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Originally Posted by Riot
You know darn well Bush had skeleton troops in Afghanistan, dinking around, and Obama pushed alot more into there (as he promised as a candidate). That's what I mean. With two years of the troop surge.
Bush was too busy illegally invading Iraq to give his defense contractors money. None of that free loot available in Afghanistan. No wonder Bush targeted Iraq.
Yes. From a mission launched from the Afghan border, that couldn't have been launched from anywhere else.
It's not supposed to be "a war". We were supposed to be targeting Al Quaeda. Bush dinked around. Obama went in and got bin Laden. Time to come home.
I agree. The way to target terrorists.
Yes, indeed.
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why are you posting stuff as tho you're telling me something i don't know?? do you have alzheimers or something? i've said those things before, that bush dithered, that afganistan has dragged on because they took the focus off of that country, etc, etc. that it's all been fubar from the get go.
the reason i said 'war' is because altho the govt denied that 9-11 was an act of war (if they declared it as such, the onus would have falled on the govt, not insurers, to cover all the losses) yet they then said it was a 'war on terror'. it's been pushed as a war from the get go by our federal govt. but, as i said, you can't fight an unconventional war in a conventional manner. then, the fact that afganistan is how it is, also impedes any true progress there. if the powers that be wish to stay there until they have achieved everything they wish, we will NEVER get out of there. they need to be happy with what they've done, as it's about as much as they'll ever accomplish there. that country is a pathetic third world tribal mess. wipe the dust off our boots and be done with it.