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mtnsnake
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Wed Jan-05-11 11:01 AM Original message |
We have now been at war for almost twice as long as we were in WWI & WWII combined |
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slackmaster
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Wed Jan-05-11 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
1. Interesting factoid |
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ProSense
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Wed Jan-05-11 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
2. Vietnam was even longer than that. Oh, and don't forget |
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mtnsnake
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Wed Jan-05-11 11:05 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. No need to justify the obscene length of this war with a Vietnam comparison |
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Freddie Stubbs
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Wed Jan-05-11 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
4. Is length of time, or casualties a better measure of the cost of a war? |
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mtnsnake
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Wed Jan-05-11 11:19 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. I suppose it depends how you look at it |
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valerief
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Wed Jan-05-11 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
6. We've always been at war with Eastasia. |
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golfguru
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Wed Jan-05-11 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
7. Absolutely insane Afghan war continues |
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ljm2002
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Wed Jan-05-11 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
8. Can someone please tell me... |
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golfguru
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Wed Jan-05-11 07:41 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. During Bill CLinton's 8 years there was only Kosovo |
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ljm2002
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Wed Jan-05-11 10:23 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Good point... |
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The Wielding Truth
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Wed Jan-05-11 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
9. When American deaths are totaled Iraq/Afghanistan hardly seem like wars. |
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mtnsnake
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Wed Jan-05-11 12:36 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. You left out the population of the enemy that we're supposedly fighting |
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The Wielding Truth
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Wed Jan-05-11 12:57 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I know. I thought of it, but couldn't get the figures. It's sickening. War has no glory. |
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laugle
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Wed Jan-05-11 07:14 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. What's really obscene is |
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jwirr
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Wed Jan-05-11 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
10. And we don't even know why we are there! |
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PoliticAverse
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Wed Jan-05-11 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
13. It's simply more profitable to keep a war going than to end it. |
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Kaleva
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Wed Jan-05-11 11:15 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. The 100+ year Indian Wars were seen as very profitable. |
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Divine Discontent
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Thu Jan-06-11 03:09 AM Response to Original message |
18. REC without comment |
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Mimosa
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Thu Jan-06-11 12:28 PM Response to Original message |
19. What atrocities will be committed in order to 'win' in Afghanistan? Or will we leave? |
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Yavin4
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Thu Jan-06-11 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
20. You Are Wrong. We've Always Been At War with Eastasia. |
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Cherchez la Femme
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Thu Jan-06-11 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
21. And War is Peace |
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