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Can you remind me why we are going after Afghanistan?

The accounts in the report somehow place greater perspective on what actually happens when we 'send troops in' and wasting so many lives with incompetence like that is appalling.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Tue Sep 9th, 2008 at 06:04:29 AM EST
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It's spelled out above, the future of the "free world" is being played out in Afghanistan.

If you don't believe it, listen to the good Dr Kissinger.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Sep 9th, 2008 at 06:41:49 AM EST
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Can you remind me why we are going after Afghanistan?

To stop al-Qaeda to from using it as a safe haven. Which seems to work.

Too bad the Pakistani tribal areas are just next door...

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Tue Sep 9th, 2008 at 10:35:36 AM EST
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