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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 01:33 AM Original message |
Japan Has 'Priority' On Rights To Mine Afghanistan Mineral Deposits, Says Hamid Karzai |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 01:38 AM Response to Original message |
1. Read-- he can get more bribes from Japan |
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 02:52 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. He is encouraging countries like Japan to give aid, not take blood. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 04:38 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I think you've got it backward. |
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 04:50 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Well, he has to use what little tools he has available. |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 05:21 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Unlike Western, Chinese, and Russian mining companies, |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 07:35 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Japan isn't the sole, or even the primary, country supposedly being rewarded. |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 08:18 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. In the Japanese press, Karzai is quoted as saying |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 07:27 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. That didn't factor in to the decision making, according to Karzai. |
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atreides1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 08:59 AM Response to Reply #10 |
17. In other words |
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tblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 02:00 AM Response to Original message |
2. I have a feeling we're gonna be there for the rest of my life at least. |
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howard112211 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 05:22 AM Response to Original message |
7. They don't owe us anything. They did not ask us to come to their country. |
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lib2DaBone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 05:39 AM Response to Original message |
8. Russia did a detailed study of Afghan Minerals back in the 80's |
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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 07:26 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Russia saw fit to leave Afghanistan because they were thrown out by the Mudjadeen, |
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panzerfaust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 07:53 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. one of whom was ... ? |
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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 08:21 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Ossama Bin Laden |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 12:23 PM Response to Reply #9 |
29. Afghanistan bases right next to Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, |
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BolivarianHero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 12:24 PM Response to Reply #9 |
30. The USSR had no chance of winning that war... |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 04:36 PM Response to Reply #9 |
32. This information was "released" years ago. Obviously the rewarming is timed... |
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meow mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 08:14 AM Response to Original message |
13. good luck with that lol |
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1776Forever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 08:32 AM Response to Original message |
16. Everyone of us should send this out to the Repub's who are screaming "War" & Drill baby Drill! |
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Gman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
18. Looks like we will be in Afghanistan a whole lot longer |
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kpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
19. Japan Has 'Priority' On Rights To Mine Afghanistan Mineral Deposits, Says Hamid Karzai |
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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 11:25 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Shouldn't the priority of who gets what first go to Afghanistan? |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 11:25 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Yes, but they don't have the equipment and means to mine it. Of course, it is Karzai. |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 11:25 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Without American troops, Karzai's corpse would be dragged through the streets of Kabul |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 11:25 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. since the US has evidently not "helped Afghanistan massively in the past few years..." ... nt |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 11:25 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. The Afghan people didn't get a dime of US aid |
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notesdev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 11:25 AM Response to Reply #19 |
24. Since we're not that much of a help |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 11:25 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. I agree! Let's end this wasteful and reckless war. |
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kpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
27. Japan Has 'Priority' On Rights To Mine Afghanistan Mineral Deposits, Says Hamid Karzai |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
28. so i guess that means we should get the hell out.. it's their problem.. |
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crim son (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
31. Fantastic. |
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pinniped (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 08:23 PM Response to Original message |
33. Either Afghanistan sits on the whale commission or they want to join it. |
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-20-10 08:44 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. There should be a version of Godwin's Law for discussion of Japan. |
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