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Posted by richard

…especially when the UN watchdog looking at vote-rigging in Afghanistan has thrown out thousands, and looks more and more like the President Karzai may face a run-off vote.

I don’t trust the man, even more so now. He doesn’t want to accept the watchdog’s announcement, so our troops are now fighting for us, in a country run by a tyrant. Why are they there? Who cares about Afghanistan?

I know that sounds callous but really, what are we there for? Stopping the Taleban? It wasn’t the Taleban who bombed the towers. They kept the heroin production down, it’s more than three times as much now, so we or the Afghanis are doing a piss-poor job of that. I’m sorry that they treat women badly, but that happens all over the muslim world, they all treat their women like chattel.

Come on, let’s get our boys out of there.

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Posted by richard

How many years of war has there been already? Six? Seven? Afghanistan is a no-go zone for anyone, it’s an unstable hell-hole that even the Taliban won’t live in, as they commute from Pakistan.

Now we hear that President Obama is sending in 4,000 trainers. Isn’t this what happened in Vietnam? Trainers sent in first? Although I suppose there the combat troops came in afterwards…

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Posted by richard

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It’s good to see that our high and mighty (Prince Harry) are in the trenches with the rest of us plebs, don’t you think? I doubt you’d see any Bush scion serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, and we know that Clinton avoided that era’s war quite deftly (as did Bush incidentally).

I hope Prince Harry doesn’t get hurt/injured/killed/captured mind you, that would be a debacle to say the least. I don’t think the Taleban would be merciful – in contrary to the Quran of course. You have to admire him though, he’s wanted to serve on the front lines, said he would quit if not allowed, and obviously stuck to his guns.

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