U.S. reconciliation offer "lunatic": Taliban spokesman

[clayinaustin]

yeah, like anyone here (except Cat) is surprised. :rolleyes:

U.S. reconciliation offer "lunatic": Taliban spokesman (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090401/pl_nm/us_afghanistan_taliban)

KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents reject a U.S. offer of "honorable reconciliation," a top spokesman said on Wednesday, calling it a "lunatic idea" and saying the only way to end the war was to withdraw foreign troops.

With the Afghan conflict now in its eighth year, NATO-led forces and the Taliban are locked in a bloody stalemate with violence set to rise further this year as more U.S. troops arrive and seek to contain the insurgency ahead of August elections.

President Barack Obama is redoubling U.S. efforts with more troops, more diplomatic effort and more economic assistance, but he has also already spoken of the need for an "exit strategy."

If the U.S. plan fails to show results, analysts say, time is on the Taliban side.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an international conference on Afghanistan on Tuesday that those members of the Taliban who abandoned extremism must be granted an "honorable form of reconciliation."

"This matter was also raised in the past," said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, referring to comments last month by Obama, who spoke of reaching out to moderate Taliban.

"They have to go and find the moderate Taliban, their leader and speak to them. This is a lunatic idea," Mujahid said by telephone from an unknown location.

[clayinaustin]

The 21,000 extra U.S. troops ordered by Obama to join the 70,000 foreign soldiers now fighting insurgents in Afghanistan showed the United States wanted the war to continue, Mujahid said, and the Taliban would keep fighting till they left.

We may be getting out of Iraq, but we building up in Afghanistan. I wonder how the far left will react to this. :p

[Ted]

Well, hopefully someone will now tell Barry O that he should allow them to meet Allah, peace be Upon Him.....


Not sure if he has the stones for it though, maybe a little harder than taking on a corporate honcho. Now if he tells the President of the UAW to step down, he might actually have a pair.

[sledge]

What was the reason we didn't push into Afghanistan as hard as Iraq in the first place? Or, why did we abandon our efforts there so quickly?

[Ted]

What was the reason we didn't push into Afghanistan as hard as Iraq in the first place? Or, why did we abandon our efforts there so quickly?


It was pacified and Hamid Karzai became the democratically elected President. Unfortunately these muzzy fanatics are like cockaroaches, they just need more stomping.

[catmando]

What was the reason we didn't push into Afghanistan as hard as Iraq in the first place? Or, why did we abandon our efforts there so quickly?Because bu$h had his eye on Iraq from the beginning, even before 9/11. He went into Afghanistan and did just enough so that when he did invade Iraq, people would think he at least tried to get bin Laden. He turned the hunt over to Taliban who were known to be sympathetic to al Qaeda and the rest, as they say, is history.

The bu$h/bin Laden ties go back many years. Two planeloads of bin Ladens left the US three days after 9/11 when ALL civilian planes were grounded.

"There's an old saying in Texas; wanted dead or alive. We'll get him either way". George bu$h on 9/12

"No I don't know where he is. I just don't spend that much time thinking about him". George bu$h talking about Osama bin Laden March 2002

[Ted]

:rolleyes:

[Ratickle]

Because bu$h had his eye on Iraq from the beginning, even before 9/11. He went into Afghanistan and did just enough so that when he did invade Iraq, people would think he at least tried to get bin Laden.

Hate to say it, Cat may be right......:sifone:

[X-Rated30]

Hate to say it, Cat may be right......:sifone:

I know!!! This sentence actually makes sense!!! Proud of the Catman, then he goes off into his goofy conspiracy crap like having the Taliban hunt Bin Laden. :ack2: