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LittleBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 12:29 PM Original message |
Eight more dead today. When do we call it quits on Afghanistan? |
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Barack_America (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
1. Today works for me. |
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hamsterjill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 01:56 PM Response to Reply #1 |
24. Today works for me, as well. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
2. The only reason to be in Afghanistan is to protect ourselves. |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
3. 20-24 months. n/t |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
4. Give it 10 more years, it will turn around. |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
5. Could be a while longer. |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
6. I often compare wikipedia to my paper Enc. Britannica, and |
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BobRossi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
7. Yesterday |
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mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 01:33 PM Response to Original message |
8. i dunno - |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 02:05 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. There are countries all over the world like that, that oppress women |
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Garam_Masala (711 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 10:53 PM Response to Reply #11 |
39. Yes women are oppressed in many countries |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
9. If Obama had campaigned to pull out, it wouldn't be such a lose-lose scenario. Leave, it's a defeat |
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rmp yellow (136 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
10. More troops might significantly decrease the casualties |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 02:08 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. The violence is lower because partly because we paid off the Sunnis. |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 03:15 PM Response to Reply #10 |
29. At the same time we did the surge |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 03:25 PM Response to Reply #10 |
32. Uh, the terrain in Afghanistan is MUCH different than in Iraq ... |
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Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
13. When Pakistan decides they're done with their nukes. NT |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 08:29 PM Response to Original message |
14. This is the wrong venue to ask that question. It should |
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RepublicanElephant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 09:52 PM Response to Original message |
15. but if we leave, who will save the poor children... |
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babydollhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
16. kick |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
17. Karzai's stolen election is enough reason to get the hell out |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
18. We will call it quits |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
19. I'm not buying counter insurgency one iota on this failed non-state but troops getting killed |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 01:42 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Saudi financed madrassas in Pakistan and elsewhere are training future terrorists |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 04:51 PM Response to Original message |
21. Minimum, several more years. Bush's gang really screwed up the |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 03:23 PM Response to Reply #21 |
31. Bullshit! From this point on, it's Obama's War. No more Bush blaming |
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niceypoo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 09:52 PM Response to Reply #31 |
38. Just another Bush fire for Obama to put out |
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branders seine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
22. not for years and years and years |
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jeanpalmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 01:51 AM Response to Original message |
23. Probably only when the money runs out |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
25. send special UN forces to Afghanistan |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 03:27 PM Response to Reply #25 |
33. No those "surgical strikes" are not SO PRECISE. For every innocent we kill |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 06:50 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. but if there is a problem |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
26. Heeding David Kilcullen's advice would be wise here: |
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jenmito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
27. Obama's "not on an ideological crusade to pull burkas off heads," either. |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
28. Quit?? Was it over when we tortured people in Abu Ghraib? Was it over when we leveled Fallujah?? |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 03:21 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Into the Valley of Death ... |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 03:34 PM Response to Reply #28 |
35. Yep - that's the problem, the "global military empire." It will takes a fearless leader... |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
34. imo we should pull all our troops out as soon as we can provide transportation. nt |
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enough already 2 (45 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-06-09 06:56 PM Response to Original message |
37. Yesterday |
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