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It seems to me that we haven't spent enuf effort getting Afghanistan on the
right track. Our resources have been diverted to the mess in Iraq.
Fortunately I heard that the UN will be doubling its forces in Afghanistan.
That is a start.


"hbuck" <hbuck@nadaspam.breakthru.com> wrote in message
news:6d811c9c4a4228474483eabd368db56e@localhost.talkaboutautos.com...[color=blue][color=green]
> >by "Art" <begunaNOSPAMPLEASE@mindspring.com> May 30,[/color]
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> 2006 at 02:19 PM[color=green]
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>>Maybe you should read the article again. It was an anti-American riot.[/color]
> We apparently are not winning the peace.[color=green]
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> Art, I know you're a guy who likes polls. The Afghan polls have been very
> pro American since they started polling and still are.
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> The demonstrators were a tiny minority of youths who according to reports
> are being influenced by outside agitators. It was also reported that the
> riots were an excuse to loot and vandalize. Of course the initial anger
> was from mistakingly thinking the American truck deliberately rammed into
> traffic.(It was brake failure.)
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> Tuesday,(the day after) "peacefull, no violence" says deputy police chief
> of Kabul.
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> 85% of Afghanis' view U.S. Military presence as a good thing.
> 83% think their Country is headed in the right direction.
> 93% approve of President Karzais.
> 88% view the Taliban unfavorably.
> 82% say overthrowing the Taliban was a good thing.
> 90% view Bin Laden unfavorably, with 75% of that being VERY unfavorably.
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> [url]http://tinyurl.com/pksjz[/url]
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> [url]http://tinyurl.com/ll4cm[/url]
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> -hbuck
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>>"hbuck" <hbuck@nadaspam.breakthru.com> wrote in message
>>news:9ea792660bda3295509a0f3886499865@localhost.talkaboutautos.com...[color=darkred]
>>>>>by "Art" <begunaNOSPAMPLEASE@mindspring.com> May 30,[/color][/color]
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> 2006 at 03:22 AM[color=green][color=darkred]
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>>>>>I guess you 2 can't read. Yes, there was an[/color][/color]
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>>>>>decide to riot.
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>>> Nobody is denying or downplaying the riots but I am saying that it's[/color][/color]
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>>> because of a traffic accident and so not much will come of it.
>>> Asking "Are we winning the peace?" as it relates to this is an[/color][/color]
> unfair,>> biased, cheap shot.[color=green][color=darkred]
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>>> [url]http://tinyurl.com/mdvkx[/url]
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>>> -hbuck
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