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Big Taliban Attack Going On In Kabul
« on: September 13, 2011, 07:59:05 AM »
Seems to be happening right now, too.

The UK Guardian has a play by play going here.
In a doomsday scenario, hippies will be among the first casualties. So not everything about doomsday will be bad.

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Re: Big Taliban Attack Going On In Kabul
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2011, 08:15:21 AM »
The stench of failure and lessons not learned surrounds this campaign ever since Duh Wun took control and pussified the ROE's, tactics and strategic goals!

Fricken torks me off!

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Re: Big Taliban Attack Going On In Kabul
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2011, 08:30:08 AM »
My son will be heading there in a few more months.
In a doomsday scenario, hippies will be among the first casualties. So not everything about doomsday will be bad.

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Re: Big Taliban Attack Going On In Kabul
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2011, 09:01:02 AM »
My son will be heading there in a few more months.

*sigh*

I want them home -- all of them -- now.
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Re: Big Taliban Attack Going On In Kabul
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2011, 11:01:39 AM »
Developing: Insurgents Attack U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan
 
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DEVELOPING: Insurgents are firing rockets toward the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other official buildings in Kabul, Afghanistan, where a group of attackers is holed up on the 10th floor, Fox News confirms.

ISAF and NATO attack helicopters are pummeling the building with gunfire and have attacked suspected suicide bombers making a bee-line for the embassy, a source tells Fox News.
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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/09/13/police-insurgents-firing-rockets-towards-us-embassy-in-afghanistan/


Does the battle of Bataan ring a bell?
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Re: Big Taliban Attack Going On In Kabul
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2011, 11:06:16 AM »
Jpat, the quote function is not working properly for you.  Please click on "modify" on your post and LOOK at how it's done.  ;)
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Re: Big Taliban Attack Going On In Kabul
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2011, 11:28:48 AM »
Jpat, the quote function is not working properly for you.  Please click on "modify" on your post and LOOK at how it's done.  ;)


Oop! fixed it! ::doh::

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Re: Big Taliban Attack Going On In Kabul
« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2011, 11:42:13 AM »
Jpat, the quote function is not working properly for you.  Please click on "modify" on your post and LOOK at how it's done.  ;)


Oop! fixed it! ::doh::

Hooray!  Thank you.  Good to do that on each piece you paste from elsewhere; it's easier to read.
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Re: Big Taliban Attack Going On In Kabul
« Reply #8 on: September 13, 2011, 11:45:11 AM »
As much as I like to blame O for everything that's wrong (because he deserves it). I believe the silly ROEs were there when Bush was there,too

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Re: Big Taliban Attack Going On In Kabul
« Reply #9 on: September 13, 2011, 12:16:31 PM »
They were negatively exacerbated by Duh Wun, let there be no doubt of that!

Early on in the WOT the ROE's were much as they had been for decades, and no American trooper was prevented from exercising prudent self-defense.

Many of the ROE's were kept secret, even when they started tightening down bombing missions to reduce collateral damage (a term I still find interesting when used in certain parts of the world, but that is another discussion..).  This was SOP through about 2007/2008.  And we had waterboarding, Gitmo, rendition and on-site intelligence interrogation in theater...then Duh Wun comes along.  We went from WOT to OCO, more obsession over CD and people needing approvals up the ass before one fricken bomb, missile or shell could be launched at known bad guys and lawyers needed for interrogations and to educate troops on proper urban warfare protocols that put them more and more into harms way.  Rendition is gone, waterboarding is gone, Gitmo stops receiving new guests and scum is afforded Geneva Convention protection when they don't even belong to a fricken recognized state or adhere to one single rule of war written any fricken where and I am to think its no better under Obama than it was Bush?

Ya might wanna rethink that one buddy!
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Re: Big Taliban Attack Going On In Kabul
« Reply #10 on: September 13, 2011, 06:15:25 PM »
My son will be heading there in a few more months.
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