Political & Elections

Billy · Senior Member

RE: US negotiating with fake Taliban leader in Afghanistan

Cartera · Guru

I am sure if the Vietnamese couldn't break him, you couldn't, either.

I bet he'd spill the beans if he had to spend a week locked in the same room with Sarah Palin.

Billy · Senior Member

McCain had loads of experience dealing with torture.
Sadly.

I am sure if the Vietnamese couldn't break him, you couldn't, either.
I thought they did get him to condemn America? Naturally, that was totally off-limits for the election, so people didn't hear much about it. However, it was heroic for him to keep the line of release and not leave so many behind.

SamuraiLandshark · Guru

McCain had loads of experience dealing with torture.

I am sure if the Vietnamese couldn't break him, you couldn't, either.

Cartera · Guru

Anyone else hear Keith Olberman's "Special Comment" on how McCain was committing treason if he was telling the truth?

I missed that - sounds like a good one.

We should torture him to get the information.

Billy · Senior Member

He's the black sheep of his family, and I have a feeling like they value an economic partnership with certain US companies and politicians over the horrible publicity their family receives from a rogue son. Don't think they're giving him much help, but I could be wrong.

BigG · Guru

IMO Osama bin Laden, scion of one of the wealthiest and most influencial families in Saudi Arabia, is living the good life somewhere far away from Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Jihad, its just for the little people.

Billy · Senior Member

That is such a terrible failure.

Where IS Bin Laden? I mean, honestly, does anyone even know where this guy is?
Probably in the mountains of Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan, in the tribal regions.

In '08, John McCain said he knew how to capture Bin Laden, but evidently he is keeping that information to himself. Sore loser.
Anyone else hear Keith Olberman's "Special Comment" on how McCain was committing treason if he was telling the truth? Almost as good as SNL's parody of Olberman.

poetgrl · Senior Member

Cartera wrote:

I mean, honestly, does anyone even know where this guy is?

In '08, John McCain said he knew how to capture Bin Laden, but evidently he is keeping that information to himself. Sore loser.

LOL .....

Cartera · Guru

I mean, honestly, does anyone even know where this guy is?

In '08, John McCain said he knew how to capture Bin Laden, but evidently he is keeping that information to himself. Sore loser.

BigG · Guru

So the sterling record of American diplomancy remains intact.

I wonder how much money the guy scammed out of us? "Cash and in small bills please".

And that was borrowed money!

poetgrl · Senior Member

"War We Can Believe In"

Does anyone remember how during the campaign it was all about catching Bin Laden?

Where IS Bin Laden? I mean, honestly, does anyone even know where this guy is?

soccerguy315 · Guru

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/world/asia/23kabul.html

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KABUL, Afghanistan — For months, the secret talks unfolding between Taliban and Afghan leaders to end the war appeared to be showing promise, if only because of the appearance of a certain insurgent leader at one end of the table: Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, one of the most senior commanders in the Taliban movement.

But now, it turns out, Mr. Mansour was apparently not Mr. Mansour at all. In an episode that could have been lifted from a spy novel, United States and Afghan officials now say the Afghan man was an impostor, and high-level discussions conducted with the assistance ofNATO appear to have achieved little. “It’s not him,” said a Western diplomat in Kabul intimately involved in the discussions. “And we gave him a lot of money.”

American officials confirmed Monday that they had given up hope that the Afghan was Mr. Mansour, or even a member of the Taliban leadership.

NATO and Afghan officials said they held three meetings with the man, who traveled from in Pakistan, where Taliban leaders have taken refuge.

The fake Taliban leader even met with President Hamid Karzai, having been flown to Kabul on a NATO aircraft and ushered into the presidential palace, officials said

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good job USA.