The Taliban are stepping up attacks

[icymist]

Those nasty Taliban have struck again in two days! Not the rock band that George Bush originally thought the Taliban was as Mark Crispin Miller states in his book The Bush Dyslexicon. Maybe that's the reason George W. Bush turned his attention away from those who actually played a part in attacking the US. There are times when I do wonder if dropping the final defeat of the Taliban is, in fact, not incompetence, but deliberate neglect. Nevertheless, after two years from claiming that the Taliban were defeated, it would appear that a new spring offensive is under way. This attack came in an area where it has been reported that the Taliban are gaining money through opium. This is significant for it ties the Drug Lords into financing attacks on NATO forces. Omar himself is bragging about this offensive. Meanwhile, the Canadians need our prayer for hundreds of their troops have gone into harms way. Afghanistan is having a hot, bloody spring.

[LynnTheDem]

1. IMPOSSIBLE!!! 2 years ago, bush said "The Taliban are no more"

:eyes:

bush; stupidest MFing war criminal ever.

[icymist]

5. Bush allied himself with those who gave the Taliban refuge!

This in Pakistan and the area where, I suspect, Canadian troops are now advancing. Pretending that the Taliban are defeated will make the US look like fools to the world as we all discover that they are counter attacking. The blog Flogging The Simian is also cover this and Soj says:
But that's nothing new. What is new is the Taliban "teaming up" with drug warlords. Which is bitterly ironic since before the 2001 invasion, the Taliban had ceased all new heroin production to almost zero. And it's been three and a half years since the invasion and the Taliban still:

*Are getting instructions from their pre-invasion leader, Mullah Omar;
*Have a variety of spokespersons, who conduct interviews not only via telephone but sometimes via radio and even television;
*Run their own video production facilities, which broadcast pre-recorded shows on Afghan and Pakistani TV as well as via CD-ROMs for viewing on computers;
*Have enough armed members to conduct regular attacks against either Afghan troops/police or coalition troops. I estimate there is one Taliban attack every second day.
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That was over a week ago and today marks the first day that the attacks are in two consecutive days.

[xchrom]

2. mean while the right wing are haveing orgasms over

saddams ''documents''.

there are no weapons of mass destruction -- but there is plenty of intention, damn it!

and we all know how intention is dangerous when a country bombed into smithereens for what -- a decade -- is.

before the fall of the soviet union -- no right winger worth his salt would countenance the idea that a third world tin horn dictator was a threat to the most powerful country on planet earth.

and now because bushco has been so busy saying, yelling and demanding that everybody ''look over there'' -- the taliban are back.

[icymist]

8. Indeed, the Taliban are back.

And why not? They have never been defeated. I sure hope to Bush that his fiasco in Iraq has been worth it to divert attention away from what the Congress decided to go to war for in the first place. Hey! You know what?! That 'war' was a failure! Anyone paying ATTENTION?

[icymist]

3. I fixed the link about Omar bragging.

I'm just learning how to create links in text, please be patient with me. Thank you.

[spanone]

4. Ah, we're back to the Taliban....didn't we eliminate this scourge?

Boy, will this country EVER wake up???

[icymist]

6. Apparently, the Canadians are advancing to eliminate this scourge....

The Canadians left for the mountains north of Kandahar. This is an area of Afghanistan, way north, and close enough to Pakistan that mujahedeen camps have been created. If you remember, (sorry, I don't have a link for this) the mujahedeen were responsible for the raise of the Taliban in the first place; and out of Pakistan for that matter. The mujahedeen may in fact BE the government of the Taliban. The fact remains that in 2001, the United States Congress agreed to a war against those who attack us. In deflecting that agreement towards a non-relative pre-emptive war, I believe that agreement can be declared invalid. Meanwhile, those who did attack the US, I believe will try and attack again.

[salin]

7. feh.... didn't folks pay attention to the year long buildup for Iraq

and the pullback of military resources (human, financial, technological, equipment) from Afghanistan to Iraq. That was the basis of Bob Graham's vote against the IRC - and the public shrugged. *sigh*