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9 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Attack in Afghanistan
NY Times ^ | July 14, 2008 | CARLOTTA GALL

Posted on 07/13/2008 2:38:51 PM PDT by neverdem

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1 posted on 07/13/2008 2:38:51 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem
9 less heros who will walk this Earth.

In the eyes of dimbulbs like John Kerry and Jack Murtha, it is 9 less terrorists to terrorize Iraqi citizens.

2 posted on 07/13/2008 2:42:34 PM PDT by South40
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To: neverdem

The US losses were probably the result of an ambush that started the battle. Waiting for word on Taliban losses, which are hopefully heavy.


3 posted on 07/13/2008 2:43:07 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (If you don't vote, you don't matter.)
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To: neverdem

Think it is time to turn North Waristan into a parking deck.


4 posted on 07/13/2008 2:43:28 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (It's easier to explain the U.S. oil shortage to a second grader than it is to explain it to the U.S.)
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To: neverdem

Hey Walter Cronkite! This is your Tet-offensive cue to re-emerge and call for an allied surrender.


5 posted on 07/13/2008 2:45:46 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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To: neverdem

Besides a friendlier regime in Pakistan, the Taliban benefit from a recent influx of foreign jihadis fleeing the rout of terrorist forces in Iraq. It is likely as well that the latter have brought their financial and western ideological and propaganda support with them.

Expect the left-liberals in this country to drop their phony bait-and-switch support for the Afghan operation and return to the full-blown defeatism sedition that characterized their position before the Iraq invasion.

For example, note that the NYT characterizes the Afghan operation with the leftist weasel-word “intervention,” even though we went into Afghanistan in response to a direct attack on our own soil by forces aligned with, and harbored by, the Taliban.


6 posted on 07/13/2008 2:48:54 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
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To: neverdem

Prayers for these brave young men and for their families. May God give them strength and comfort in the coming days.

This war against Islam is not over. This sad news reminds us of our duty to support our troops in every way.


7 posted on 07/13/2008 2:50:01 PM PDT by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: SaxxonWoods; All

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8 posted on 07/13/2008 2:51:44 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: neverdem

We need to let Pakistan know they must do something drastic in a certain amount of time or that we will. Unless the militants in Pakistan are done away with the war will not end.


9 posted on 07/13/2008 2:58:19 PM PDT by ThermoNuclearWarrior (John McCain 2008!)
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To: neverdem
Dear God,

Help these men to know of our love and appreciation for them. We pray for Your comfort and peace upon their families and for Your help in securing a lasting victory against these terrorists. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

10 posted on 07/13/2008 3:07:05 PM PDT by Faith
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Just Napalm the area first, then we’ll think what to do with it.


11 posted on 07/13/2008 3:09:07 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: Faith
Dear God,

Help these men to know of our love and appreciation for them. We pray for Your comfort and peace upon their families and for Your help in securing a lasting victory against these terrorists. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.


Amen


God protect our troops!

12 posted on 07/13/2008 3:18:41 PM PDT by B-Cause (It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.)
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To: neverdem

Crap.


13 posted on 07/13/2008 3:19:45 PM PDT by keats5 (tolerance of intolerant people is cultural suicide)
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To: neverdem

Exterminate all these Talibani cockroaches so badly that not even Keith Richards could survive!


14 posted on 07/13/2008 3:25:39 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: South40

The commander in Afghanistan had just recently asserted they needed more support, Reid and Pelosi are not supporting the Military, but they have no problem last year passing legislation for illegal immigration amnesty in an instant.


15 posted on 07/13/2008 3:25:45 PM PDT by Son House ( BMT==> Babies, Military, Taxes: Just say NO To Democrats!)
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To: neverdem

May God hold their souls. May God bless their families.

16 posted on 07/13/2008 3:30:20 PM PDT by Stars&StripesNE (Liberals are the enemy within)
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To: atomic conspiracy

Reid and Pelosi are withholding support, from;

Thursday, July 3, 2008;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/02/AR2008070202010.html

In April, Mullen told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the United States was not doing all it should in Afghanistan

FULL COMMITTEE MEMBERS

DEMOCRATS

Carl Levin (Michigan)
Chairman

Edward M. Kennedy (Massachusetts)
Robert C. Byrd (West Virginia)
Joseph I. Lieberman (Connecticut)
Jack Reed (Rhode Island)
Daniel K. Akaka (Hawaii)
Bill Nelson (Florida)
E. Benjamin Nelson (Nebraska)
Evan Bayh (Indiana)
Hillary Rodham Clinton (New York)
Mark L. Pryor (Arkansas)
Jim Webb (Virginia)
Claire McCaskill (Missouri)

REPUBLICANS

John McCain (Arizona)
Ranking Member

John W. Warner (Virginia)
James M. Inhofe (Oklahoma)
Jeff Sessions (Alabama)
Susan M. Collins (Maine)
Saxby Chambliss (Georgia)
Lindsey O. Graham (South Carolina)
Elizabeth Dole (North Carolina)
John Cornyn (Texas)
John Thune (South Dakota)
Mel Martinez (Florida)
Roger F. Wicker (Mississippi)


17 posted on 07/13/2008 3:35:39 PM PDT by Son House ( BMT==> Babies, Military, Taxes: Just say NO To Democrats!)
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To: All

The reference link to the Senate Armed Services Committee members;

http://armed-services.senate.gov/members.htm

Robert C. Byrd (West Virginia) What is this fella doing on any committee that has responsibility for our Service Members lives?

Carl Levin (Michigan) Hot seat

Hillary Rodham Clinton (New York) real hawk there

John McCain (Arizona) what’s your excuse? how about your VP? Joseph I. Lieberman (Connecticut)

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Seems we have a procrastination that’s worse than not recieving body armor,

In April, Mullen told the Senate Armed Services Committee

April?


18 posted on 07/13/2008 3:47:30 PM PDT by Son House ( BMT==> Babies, Military, Taxes: Just say NO To Democrats!)
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To: atomic conspiracy

“For example, note that the NYT characterizes the Afghan operation with the leftist weasel-word “intervention,”

What would the proper word be?


19 posted on 07/13/2008 3:57:00 PM PDT by vanishing liberty
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To: vanishing liberty

“What would the proper word be?”

“Operations,” “military action,” “war” even “invasion,” would all be accurate. “Intervention” is a loaded term implying that it was really someone else’s fight and we had no real warrant or direct cause to be there.

It is a weasel word though because one can ignore this connotation and point out that we did in fact intervene in the conflict between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance. This would only be in the same sense that we “intervened” in the existing Sino-Japanese conflict after Pearl Harbor, however.


20 posted on 07/13/2008 4:06:20 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
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