Tales of Howard Stern's Sidekick Artie's Afghanistan Trip

bhkad · 07-14-08, 07:19 AM

Tales of Howard Stern's Sidekick Artie's Afghanistan Trip

On the Howard Stern shown (on Sirius Satellite Radio) today his comedic sidekick, Artie Lange, talked about his recent USO tour to entertain the troops in Afghanistan.

What he said he learned was that the Afghan people think in terms of hundreds of years rather than in 4 year spans of time. And that the Taliban is telling the farmers, villagers and 'regular' citizens of Afghanistan that when you hear US Presidential candidate, Barack Obama, promising to pull the US troops out of Afghanistan that works in the Taliban's favor.

He said the Taliban tells the people that when the Americans leave they will no longer be able to protect you. In essence Artie's message of what he heard was that the Taliban says, 'we will be here after the American leave so you, Mr. Peasant, should not co-operate with the Americans or else we will slay you as though you are a disbeliever.'

As a result of the trip Artie is no longer leaning toward voting for Obama.

And that is what makes me believe that if the McCain campaign simply gets the truth out about the GWOT such as what Artie said above, for example, he should have no problem in winning the election in November.

Any others with comments about Artie, Gary, Jim Florentine and Nick DiPaolo's trip, feel free to post them here.

Lightdemon · 07-14-08, 09:50 AM

Well I suppose the only reasonable thing that we must do now is to colonize Afghanistan. Or at least spend huge amounts of money on maintaining our military presence in the Middle East, so that we can protect non-citizens of the United States for an indefinate amount of time.

ESPECIALLY when information like this comes from a comedian, and ESPECIALLY when it comes from the Howard Stern show.

shuamort · 07-14-08, 10:16 AM

I'm glad to hear that Afghanis are willing to abdigate personal responsibility for their country forever. We might as well rename it "Lil America".

Of course, if this person is in the minority, should we be willing to usurp majority rule in Afghanistan?

Simon W. Moon · 07-14-08, 10:20 AM

Obviously, we must build enduring camps in Afghanistan as well as Iraq. We must plan to keep our empire's military outposts there for centuries. Otherwise our plan to bring freedom to them is lost.
It's a plan that has worked so well for empire after empire in the past. Just look at the Soviets for a recent example of the stunning success of such attempts to remain there permanently.

Wait a minute!

Or, conversely we could just focus on helping the non-Talibanis be more powerful than the Talibanis and then it won't matter if the foreign military forces leave.

independent_thinker2002 · 07-14-08, 10:23 AM

When did Obama say he was going to pull out our troops from Afghanistan?

shuamort · 07-14-08, 10:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by independent_thinker2002

When did Obama say he was going to pull out our troops from Afghanistan?

Whenever the Howard Stern show made it up, of course.

OR

Quote:

Some of the troops now in Iraq should be sent to Afghanistan
From a CNN Report:

Some of the troops now in Iraq should be sent to Afghanistan, where he said the Iraq war has had "disastrous consequences" for the battle against the al Qaeda terrorist network.

Quote:

Also, from Obama's Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007:

De-escalates the War with Phased Redeployment: Commences a phased redeployment of U.S. troops out of Iraq not later than May 1, 2007, with the goal that all combat brigades redeploy from Iraq by March 31, 2008, a date consistent with the expectation of the Iraq Study Group. This redeployment will be both substantial and gradual, and will be planned and implemented by military commanders. Makes clear that Congress believes troops should be redeployed to the United States; to Afghanistan; and to other points in the region. A residual U.S. presence may remain in Iraq for force protection, training of Iraqi security forces, and pursuit of international terrorists.

independent_thinker2002 · 07-14-08, 12:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shuamort

Whenever the Howard Stern show made it up, of course.

OR

Yeah, I know. It seems that our friend here is so desperate that he is relying on alcoholic comic's opinioins and manufactured facts. Doc Howl is right, this election is going to be hilarious.

Doc Howl · 07-14-08, 02:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bhkad

Tales of Howard Stern's Sidekick Artie's Afghanistan Trip

On the Howard Stern shown (on Sirius Satellite Radio) today his comedic sidekick, Artie Lange, talked about his recent USO tour to entertain the troops in Afghanistan.

What he said he learned was that the Afghan people think in terms of hundreds of years rather than in 4 year spans of time. And that the Taliban is telling the farmers, villagers and 'regular' citizens of Afghanistan that when you hear US Presidential candidate, Barack Obama, promising to pull the US troops out of Afghanistan that works in the Taliban's favor.

He said the Taliban tells the people that when the Americans leave they will no longer be able to protect you. In essence Artie's message of what he heard was that the Taliban says, 'we will be here after the American leave so you, Mr. Peasant, should not co-operate with the Americans or else we will slay you as though you are a disbeliever.'

As a result of the trip Artie is no longer leaning toward voting for Obama.

And that is what makes me believe that if the McCain campaign simply gets the truth out about the GWOT such as what Artie said above, for example, he should have no problem in winning the election in November.

Any others with comments about Artie, Gary, Jim Florentine and Nick DiPaolo's trip, feel free to post them here.

Why should I care about Afghanistanis?

They only exist because Bush wimped out. Their opinions are of no concern, especially when it comes to our political process.

Doc Howl · 07-14-08, 02:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by independent_thinker2002

When did Obama say he was going to pull out our troops from Afghanistan?

Just before the stripper came on for Howard to make the same lame jokes about.

independent_thinker2002 · 07-14-08, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Doc Howl

Just before the stripper came on for Howard to make the same lame jokes about.

In between his "my dick is so small" jokes.

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