Another consequence of Bush's rush to war in Iraq

George Bush's naive decision to leave the job in Afghanistan only half finished is coming back to bite him in the ass, again. After some progress had been made in Afghanistan, the country is starting to back track again, with the Taliban reportedly seeing a resurgence in power.

President Bush said Thursday that NATO allies need to supply more soldiers to Afghanistan and be willing to send them into the most violent battles with Taliban fighters, who are gearing up for a new spring offensive.

"When our commanders on the ground say to our respective countries `We need additional help,' our NATO countries must provide it," Bush said in a speech five years after U.S.-led forces toppled Afghanistan's repressive Taliban regime.

Flush with money from heroin-producing poppy crops, Taliban fighters have proven much tougher than NATO expected when it deployed its first contingent of peacekeepers there in 2003. Calling poppy cultivation a threat to a fragile democracy, Bush implored President Hamid Karzai to address the marked increase in harvests last year, after a decline in 2005.

Well Mr. President, I guess we should have started thinking about all of this before we all but abandoned the war in Afghanistan (you know, that one we started to takeout those responsible for 9/11?), and started an illegal war in Iraq (you know, the one you started because of a personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein?).