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LBJDemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 01:19 PM Original message |
Do you support the war in Afghanistan? |
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shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
1. We can't "win" it any more than we can Iraq |
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Flabbergasted (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 01:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Actually ask the British. They fared no better. Afghan's are tough in a tough land they know well. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:30 PM Response to Reply #5 |
26. Or, the Greeks, Romans, or Russians. |
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jeanruss (194 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 01:32 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. no war |
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medeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. read my post #4 |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
2. No. |
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Mike Nelson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
3. No, the Commander in Chief was inept |
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medeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
4. friend there right now |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:23 PM Response to Reply #4 |
23. 145 degrees today. Someone is exaggerating a little bit I think? |
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medeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 03:53 PM Response to Reply #23 |
35. that's the current temp (nighttime) 104 degrees high in Kabul |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 04:00 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. Hottest temperature recorded on earth was 110°F and that wasn't near Afghanistan |
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medeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 04:14 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. It's been hotter than that at my parent's house |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 04:17 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. Not in the last seven days it hasn't been hotter anywhere else |
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tburnsten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 04:16 PM Response to Reply #36 |
39. I have a hard time questioning |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 04:20 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. Believe what you want but the highest recorded temperature ever on earth was 136 degrees |
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medeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 04:22 PM Response to Reply #39 |
43. winters there are so brutal |
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tburnsten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 08:56 PM Response to Reply #43 |
48. 10-4 Good buddy! Heat is ridiculous there. N?T |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 01:25 PM Response to Original message |
6. It seemed like a good idea at the time... |
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Aviation Pro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
7. I support catching UBL and bringing him to justice..... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
8. No. Bombing Afghanistan will not make us safer -- on the contrary. |
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heidler1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
9. To me it is another unsuccessful attempt to create peace with war. |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 01:33 PM Response to Original message |
11. no |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
12. I thought it was an idiotic idea at the time.. |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
13. Well LBJ the only thing I remember Barry Goldwater saying was |
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JeffR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
14. We have about 14,000 troops in Afghanistan, IIRC, |
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Disturbed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:05 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. After seven years the US & NATO Forces cannot defeat |
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medeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:16 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Biden's plan is necessary imo |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:27 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. If they were really serious about a military "solution", they should have |
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medeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 04:17 PM Response to Reply #17 |
41. Biden calls for wells, roads, power ect |
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JeffR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:18 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. The Biden-Lantos amendment? |
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merh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
18. I was okay with it at first, I mean we were going after Bin Laden |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
19. Senator Feingold supports the war in Afghanistan |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:59 PM Response to Reply #19 |
29. Senator Russ Feingold supported confirmation of John Ashcroft as Attorney General |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 03:09 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. Different situation entirely. |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
21. i don't support war in the mid-east period... |
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glowing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
22. No, bombing that country for a man who is hiding out there is not a smart strategy.. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
25. No. War is a dumb way to solve problems. |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
27. nope- 9/11 was a crime, NOT an act of war. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 04:22 PM Response to Reply #27 |
44. Ditto |
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pleah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
28. No! Because both Afghanistan and Iraq were based on a lie, |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
30. No and Never Have. I am a pacifist. I later found out that we were all lined up to go to war with |
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wildbilln864 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 03:08 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Thank you Ommm! |
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mrs_p (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
33. i'm a pacifist |
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Imagevision (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
34. Afganistan was merely an entry vehicle for going to Iraq for oil and |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
37. No, I don't support war anywhere. |
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medeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
45. did you see Charlie Wilson's War? |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
46. Yes. We must maintain a troop presence there, because we can't abandon the |
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Edweird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
47. In its current form. no. |
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