illegal from Kenya to succeed, but that is not only racist to the nth degree, but asinine, and masochistic as well.
"I'm not a rocket scientist" point taken.
Only one problem about the $Billions you will save, you won't get it to spend on Infrastructure, nor jobs, the FR will give it to Banksters, to keep them swindling you.
Jim Alan, I see you don't know the real meaning of 'rocket scientist." Even in this you didn't get the message. Actually Jim, that says volumes about you, and it seems to be above your pay grade.
Very clever MSNBC...when you report that 6 NATO troops were killed, the conservatives and Fox snoozers
think that foreign troops were killed.
How about reporting the truth for a change?
What are you talking about?
ken1776: re-read the headlines??? 6 US troops were killed.
Your anti-American agenda is easily viewed and documented. You should be ashamed for making light of the death of 6 who served with honor while you sat and typed your empty and pathetic vitriol on your laptop.
yesterdays headlines where 6 Nato troops not US troops
No doubt these "NATO" soldiers were all US servicemen. And just yesterday Hillary declares a "powerful committment" (aka taxpayer monies) to these bass-ackward goat herders
It's states "6 US soldiers were killed"
But...but...but..., they're our buddies now, aren't they? Hillary? Aren't they? Leon? Barry? Anybody?
Blame Bush. Or Slick Willie, or Bush the Elder, or Ronnie O'Reagan, or the Peanut man. Ford had his hands full. Nixon, anyone? We didn't start the fire: It's all those darned Scythians' fault - they started all this.
Anyone who's tired of watching our soldiers die, our taxes vanish into that desert outhouse masquerading as a country, and hearing our sworn enemies laugh at us, raise your hand. Buy a history book, read it thoroughly, read it again. Then hold it at arm's length, and whack yourself in the head with it until you understand that the way our government works is unsustainable and self-destructive. You also might want to consider that WE are the collateral damage in this looney-tune relationship. PS: voting the same old party line is NOT going to fix this.
Certainly not what one would like to hear. Forces dying needlessly
A shame send billions more and then just maybe they'll like us
NATO needs to get out their maps and find the North Atlantic area they are chartered to defend. Somehow they got their globes twisted around to central Asia. Can maybe a third grader provide them a geographic clue.
The 6 NATO/ISAF soldiers killed by a roadbomb in Eastern Afghanistan according to AFP are Americans. One (1) ISAF soldier was killed by a roadbomb in the south earlier on Sunday - also several Afghan civilians and policemen were killed in Southern Afghanistan on Sunday. Afghanistan is becoming a very dangerous turf for civilians- those in the police and their tutors even more so.
When the article said the nationality was being withheld, I figured it was Americans.
If it was a Republican president it who be front page news.
6 NATO troops my A$$. 6 more young American lives thrown away. Congratulations, Mr Obama. Barry, the Chicago thug, has more blood on his hands than Bush.
I don't see how, Bush started this war, he had a chance to avoid it all together. In October 2001, the Taliban offered to hand OBL over to a neutral party, Bush refused, he had already decided that our boys would die.
The blood is on Bush's hands, and his alone.
President Obama has made steady progress towards wrapping this occupation up.
VirginaDemocrat78: "President Obama has made steady progress towards wrapping this occupation up."
Can you PLEASE Explain this....
"WEST POINT, N.Y. — Declaring "our security is at stake," President Barack Obama ordered an additional 30,000 U.S. troops into the long war in Afghanistan Tuesday night, nearly tripling the force he inherited as commander in chief. He promised an impatient public he would begin bringing units home in 18 months.
The buildup to about 100,000 troops will begin almost immediately – the first Marines will be in place by Christmas – and will cost $30 billion for the first year alone."
The war was approved by Republicans and Democrats b4 we invaded...remember that little bit of info...I know it was so easy to forget and we did get attacked on 9/11..maybe we should have apologized to AlQaida for that.
How could Bush have avoided the war? If if we had gotten OBL in Oct 2001, we would still be there. We are stil there and OBL is dead.
Besides, Clinton had a chance to get OBL from the Sudanese in 1996, but passed.
Good.
Americans need to realize they can't just invade a country for no reason. Germany was put on notice for doing the exact same thing.
Here's hoping for another 9/11.
Which came first...9/11 or the NATO intervention in Afghanistan?...
Tell me you aren't being serious. For making comments like
I hope you get a visit from the guys in black suits driving black cars. If I were them, I'd consider that a threat.
dietsunkists5555 is a person who gives American muslims a bad name. What a troll! Nothing but heathen scum!
You @!$%#ing coward! dietsunkists5555 keep wiping your ass with your hand!
