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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 02:43 PM
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Six U.S. Troops Dead in Afghanistan
Source: AP

KABUL (AP) Six U.S. troops and six Afghan election workers are among the dead as insurgent attacks continue in advance of tomorrow's presidential election. Since the start of July, 76 American troops have died in Afghanistan. Tomorrow, Afghans will decide whether President Hamid Karzai should get a second term.

http://www.kxmd.com/getArticle.asp?ArticleId=423283
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 02:44 PM
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1. Cannon fodder for the PR covering a lost war. K&R
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 02:45 PM
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2. Jeez, six more on one day....
:-(
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 02:45 PM
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3. is it still bush's war or is it now 50% each, just wondering were the slider is...
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 02:45 PM
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4. It is Obama's War. He escalated.
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kiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 02:50 PM
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8. It's Obama's war in the same way that Vietnam was LBJ's.
We had troops in Vietnam for a decade, but Johnson escalated our involvement and will always be the president blamed for that tragedy. Are you listening, Mr. President?
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dflprincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 02:56 PM
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10. And it became Nixon's war
Edited on Wed Aug-19-09 02:58 PM by dflprincess
after he forgot the "secret plan" he claimed to have to end during the '68 campaign.

When a president does nothing to change the bad policy of his predecessor, he gets to take his share of responsibility for it.
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cherokeeprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 02:47 PM
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5. I wish they could all come home tomorrow.
76 dead in 51 days. How many orphaned children? How many heartbroken widows, widowers, and parents? Everybody loses in this.
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 02:51 PM
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9. im wondering where the anti war marches are, havent seen any this summer
been missing the easy overtime they provide...
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Matt 6_5 Donating Member (101 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 02:48 PM
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6. What exactly is the 'goal' there? I have never understood what we are doing there
and in any case why we didn't learn from the Russian's defeat...
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 02:49 PM
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7. To protect us from the Taliban Navy which is about to launch it's ships from Kandahar.
Oh, wait...
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 02:58 PM
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11. ...
:spray:
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Matt 6_5 Donating Member (101 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 03:02 PM
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13. Ah, they are hoping for a heavy rain.
I see.



:D
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dflprincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 02:59 PM
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12. England lost there twice.
It's where "empires go to die".
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-19-09 03:09 PM
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14. RIP and Godspeed to those soldiers and workers.
:patriot:

:cry:
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