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Time running out on Afghanistan, US fears
UK Guardian ^ | March 27, 2009 | # Simon Tisdall and Ewen MacAskill

Posted on 03/27/2009 6:31:24 AM PDT by Nutmeg08

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To: wtc911
Freepers are finally realizing that you can support the troops but not the mission.

I support the troops the same way I always have. They're fine people.

But....wouldn't it be better to give OUR troops the $1,500,000,000.00 and strengthen them instead of the Pakistanis? The troops are on OUR side.

41 posted on 03/27/2009 7:27:21 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: tiredoflaundry

Too many forget lessens learned by the former Soviet Union in Afghanistan, some of the most hostile terrain in existence.

I always felt one reason for the Iraq theater of the War on Terror was to draw Al Qaeda into a more favorable terrain to kill them easier, which our Troops accomplished well.

I wonder too how many will return to civilian life as B HO sends them on half baked ideas to make him look like a leader, instead of actually defeating terrorist?


42 posted on 03/27/2009 7:27:38 AM PDT by DakotaRed (Don't you wish you had supported a conservative when you had the chance?)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Send ACORN to Afghanistan. Naw, he’d never put his prostitute minions in harm’s way.


43 posted on 03/27/2009 7:29:28 AM PDT by floriduh voter (Terri's Day March 31, 2009. Remember Terri Schiavo in your neck of the woods.)
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To: DakotaRed
B HO sends them on half baked ideas to make him look like a leader, instead of actually defeating terrorist?

All he's ever done was be a community organizer for ACORN. What's he going to do with our troops? Demand they protest the enemy to death?
Oboma will get them all killed in an attempt to be "presidential." He's not qualified for this job. Oboma should resign before he does any more damage.

44 posted on 03/27/2009 7:33:09 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: BlueYonder
You heard it here first.

Or he is stetting up America for defeat and humiliation and will sacrifice American live to do it.

45 posted on 03/27/2009 7:35:12 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Wake up people, AIG executives are not the enemy, your Government is!)
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To: tiredoflaundry
Our local gang bangers are American's version of Al queda.

They move into an area and destroy the neighborhood, the police are not much help. I think their theory is that they know where they are and easier for them to control. When the landlords finally get them out, they move onto another neighborhood and it starts all over.

This is how I see Al Queda, when we finally pull out of Iraq and now into Afganastan, those AlQuada thugs will just go back into Iraq and take it back over. Then we have to go back into Iraq. I see no differance between them and our own brand of AlQueda gang banger thugs we have here.

They only way is to BOMB the hell out of them where they are. Oh I know, it must be Ramahdan every day over there. We are just training them on how to kill us.

46 posted on 03/27/2009 7:35:31 AM PDT by annieokie
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To: DakotaRed

” I always felt one reason for the Iraq theater of the War on Terror was to draw Al Qaeda into a more favorable terrain “

Me too. I am very concerned.

My son is one of those troops going back over there.

I just hope gates and petraeus are running things their way because I sure don’t trust bo.


47 posted on 03/27/2009 7:38:22 AM PDT by jackv (Just shakin' my head!!)
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To: wtc911
Freepers are finally realizing that you can support the troops but not the mission.

I question the motive of the man that is sending them there>

This man is no friend of America and certainly not of the military. I'd like to know what he's up to

48 posted on 03/27/2009 7:40:03 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Wake up people, AIG executives are not the enemy, your Government is!)
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To: reaganaut1

I dont see anybody here hoping for anything other than our soldier’s victory. The question is that Obama’s strategy is driven by political considerations here in in the US, not about ensuring that Afghanistan is secure and stable.


49 posted on 03/27/2009 7:40:49 AM PDT by SeminoleSoldier
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To: tiredoflaundry

...and the TAHL-EE-BAHN


50 posted on 03/27/2009 7:41:31 AM PDT by woollyone (I believe God created me- you believe you're related to monkeys. Of course I laughed at you!)
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To: Nutmeg08

If I were in the military now, I would be looking for any way possible to get out and let the commie play his stupid games with some one elses life!


51 posted on 03/27/2009 7:44:21 AM PDT by devistate one four (Cw II on the way! Stand by. TET68)
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To: jackv

Be sure to send your son thanks, from another Viet Nam Vet.


52 posted on 03/27/2009 7:51:01 AM PDT by DakotaRed (Don't you wish you had supported a conservative when you had the chance?)
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To: devistate one four
If I were in the military now, I would be looking for any way possible to get out and let the commie play his stupid games with some one elses life!

I'll bet there will be "serge" of "self proclaimed" homosexuals being discharged this year. Just say you're a homosexual, and you get a free pass. Under Oboma, it may be the only way you're ever going to get back home.

53 posted on 03/27/2009 7:56:00 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: concerned about politics

It’s sad to have this commie in charge of those wonderful people.


54 posted on 03/27/2009 7:59:00 AM PDT by devistate one four (Cw II on the way! Stand by. TET68)
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To: DakotaRed

Thanks DakotaRed! Thanks to you too!

God Bless ALL of our troops!!


55 posted on 03/27/2009 7:59:12 AM PDT by jackv (Just shakin' my head!!)
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To: floriduh voter

McCain and Republicans in Congress call this quote “an excellent idea”.


56 posted on 03/27/2009 8:01:52 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache (An oath to a liar is no oath at all)
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To: devistate one four
It’s sad to have this commie in charge of those wonderful people.

It's different when they know they're loved. When they're hated, it's frightening. They know Oboma is going to feed them to the enemy for lunch.

57 posted on 03/27/2009 8:09:39 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: All

Does anyone know which unit or brigade is being sent as the trainers?


58 posted on 03/27/2009 8:15:08 AM PDT by 82ndABNOfficer
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To: floriduh voter
I guess my concern is whether a leader is praying for guidance and seeking to do God’s will. America didn't develop the best military in the world. The Lord did.
59 posted on 03/27/2009 8:26:53 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: bill1952
See the difference yet?

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Snotty little hump, aren't you?

Freepers are starting to question the theory. That's a good thing.

How much do you know about Baluchistan and the role it plays in the area? Not much would be my guess. Did you know that Iran has been fighting the Baluchs for over a decade and have lost more troops in that on-going fight than we have in Iraq?

This move benefits Iran. It ignores both Tora Bora and the NW frontier area.

TOTUS has filled his ME department with virulant anti-Israel apparatchiks. They have openly espoused putting US troops into Gaza under UN control to oppose the Israelis. You going to support that mission? You going to be the good little German? I sure as hell won't.

60 posted on 03/27/2009 8:27:17 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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