“We sent a clear message to the Taliban in Afghanistan: if you harbor and train terrorists, you will be held accountable. The Taliban is no more, and the people of Afghanistan are free, thanks to America and our friends and allies."
-- George W. Bush, June 19, 2003
"The Taliban was a sponsor and a servant of terrorism. When confronted that regime chose defiance and that regime is no more…." "
-- George W. Bush, September 23, 2003 United Nations address
Mission Accomplished: Taliban defeated."In Afghanistan, America and our allies, with a historically small force and a brilliant strategy, defeated the Taliban in just a few short weeks. [...] One of the highest distinctions of history is to be called a liberator, and Tommy Franks will always carry that title."
-- George W. Bush, bestowing a medal upon General Tommy Franks, December 14, 2004
June 18, 2005:
Update 12:24 pm: Billmon comments:Amid a spate of violence elsewhere in the troubled south [of Afghanistan], the outgoing US ambassador courted trouble with key ally Pakistan by saying there was a big chance Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar was hiding there.
The envoy, future Iraq ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, was speaking in an interview with Afghanistan's Aina Television amid the violence in the south in which several guerrillas and members of the Afghan security forces were reported killed and a U.S. soldier wounded.[...]
Meanwhile, a senior police officer in the southern province of Kandahar confirmed that the main government building in Mian Nishin, capital of the district of the same name, was under Taliban control after attacks on Thursday and Friday night in which 30 police officers and the district chief were captured.
Shit, even Lyndon didn't manage to lose two wars.
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