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  • Just as Afghans would be unable (and uninterested) in being able to identify all of the ethnic, cultural, groups with different languages and dialects in the United States. They have no clue about that as people in the United States have no clue about them. We would fail a test about each other.

  • What he *meant* to say is that the phony provocateurs that the CIA trains and funds speak Arabic.

  • why do they call afghans that speak dari tajik? Is it true they came from the mauntains of tajikistan?

  • urdu=pakistan

    arabic? lol

    Pashtun=ethnic group in afg, they speak Pashto

    and they speak Dari, which is slightly different from farsi/persian

  • you fucking thick CUNT! We don't speak Arabic in Afghanistan, neither do we speak Urdu in Afghanistan and Pashtun is NOT a language, its an ethnic group you fucking stupid bitch. We speak Dari (Afghan Farsi) and Pashto are the main languages.

  • @Steelerguy6178 are you from usa or uk ?????????

    why you people say about my mother language bad words

    we all afghan people are FARS

    but you people try to mak problem between as

  • Fact: Obama doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.

    People consider that the majority of Afghanistan is Pashtun 50%-60% but the fact is that almost all these use Dari as their primary language. So Tajiks are in fact the majority if you're looking at it from a purely language perspective.

  • @WOGI5M

    read my response to WOGI5M... and understand some history....but today, of course, farsi is the main means of communication across Afghanistan...and it is not the language of the Tajiks...this is contradictory to historical facts...before people were divided in Tajik, Afghan, etc. they spoke very similar languages. Only after they have successfully defeated the Persians many times, the Persians finally came came up with the solution to assimilate them...those who resisted fled to south

  • @afghannational Dari, which is the language most of Afghanistan uses, is actually an ancient language. They used to call it the language of the Kings. So it is not a a newly develpoped language but an ancient one, albiet it may have changed with the times.

  • Fuck Obama.

    Urdu isn't even spoken in Afghanistan.

    Neither is Arabic.

    What a joke. Anyways he is a puppet. Man of many traits, master of nothing but war.

  • Obama is a complete dumbass

  • i know mony people try to make a problem between we afghanistan people but we are not pysicho, and idiat,crzy like you people.

    I´M FROM AFGHANISTAN SHEBERGHAN I´M PROUD PERSIAN LIKE ALL AFGHANISTAN PEOPLE:

  • Haha - it shows what a bone Head Obama is - LOL @ Arabic , i hope some day he does not forget about his own language !

  • WE must studie about BLAKH

    than we kann undrestand what afghanistan mean

    we all afghanistani people are PERSIAN/ FARSI ZABAN

    some people say for we sheberghan people we are uzbak but this wrong#

    I´M FROM AFGHANISTAN SHEBERGHAN AND MY LANGUAGE FARSI LIKE ALL AFGHANISTAN

    Amir from sheberghan

  • @watanparast100 - Hold it right there , no wrong info's mate :)  DARI is not Our national lang , pushto is ! DARI & persian's have both migrated to afghanistan from neighboring countries such as , IRAN - Tajikistan , Uzbekestan & so on ..

    the only language which was born, lived and lives in afghanistna is pushto ! no wrong info's mate :)

  • @HajiiDisco i know mony people try to make a problem between we afghanistan people but we are not pysicho, and idiat,crzy like you people.

    I´M FROM AFGHANISTAN SHEBERGHAN I´M PROUD PERSIAN LIKE ALL AFGHANISTAN PEOPLE:

  • @watanparast100 - lolll & would you be kind enough to tell us why your ethinic is alled tajik ? :D

  • @watanparast100 ** CALLED , :D

  • Mr. Obama Afghanistan language is Dari not Arabic !!

  • @abdull7449 mr abdull afghanistan language is pashto not dari

  • @thelion873 Na sister, stinky Pakistani speaks Pashto, real afghan language is Dari/Farsi

  • @abdull7449 why do you insult muslims like pakistanis? and im not pashtun , im proud nuristani .

    i've said it coz afghanistan is the land of the pashtuns and everyone knows that they are the real afghans

  • @thelion873 i never insulted Muslims. nuristanis are not afghans. we don't have nuristani in afghanistan. nuristanis are from Pakistan and you can find them there.

