Posted on 07/12/2008 12:51:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said in a new interview Friday that the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai had not got out of a "bunker" to rebuild the war-torn country.
Obama also said in the interview with CNN to be broadcast in full this weekend that the Bush administration had allowed Al-Qaeda and the Taliban to regroup, by diverting vital US forces to the war in Iraq.
"I think the Karzai government has not gotten out of the bunker and helped to organize Afghanistan and (the) government, the judiciary, police forces, in ways that would give people confidence," Obama said.
"So there are a lot of problems there," he added, ahead of an expected visit to Afghanistan and Iraq which he is due to make in the coming weeks, details of which have not been made public for security reasons.
"A big chunk of the issue is that we allowed the Taliban and Al-Qaeda to regenerate itself when we had them on the ropes," Obama went on to say.
"That was a big mistake and it's one I'm going to correct when I'm president."
Obama's Republican foes accused him of ignoring multiple assassination attempts against Karzai, and of offending a vital US ally.
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The big brave Obama is rattling the sword against our allies again. Is he going to do this cowboy style..or via NATO?
The Radical Messiah should send his shrew wife to Afganistan to fix all the ills over there. That’s probably more her kind of country since she isn’t proud of this one.
Is B Hussein Obama speaking without his teleprompter again?
Obama, Stuck On Stupid.
Obama looks like and acts like a twelve year old.
This ignorant jackoff keeps exposing his lack of International experience. I hope he keeps it up, but even if he does half of the change critters will vote for him anyway.
He’s gonna win this thing for McCain the same way Kerry handed it over to Bush.
Just keep a mic in front of his face and hide the teleprompter.
He's an idiot. Complete, and utter.
I truly hope that the majority of U.S. voters are not stuck on stupid on November 4.
Didn’t I hear on the national news (I know, not a trustworthy source) a few months ago that “Osama bin Laden” had instructed Al-Qaeda to forget about Iraq and go to Afghanistan to save the jihad?
“that the Bush administration had allowed Al-Qaeda and the Taliban to regroup”
How? By harsh language?
Personally, I don’t think Karzai has done a bad job at all considering, and I can recall at least two assassinaton attempts, and I seem to recall him always being filmed aboveground a lot since then, unlike this no executive experience period nada zilch ever jfk wannabee.
RFCSABFSPT!
Oh really....
What about these “O”?”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044211/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044206/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043701/posts
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043155/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042870/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042635/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042121/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042098/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040504/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040033/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039488/posts
and there are more.
If you and your staff would read something other than the DailyKOOKs you might learn something.
Obama should be an expert about “bunker mentality”..
His decades of “service” as a “community organizer” and State Legislator gave him extensive experience living in a crime, corruption and immoral community that must hunker down in a bunker to survive..
Then Obama spent 20 years in a black racist cult “church” spreading the myth that the blue eyed white devils were responsible for the decrepit condition of the “boyz in the hood”.
Oh, yes it was tough -— for Obama and the vast hoards of rich black “politicians” and “civil servant”.
American taxpayers have really been tough on all the black civil service employees ripping off the system and performing as corrupt, inept and incompetent boobs — while they shout “God Damn America”.....”God Damn America”..
Every one of the stupid lecherous and welfare dependent bastards should be removed from all taxpayer funded benefits and force to fend for themselves or move to a nation they admire...
American taxpayers have been and are still be playing for the biggest suckers in the world — by financing the underclass blacks for so many generations -—— which has resulted in an ever worsening and more dangerous black thug culture...
Prove of insanity. is the fact we continue the failed policies of the past, expecting a different result...
Now — we’ve so many of the ignorance ghetto dwellers - they in conjuction with the other fools in America, may very well elect a boob like Obama as President!
Obama is clearly the most dangerous presidential candidate we have ever had. Conservatives regardless of what they might think of McCain need to vote for him.
Agreed.
You sure did. Of course, acknowledging this would mean that the "messiah" would have to admit that Iraq was the central front of the war and that al-queda has all but abandoned it as lost.
Wishful thinking from the Dem wackadoodle Obama when in reality, alqaeda and the Taliban are barely a whisper of what they were allowed to become under Clinton.
The Taliban and Alqaeda can barely muster up lunch money, let alone the resources to launch anything remotely global in scope.
Yes, the Taliban were able to pull off a suicide truck bomb attack on that prison, which allowed a few hundred terrorists to escape.
Outside that, and a few lucky roadside bombs, their power is mainly AK-47 style attacks on weak outposts.
Obama is vested in trashing our allies, the people who are dying in their own countries to fight for their freedom. He is talking out his backside.
As if though by his very presence things will somehow be better just because his presence will grace the situation. He's believing his own propoganda and getting drunk on his own kool aid.
The only ones whose conditions will be improved with him as CINC will be our enemies.
Maybe the Ivy League intimidates conservatives. Not me. As a Fordham Grad from the days of real Jesuit education, unlike the Ivies, I was taught how to think, not what to think. These conservative pundits of who, you speak should be more discerning thqan simply reading a CV.
Huh?
Hey maybe you guys are being too harsh on Hussein
Maybe he knows something we dont
Afterall, he has taken all those trips to Afganistan so he must have first hand knowledge of whats going on there
Obama is the most arrogant POS I've ever seen. He thinks he's got all the answers! He cocks his head back and wags that finger like he's already the President. There's nothing like angering our allies. I would be willing to bet that he'll be retracting or explaining what he meant before the weekend is over.
THIS is EXACTLY why we can't allow him to be elected. I don't like McCain at all, but I will crawl across a parking lot full of broken glass to vote against Obama!! I hope Karzai uninvites him to Afghanistan. THAT would really embarrass Obama!!
I think maybe Jesse Jackson had the right idea. He needs to be neutered! LOL
I like the tirade.
This is true no matter the color:
...civil service employees ripping off the system and performing as corrupt, inept and incompetent boobs...
and as far as “bunker mentality” is concerned, Obama only has to look at his democrat cities to see some bunkers...Philadelphia, Washington,Detroit, New Orleans...
OBAMA IS STUPID AND YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID!
Yes, Boma is arrogant, but is it just me? or is he talking more and more like a sharecropper’s son? He cast his Columbia & Harvard education under the bus with all the rest (Rev. Wright, White Grandma, Bernie Mac, etc.).
He’s going real hard for the street cred. Sickening.
By apologizing to them, most likely.
Says the wussie that won't even debate McCain in front of a military audience. What a cowaradly clown this big talker is.
cowardly
Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr., center, is shown wearing floral leis on his graduation day at the University of Hawaii in the early 1960s. (Photo: Family Photo) Have you seen this photo?
This guy can't win in November.
Obligatory precursor. Should be considered by all right minded people as being equivalent to "Thus sayeth the Lord".
Stick to the Democrat script, Barry. Iraq = mistake. Afghanistan = good.
Al Qaeda agrees. :-)
Anytime they say “I THINK” is a red flag that should be read as “I DON'T KNOW”. “I THINK” is heard a lot on the Sunday Morning interviews.
Hey Jeff, that is fantastic! Thankyou!
How does he know they are in a bunker? Has he been to Afghanistan?
ROLF.....ROF....LOL! What a great pic combo! heheheh.
the obamination's info is already old. There's progress he hasn't a clue about that will soon come out - and make him look like the jackass mascot of his party
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