LOLOL .. who hung out the troops in Afghanistan ?? check how many times your boytoy bush denied, ignored and NEVER sent more troops to Afghanistan .. and why was that ? ... why ?? - is because he PULLED troops from Afghanistan to send to Iraq ...PLUS he didn't even send troops to Tora Bora when OBL had been spotted bush was given this information by our special forces ! ... what did he do ? ....NOTHING.....he sent zero troops to block off the other side of the mountain to prevent OBL's escape ..
...........get real.
* The Bush administration failed to commit ground troops in Tora Bora, enabling Osama bin Laden to escape Afghanistan to develop a terrorist enclave in Pakistan. "The Bush administration has concluded that Osama bin Laden was present during the battle for Tora Bora... and that failure to commit U.S. ground troops to hunt him was its gravest error in the war against al-Qaeda.” [Washington Post, 4/17/02]
* From the beginning, the Administration underestimated the required force levels necessary to secure Afghanistan. “The Defense Department initially opposed a request by Colin L. Powell, then secretary of state, and Afghanistan's new leaders for a sizable peacekeeping force and deployed only 8,000 American troops, but purely in a combat role, officials said.” [NY Times, 9/06/06]
* Amidst transfer of resources out of Afghanistan, to Iraq, coalition casualties have steadily risen and the insurgency has intensified. “Beginning in 2003, the United States began transferring intelligence assets, Special Forces, and equipment to Iraq; and the insurgency in Afghanistan began to rebuild, steadily increasing in strength every year.” [[iCasualties.org. Center for American Progress, November 2007]
* Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, admitted that the Bush administration has neglected Afghanistan. “In Afghanistan, we do what we can. In Iraq, we do what we must.” [Admiral Michael Mullen, via USA Today, 12/17/07]
* GAO report found that the Bush administration never had a plan to address the Afghan-Pakistan border - the region posing the greatest threat to the U.S. A 2008 GAO report titled The United States Lacks a Comprehensive Plan to Destroy the Terrorist Threat and Close the Safe Haven in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas found that, “The United States has not met its national security goals to destroy the terrorist threat and close the safe haven in Pakistan…” and that, “No comprehensive plan for meeting U.S. national security goals in the FATA has been developed.” [GAO, 4/08]
* Under the Bush administration, Afghanistan received a small fraction of the resources sent to Iraq. While the war in Iraq has received $608 billion over the last five years of Bush’s presidency, Afghanistan received just $140 billion over the last seven. On average, Iraq received over $120 billion per year, while Afghanistan received just $20 billion. [NY Times, 6/30/08. CRS, 2/08/08]
* At end of Bush’s term, National Intelligence Estimate found Afghanistan in a “downward spiral.” A draft National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan found that the country is in a “downward spiral.” A range of factors have contributed to the deteriorating situation, but the NIE’s “conclusions represent a harsh verdict on decision-making in the Bush administration.” [NY Times, 10/9/08. Washington Post, 10/9/08]
Wake UP !
Market Data 
Markets 
AI
