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On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 11:47:18 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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It's not comparable to VN. Come on. We're not carpet bombing villages.

True, instead of carpet bombing we are using pinpoint strikes on the
wrong people. You can't deny the statistics our government is putting
out. They say we killed a couple hundred AQ and 6000 innocents. The
Afghans say it is more like double or triple that number of innocents.

We're doing the best we can. I don't think anyone wants to kill innocents.

Now we find out we are just paying protection money to the Taliban,
hiring them to protect our bases. Karzai wants us to stop propping up
the people we pay him to be against. and the Senate just figured out
we were doing it. Without them we would need thousands more troops
that we don't have.
The wheels are coming off this war.

Perhaps. If so, then we'll leave. If not, then we'll stay a bit longer.