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Redbear
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Thu Jul-24-08 08:52 AM Original message |
Why are we still fighting in Afghanistan? |
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AngryAmish
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Thu Jul-24-08 08:53 AM Response to Original message |
1. Because Bush is Hitler. |
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ixion
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:05 AM Response to Original message |
2. $oil |
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Redbear
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:09 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Maybe. |
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dsotm-wywh
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:12 AM Response to Original message |
4. Um...Al Queda actually does exist, just not in Iraq |
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Redbear
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:18 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. So, we will have forces in Afghanistan until all Al-queda are dead? |
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Squatch
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:20 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Hopefully, until Al Queda is rendered ineffective as a organization |
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conspirator
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Thu Jul-24-08 11:28 AM Response to Reply #11 |
26. Or until the US ethnic cleanses the area, which ever comes first [sarcasm] nt |
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arcadian
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:19 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. What does a member of Al Qaeda look like? |
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Squatch
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:21 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Here are a couple of them |
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arcadian
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:36 AM Response to Reply #12 |
19. Nice, brand new M-65 field jacket. |
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Squatch
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:38 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. LOL. Well played. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup
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Thu Jul-24-08 10:52 AM Response to Reply #4 |
24. So then why aren't we in Pakistan? |
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Moochy
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Thu Jul-24-08 08:37 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Some Nations are Sovereigner Than Others... |
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wuushew
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Thu Jul-24-08 08:51 PM Response to Reply #4 |
31. The odds of being a victim of terrorism are somewhere between shark attack and lightning |
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seasat
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:14 AM Response to Original message |
5. Several reasons |
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Moochy
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:17 AM Response to Original message |
6. Permanent War |
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arcadian
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:17 AM Response to Original message |
7. The fact that Marines are being deployed from Iraq to Afghanistan |
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Freddie Stubbs
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:18 AM Response to Original message |
9. Because it is “central front in the war against terrorism,” |
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OmmmSweetOmmm
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
13. To protect corporate interests in the pipeline. |
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bdamomma
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:27 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. sounds right to me. |
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kenny blankenship
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
14. They don't love us enough yet there |
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Maggie_May
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:24 AM Response to Original message |
15. We are still there because of Bush's half ass job! |
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Tierra_y_Libertad
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:25 AM Response to Original message |
16. Because the bosses need a bogeyman to "protect" us from. |
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:29 AM Response to Original message |
18. I have a feeling this will come to no good end. |
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islandmkl
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:54 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. possibly a 'containment' action versus an 'engagement' action... |
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The2ndWheel
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Thu Jul-24-08 10:06 AM Response to Original message |
22. Because the world must be brought into the same sphere of influence |
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blues90
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Thu Jul-24-08 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
23. probably for the same reason they went in there in the first |
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Greyhound
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Thu Jul-24-08 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
25. Because the pipeline is not complete or secured. n/t |
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spanone
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Thu Jul-24-08 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
28. to keep the opium trade flowing? i have no clue. |
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wildbilln864
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Thu Jul-24-08 08:47 PM Response to Original message |
29. To enrich the elite war profiteers! nt |
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ColbertWatcher
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Thu Jul-24-08 08:49 PM Response to Original message |
30. Because we never did a thing in Afghanistan. |
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ellie
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:01 PM Response to Original message |
32. I have no idea! |
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RedCappedBandit
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:02 PM Response to Original message |
33. Who Cares? |
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spanone
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Thu Jul-24-08 09:03 PM Response to Original message |
34. because 15 of the 19 hijackers on 911 were saudis? |
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