  • @abdull7449

    how ignorant you are man!

  • @thelion873

    no bro, afghanistan is also the land of nuristanis! among others, also nuristanis are our pride and they are real patriotic people. btw. seen historically, there is no much difference between afghans, nuristanis, pashayis, tajiks etc...

  • well at least he got the Pashto part right. Afghans barely speak Urdu though... even the Pakistani Pashtoons in Pakhtunkhwa have difficulty speaking it. But hey, we all make mistakes..

  • It's not as if the audience noticed Obama's mistake. Americans aren't exactly the smartest people on earth.

  • hahaahhah funny fuck america

  • this fucking prick got it really wrong, Afghanistan's language is Persian but we do have Pashtuns who live in the border area of Pakistan and Afghanistan. i am a Pashtun myself but we all use Persian to communicate outside our homes. Persian is taught in schools, universities, government offices. but there are signs that it'll change, almost all Afghanistan's ministers are Pashtuns now. we Pashtuns love Amercicans, Britain, NATO, Russians, Arabs and Pakistani for Pashtunization of Afghanistan.

  • @eastlinear well we r not arabs, dat is true we read quaran but doesnt mean we r arabs. quaran is for everyone, people from around the world with different langauge they read it.

    n btw allah akbar means god is gr8t just to let u know

    

  • Islam is not for arabs only, Islam i for all

  • just for everyone to understand, we dont speak arabic. come on, we r not middle easterns. get this right

  • @samirdelvira They think you are, as the media depicts you guys as Arabs, reciting Qur'an, using the Arabic alphabet, wearing headscarves and shouting Allah Akbar.

  • @easterlinear media depicts every muslim as arab

  • what de hell...obama taught u hav de worlds smartest president.

    that is true we speak alot of languages but not arabic.

    persian (farsi) and pashto is our official language.

    we also speak Turkic

    So u better google afghanistan tonight lol

  • arabic is spoken is all of iraq but is spoken less in kurdish iraq because in kurdish iraq, they speak KURDISH. In afghanistan they speak more farsi (its not persian) than arabic. Urdu is spoken more in pakistan.

  • . I'm sure Bush would have been much better educated on the subject.

  • In Afghanistan Pashto is spoken in the South, Dari is spoken in the North. In the big cities most people speak both. Urdu is spoken in Pakistan and Farsi is spoken in Iran and spoken in Afghanistan by some. But Dari and Pashto are the most common. Others like Hazara and Kyrgeze are spoken by a minority.

  • @ahsumbro well said my friend.. I really think alot of people need to be educated about afghanistan, last year most americans didnt know where afghanistan is and ti'll today most people think we speak "persian" when in fact persian or persia dont exist anymore. if an iranian says he is from persia laugh at him or if he is from afghanistan.

  • What an idiot.

  • Urdu, Pushtu...Whatever their languages are.

    He don't know and he doesn't care. He just want to make them all history

  • it farsi(persian) not urdu, thats for Pakistan.

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  • soory to every one Afghanistan national lungauge is Pashto not arabic,not urdu,not persian

  • @katawazi

    well if that's what u think, you're fucking wrong my dear fucking pakhto friend. PERSIAN is still the most spoken language in Afghanistan, more than 50% of the population in afghanistan speak persian. Even Persianised Pashtons in the north/west of afghanistan speak Dari(Persian) and don't even know any word of pashto. shame on that hindu hebrew language

  • @010panjsheri there is no Persian in complete Afghanistan only Dari is spoken in some areas, only in north of Afghanistan,

  • @010panjsheri , u wouldn't be saying this if ur father was pashtun and speaked pashto, u will be saying fuck dari and farsi.. ur just another hater, racist, idiot that makes the stupid people of afghanistan.

  • @pakhtopashto Wrong Pashto wasn't spoken prior to 800 years ago. Dream on hater.

