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On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:26:33 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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The interesting thing to me was said on Anderson Cooper the other
night from Afghanistan. It turns out we don't even think Bin Laden is
there anymore and that the Taliban has absolutely no global
aspirations. Their connection to Al Queda is tenuous at best.


I thought it was pretty clear that bin laden is in Pakistan. He left Tora
Bora, right...

Yet we are still losing Americans every day looking for him in
Afghanistan ... amazing.
There does seem to be a double standard on the left. If this was GWB
doing this, it would be the only thing the talking heads on TV were
talking about.


Not to my knowledge we are.... we're supposedly trying to protect the Afg.
people and ensuring a stable gov't there. I haven't heard anything about
hunting for bin laden in Afg. since he left Tora Bora.

Not sure what you mean by the double standard comment. The Afg. war was
supported by the world community, by both right and left in this country,
and now is being criticized by many on the left as a waste of effort.

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Nom=de=Plume