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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (451133)	9/1/2003 12:47:36 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

If "pinheads" knew a quagmire was a probable outcome then that makes (not surprisingly) dubyaMD bush and his band of neocon idiots dumber than a pinhead. It also makes the lock-step shrubbies even more stupid than that.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (451133)	9/1/2003 1:06:39 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

you pinheads started the "quagmire" bit the second day of the war...it is a losing mantra for you...same as McAuliffe's game plan for the 2002 elections. The definition of a "pinhead" is one who still thinks gov. bush knows what he's doing!! ********************************************************* asia.reuters.com Taliban Targets U.S. Firm; New Operation Launched Mon September 1, 2003 12:48 PM ET By Mike Collett-White KABUL (Reuters) - At least 11 Afghans, two of them guards for a U.S. company, were killed overnight by suspected Taliban guerrillas as U.S. forces launched a fresh assault on hundreds of militants in the restive province of Zabul. Afghan officials said Monday seven policemen and two soldiers were killed by fighters from the ousted Islamic regime in three raids in Zabul and neighboring Uruzgan province. Four of the seven policemen died when a checkpoint set up to guard reconstruction work on the Kabul-Kandahar highway came under fire, Zabul's intelligence chief, Khalil Hotak, said. Mike Staples, spokesman for the U.S. Louis Berger Group Inc, which was awarded the contract to repair the vital road link last year, told Reuters an Interior Ministry position came under attack at around 1 a.m. (2030 GMT on Sunday). It was unclear whether they were referring to the same incident. According to Staples, the attack, around 180 km (113 miles) outside Kandahar city, was near a guest house where Indian contractors working for the company were staying. "They killed four Ministry of Interior people, wounded four and perhaps kidnapped four because four are missing," he said. "From this position they started firing down on the Indian camp." Two Afghan security guards working for Louis Berger were killed in a separate attack when their vehicle was shot at. Staples said all the fatalities were Afghans. He did not know whether work would be suspended along the key highway, which is the largest reconstruction contract to date in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban late in 2001. The attacks are a blow to the central government, which has made the road project a top priority. They are also further evidence of increasing lawlessness and instability in the southern Zabul province, where up to 1,000 Taliban guerrillas have been fighting Afghan and U.S. forces backed by fighter jets and helicopter gunships. NEW U.S. OPERATION The U.S. military, leading a 12,500-strong international force hunting remnants of the Taliban and al Qaeda network it sheltered, announced a fresh operation against the largest concentration of Taliban fighters since the regime's ousting. Dubbed "Operation Mountain Viper," U.S. spokesman Colonel Rodney Davis said it began Saturday in the Dai Chopan district of Zabul, where U.S. warplanes and helicopter gunships have been pounding militant positions. He said U.S. soldiers and special forces backed by aircraft would be deployed to help Afghan troops hunt the Taliban. "Operation Mountain Viper will continue for some time. We do not have a specific end date," Davis said. The Taliban has declared a "jihad," or holy war against foreign forces, aid organizations and their allies. The week-long battle in Zabul helped make August the bloodiest month since the Taliban was toppled from power by U.S. air power and Afghan ground forces. Afghan officials and commanders say more than 90 Taliban fighters have been killed, most of them in air raids, while the Taliban say its losses are far lower. The U.S. military has reported at least 37 Taliban losses in the Zabul fighting. Two U.S. soldiers were killed and one wounded Sunday when they came under fire near Shkin, in the eastern Paktika province. Another died of wounds last week sustained in an accident during Zabul operations, and two more have been wounded in clashes in Zabul and Uruzgan.