  • @WOGI5M

    the base of afghani or pashto goes back to more than thousands of years and it is among only some languages still alive that were spoken by the Hephalites, Khushans etc. Als what we call Tajiks today were speaking Bactrian languages then and share ethnically the same origin with the afghans. Around 700 AD, after the Kushano-Hephtalites were defeated by the Arabs, they became perso-arabised forcibly in order to disroot the permanent uprisings and opposition to Persians once for all.

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  • Our language is not persian! or Farsi We are not iranians. Our 1st language is Pashtu because 70% of afghanistan is pashtun some of them may speak dari because of their mothers.

    Second language is dari. some of the afghans living by pakistan boarder may also understand urdu! So Obama is rite!

  • people in afghanistan do speak arabic, yes they mainly speak phusto but alot of them also speak arabic

  • @ennitman where do u get ur information bro ? arabs in afg ?

    only the so called jihaddists that came from arabia are arabs in afghanistan , for the rest its pure persian and some other tribes , and btw we mainly speak persian but the official language is first pashto den persian

  • chutebox sucka dick u filthy pussies douchebag u guys fuck ur sisters and mothers u incests

  • sukkadahalep!

  • homalaluya!

  • you eu , english and american people don´t have culur ,story, and you people know we all afghanistan people are persian

    you fuck people say it becouse you people are NAZI AND NATO

    YOU PEOPLE CELD A FEW YEARS AGO 60-700 MILION PEOPLE

    AND KNOW YOU PEOPLE CALL AFGHAN AND IRAQ PEOPLE

    FUCK YOU ALL MOTHER FUCK

  • fuck you mother fuck slave

    you europa and amrican people nothink have to eat

    we all afghan people will fuck your mother

    fuck your all indiana

  • Afgans and Arabs are white,moron.

  • no. not white... brown

  • your black HITLAR

  • afghanistan people are orginal persian

    this is 8000 - 9000 years afghan people speek Persish

    you american people are not english

    you mothar fuck american don´t have langauge

  • watan...

    You have no idea about the word "American", do you ?

    American doesn't mean people from America. People truly from America are the Native American (also called Indian American).

    Language is not formed by a nation. It is formed by a society, or you can say, people in England developed English, people in Spain developed Spanish. A NATION CANNOT form a language. So if you say "you mothar fuck american don't have language", you are clueless.

  • you shit sick speek with your god do you know it?

    we (afghan =persian) langusage have 8000-9000 years and afghanistan have 25000 years history do you it you shit sick?

    ofcours you don´t know becouse you people lear in your school how to fuck your mothar and father this you schoool

  • thanks for showing how your education is. lol

  • I am an Afghan and paktonSigainAST all that you said made no sense. Don't speak english ever again you idiot. You are a skidmark on the underpants of society.

  • @watanparast100 And this coming from someone who believes and practices Eugenics? Please.....

  • AMERICA

    WE AFGHAN PEOPLE ARE PERSIAN

    IT IS MORE THAN 8000 YEARS WE SPEEK PERSISH

    amrecan come and kiss my ppppeeennnnsss

  • Yes i agree that urdu is not our language but it aint farsi either The language of Loy Afghanistan is Pashto and yes there are a few small languages like dari, hazaragi and usbaki act... but the language of Afghanistan is Pashto and the name Afghanistan means Pashto, So really sorry mate We afghan are not Persian We are Pashtoons and ave a language pashto incase u didnt no abot it!!! if ur a tajik yes ur a citizen of Afghanistan but u aint AFGHAN so stop spreading wrong message across!!

    peace

  • Pashton afghans in a nutshell

    Yes tajiks, uzbeks, hazaras never want to do anything thing with the filthy people of pashton who trade their wifes for donkeys, 95% of them are gay, have always been the puppets of foreigners, are jews and call them selfs muslims(dishonoring Jews and Muslims), and are all terrorists and suicide bombers, Kills their fathers to gain power.. Here we go,

