Congress gets mad at Karzai’s “exit tax”
We talked last week about those ingrates in Afghanistan who want us to pay a fee each container of our equipment that we want to send back to the States. I guess congress has had enough reports Stars & Stripes;
“I have seen some stupid things from that government,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who co-sponsored the amendment. “I have seen some things that make you wonder what universe they live in. But this one just went beyond the pale.”
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., agreed, calling talk of an exit tax on U.S. property “ridiculous” after a dozen years of American-led stabilization efforts in Afghanistan.
Their threat: To withhold $5 in foreign aid to Afghanistan for every $1 in fees imposed on the United States for repatriating any property.
We should also level every school and hospital we built over there at our taxpayers’ expense, including Karzai’s residence, preferably while he’s still inside. And build a yellow brick road from Pakistan to Kabul so the Taliban doesn’t get lost on their way.
Category: Terror War
this administration will gladly accept that crap!
Get out. Get out now! Don’t wait for 2014. Don’t shed another drop of blood for those ungrateful bastards! Leave them to their own devices and don’t let Karzai escape out of the country, either. Leave his nary ass to the Taliban.
Fuck that Asswipe Karzai to death up the ass sideways with a broken broomstick while he’s sitting and spinning on a rusty, tangled, diarrhea-soaked pile of concertina wire after he’s been cornholed by a Grizzly Bear with AIDS and the SOB that was mean enough to give it to him!
@#2: Abandon the bases carrying everything we can, burn the rest, burn any crops we see on the way out, and salt the fields. Let em see how long they make it then…
You have to be pretty blatant to have professional thieves who have been screwing American taxpayers out of $$ ( Congress) say you are stealing.
I wish this fate upon Karzai.
Money money money money MONEY money money money money MONEY money money money money MONEY MONEY MONEY………..
@#3. Don’t hold back Bro! Tell us what’s on your mind!
Time to blow it all in place and get the hell out of there. Burn all our facilities to the ground, leave nothing but ashes behind…. and Kharzai! Freeze all his foreign accounts, let that ass enjoy life under taliban rule, cannot imagine it will be a long life for him.
time for a reverse Berlin airlift…
Hey, Karzai is just doing to the US gov’t what the US gov’t has been doing for years: screwing us.
I think the real question should be is why are we giving these people foreign aid money!!! you wanna stop a sequestration? quit giving these people my tax money!
@6 Love it…up Karzai’s ass! I say we leave NOW. Not one more drop of American blood for that ungrateful shit hole. Take everything we brought. tear down all we built and leave them the way we found them…14th century ass bags! I am telling you there is Taliban influence behind these demands. They want to be left armed and wealthy when they take over. Within a year of our leaving if it goes the way I think it will. Screw them sideways. They hate us in reality, they only love our money. We have given blood from parties on all sides in Afghanistan and I am fed up with them. Don’t be surprised though when the POTUS and Kerry come up with a money deal to appease them.
We should be laughing at the suggestion of an exit tax after spilling American blood in defense of these barbarians! The only exit tax they should get is from a bomber!
We have nothing to give. We are a bankrupt nation. We need to regroup and help ourselves and future Americans.
Our soldier and/or their families should be our focus if anyone is going to get rehabilitation dollars. The Afghan nation is a loss. They lie and want nothing to do with civilization. Byebyebye
I admire the understated responses from all of you.
you mean the “blow the motherf**kers to hell” level of anger? Let it never be said the folks here aren’t restrained and polite.
#5 Just An Old Dog
BRAVO!! Well said! I couldn’t have put it better myself.
#13 Sparks
Why does everyone INSIST upon promoting those asshats in the ME to the 14th century?? When, if you examine them not-so-closely, they haven’t made it past the time of Muhammad’s death in the 7th century. Alright, alright, I’ll compromise. They may have made it up to the 8th century. But not a decade further.
Fine. Tax away! We could simply deduct what has been spent on this war from whatever they charge and send them a bill for the difference.
Sounds fair. Meanwhile, no aid need be sent in the future. Maybe no aid could be sent anywhere.
What OWB said in #18.
How ’bout “NUKE ‘EM ‘ TILL THEY GLOW!!!”?
Might I suggest that the money they want be sent in the form of a trade? I’m just wondering what the cost of a Trident D-5 missile is these days.
Just wait, the Obama Admin will fold like my old shelter half and give Karzai whatever he wants.
But, for sure, Karzai is a total and complete bed-wetter.
#20 There was a running joke in the nuclear weapons complex (where we assembled/disassembled nuclear weapons for DOE) about sending nuclear warheads to some fine outstanding third world shithole for a “rapid disassembly” procedure…
A few W62 Minuteman III warheads would be just the ticket for “rapid disassembly” on the fine upstanding folks in Asscrackistan.
I have a suggestion: we tell them “kiss our ass. you allowed terrorist to live here, and they attacked us. So, fuck you all, good bye!”
Inform the drug lords that we will nape every Poppy plant they have. Any bets on bets on lifespan of Mr. K ? Joe
“I have seen some stupid things from that government,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who co-sponsored the amendment. “I have seen some things that make you wonder what universe they live in. But this one just went beyond the pale.”
Funny, I could say the same thing about our “government” in Washington DC as well…
With all the cynicism and sarcasm rampant here, I’m really surprised I didn’t see this already guys…
F*ck Karzai.
When Queen Lindsey says it’s ridiculous, you know it’s ridiculous.
@6: I watched that clip about 6 times, laughing inappropriately each time. “uhhhh-UHHHHH!”