Diet sunkist, we are going to send you & the rest of your kind back to the middle east,
to raise goats for all your buds to butt f**k , because you all pretty much look like
bearded goats.
Flamming comment - not worthy of response
What a waste of good money...
Good.
Americans need to learn they can't invade another country when they feel like it. More of these murderous rapists need to be killed.
Here's hoping for a second 9/11.
diet - you need to go back to your backward country and become a bright target for the NATO troops...
Every time Dick Cheney hears da word “Invasion”…..he gets a Boehner. You Bet Cha…Fer Sure.
dietsunkists5555 is a person who gives American muslims a bad name. What a troll! Nothing but heathen scum!
diet..."hoping for another 9/11" is about as offensive as you can get. Go troll somewhere else. It is dinner time in some parts of the world and your posts are nauseating.
@dietsunkists5555 --- You are supposed to wipe your azz and wash your hands before you eat not afterwards. Not doing so will turn you into the sick phook you are today.
Diet sunkist, is your mama a billy goat on the side of an Afgan hill.
Why don't you go join her.
Note the civilian casualties! 16 innocent women and children killed! And these cowardly, worthless muslim scum blame the US for civilian casualties? If/when we take our the terrorist killers and there are any civilian deaths at all they are miniscule compared to the killing done by these muslim slime balls. Get out of that worthless, illiterate, hate filled failed country now! Let these ignorant muslim cowards continue killing each other and of course thier favorite targets....women and children! Wake up world! Islam is the greatest scourge this world has ever faced!
The Middle East is the Land of da Devil. The U S should just stay out of there. They will never have Peace.
Why do all the Middle Eastern women have to dress up like “Cousin It”?
Hopefully there will come a day when we can tell them to “Drink their Oil and Eat their Sand”.
Remember Republicans, when these Foreign Countries ask for Aid and Funding….just say No.
Cut off all Funding to Pakistan. Why are we giving them Billions of $$$$$$ just to be our “Little Friend”? Did they Apologize for Hiding Out Bin Laden?
You Bet Cha….Fer Sure
If you look up the word “Explosion” in an Arabic dictionary, it means “A call to Prayer”. This is a way of life, mentality, for the Muslims and people from the Middle East. It's all they know. These Whack Job Extremist use "Religion" as a front and an excuse to carry out their "Evil Plans" such as blowing up donkeys. I don’t think “Allah” is going to be happy with that.
How many U.S. and NATO troops have died in Afghanistan? 6,000? 7,000? How many came back with missing limbs, brain trauma, and PTSD that will disable them for the remainder of their lives?
And what do we have to show for it? Absolutely nothing.
The war drained the U.S. Treasury. Yes, the defense contractors (Halliburton, etc.) made out like bandits.
The Taliban are just as strong as they ever were. The Karzai government is corrupt. It's another Viet Nam. We apparently have a learning disability.
The destruction of the Taliban, and the shredding of Al Qaeda.
No terrorist attacks on US soil.
No, it is certainly NOT another Vietnam.
You see, in Vietnam, they were willing to be happy with tossing us out. They wanted us out, and to live by themselves.
With the Taliban and Al Qaeda, they'll follow us back here to kill us all.
Even you, 'infidel'.
Really? With all of the infighting, roadside bombs and sneak ambushes? Could have fooled me there bud.
El wrongo. It is Viet Nam all over again. Only difference is, we're fighting a useless cause on a pile of rocks instead of in a jungle or on rice patties.
Sounds a lot like the Taliban, and the general Afghan population, doesn't it?
Oh, but the training of
Taliban terroristsAfghans just so that they can turn on you is really working out swell, right?You can kill a lot of things with a bomb and a bullet. A fifteen century old ideology isn't one of them.
Dry up, please.
If this was still Bushie's watch, the liberal media would be foaming at the mouth. They'd shriek and bray about drone attacks, they'd be screaming about the Afghan surge, they'd be apoplectic about the loss of that drone to Iran.
They would foam at the mouth over the prospect of the targeted assassination of ANY US citizen without 'due process' and 'Civil Rights'.
But, since there's a Democrat in charge, well, we shouldn't find these acts too terrible; in fact they're barely worth mentioning.
Besides, the editors at MSNBC know that the Zimmerman-Martin story is much better to dwell upon!
Bush- 587 US Loses
Obama- 1400 US Loses
Source icasualties.org/oef/
Don't you find it amazing how the press reported and counted every loss when Bush was president and Obama gets a free ride... Start to question your media.
Wow. Seriously? You call Obama getting blamed for everything about this war a free pass?
Srsly... Aunt Anna, you are going to utter such vaccuous ineptitude as 'pearls of wisdom'? What of the 4000+ who died in Iraq in W's other more glamorous and equally mendacious war of empire?