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2005-08-20 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-08-20 02:43|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I hear the poppy trade is blooming.

Posted by Captain America 2005-08-20 02:48|| 2005-08-20 02:48|| Front Page Top

#2 We are to weak. This story has me running to the toilet to hurl. How pathetic. How can this be happening? Is the WOT becoming the WOD? Billions spent to keep the crops, but just enough progress to make us think that the lives lost are making a difference of the dope being caught?

I don't care anymore about the burning cinders of humane flesh of the innocent. I want the bad guys dead!!! If 2 million of the oppressed idiot MOOOOSLIMS die in the proses well so be it. The men have their 72 virgins and the women have...what? What do the women get out of all this? Oppressed heaven? I just don't get this.
None of you seem angry enough. My party is being out flanked. South Americans are over running my state. The war in the middle east is being fought like pussy's.

If we do not act my family will be the burning flesh of innocent. Kill them now!~!!

Long live Peter Jennings!! Pussy's!!!

Posted by Long Hair Republican">Long Hair Republican 2005-08-20 03:14|| 2005-08-20 03:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Deep.

Posted by Shipman 2005-08-20 07:58|| 2005-08-20 07:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Chill, LHR. Take a deep breath, bro (or sis as the case may be). Easy ... that's right ... now let it out slowly .... feel the relaxation begin ... and in again slowly ....

Posted by lotp 2005-08-20 09:14|| 2005-08-20 09:14|| Front Page Top

#5 "[Thursday] a homemade bomb hit a U.S. convoy, killing two U.S. soldiers and wounding two others, near the southern city of Kandahar."

That sentence, right there, is the only item of actual news in this article. All the rest of it is opinion disguised as context, and cherry-picked quotes from various "officials" and "experts", many of them anonymous.

In other words, it's the usual MSM bullshit concocted to sow fear, uncertainty and doubt-- and make weaklings fly into a panic.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2005-08-20 10:04|| 2005-08-20 10:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Not just weaklings Dave, there is a distinct group of people out there that want very badly to hear this kind of news. For if it told of victory and progress, all would be lost to them. They still hope and pray the war effort will backfire and spiral down into complete chaos, so that it can be used against GW Bush. Their blind hatred for the man (kind of an icon at this point, eh?) and their belief that there is never a reason to go to war have turned them against the best interests of their country. They are traitors and losers, angry, depressed , feeling inadequate, impotent and out of control of the country. Yehaw!!!!

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-08-20 10:38|| 2005-08-20 10:38|| Front Page Top

#7 LHR, I don't know how to put this, but that strategy didn't work too well against the Chechnyans up in Chechnya...

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-08-20 11:40|| 2005-08-20 11:40|| Front Page Top

#8 now that was a rant LHR welldone

Posted by Thraing Hupoluper1864 2005-08-20 12:16|| 2005-08-20 12:16|| Front Page Top

#9 I concur with LHR's sentiment. The situation is maddening. One wonders if we will EVER kick the door down.

Posted by Captain America 2005-08-20 13:49|| 2005-08-20 13:49|| Front Page Top

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