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onethatcares (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 06:12 PM Original message |
so we're in Afganistan for the long haul now, Why? |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
1. oil pipeline |
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AzNick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 10:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
20. Actually, this time it is working ... |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
2. We're cleaning up the mess Bush left by abandoning our troops there... |
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Rick Myers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 06:31 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Exactly... |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 07:46 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. We could have been in and out of there if Bush had stuck to what was important... |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 10:40 PM Response to Reply #2 |
22. Yup. |
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Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
3. If we don't spend lots of money on war, people will want to waste it on health care and education. |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 06:25 PM Response to Original message |
4. Not politically feasible to leave it as is---yet. |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 06:35 PM Response to Original message |
6. Why? IMO no one in Obama's administration has a rational answer. n/t |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 07:31 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. which would suggest that a rational answer is not there, right? |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 07:50 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Understand but pipelines are very vulnerable and it's highly improbable any invading force could |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 09:42 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Mea culpa, that should have been "comprise" and not "compromise". n/t |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 06:43 PM Response to Original message |
7. Pax Americana... the Empire continues |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
8. Because "failure is not an option", just like always. nt |
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maxsolomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 07:16 PM Response to Original message |
9. they do not want to leave a vacuum |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 07:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Pictures of the place we presently still find ourselves, most of |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
10. Helping girls to get an education |
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latebloomer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 07:28 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. I can't believe that people still think |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 09:17 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Those girls need education |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 09:27 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Do you honestly think the US military gives a crap about these people? |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
19. 9/11 |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 10:31 PM Response to Original message |
21. because pakistan is nervous about india. |
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