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Old 06-06-2006, 09:12 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Re: OT - Winning the peace?

>by "Art" <begunaNOSPAMPLEASE@mindspring.com> Jun 5, 2006 at 05:34 PM[color=blue]
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>It seems to me that we haven't spent enuf effort getting Afghanistan on[/color]
the[color=blue]
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>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.
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>[/color]

NATO is doubling their troops.
Iraq has nothing to do with it.

-hbuck

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>"hbuck" <hbuck@nadaspam.breakthru.com> wrote in message
>news:6d811c9c4a4228474483eabd368db56e@localhost.talkaboutautos.com...[color=green][color=darkred]
>> >by "Art" <begunaNOSPAMPLEASE@mindspring.com> May 30,[/color]
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>> 2006 at 02:19 PM[color=darkred]
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>>>Maybe you should read the article again. It was an anti-American[/color][/color][/color]
riot.[color=blue][color=green]
>> We apparently are not winning the peace.[color=darkred]
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>>>[/color]
>> Art, I know you're a guy who likes polls. The Afghan polls have been[/color]
>very[color=green]
>> pro American since they started polling and still are.
>>
>> The demonstrators were a tiny minority of youths who according to[/color]
>reports[color=green]
>> are being influenced by outside agitators. It was also reported that[/color][/color]
the[color=blue][color=green]
>> riots were an excuse to loot and vandalize. Of course the initial[/color][/color]
anger[color=blue][color=green]
>> was from mistakingly thinking the American truck deliberately rammed[/color]
>into[color=green]
>> traffic.(It was brake failure.)
>>
>> Tuesday,(the day after) "peacefull, no violence" says deputy police[/color]
>chief[color=green]
>> of Kabul.
>>
>> 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[/color][/color]
unfavorably.[color=blue][color=green]
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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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>>[color=darkred]
>>>"hbuck" <hbuck@nadaspam.breakthru.com> wrote in message
>>>news:9ea792660bda3295509a0f3886499865@localhost.talkaboutautos.com...
>>>>>>by "Art" <begunaNOSPAMPLEASE@mindspring.com> May 30,[/color]
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>> 2006 at 03:22 AM[color=darkred]
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>>>>>>I guess you 2 can't read. Yes, there was an[/color]
>> accident and that made>>>>everyone[color=darkred]
>>>>>>decide to riot.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>> Nobody is denying or downplaying the riots but I am saying that it's[/color]
>> all[color=darkred]
>>>> 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]
>> unfair,>> biased, cheap shot.[color=darkred]
>>>>
>>>> [url]http://tinyurl.com/mdvkx[/url]
>>>>
>>>> -hbuck
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>[/color]
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>>[/color]
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