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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-10-09 06:30 PM
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6. No one wants Afghanistan that is why it was avaiable to the Taliban
and the Taliban let alQaeda operate so long as they didn't piss off the locals (war lords)

The problem is that being on control of Afghanistan is that you basically and only get Kabul.

That is the way it has always been.
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  - Like I've said before ...why the f*ck are we fighting the Taliban? WTF is Osama?  L0oniX   May-10-09 12:49 PM   #1 
  - The CIA is an "affiliated organization", considering they funded al-qaeda. Where is Bin Laden?  grahamhgreen   May-10-09 01:24 PM   #2 
  - If we were serious about destroying the Taliban, we would have  Vidar   May-10-09 02:49 PM   #3 
  - Taliban came out of the refugee camps in Pakistan.  EFerrari   May-10-09 07:17 PM   #8 
     - Yes, but the Saudis were financing them.  Vidar   May-11-09 10:14 AM   #12 
        - Some factions in the kingdom do finance them. They get $$$  EFerrari   May-11-09 03:30 PM   #13 
  - Then get the fuck out! Now!  Zhade   May-10-09 06:21 PM   #4 
  - No one wants Afghanistan that is why it was avaiable to the Taliban  underpants   May-10-09 06:30 PM   #6 
  - Petraeus is the sort of guy who gives bullshit a bad name. nt  bemildred   May-10-09 06:26 PM   #5 
  - This is the JackAss who hired sadam's old army  saigon68   May-10-09 07:15 PM   #7 
     - Hi Saigon.  bemildred   May-10-09 07:24 PM   #9 
  - Were they  Joe2131   May-10-09 09:08 PM   #10 
  - Al Qaeda was not working in Iraq either until the USA said it was.  Bandit   May-11-09 08:01 AM   #11 
 

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