{"id":3363,"date":"2010-11-14T01:55:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T09:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2010-11-14T01:55:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T09:55:42","slug":"afghanistan-when-our-own-puppet-says-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/14\/afghanistan-when-our-own-puppet-says-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: When Our Own Puppet Says No"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hamid Karzai would never have become President of Afghanistan had the Republican Bush Regime not installed him to represent the interests of his employer, Unocal.  The only thing keeping Karzai in power is the presence of US troops, but even Karzai is savvy enough to know that the Petraeus plan is failing, so he is trying to feather his corrupt nest through other means.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"14afghanistan\"Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai said the United States must reduce the visibility and intensity of its military operations in Afghanistan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Karzai also said in an interview Saturday with The Washington Post the U.S. should end the increased Special Operations forces night raids that aggravate Afghans and could strengthen the Taliban insurgency.<\/p>\n

He said he wants American troops off the roads and out of Afghan homes and that the long-term presence of so many foreign soldiers would only make the war worse<\/strong>. U.S. commander Gen. David Petraeus claims the 30,000 new troops have made substantial progress in beating back the insurgency.<\/p>\n

"The time has come to reduce military operations," Karzai said. "The time has come to reduce the presence of, you know, boots in Afghanistan . . . to reduce the intrusiveness into the daily Afghan life."\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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When Obama campaigned to be President, he never promised to end this war.  He said he intended to escalate it.  He said that he was not against all wars, that he was against stupid wars, referring to to the Republican debacle in Iraq.  We cannot call it betrayal that he did what he said he would do.  But his analysis was mistaken.<\/font><\/p>\n

Mr. President, when our own puppet says No, isn\u2019t it time to recognize that this has become a stupid war and pull the plug?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hamid Karzai would never have become President of Afghanistan had the Republican Bush Regime not installed him to represent the interests of his employer, Unocal.  The only thing keeping Karzai in power is the presence of US troops, but even Karzai is savvy enough to know that the Petraeus plan is failing, so he is […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}