Posted on 05/14/2013 10:00:57 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
(Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Tuesday, the coalition and officials said, a day after three Georgian soldiers were killed in nearby Helmand.
The soldiers were in a vehicle on patrol in Kandahar's Zhari district when they were killed, provincial spokesman Jawid Ahmad Faisal said.
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Why are we still there ? RIP.
Obama’s Afghanistan policy moves ahead without a hitch.
Because our military is being used to ensure that the Muslim Brotherhood is not 'hampered' in their goal to invade, loot, rape, and pillage.
Jeez!...terrible news!
Why in the HELL are our soldiers on PATROL duty ? After ten years of so called 'training' why aren't the Afghans doing this ? Too dangerous for them ? ..... or are they so damned stupid they'll need a few more years of training before they can drive down a road in an armored car ? What a criminal waste of our precious soldiers. DAMN !!!
They are sitting ducks damn it!
Politics. We are trying to "withdraw with honor" or some crap. At this point I don't think we should have ever occupied the place. Revenge I understand. But Afghanistan is no Germany and pouring billions of dollars into Afghanistan / Pakistan is no Marshall Plan.
We didn't learn from history.
graveyard of empires
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