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Jeffersons Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 03:26 PM
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expect the death-toll to skyrocket in Afghanistan
'Alarming' rise in Afghan violence, says UN

Violence in Afghanistan increased dramatically in the first four months of this year, the UN says. In a quarterly report to the UN Security Council, it said roadside bomb attacks rose by 94%, compared with the same period in 2009.

On average, the report said, there were three suicide bombings a week, half of them in the country's volatile south.

The findings come amid a major Nato-led operation in Helmand and a surge of US reinforcements. US President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan in December.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10356741.stm
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 03:27 PM
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1. But, but, they have lithium. The war is over!
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Jeffersons Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 03:38 PM
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4. yeah, I did an OP on it... the propaganda machine sure pumps it out.
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 04:05 PM
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10. Think of it this way- the more of them we can kill
the fewer of them we'll have to share the lithium profits with.
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 04:08 PM
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12. Yeah, but thatll make the more of em that hate us
And we don't like it when the impoverished third world citizens unite into an organized, financially supported entity to strike back at the empire.
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LaFeminist Donating Member (28 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 03:27 PM
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2. Let's call it, "The Surge"
In violence.
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Jeffersons Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 03:56 PM
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9. the old tried n' true term, huh?
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 03:31 PM
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3. It's the Quagmire to end all Quagmires.
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 03:41 PM
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5. Its only the beginning
Edited on Sat Jun-19-10 03:41 PM by Oregone
The high-level consumer population of the globe is increasing quickly. As demand rises, resources will become scarcer, more quickly, thereby making resource wars far more lucrative. Strap in for a bumpy ride.
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DrDan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 03:45 PM
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8. only because we have an administration that has little desire to actually end it
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 03:43 PM
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6. it's just a welfare jobs program for the US military, Bush generals, and corporate war profiteers nt
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DrDan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 03:44 PM
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7. well . . . what else would one expect with an additional 30,000 troops
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 04:07 PM
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11. We're creating
a target rich environment. And our guys are the targets.
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Jeffersons Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 04:17 PM
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13. yeah, and going broke doing it, just like the USSR did.
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-10 04:44 PM
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14. You say that, I ask this:
Who is funding the Taliban to the extent that we funded the Mujahedin to even approach making such a comparison? If we're the USSR, who's playing the role of the US? And don't say Pakistan, they can't afford what we spent.

...And how does it not matter that the Taliban number a tenth the size of the forces that fought the Soviets? And we've been there nearly as long, with 8% their casualty numbers.

You've made some pretty wild claims to insider knowledge before, let's see the cards.
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