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Busy in Iraq, US Also Faces Surging Violence in Afghanistan
By Jonathan S. Landay
McClatchy Newspapers

Tuesday 15 April 2008


Washington - While America's attention remains focused on Iraq ,violence is escalating in Afghanistan, worrying senior U.S. defense officials and commanders who're struggling to find some 7,000 more American and European troops to combat resurgent Taliban and al Qaida forces..............................................................................................................................................................................................................Last year saw the worst bloodshed in Afghanistan since the 2001 U.S.-led intervention that overthrew the Taliban regime and drove Osama bin Laden and his core supporters into Pakistan's remote tribal region, where they've re-established bases for training terrorists and plotting new attacks, according to U.S. intelligence officials.


Now if this intelligence is correct this should be our worry. Bin laden has hit us on our homeground and he is still free and able to do it again

I guess everyone celebrating Saddam's fall were not paying attention to who really did 9/11

And the opium flows!

Ummm.if you look, you will find that 42% of foriegn fighters in Iraq to kill Americans come from Saudie Arabia. Most of the terrorists in the planes on 9/11 were from Saudie Arabia.

With that said, one of our major suppliers of oil to the United States and we pay a ton of oil revenie to...Saudie Arabia.

Strange bedfellows in high places???

Dude that's old news, we have been after the wrong guy from the moment that Bush and his spin doctors saw a weakness in the American people and broke congressional law, violated the constitution and let Fox network lie to us. Nothing new here.

The only sad thing in all of this, which is nothing new too is the American people just continue to set back let bush break laws, violate the constitution, still our freedoms, piss of the rest of the world, still the presidency ETC...ETC....AND DO NOTHING

Hmmmmmmmm, I agree

I know

Oil is crack, and we need it, can't live without it. So, we need Saudi Arabia and need to play as nice as possible. TAP DOMESTIC OIL SUPPLY! Then we can really, finally, tell Saudi Arabia to shove it.

LOL..agreed..but America is on OVERDOSE now. We need it only to a point.

I have been able to cut down my personal engery costs/use by around 63%. I'm sitting in a great solar area and converted to that over a year ago.

And I have always walked to the store, or wherever within a 2 mile radius. And once gas hit over $3 a gal, I started using mass transit as often as t my schedule would allow.

Point being, if EVERYONE would ban together and CONSERVE, we would not be nearly as dependent and in this extreme me ss we are in now. I'm not talking a talk, I am walking the walk. It's actually a very simple thing to do.

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