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(Washington Post)

US secretly releasing Taliban fighters, report says:

The “strategic release” program of high-level detainees is designed to give the US a bargaining chip in some areas of Afghanistan where international forces struggle to exercise control, the report said.

This is a brilliant piece of strategy; they call a “strategic release” program. I call it “release the enemy prisoners so they can regroup to attack you, blow up your buildings and decapitate some of your people” program. I have never heard of such stupidity.

No other country in the world fights wars the way the USA does. It seems like we don’t want to hurt anyone’s’ feelings and always want to be the good guy. Boys in DC; did you forget these are war we are in? This is not reality.

Let us send some of these bleeding heart down the middle of a street in Afghanistan at midnight and see if they can walk for a half a block without shot at or getting killed.  I am sure that their starry-eyed opinions will change quickly.  Turn the other cheek so they can slap that one too.

Under the risky program, the hardened fighters must promise to give up violence and are threatened with further punishment, but there is nothing to stop those resuming attacks against Afghan and American troops.

Are you kidding me? For all the military strategists that conjured up or fell for this line of bull-shit from the prisoners; I have 40 acres of swamp land I want to sell them in the middle of the Oaky Fanokey swamps.

They should have put homing devices on all of these guys to track them after their release. I can guarantee one thing; the first stop they make when the cell doors slam behind them is not to the 7-11 for a milk shake; it was to the nearest ammo dump to stock up.

Take a look back at the last “few wars” we were in and went home with our tails between our legs. Incidentally, in ALL situations we didn’t belong in those countries in the first place.

Vietnam: 58,148 were killed – 75,000 were severely disabled – 23,214 were 100% disabled – 5,283 lost limbs – 1,081 sustained multiple amputations. We left that country in shame.
Iraq: 4,487 dead – 32,226 wounded.

Iraq:  4477 dead – 31,965 wounded

Afghanistan – 1803 dead – 9971 wounded and we are still stuck there supposedly until 2014.

Cost of War in dollars to the United State:

Total Cost of Wars Since 2001 – $1,329,720,699,412

Cost of War in Iraq $803,352,306,054

Cost of War in Afghanistan – $526,368,529,662 and we are not done yet.

Is it unconscionably that we are blowing all this money when our country is in the condition it is in?

If nothing else; we have to say one thing about our government, they never learn! How many times have they or will they get involved in military operations in countries thousands of miles from the USA coast.

No one can convince me that invading these countries keeps the enemy on their own turf and keeps them from entering the United States. Are a few going to slip in, probably but not enough to warrant the positions we have taken.

By the way, the USA’s president just recently made a 18 billion dollar commitment to Pakistan, a country that clearly hates the USA. Where do we get this 18 billion from if we are dead broke?

I will go so far to say “if it were possible to win these wars than it MAYBE worth the price. We will never win.  We are going to make another “strategic withdrawal” from Afghanistan just like Iraq and Vietnam after years of lost lives and squandered trillions. I laymen terms for “strategic withdrawal” means to running away.

It seems that the policy in our country is to buy all of our friendship around the world because we don’t want people to hate us. They hate us anyway and now they are laughing at us.

Obama and the rest of the bleeding hearts in this country should take a look at all the poverty and disintegrating infra-structure in our country and take care of their own before passing out  “Wilson’s” all over the world.

I don’t want to put the whole thing on Obama’s shoulders, he is just one of the long line of presidents that have made very bad military decisions.

The next thing we are going to see, we are going to supply each prisoner we release with an unlimited amount of fire power because the “promised” not to use it against us.

The decision makers in DC are as bad as the Mississippi governor Gov. Haley Barbour that released 21 inmates before leaving office because he had his head stuck up the wrong side of his body.

These were not people that got speeding ticket or stole from the collection plate in church.

David Gatlin, convicted of killing his estranged wife in 1993; Joseph Ozment, convicted in 1994 of killing a man during a robbery; Anthony McCray, convicted in 2001 of killing his wife; Charles Hooker, sentenced to life in 1992 for murder; and Nathan Kern, sentenced to life in 1982 for burglary after at least two prior convictions.

You can bet you last dollar that many of these convicts will be or have been repeat offenders just like the Taliban that will continue killing our people and trying to destroy the United States after their release.

I heard that the USA government was passing out towels and mops at the main gate when they let all these bad guys go. They were laughing so hard they needed the towels and mops to wipe up their tears.

The prisoners new chant: “We promise not to kill any of you stupid people that just released us, ‘MAYBE”.