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Thread: President Obama sucked into Afghanistan

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    Quote Originally Posted by fergalr View Post
    Is that when he met Bin Laden, swapped notes and asked him to mind his Kenyan birth certificate?
    Come to think of it.. i have never seen Bin Laden and Obama in the same room at the same time
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    this is a long term war/occupation - not against terrorism, not fighting for equality or democracy, but to secure the ground for the Caspian sea pipeline. It's oldschool colonialism, white mans burden style. & if Lisbon is passed it will be our burden eventually, like it or not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sauntersplash View Post
    Do we have to talk about this so soon? I'm still wiping the tears out of my eyes after that speech.

    Yes we can!
    you said it, more war, but that's called change!
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    Quote Originally Posted by cd27 View Post
    you said it, more war, but that's called change!
    Did he ever say he would not be increasing the troops in Afghanistan in his presidential manifesto?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cincinnatus View Post
    this is a long term war/occupation - not against terrorism, not fighting for equality or democracy, but to secure the ground for the Caspian sea pipeline. It's oldschool colonialism, white mans burden style. & if Lisbon is passed it will be our burden eventually, like it or not.
    They'll leave or at least the large majority of troops will leave when the job is done. Same as is beginning to happen Iraq.

    Lisbon has nothing to do whatsoever with Afghanistan. It's NATO's war and that will contiune to be the case. No sense whatsoever to get the EU involved as it will lessen the US's control of the operation and it will bring in no extra troops or close to no extra troops as every major EU army is in NATO anyway.
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    The funding situation is interesting too, war without end, US funding the so-called enemy, Reuters,

    Global News Blog Blog Archive Who is funding the Afghan Taliban? You don’t want to know | Blogs |
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