Are US tax-payers funding the Taliban?

Thank you Simal!!! You are absolutely correct! I Agree with you entirely! PEOPLE STOP FREAKING OUT!!

I don't know if you were reply to what I said, but either way I was just trying to respond to the people who make really radical claims about "secrecy" in our government...

Torres,

I'm with you. My thread just appeared after yours. I need to do a better job placing my responses!

No the cia planned it with him! Just who the hell do you think his VP was. and why would anyone pick him for a VP if they didn't have to?

Because roads and bridges in Afghanistan are obvoiusly more important than the health care crisis at home...

Because it is the only way to move critical supplies for our troops through Taliban held territory.

America will always have to give money to other countries, if we dont we'll be considered assholes. But when other countries dont do shit, noone says a things! Typical AMERICA PROBABLY HELPS MORE COUNTRIES THAN MOST SO LETS PLEASE JUST GET OVER THIS! Our leaders in the past have made mistakes, but lets turn things around, make your voice heard, NON-VIOLENTLY and IN AN INTELLIGENT MANNER, otherwise we'll look just as ridiculous as those fools on FOX spreading ridiculous rumors, and freaking the whole nation out, havent you seen what one tiny governor from alaska can do to this country?!?!?! haha

THANK YOU! Finally someone who has their facts straight

This comment is coming from someone with a bong as a profile pic, wow! I believe the entire world has done evil things, so c'mon man, do you watch current or what?

What is that? Blaming people for things that is not their fault is something that you have just started.

Really Jubal, this site isnt for people to be blaming one another, we should really try being the generation that can talk about things instead of blatantly blaming one another, thats how these personal feuds begin and rage into something super intense. Sure America has done alot of bad, but so has the rest of the world, you, a current viewer should know this of all people.

I said America Inc. I wasn't blaming the majority of its slaves.

You should be ashamed.

Eat something toxic and save the world the trouble of dealing with You.

@clayjj

Why would I be recommending his comment?

Yup.....

Look at Vietnam.... So we killed over 2 million and they only killed 55,000, they won (if there is a "winner" in mass deaths of men, women & children. You might try to justify it by calling it war but thats how 9/11 was justified by the "enemy" [whoever that was]).

excerpt from article

"report on the funding of the Taliban last month that uncovered a process that has been an open secret in Afghanistan for years among those in international aid organizations."

Hey, JJammer. How many years has Obama been in office now?

How long was it that Timothy didn't pay his taxes? Then he paid them all and he got to have a top spot on the government. Length of time doesn't matter in government for tax payments and who should and shouldn't be hired and therefore it doesn't matter when it started...it's still going on and guess who is in office now allowing it to happen?

Obama.

Oops.

And by the way...I read the article and therefore saw that and still made my comment. Not taking it back.

I'm sure that you were referencing Timothy in your original comment - makes perfect sense now that you clarified. -Laughable

You sure like to blame Obama for everybody else's mistakes.

Isn't that's what's suppose to happen? Everything that goes wrong and right under a President, no matter if they did it or not, gets blamed for it?

That's how it worked in the past. Why would Obama get to be treated any differently?

No. But if Obama sat in on the meeting where they discussed the funding of the Taliban with US tax dollars, and said nothing to stop it or even worse he encouraged it...

It is his responsibility to make the tough decisions and to put the right people in the right positions in his administration. If someone fails significantly like, oh say Michael Brown at the helm of FEMA during Katrina, then yes... you can blame the president for not managing his administration effectively. I don't think that it is accurate to blame Obama for something that has been overlooked for years under a different administration though.

True as that may be....people still blame, even Bush for Clinton's mistakes, the President of the now for the problems that might have been started before.

When you get a new house you should inspect it and find the problems and then show them so that the owner can deal with them before you take no full responsability. Presidency is more complicated but just the same. You're accepting what the other President did as your job now. No matter if it was secret or not you now are in the position of SHOULD know.

If this is accurate then maybe Obama should be paying attention to what job he has instead of making more work for himself like...I don't know talking to kids? Going to town hall meetings making health care more confusing...he is spreading himself so thin he's hardly doing anything right or giving anything his full attention. Even his speeches are starting to suck.

And J in J_Jammer stands for Jackass.

It doesnt matter how long Obama has been in the office!!! Obama is continuing with George W. Bush's policies and that makes him as guilty.

....as sin.

Fo real real, dont just blame the president, there are half a million people in the administration that make decisions as well, we just need people to start being intelligent and try bring certain discussions to the table, shit! we have online options to contact senators and congressmen, atleast you could contact your local government and make your voice heard instead of just complaining.

JJ You say "True as that may be....people still blame, even Bush for Clinton's mistakes, the President of the now for the problems that might have been started before." But if you go back one more president before Clinton you will see Bush was really the first one to fund the Taliban and thats a fact.

The question is what kind did he fund? The kind now is not the same as the kind then.

One could fund a revolution (French for America) doesn't mean that for the rest of their entire existence France agrees with America or that they should be blamed for funding them many, many moons ago.

JJammer thats true but it would be really fucked up if France funded are revolution then within 10 years we attacked them. And thats why your mastermind fearless leaders should not use monsters to fight are wars.

The Russians were being bullies. The Geeks deserved protection.

Or are you ignorant of how bad Russia was to Afghanistan? They freakin' raped that country for what?

For drug control and thats why we stopped them for drug control. That why now and for the last 30 years the drug been pumped in the US with no end yet the same group that we say controls the drugs in Afghanistan can't get one WMD in ? odd! ?If I was them I would just hide it in the drug shipments.