  • vatoromeo

    vatoromeo do not try to be an afghan i know you shit uk mother fuck and aramee people

    you want to make beween we afgha people propblem forget it you shit sick

    all the world know just 5milion people speek english =idanan,bangaladesh,

  • @MrAfghanPrince wahah ur wrong , the first official language is pashto , second is dari , but dari ( persian ) is the largest SPOKEN language , by i fnk 60 % farsiwans and 10 % of pashtuns speak farsi as their first language , so all together 70 % farsi in afghanistan , and only pashtuns are afghan , and pashtuns form 38 % of afghanistan , and the rest is persian or hazara and uzbak

  • WE AFGHANISTAN ARE PROUD PERSIAN

    you mother fuck amercan not speek englesh

    AMERICA AHVE 2000 LANGUAGES

    LIKE INDIAN; KSUSJH;DAR;INSS;::::

    FUCK YOU BLACK SLAVE

  • we Afghan people are proud persian

    we Afghanistan speek just PERSISH

    FUCK OBAMA

    FUCK YOUR AMRECAN LANGUGE

    AMRICA LANGUAGE IS NAOT ENGLISH

  • we Afghanistan people speek just Persish

    like tajikstan Iran

    you amerikan peoeple are not speek english

    english speek enggeland

  • fuk u mr obama afghanistan got 8 tousend years hestory  our lungauge is persian not fukin ordo dont fuck around afghan

  • @xxxromeoxxxlover its not fucking persian you scum Persia is persian ares is Pashto the real lang. you scum

  • our Americans, British, Nato, russians, Arabs and Pakistani friends will change the language of Afghanistan from Persian to Pashtu, because we are very reliable people for them. some of us fight Americans while the rest of us are all controlling the government. so watch out we will roll our language even to Kabul, Jalalabad, Herat and centre of Kandahar as well. our own leaders couldn't change the language when they were power for the past 120 years, but our foreign friends will do it for us.

  • @xxxromeoxxxlover this is the start of the change. see it starts from the US president, then a British Prime minister will use the same tactic, then an European leader will use the same tactic and finally the Arabs and Pakistanis who are the common enemy of Persians in Afghanistan will use the same tactic. and one day everyone will think that Afghanistan's language is Pashtu. your Persian is gone my friend. bye bye Persian and bring Pashtunization

  • @xxxromeoxxxlover

    our lungauge is persian and pashtoo

  • @xxxromeoxxxlover maybe ur persian. this shows how stupid Obama really is... hiding behind a veil of misconception huh??? you send troops to a country where you dont even know what they speak! idiot...

    and 8 thousands years of history and u call yourself persian??? u obviously only know a little bit about Afghanistans history. dont thumb up this idiot too! PASHTO is what we AFGHANS speak! URDU is pakistani and indian! total fools.

  • @xxxromeoxxxlover

    yeah, and your english is great too, by the way.

  • damn sham on all of u white trash a black guy become American president

  • the black guy will fuck afghanistan like a bitch!! years from now.

  • will kiss my ass mistar white trash

  • So, I have a question. If you already speak arabic. How hard is it to learn Pashtu, Farsi and those languages with the same familiar calligraphy? Are they very diferent?

  • farsi is wut persians speak and dari is wut afghans speak but no one uses the word dari

    everyone calls it farsi

  • bush would have been smashed for making such a stupid error. if you're comfortable with bombing the hell out of a country, at least know its fucking language.

  • Obama is still alive ?

    I thought canada sent a hitman to kill him for terrorism.

  • arabic is spoken in kurdish iraq? haha what are talking you basatrd haha your afghanic language is more arabic than every other langugae you dont even have an own word for love macnun asik are all arabic words haha

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  • We have another word check if that is taken from arabic. kosi naniet dataman121 ! :)

  • kuze dayke te hamso ker;)

  • Your mama ! lol

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  • By the way, it is FARSI you moron. "Afghanic"???, you piece of dirt first find out what our language is.

  • afghanic is the same shit as farsi you moron or do you want to tell me that dari is something waay diferent than farsi? both arabic mixed languages

  • Go get your third grade book you piece of S*** ... Afghanic, did you even check dictionary for the word Afghanic...

    Farsi, and Dari are the language they speak, you crook head before you complain about others making mistakes, fix your own freaking head...

