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 rms1@my-deja.com wrote: 
  
 > > President George Bush is consistent. 
 > 
 > FLIP-FLOP: Bush Admin Announces New Afghan Appeasement Policy! 
 > In a stunning flip-flop from their pre-election rhetoric, the Bush 
 > Administration appears to have begun a new appeasement policy for 
 > Taliban rebels in Afghanistan. The BBC is reporting the U.S... 
 > 
 > In a stunning flip-flop from their pre-election rhetoric, the Bush 
 > Administration appears to have begun a new appeasement policy for 
 > Taliban rebels in Afghanistan. 
 > 
 > The BBC is reporting the U.S. amabassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay 
 > Khalilzad, has announced in a recent Kabul press conference that 
 > Taliban fighters who give up their arms and pledge their allegiance 
 > would be allowed to go free: 
 > 
 > It is not clear on what legal basis Mr Khalilzad, in his role as a 
 > representative of a foreign country, made his offer to the Taleban. 
 > ... 
 > "There's no need to fight, to stay in the mountains," he said. 
 > "Afghanistan has entered a new stage." 
 > 
 > Taleban fighters should pledge allegiance to the government of 
 > President Hamid Karzai. 
 > 
 > "In return, they will not be punished," Mr Khalilzad promised. 
 > 
 > The "wildly successful" war in Afghanistan, where 18,000 U.S. troops 
 > are still stationed, began well over three years ago. 
 > 
 > Neither Mullah Omar, the head of the Taliban regime at the time of the 
 > U.S.-lead invasion, nor Osama bin Laden, the purported target of that 
 > attack have been either captured or killed as of this posting. 
 > 
 > Appeaser George W. Bush, who once claimed that we would capture bin 
 > Laden "dead or alive", has more recently stated that he is "truly...not 
 > that concerned about him". 
  
 Quite. 
 Now, consider what Emerson said about consistency. 
  
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