Cluck U wrote:More of the BS exposed.
Let's not forget, this is the war Obama said we should be fighting...it is HIS war. And what are we fighting for in Obama's war? A corrupt President, drugs, 150 released prisoners, some of whom now lead the Taliban, and an Afghan VP taking $52 million to a Persian Gulf state.
WAY TO GO OBAMA!! Everyone should be proud of his leadership - and cover up - in his war.
Change....
"An internal State Department cable recounts new details about how Afghan President Hamad Karzai allegedly intervened on behalf of politically connected drug traffickers, prompting the U.S. government to file a formal diplomatic protest and Karzai’s own chief of staff to say he was “ashamed” of his president’s actions.
But the protest, known as a demarche, was never made public and the Aug. 9, 2009 cable detailing the U.S. government’s complaints was classified as secret by the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. The result was to downplay the depth of U.S. concerns about alleged corruption inside Karzai’s government during a period that the Obama administration was ramping up U.S. aid and troop levels in Afghanistan.
Although U.S. frustrations over Karzai’s actions were publicly reported at the time, the fact that the State Department went so far as to file a formal demarche was never publicly disclosed. Nor were U.S. concerns about the second reason for the demarche: that a detainee committee headed by Aloko was releasing large numbers of prisoners transferred from U.S. custody to an Afghan National Detention Facility despite an Afghan government commitment that the detainees would be criminally prosecuted in Afghan courts.
According to the cable, the Afghans had released 150 detainees without any trial since 2007, including 29 who had previously been at Guantanamo. (Although the cable doesn’t mention it, at least two former Guantanamo detainees transferred to Afghan custody in December, 2007, Abdul Rauf Khadim and Mullah Abdullah Zakir, have since reemerged as leaders of the Taliban.
Another WikiLeaks cable, first reported Sunday by The New York Times, reported that Afghanistan’s Vice President Ahmed Zia Massoud had been found to have been carrying $52 million from Kabul to a Persian Gulf state."
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No wonder Hillary tried to attack the leak. We should be ashamed to support such information being made pubic.
The Karzai government is corrupt?