  • Wait, doesn't Afghanistan speak farsi? I hear my persian friends talkin in farsi to every afghan he knows.

  • its actually pashtu farsi is from iran and tajikistan chekc it in wiki pedia if u want to fing out the thruth about afghanistan

  • Yeah

    Its called either farsi or dari

  • go get fuked n da ass fuk head crap

  • shut da fuk up moron

  • Spoken like a true intellectual...

  • no he wont, Obama rules

  • obama is no worse then Bush ok end of story!

  • Hes much worse you idiot!! Arab speakers OMG 57 STATES 10000 DEAD IN KANSAS THIS GUY IS A MORON

  • We haven't had a president since Kennedy. We have had a Bush in the whitehouse since 1982. Obama is BUSH WITH A TAN......PERIOD.

  • i am an Afghan in us n i voted for obama like most other Afghans livin here, n for ppl who dont know the major languages of Afghanistan is Pushto and Dari. And we do have words in Pushto and Dari that are taken from Arabic becouse of Quran Sharif. so Obama is right Pushtu and Dari are different languages from Arabic but they do have familiarity in some words

  • We are on a quick road to socialism with this idiot running the show.

  • What an absolute dumb shit!

  • nope he is way better

  • the president of america does not knows which language afghans are speking in... haha

    how can he bring peace to our country!!!!

    shame on you obama!!

  • he does n he just mentioned it Pushto

  • @borobababaas there iz no sham eon him....

    coz he iz not really responsible for bringing peace to our country, and knowing the language iz not his job..... bringing peace in in our own hand,

    no one can make afghanistan a peacefull country except WE AFGHANS

  • Mr Obama I dot wane say this cuz u know better but dot listen to karzai.. he is good person but not powerful leader..........

  • Hey guys kabolom when i first started to read what u wrote i was impressed till i got to the sad ending that u blamed a certain part of afghanistan being the problem in afghanistan i am verry sorry for people like u qandem i a tajik and i know that we are thhe same as pashtoons and other brothers of our country, the problem is not us it is these freakin people who theirr^presedent doesnt have a dam idea about such a big people the persians and our area

  • ha omg he thinks pashtu and urdu are dialects of arabic and he has no clue of the languages they speak in Afghanistan..Dari and Pashtu. Humm maybe that's why dialoge is not working for the americans. Ignorant fools.

  • Did this retard just call "Christian" a language (00:27?)

  • We dont fucking speak URDU!

  • Obama doesn't know that.

  • most afghans do actually speak Urdu, ask your parents if they speak it, but true, Urdu is not an official language in Afghanistan, neither is it spoken in Afghanistan

  • farsi is language of afghanistan, pashto can not be a language its dialouge, there is not a history of pashto books or litrature. pashto is a premitive language used by people in rural area of afghanistan close with pakistan border. there is not any scinetific litrature, phelasophy or any major knowldage book writen in pashto or writen by a pashton, all pashton have done is fight and life like villager. that is sadly problem of afghanistan, indeed dont forget afghanistan is part of persia !

  • i am very worried now. Obama doesn't know the two main languages which are spoken in afghanistan. Many young american soldiers are getting killed there daily, and our future president can't tell the difference between farsi or Urdu. KABULOM! you need to improve your knowledge. Pashtoo is a language which existed for many years. There are many books but you can't read, because you are illiterate. It is very obvious from your spelling. Truth alaways prevails, pashtoon didn't skinned people.

  • you're an idiot. Farsi is not a language in Afghanistan, neither is it official or spoken in Afghanistan. DARI and Pashto are the official languages in Afghanistan, hate people like u who bum lick Iranians. By the way, Pashto is a major language in Afghanistan and isn't just spoken in rural areas near Pakistan, its spoken in many areas, even farrah, which borders Iran, Pashto is the official language in that state.

  • Obama can tell democrats and liberals anything! lol

  • but i dont know why america fight in afghanistan why every dag killing somany peopel in afghanistan mr Obama you alle taliban ist form pakistan you mastbe fight withe pakistan we want not mor fight in our cantery we are want Pces we are ist border tahik pashtun huzback hazara

  • live and let us live.

    welcome

    kill and see how we kill

    u r even worst than bush.

