epiphiny43 -> RE: And they say Biden is the plagiarizer in this administration (9/4/2012 11:04:21 PM)
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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u President Obama ordered the invasion of Afghanistan ? He escalated it far beyond where Bush wound it down to. Need a history? I'm not sure what war you are referring to. Friends of mine were Armored Calvary in Afghanistan during the Iraq mess. They still won't talk about the policies exercised by the shrub. "A cluster fuck", is all one says. Now training Striker battalions, he just said the real war was abandoned before it really got started and we went off to Iraq. He lost a lot of friends doing patrols on roads with hills all around they got ambushed from and with all the air and artillery support in the wrong country, they had to fight their way out alone too many times. NO one in Iraq had guns but Saddam and his troops. NO Al Queda or any other 'terrorist' lasted more than hours in Saddam's police state. If you were armed, you worked for him. All the terrorist training and support was in Afghanistan and we Almost had them extirpated and somewhat friendly Afghan groups in control. We had the chance to erase the Taliban and similar groups from Afghanistan when their tribal enemies worked with us to control the country. We left and the natural Afghan tendency to hate and fight Any other group with power over them, particularly non-Muslim, came to the fore. Exactly how the Russians lost so many troops and treasure there. It's taken us 10 years to figure out the situation now isn't solvable with military force after the shrub lost a unique opportunity and we're bugging out.
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