US Army in Afghanistan - Winning Hearts (6) Bloopers

In this episode we see Sgts Kling, Carrillo, Reisz and Cpt Corsten goofing around and keeping it light. They are, as always, maintaining a sense of humor in adversity, and making a huge difference in the lives of the people of Afghanistan.

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[MyZyna]

'making a huge difference in the lives of the people of Afghanistan'?????

wtf r they doing there anyhow...chillaxin?? afghanistan didnt call your ass nor did iraq.. ur not gonna find shit. so go the fuck home, it aint ur war

[winninghearts]

Let's please distinguish between the politicians who initiated these conflicts (in the case of Iraq, on shaky evidence and questionable reasoning) and the soldiers who get sent into harms way.

[simplysarah76]

Yeah it's the same around here. I think the guy who said he saw soldiers looking shamed was trying to start something. I carry a purse made of my husbands old uniform and am always asked about it. When I say I am the wife of a United States soldier I am thanked and sometimes hugged. We are treated with gratitude and respect.

[IrishLioness]

Funny, when my boyfriend came to town during 4th of July, he told me he wasn't going to wear his uniform like I wanted him to because he'd never get any moment to himself. People would have been thanking him for what he does and patting him on the back. Of course I too, live in the Midwest. Maybe it's just that mentality.

[babygirl1973ify]

my bf is in Afghanistan right now,and this cracks me up gotta love them lol

[lesdoyle2000]

@yiblon

The Taliban brought stability to Afganistan, stopped corruption, reduced the opium production and preferred an Argentinian Company over an American to build the Trans Afghanistan Pipeline.. Then they were invaded.

Do you think it was for the oil or for the heroin?

[lesdoyle2000]

CIA made and sold heroin to support Mujahideen,

2000 - 2001 Taliban reduces opium from 3300 tons in 2000 to 185 tons in 2001

2002 - 2008 Opium production to new record level each year under US

2005 Afghan Interior Minister resigns because senior gov officials in drug trade

2006 Karzai dismiss’s anti-drugs Mohammed Daud (Helmand Governor)

2007 The 4 largest players in the heroin are senior members of Afghan Gov

2008 85% of drugs produced in southern Afghanistan is shipped abroad by U.S.

[MyZyna]

@lesdoyle2000 Thank you for that info

[lesdoyle2000]

1919 Afghan Independence

1979 Jul 3 - 1992 CIA operation Cyclone to destabilise the Afghan Government.

1979 Dec - 1988 Afghan-USSR war

1986–1992 CIA trained Taliban and Al-Qaeda leaders at a CIA camp in Virginia.

British SAS trained them at bomb making

CIA, SAS and ISI supported the rise of the Taliban

1991 CIA looses support of Osama Bin Laden when America puts troops into Saudi Arabia

1996 Taliban take control of Afghanistan

2001 The Talibans biggest benefactor was US.

[lesdoyle2000]

1995 UNOCAL sign agreement for pipeline with Turkmenistan

1996 – 2001 Enron Gives Taliban Millions in Effort to Get Afghan Pipeline Built

1997 Taliban visit UNOCAL in Texas

1997 Halliburton (Cheney CEO) gets a contract for exploration in the Caspian Sea basin

1998 UNOCAL annouced that it quit the pipeline project due to Afghan instability

1999 Pentagon “Oil conflicts over production facilities & transport routes, in the Caspian regions”

2000 Bush Cheney elected

[yiblon]

These men stand between you and the Taliban.

[mara235]

First Cav all the way!!

[randomhero4u69]

@MyZyna HAHAH ME? IGNORANT? Look at you, you speak as if you were there. Were you? Are you? NO. SO KEEP TO YOURSELF, you know NOTHING about this country, you learn all you see from the lying media that tells you things that YOU want to hear, so they can profit off your stupidity. The Afghan National Army fights, and we are there to back them and there ways. No diseases before we invaded? HAHAH are you seriously that fucking stupid, do some real researce..meanwhile shut it

[MyZyna]

@randomhero4u69 You just showed your own ignorance.. you go anywhere you get told to....Well the wise soliders from your own country are those who refuse to go. You didnt find Osama ..you caused more conflict , there were no diseases before they tried to invade... open up your eyes.. the toll of killing innocent people is far greater. everyone with a beard is bad guy to the west...what do you care about their livestock!... Dont worry i wont be calling you when i get into harms way!!