  • i wish u a vary bad historical defete in pakistan, May God kill all american soilders in pakistan, May Allah break american army legs in pakistan, May Allah help us in using a atomic bomb over american army in case if you attach pakistan, come on, i will go back to pakistan and joined pakistan army and fight with your army obama if u ever attacked my country,

    i may come to america to finish american for good,

    live and let us live or kill or let us kill,

  • but still INSHALLAH. MUSLIM

  • it was war for stupid oil in iraq, it was a different purpose and this is a different task, i dont know why all american presidents really dont have high level of intellgence.

  • Best of luck dear Obama, my research work finding and your approach are contradictory but yes if you are doing this, to keep yourself active in politics (even then its not the best of approaches).

  • According to my finding one need to create a balance between autocratic reply towards any threat to America and to gain and build relationship with Pakhtun if not taliban,

    Well I have solution for all this problem( which I can prove on the bases of history of Pakistan, afghanistan and inda) but obviously cannot gurantee 100% successful implementation.

  • because if you are dealing with highly emotional people then replying with aggressive or even more emotional way is not the solution to the problem, but yeah you will end up making your reputation and dollar value in stock market even worst? Yeah! You will for sure.

  • I have answer for geographical location, relationship building with time and emotional empowerment. Hint 2*

    Dear Obama understand and win the battle with a wise strategy. Which actually British forces used 210 years back in subcontinent,

  • I have answer for geographical location, relationship building with time and emotional empowerment. Hint 2*

    Dear Obama understand and win the battle with a wise strategy. Which actually British forces used 210 years back in subcontinent,

  • Same. I am a finance coordinator but still i pic up the gun shoot in every American head including you if you attacked any Pakistani, so stop acting like emotional Taliban and behave and speak like a president

  • Now lets come to solution, its even easier than removing bush. Ill say divide and rule.

    Well if you ask me HOW you said u may pic up the gun in case of threat for 9/11 again.

  • Now when you take control and all situations and invade Pakistan northern areas you are actually replacing Russia

  • Now you are actually creating a situation where Islamic motivation and Afghan (Taliban) reunion is against you. So American army have to face one huge 50 or 60 years gorilla war after bombing Pakistan to Stone Age. Is this what we call politics? Or any wise leadership?

  • That was the time when Pakistani Pakhtun tribes and Taliban (Afghanistan) build strong friends and relationships(marriages) between them. During Russia war the strategy was to use the name of Islam against Russian army and it was fantastic politics to train and regroup afghan Taliban and Pakhtun,

    Sir is this wise to go against those concepts which are actually there reason to live

  • Well hint* as you mention in your speech dear Obama. shift in strategy.

    I have a proper strategy which is totally inspired with Russian battle in Afghanistan. Phakhtun and Taliban are two different nations (but there is a religious bound between them). Well that is something you need to work out. According to my research work Pakhtun`s forefather are actually those people who were trained in Pakistan by Pakistani army to fight against Russia with your support or back up.

  • I was expecting a more a more wise leader from you, who will adopt will do approach rather than promising big words and opening new door for conflict and battles. You showed yourself a very emotional person who takes quick decisions and open to give his suggestions, but great leaders are very deep individual

  • relationship building with time and emotional empowerment rather than going for battle field. According to my research finding about mujahedeen movements, support and reaction are totally based on strong unbreakable or even rigid lines religious actions which will trigger automatically with any additional motivation by local leaders in all northern part of Pakistan.

  • as they were not actually operating under the Pakistan government and law enforcement bodies, but local tribes leaders. After my research work I have find out Taliban or mujahedeen can be controlled more wisely, one need to focus and understand more about geographical location

  • Mr Barack Obama ( american president )

    And about your shift of strategy

    After my research at battle of northern areas of Pakistan.

    Mr Obama message for you.

