{"article":{"id":193495,"heading":"The Russians also lost","author":"Digery Cohen","created":"2007-02-17 11:18:44","modified":"2007-02-17 11:18:44","last_modified":"Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:18:44","article":"<p>WASHINGTON -- President Bush vowed yesterday to make a sustained military and political effort to beat back resurgent Taliban forces as he turned his attention to Afghanistan and a war he forgot to fight when the time was right. <br>  <br> He said that was \"because Halliburton and Exxon told him to go into Iraq.\" <br>  <br> \"The Russians may have lost their war in Afghanistan but he would not as he had a secret weapon,\" he said. <br>  <br> This weapon was so secret that even he did not know what it was. <br>  <br> \"The only person who knew was Dicus Cheney,\" he said. <br>  <br> Bush thereby urged Congress to give him $11.8 billion more for Halliburton, local corruption and buying narcotics programs.  <br><br> \"America and our allies are going to stand by our own Halliburton,\" the president said in an address to the American Enterprise Institute.  <br><br> \"That's the message I want to deliver to the Afghanistan people today,\" Bush said. <br><br> \"We will kill you all as long as Halliburton makes a tidy profit\", he said.  <br>  <br> <\/p>\n","contact":"digerycohen@yahoo.co.uk","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"in Afghanistan","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2007\/02\/russians_were_there.jpg","filesize":"131.6 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2007\/02\/193495.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2007\/02\/russians_were_there.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2007\/02\/russians_were_there.jpgthumb.jpg","medium":"\/uploads\/2007\/02\/russians_were_there.jpgmid.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}