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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 05:01 PM Original message |
Taliban buying children to use as suicide bombers in Pakistan |
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ThirdWorldJohn (525 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
1. Not if the USA can buy them first and train them to kill the Talibn first and stuff like that. |
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hugo_from_TN (895 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 05:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Exactly - we're the same as the Taliban. |
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Turbineguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 05:36 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Tsk, tsk.... |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 07:04 PM Response to Reply #4 |
19. Had to bail out of Olbermann's MJ marathon twice this week --!!! |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 05:37 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. there is no way to counter it.. its insidiously pervasive there |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 06:43 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. sam . Thats the trail of tears nobody want to consider. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 05:35 AM Response to Reply #11 |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 12:43 PM Response to Reply #32 |
45. The Taliban are no different than our Aryan Nation church. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 04:35 PM Response to Reply #32 |
60. Religion is a sham, period |
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InkAddict (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 08:13 AM Response to Reply #11 |
34. What is this "cash" you speak of? |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 09:33 PM Response to Reply #34 |
74. NPR radio had a story about the troops going into Hemland province |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 07:07 PM Response to Reply #3 |
21. "...when we destroy a poppy field" . . . ??? Are you kidding? |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
6. Journalistic questions: From whom? (names) To whom? Where does his money come from? |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 06:50 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Keep asking questions. Maybe the NYTimes and others could fill in a few blank check answers |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 05:53 PM Response to Original message |
7. how can the world get rid of this noxious religious fundamentalism? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 06:06 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Instead of bombing them we need to help them build clinics and schools. |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 06:57 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. You didn't learn your lesson : "No Girls Allowed In School" and the NGO built schools blow up |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 07:08 PM Response to Reply #14 |
22. Well, I guess your way is better. Keep bombing them. According to you |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 09:31 PM Response to Reply #22 |
72. Your policy of "just close your eyes and think happy thoughts" |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 11:30 PM Response to Reply #10 |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 11:33 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Yeah, I could, but I don't have the power to make it happen. That would |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 11:49 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. I think Peace Corps in Afghanistan would be a death |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 12:13 AM Response to Reply #29 |
31. Peace Corp goes in with the mandate of the USA and the countries |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 08:01 AM Response to Reply #31 |
33. And when things go badly? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 11:55 AM Response to Reply #33 |
39. So you believe that there can be only one result and no other? |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 12:25 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. The Taliban has never liked anybody.... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 12:39 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. The Taliban are a very small core group of true believers. They always lose |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 12:43 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. If you say so... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 12:54 PM Response to Reply #44 |
47. You are mixing up the Taliban with the whole population of those places where they operate |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 01:05 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. Where do you get the idea that the "majority" oppose |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 01:38 PM Response to Reply #48 |
49. I don't know what your agenda is or why you hate people who are non-Christian |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 01:42 PM Response to Reply #49 |
50. I think you're projecting a bit.... |
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Guy Whitey Corngood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 03:14 PM Response to Reply #44 |
53. "but the Taliban came to power long before any bombing." You're fucking kidding right? nt |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 03:32 PM Response to Reply #53 |
54. I wasn't aware we bombed Afghanistan in 96. |
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Guy Whitey Corngood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 03:40 PM Response to Reply #54 |
55. You aren't aware of a lot of things it seems. The Taliban only came to power after |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 04:04 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. If you want to go into the Soviet-Afghan war than |
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Guy Whitey Corngood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 04:12 PM Response to Reply #56 |
57. Let me try this slower. |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 04:21 PM Response to Reply #57 |
58. You and I both know.... |
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Guy Whitey Corngood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 04:29 PM Response to Reply #58 |
59. But the person you were having the exchange with was making the point that |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
8. Can it get any worse?!? |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 07:05 PM Response to Reply #8 |
20. No |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
9. Breaking News: US pays teenagers to invade countries and kill their inhabitants! |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 06:52 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Teenagers? You mean legal adults? nt |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 09:13 PM Response to Reply #13 |
26. Unless it's alcohol or cigerettes. I would hardly consider a teenger an adult. |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 07:02 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. A bit of a difference between: |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 03:07 PM Response to Reply #16 |
51. What in my statement is untrue? |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 04:47 PM Response to Reply #51 |
61. I would say purchasing one child |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 07:38 PM Response to Reply #61 |
63. Signing a 25,000.00 enlilistment bonus isn't purchasing? |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 10:06 AM Response to Reply #63 |
67. Again, you aren't getting the key facts |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 02:23 PM Response to Reply #67 |
68. Again, my statements were hyperbole, just like the original post. |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 12:47 PM Response to Reply #68 |
69. Noting when something occurs is not hyperbole |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 09:42 PM Response to Reply #9 |
73. breaking news; Taliban pay parents for post birth abortions ! |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
15. Takin' them right out of the Kuwait City incubators! |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 07:13 PM Response to Reply #15 |
24. Ya think ? |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 07:02 PM Response to Original message |
17. With any luck |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 07:03 PM Response to Original message |
18. This is how cheap children's lives become when the right-wing rules . . . |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 07:10 PM Response to Original message |
23. Did anyone ever hear Bushco or GOP talk about ending abuse of women in Afghanistan . . .? |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 07:22 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Yes, and they did none of it, in fact he set up Afghanistan as an Islamic republic. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 12:28 AM Response to Reply #25 |
64. Agree . . . and we gave Taliban/Al Qaeda $124 MILLION in 2001 . . |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 09:59 AM Response to Reply #23 |
36. I think I could have backed an invasion with that as it's goal |
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bullwinkle428 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 12:47 PM Response to Reply #23 |
46. It was nothing more than "kickin' some ass in return for nahn-uh-leven"! |
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western mass (718 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-07-09 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
30. I hear they eat babies too!!!! |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 10:02 AM Response to Reply #30 |
37. Sorry, but the Taliban really are a despicable group |
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western mass (718 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 05:26 AM Response to Reply #37 |
66. I despise the taliban too... |
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pinniped (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 08:25 AM Response to Original message |
35. Better have a US drone launch another one of those 'suspected' US missile strikes.... |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
38. i guess investing in ending poverty and increasing education is too hard |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 12:01 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. That seems to be what some here think. |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 12:15 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. i can imagine it. that is the problem i guess. i can imagine it, but there is no political push to |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
52. Here's footage of a 'recruiter' in action |
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BreweryYardRat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
62. I'd say go for a pincer movement. |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-09-09 03:00 AM Response to Original message |
65. WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?! |
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Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
70. This world has seen some murderous dictators and horrible regimes, |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-10-09 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
71. And the Taliban does this with money from their friends, our "friends", the Saudis. |
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