Wanted to make sure this got wide viewing. Holy crap...this is NOT 'good news', bush. Stupid MFer.
Earlier today the usual bush bullshit:
U.S. Says Taliban Waning in Afghanistanhttp://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-us-afghanistan-outlook,0,3117570.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlinesAnd now the situ has changed somewhat, apparently;
Secret UK troops plan for Afghan crisisDEFENCE chiefs are
planning to rush thousands of British troops to Afghanistan in a bid to stop the country sliding towards civil war, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.
Ministers have been warned they face a "complete strategic failure" of the effort to rebuild Afghanistan and that 5,500 extra troops will be needed within months if the situation continues to deteriorate.
An explosive cocktail of feuding tribal warlords, insurgents, the remnants of the Taliban, and under-performing Afghan institutions has
left the fledgling democracy on the verge of disintegration, according to analysts and senior officers.
The looming crisis in Afghanistan is a serious setback for the US-led 'War on Terror' and its bid to promote western democratic values around the world.
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=559872005 Bloody hell.
Posted at LBN by DUer Tom Yossarian Joad
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1490555Edit to add even worse:
Defence analysts say UK forces are already so over-stretched that any operation to restore order in Afghanistan can only succeed if substantial numbers of troops are redeployed from Iraq, itself in the grip of insurgency.