100 UK Troops Dead in Afghanistan - tehran and karzai

When the government dispatched 3,000 British troops to southern Afghanistan in the spring of 2006 to join the limited number who had been there as part of an international security force (Isaf) since 2001, John Reid, then defence secretary, expressed the hope that they would accomplish their mission without a shot being fired.

Just as in Iraq, it was a hope based on bad intelligence and little or no idea of the nature of the enemy.

The troops set up a base in Helmand province without a clear mission and with Britain and its Nato allies at sixes and sevens about their rules of engagement. From the beginning, the relations of British military commanders with Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, and the country's local governors were fraught. British commanders sent soldiers to forward bases where they were vulnerable to Taliban fighters. Local peace deals fell apart.

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[ButtErBaLL619]

haha us and uk will fuck u up thats ur answer u fucken towelhead................

what the fuck u goin do with there presence there? nothing, haha thats wat i thought bitch go back to ur hut and fuck ur goat. or better yet go blow urself up in the middle of nowhere.

[Americanlife702]

The CIA put Saddam Hussein in his office..

[born2leader]

respect/ keep on the good work

[56bloodhorn]

afghanistan is purely a geographically strategic asset...for war!! nothing more...if shit happens in any way...the west has a foothold in the middle east to do military operations for invasion in and out afghanistan...also if war is fought there, america and ally nations won't be in direct threat.the battlefield will be far away for us to sleep peacefully instead of being bombed or something

[irhusker]

The US is certainly not perfect but we are not the evil ones in this world. We try to stop evil but just go about it in the wrong way at times. The Bush administration was a failure but they did NOT make people like Saddam kill his one people. Don't blame the US because they of our good intentions on stopping evil leaders. Blame the evil leaders for their actions.

[Brittboy4]

IRAN should do What Saddam did and drive down the price of Crude Oil, How long before someone in Washington (REPUBLICAN OIL MEN)Mentions WMD and says we must invade Now before they attack freedom or some other bullshit that locks up the red-neck vote, look up HHO on youtube, why do we still use oil, Corruption that's Why Obama is fake, he's here to Delay the coming Revolt and Anger the American People have for Washington, the poor are going to devour the 20% that Caused all these problems

[Brittboy4]

My Goverment is scum and is the real axis of evil, Bush and Cheny deserve the Death Penalty for the lies and murders they are guilty of, We the smart people are sorry they force our children to kill and die in the Holy Lands of the Middle-East to raise the price of Crude Oil for a dog turd from Texas, It's Morons and Millionaires for Bush and Cheny in USA!!!!!

[bihra22]

i don't get this British, US anyways, what are they doing in Afghanistan and Iraq. Who are they trying to protect, and from who? they are not protecting Americans or British because they are miles and miles away, however Afghan and Iraqis need to protect them self's from those.

[born2leader]

AMMENNNNNNNNNNNNNN

[born2leader]

ONLY ALLAHsubhanahu watallah We judge these oppressors, OBAMA say we are not at war with islam, yea offcourse not you are killing muslims...longlive the freedom fighters so many tears for the innocent iraquis,afghanies and pakistanies and palestinians..children,mothers­,olderly may Allah make the freedom fighters VICTORIOUS Like the time of the sahaba