Tag Archives: afghanistan

Dogs on Bongs

October 10, 2009 – 12:30 pm

The US military has been fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2002. Successes have been few and if anyone in the Pentagon was truthful then the architects of Operation WTF would admit to the world that there have been no successes. The initial collapse of the Taliban was not a collapse. The war-rived country faced […]

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Autumn in Kabul

October 4, 2009 – 8:09 pm

In 1842 15,000 British troops invade Afghanistan. The political officers installed a puppet king. The troops camped within the city. Payments were doled out to tribal chieftains to insure loyalty. After several months the India command decided to cut back on expenses and shorted a warlord in charge of the Kybher Pass. Within months the […]

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One More Statistic

September 8, 2009 – 7:20 am

Labor day Weekend is over and the morning traffic jams snarl the cities of America. Commuters are barraged by a constant stream of topics; health care, Obama’s appearance before school children, and the AP’s publishing a photo of a dying marine in Afghanistan. The soldier had been hit in the leg. The RPG tore off […]

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Afghan Quagmire

July 2, 2009 – 10:13 pm

I voted for Barack Obama to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. US Troops have pulled out the Iraq cities and the president has vowed to end the occupation within the year, much to the chagrin of the Pentagon, who want this war to continue into the next century. More worrying in the recent […]

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Our Army Likes to Party

June 20, 2009 – 12:29 pm

Anti-temperance zealots were dismayed to discover that NASA astronauts routinely blasted off from Cape Kennedy in a state of inebriation. This need for self-medication should come as no surprise, since no sane or sober person would sit atop a million gallons of highly explosive fuel to attain orbit in Space. Do-gooders have imposed a zero-alcohol […]

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