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Cash for Karzai over there_Zilch for US over here

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So we are going to stop terrorists who are funded by the drug trade... By propping up the biggest drug dealer in the region (Karzai), who just happens to be unpopular and seen for the US puppet that he is. The Afghan people will never acquiese to a Karzai government. But Obama says he's the man we need to depend on but... we'll do some image damage control first, that will fix everything and oh yeah, tell him he'd better shape up in 18 months. Say WHAT!!! All of this death and debt so a druglord can be the "Mayor of Kabul", what is WRONG with OUR LEADERSHIP ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE? Oh, right... Leadership! (more like bought off, bribed dictatorship of a small elite who tell the rest of us what we are to do and think) The D's and R's are so drunk on power that America is imploding and going down the tubes. When will both left and right unite and stand up for OUR survival and stop our 'leaders' from caring more about tribesmen overseas than they care about their own people here at home?
Stand up before you are permanetly knocked down!
It took 8 plus years to build up the puppet govenment in Iraq until it could intimidate its populace on its own and ask us to leave . My question is how do you realistically expect to be able to just train the Afghan people to get the will to fight for Karzain when they have no will to do so? And how do you keep the same mistakes that happened in Iraq from happening in Afghanistan in just 18 months? Another thing our leaders ignore: We simply don't the money to invest over there. We're broke from giving windfalls to fat cats and being bled in Iraq for the last several years while paying interest to the Chinese for the privilege of policing the world oil supply in the area. We taxpayers get to fund all these quagmires and money giveaways all by ourselves but we can't ask for any nation building here at home. All we get are 'jobs summits' and rhetoric while we continue to sink. We asked for help from NATO but are basically getting the same old paltry window dressing and BS. So, empire building overseas, poverty and job loss at home. Can't depend on our leaders for help when we need it. This whole Afghanistan mess is a lose-lose situation, doomed for failure. Our "lies-you-can-believe-in" fearless leader (I voted for him, but McCain wouldn't have done anything at all for us either) ....fearless talker in the WH should focus on trying to fix the economy not trying to spend on money we owe interest to the Chinese on over in some rathole where they hate us and want us out. ___Watch the video "Cash for Karzai"____
http://www.markfiore.com/political/cash-karzai
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