Frist has obviously been sampling the opium over there

If true then this is ....

Frist: Taliban should be in Afghan gov't

By JIM KRANE Associated Press Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press

QALAT, Afghanistan — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan war against Taliban guerrillas can never be won militarily and urged support for efforts to bring "people who call themselves Taliban" and their allies into the government.

The Tennessee Republican said he learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support to be defeated on the battlefield."You need to bring them into a more transparent type of government," Frist said during a brief visit to a U.S. and Romanian military base in the southern Taliban stronghold of Qalat. "And if that's accomplished, we'll be successful."

Afghanistan is suffering its heaviest insurgent attacks since a U.S.-led military force toppled the Taliban in late 2001 for harboring al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

According to an Associated Press count, based on reports from U.S., NATO and Afghan officials, at least 2,800 people have been killed nationwide so far this year. The count, which includes militants and civilians, is about 1,300 more than the toll for all of 2005.

I guess he bases this on the number of KKK elected to congress in 1904. What a moron he has been revealed to be!

Can this be true? Maybe Frist thinks the Taliban is actually a labor union to be negotiated with for some kind of reasonable outcome which both sides will comply with.

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