Terrible Attack in Afghanistan: breaking on Yahoo

[leftyladyfrommo]

www.yahoo.com
A suicide bomber struck outside the compound of a southern Afghan governor killing 18 people - several of whom were Muslim pilgrims.

This stuff in Afghanistan just gets worse and worse by the day.

I hope this link works - here is more info
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060926/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan

[maddezmom]

1. Iraqi lawmaker resigns; blasts kill 21

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060926/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_060924161043

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. Horrible day over there!

I know that hindsite is 20/20 but I wonder if we had just stayed in Afghanistan - helping them to rebuild and building schools and hospitals - what would the middle east look like today. Maybe that would have done more to promote democracy in the ME than anything.

Our going into Iraq simply destroyed all hope for any kind of good end to this terrible mess.

[madokie]

7. It wouldn't be looking like a comma I'm sure

as bush* would have you believe.

[Jacobin]

2. I don't think Afghanistan will ever be pacified

Surely not with the few troops there. IIRC, the Soviet Union had several hundred thousand troops there and they got run out. Of course, the CIA was giving stinger missiles to bin laden, so that didn't help.

[soothsayer]

4. We're losing control ahead of handing it over to UN troops.

Taliban is back in a big way.

[mtnester]

5. This is exactly what happens when you take your eye off the ball

you get hit hard in the effing head!

I am by NO MEANS comparing the horrors of what happened today to a ballgame...BUT, this corrupt lie spewing awol torture monger of a president decided to start a distraction war in Iraq for fun and profit for his friends, and to nana nana boo boo his father, before the job was finished in Afghanistan.

Now look at the mess...Safia Ama Jan, the Afghan Director of Women's Affairs was murdered yesterday, and the bloodletting that is going on and escalating QUICKLY, Osama roaming around (either dead or alive...no matter) at will.

I blame blivet...every minute of every hour...

OK, now I have a headache...scuze me while I go breathe for an hour

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. Yes. This is Bush's fault - and Rumsfeld.

I hated the Taliban because of the way the women in Afghanistan were treated. And I was glad to see them fall.

But we should never have taken out eye off the ball - you are exactly right. Now they are back in a huge way - and much stronger than before. And its awful.

[bdamomma]

8. and they have a bumper crop of poppies also

can you just hear rummy say "the Taliban is not in power anymore" rummy can choke on those words now, his sorry butt should be thrown out too.

the casualty count at the moment is 2705, all this unnecessary death for this sick regime we have here.

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. Yes they do - most of the heroin going into Europe

but no one really seems to care.