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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Monday, May 22, 2006

Playing politics with National Security

This is so wrong on so many levels. Somebody "leaked" to the British Telegraph that
American defence officials have secretly requested a "prodigious quantity" of ammunition from Russia to supply the Afghan army in case a Democrat president takes over in Washington and pulls out US troops.....

The Bush administration is said to want the deal because of worries that the next president could be a Democrat, possibly Hillary Clinton, who may abandon Afghanistan.

After five and a half years of this administration, I shouldn't be surprised by dirty politics anymore, but are you kidding me?

10 Comments:

  • God they are so damn paranoid..and I thought no one could be more paranoid than Nixon..

    By Blogger Unknown, at 5:44 PM  

  • I see this as a backhanded slam against the Dems. See, they wouldn't have the balls to stay in Afghanistan.

    Also, just as a note, it works outr to a little over 11,100 AK47 bullets to each soldier.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 6:05 PM  

  • Talk about pouring fuel on the fire...

    Dumping large quantities of ammo in Afghanistan sounds like an incredibly stupid idea - one that we might come to regret sometime soon.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:23 PM  

  • Talk about putting the viciuos into cycle!

    By Blogger Cartledge, at 7:30 PM  

  • I was thinking about Iraq's weapon cache's when I read this.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 8:36 PM  

  • Holy shit, you REALLY have absolutely nothing to do.

    Just leave your back door open, and while you are typing this bullshit nonsense out, we'll come over and entertain your wife.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:49 PM  

  • Ummm. anonymous?

    Expressing aggression through sex? I feel very sorry for the women in your life. (I'm working on the assumption that you're yet to realize your overcompensation.) Your mother must've really messed you up.

    (Also, if you were the "man" you're pretending to be, you would post under your own name/handle.)

    Now, scurry away back into your womb of anonymity.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 10:26 PM  

  • That's rich. A Dem president would "abandon Afghanistan"???

    I thought Bush already did that when he decided to divert our attention to Iraq...

    By Blogger Motherlode, at 1:43 AM  

  • ... could it be that they need troops somewhere else? Wink wink nudge nudge.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:48 AM  

  • Yeah, Romunov, there have been several reports of arms shipments going missing to Iraq, as well as several reports out of Bosnia of small wepons shipments out.

    I haven't seen anything indicating a destination yet, although Somalia where the US is backing the warlords might be one guess.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 11:10 AM  

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