Bush hails liberation of Afghanistan as a `great achievement'

[Robbien]

This is one of the best articles since it doesn't just report what Bush said but outlines specifically how crazy Bush statements are

By William Douglas and Jonathan S. Landay

McClatchy Newspapers

(MCT)

WASHINGTON - Amid signs that the Taliban insurgency is regaining strength, President Bush on Friday defended his efforts to stabilize war-savaged Afghanistan and blasted critics who charge that his policies there are failing.

Afghanistan is reeling from its worst bloodshed since the 2001 U.S.-led intervention as the Taliban and allied warlords tie down 42,000 American and NATO-led troops and President Hamid Karzai struggles with colossal corruption, record opium production and nose-diving popularity.

. . .

Several of the president's statements about Afghanistan's judicial and legal reforms were misleading:

then the article goes on to list the lies

more
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/15642585.htm

[Monkeyman]

1. He is back on Coke drug test needed

[and-justice-for-all]

2. Afganistan is not Liberated, the country is in ruin...

..Shrub is a lying asshole.

[kurth]

3. The most powerful military in the history of the world vs.

a ragtag bunch of harebrained half-assed maniacs in little Japanese pickup trucks.

Yep, it was an incredible military victory.

[bemildred]

4. Don't forget Grenada and Panama.

I mean those were big wins too ...

[acmavm]

11. You know, that 's one of the best descriptions I've ever read of that mess

and I'm sure that it is one that the Russians could see the irony in big time.

[Ghost Dog]

5. Afghanistan is reeling?

Or could it be the 42,000 American and NATO-led troops and President Hamid Karzai who are reeling?

[Lisa]

6. go on, say it -- "Mission Accomplished"! (n/t)

[lumpy]

7. When will George wake up to realize his rose

colored glasses have not changed a damn thing in Iraq or Afghanistan. The man is so desperate he is babbling no sense. At this rate he will go completely bonkers. Will he be taking an early vacation this year?

[daleo]

8. Bush sounds like Brezhnev

With his premature victory celebration in Afghanistan.

[0007]

9. Insane man insane!

_He praised Karzai for naming new Supreme Court judges. But he failed to mention that the Afghan parliament rejected Karzai's nominee for chief justice, a conservative cleric blamed for stalling reform, who favored Islamic laws mandating that adulterers be stoned to death and thieves have their hands amputated.

_He praised Italy for helping to train Afghan judges and prosecutors. Many Western officials and experts say the effort is seriously flawed and that Afghanistan's legal system is in a state of collapse.

_He said the Afghan National Police "have faced problems with corruption and substandard leadership." He contended that Karzai's government began tackling the problem after appointing a new leadership team this summer. But he didn't mention that Karzai named to his team 14 senior police generals whom U.S., European and U.N. officials opposed because of their alleged involvement in human-rights abuses and corruption.

[LynnTheDem]

10. DON'T READ NEWSWEEK!!! The issue that headlines...

US LOSING AFGHANISTAN

Whatever ya do, DON'T READ IT!!!

:rofl:

Ya jumped the shark a very long time ago, Mr. george w bush. You stupid MFer. Americans really just aren't as stupid as you think they are.

[VegasWolf]

12. Is this another of Bush's "Mission Accomplished" moments? nt

[jwirr]

13. To our coke using pResident it would look like liberation when

they are freed to grown more lucrative crops than food crops.

[OneBlueSky]

14. bumper crop for farmers, I hear . . . wonder how much of their stuff . . .

ends up on the streets of U.S. cities and towns . . .

[krispos42]

15. I think the liberation is a good idea. When will it happen?

Any time now, I'm sure.

[Ravy]

16. Mission Accomplished (n/t)

[humbled_opinion]

17. Imagine how difficult this is going to be to clean up behind... n/t

[sweetheart]

18. Afganistan needs bush

We can strap some smart bomb rig to his hoary ass and chuck him out of a B-52
at 30,000 feet to enlighten the Afgani's with a thud.

We need to drop more republicans on the taliban, the fatter ones can help
replace the depeted bomb stocks, splattering the taliban with filth when
they explode.