What are we doing in Afghanistan?

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Tyr said:
This mine has been widely used by various countries, so uncleared minefields containing M14s do exist. Additionally, several copies of the design have been manufactured locally by countries such as India.


the USA basically gives them away to tin pot dictators as they are cheap and don't have the massive destructive firepower of the mines the US uses now to maim kids worldwide
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Oh give me a break! What tin pot dictators?

What US mines strewn around to blow up kids?

You are just pulling stuff out iof your ass......is there a brain-dead politically correct idea you don't subscribe too?

Knee-jerk, unthinking anti-US sentiment is an unattractive habit, all too common in Canada.
 
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What gets me about anti-US sentiment is that there is so much of it that people could bring up that is factual and important.

Instead bizarre and outright lies of the tabloid variety are all thats said, it makes any reasonable critisism of the USA useless, since you get lumped in what that lunacy.
 
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Colpy said:
Oh give me a break! What tin pot dictators?

What US mines strewn around to blow up kids?

You are just pulling stuff out iof your ass......is there a brain-dead politically correct idea you don't subscribe too?

Knee-jerk, unthinking anti-US sentiment is an unattractive habit, all too common in Canada.
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is there a brain-dead politically correct idea you don't subscribe too?

The conservative party of Canada. Truely brain dead

Is there a neandrethal backwoods thought you'd care to share?
 
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Zzarchov said:
What gets me about anti-US sentiment is that there is so much of it that people could bring up that is factual and important.

Instead bizarre and outright lies of the tabloid variety are all thats said, it makes any reasonable critisism of the USA useless, since you get lumped in what that lunacy.
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don't mistake anti-US for anti-US policy. American people as a whole are not bad. It's the mental midget they've had in power for the last 8 yrs that the world is disgusted by
 
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don't mistake anti-US for anti-US policy. American people as a whole are not bad. It's the mental midget they've had in power for the last 8 yrs that the world is disgusted by
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Then talk about the actual real things he did that were wrong, there are alot. Try not coming up with bizarre and illogical schemes that involve repitillian super-beings.
 
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Baloney, and baloney->Colpy ->give an experienced extractor a few hours and you Colpy, will swear-confess to anything -but first you will urinate
 
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Question: What are we doing in Afghanistan?
Answer: Waiting to get the hell out!

Apologists often jaw that we're there to bring Afghanis democracy. It would be nice if we tried that here in Canada first where 2/3 of us think the Afghan mission is less than stellar.

Meanwhile, a cheery quote from Kipling:
"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. "
 
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Viagra-GEE too bad that they didn't think of that before --just think of the Headline.. War won with a little blue pill-- $100,000 of Viagra and all Warlords embraced the USA from the rear----How many on here believe that?
 
Tyr

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Zzarchov said:
What gets me about anti-US sentiment is that there is so much of it that people could bring up that is factual and important.

Instead bizarre and outright lies of the tabloid variety are all thats said, it makes any reasonable critisism of the USA useless, since you get lumped in what that lunacy.
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Sorry, but I get my info stright from FOX news.... and we all know how "spot on" they are usually...sometimes... once in a while...
 
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Marines Bypass Taliban Opium Fields in Afghanistan

'The Tal­iban, whose fight­ers are exchang­ing daily fire with the Marines in Garmser, derives up to $100 mil­lion a year from the poppy har­vest by tax­ing farm­ers and charg­ing safe pas­sage fees — money that will buy weapons for use against U.S., NATO and Afghan troops.
Yet the Marines are not destroy­ing the plants. In fact, they are reas­sur­ing vil­lagers the pop­pies won’t be touched. Amer­i­can com­man­ders say the Marines would only alien­ate peo­ple and drive them to take up arms if they elim­i­nated the impov­er­ished Afghans’ only source of income. Many Marines in the field are scratch­ing their heads over the sit­u­a­tion.
http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/marines-bypass-taliban-opium-fields-in-afghanistan/​
 
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Bush's cluster bombs have killed plenty as we have discussed on other threads.
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It's from 35-45 years ago, but there are still quite a few people (including children) being killed today in Laos from unexploded ordnances during the "secret war" in proxy with the Vietnam War. The U.S. dropped 2 million tonnes of bombs in 9 years on Laos... There's a documentary concerning the work being done to remove these bombs today.

It can be watched here:
Bomb Harvest Laos
 
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