Blair insists Nato is winning the war in Afghanistan

[IndianaGreen]

Bush is not the only suffering from delusions.

Blair insists Nato is winning the war in Afghanistan
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Ewen MacAskill in Riga
Thursday November 30, 2006
The Guardian

Tony Blair made the startling claim yesterday that Britain and other Nato members were "winning" the war in Afghanistan despite increased Taliban activity and a sharply rising death toll.

The prime minister was speaking to the press at the end of a two-day Nato summit in Latvia which exposed continuing divisions within the 26-member transatlantic organisation over the level of commitment to the Afghanistan venture.

Doubts about the military operation have grown this year as a result of a resurgence in Taliban operations that has left thousands of Afghans dead, as well as Nato troops. Two Nato soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb south of Kabul yesterday.

But Mr Blair, who along with George Bush is among the most bullish of the Nato leaders about the prospects for Afghanistan, said: "I think there is a sense that this mission in Afghanistan is not yet won, but it is winnable and, indeed, we are winning."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,1960424,00.html

[magellan]

1. Yeah right. If measured by opium production.

Just read this month's NatGeo -- 92% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan this year, nearly double last year's harvest.

Winning the war for who, bLiar? Heroin dealers?

[legin]

2. Thanks IG

I been feeling a bit rough lately, but you cheered me up.

6 weeks to write a covering letter for a job application, and I still ain't finished yet.

Every time I make a prediction here the opposite happens.

But there are people who are more out to lunch than me, i.e. blair.