    Go attack Pakistan without any research work and very soon you will find the results. So far Pakistani Nation is quite because of the fact northern areas are somehow cut off from Pakistan,

  • The only reason they would know Arabic is because of the Quran. At the madrasahs they are thought to recite it, until they can recite it from heart. After that the local language is the boss.

  • The language is called Pashtun but in English we call it PAshto, so he is rite nd btw its nt onli pashto most Afghans speak Dari

  • stop your gibberish

  • he sounds like he does not really know what he is talking about. the language is not "pashtun" its "pashto" and then he said that "urdu" was an afghan language, and its not. "urdu" is a paki language. and niether one of these languages are arabic. so he is confused we don't need iraqi translators in afghanistan. we need afghan translators in afghanistan. there 2 totally different languages. and we are not running out of translators..^_^ they are everywere. take me for instance.

  • What is he talking about?  He has no clue! He is an unexperienced, informed Senator running for the most high office in the United States.

    VOTE MCCAIN PALIN!

  • Why does everyone get so excited? I make mistakes with english all the time, just because he forgot the origin of his native tongue doesn't mean we should make fun.

  • Remember, people, that the mujahedeen fighters came from all over the Arab world.

  • But you got right about kurds in Iraq speak Arabic, because they usually do. But most of the kurds speak Kurdish, but there are also serveral dialects in the kurdish language.

  • "At an event in Cape Girardeau, MO on May 13, 2008, Obama claims people in Afghanistan speak Arabic, only to correct himself. Arabic is only spoken in Kurdish Iraq, not in Afghanistan." Omfg, are you kidding me? Almost every country in the middle-east speak Arabic, but the people dont speak the same dialect. For example, people from Iraq and people from Libya. They both speak arabic, but that doesn't mean that they can understand each other.

  • kurds speak kudish not arabic!

  • What did he get wrong? He mentioned Arabic translators in Iraq, then he switched and said, "They don't speak Arabic in Afghanistan..." and mentioned Pashtoon and one other language.

  • He was wrong because that error negated his entire point: that we need to pull out of Iraq in order to send Arabic translators to Afghanistan, where they aren't needed.

  • He said, "They obviously don't speak Arabic, but the various dialects that they speak in Afghanistan". He sounded like he was talking about the Arabic translators in Iraq, and then switched to discussing the Pashtoon translators needed in Afghanistan. In this clip he didn't mention sending Arabic translators to Afghanistan.

  • "And it's not just troops, by the way, it's like, Arab interpretters, Arab language speakers. We only have a certain number of them, and if they're all in Iraq, it's harder for us to use them..." He was about to say "in Afghanistan". He caught himself first, but what he says next doesn't make any sense. He says all the Pushtun and Urdu translators "have been placed elsewhere" because of the war in Iraq.

    Well, they're not in Iraq, so where are they? What is he talking about?

  • Not to mention that the military's translators are mostly drawn from the local population, so they are obviously not being deployed elsewhere. There is no shortage of "Pushtun language speakers" in the "Pushtun" areas of Afghanistan. (It's actually called Pashto but he said it wrong.)

  • Oh goodness, you left out the rest of what he said which was, "They obviously don't speak Arabic, but the various dialects that they speak in Afghanistan". Your reaching for the stars to find fault in what the man said. I can understand if he said "They speak Arabic in Afghanistan" but he didn't. Oh well, Obama will never be acceptable to some people, but life goes on.

  • Are you completely unable to understand what he's saying? The context of these comments is that he's criticizing the war in Iraq because it supposedly draws critical resources away from Afghanistan. He was *about* to say that Iraq is taking up all our Arabic translators, but he caught himself just in time. Then he made some irrelevant comments about other types of translators that was a complete nonsequitur with the rest of his speech.

  • Obamas right in what he is saying, Mccain would have fucked it up

  • he corrected himself well, you people shouldnt make mountains out of mole hills, if you want i can dig up and assload of dumb shit Bitch Palin and john mcpain in the ass have said.

  • well there are some arabic speakers in afghanistan, not many though, but you all are forgetting that John McCain is the one who thinks Pakistan and Iraq border eachother

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