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2006-02-13 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2006-02-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Good Lord! 700? Help me out here guys --- if we lay 700 bombs (forget all those details you guys always seem to know, just use some size these terrorist would use)... if we lay these bombs out, end to end... what kind of length would that be?

I know this is lots and lots and lots of bombs.... but being a visual person... some kind of length does help..

Great job, Afgans!

Posted by Sherry 2006-02-13 00:08|| 2006-02-13 00:08|| Front Page Top

#2 If you stacked 'em vertically, prolly about the height of the Bamiyan Buddha statues the Taliban blew up...

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-02-13 01:24|| 2006-02-13 01:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Rocky wants to know the same thing Sherry. »:-)

Posted by RD 2006-02-13 05:01|| 2006-02-13 05:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Sherry, they look to be about 2 feet long, therefore, end to end they would stretch 1,400 feet. Or, slightly more than a quarter of a mile.
One thing sure, that's a lot of dead and maimed.

Posted by wxjames 2006-02-13 08:54|| 2006-02-13 08:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Nobody can tell me that that stock wasn't prepared in plain view of Pakistan's terrorist infested forces. Yet we give them billions of dollars each year.

Posted by Jomble Glavimp6138 2006-02-13 14:50|| 2006-02-13 14:50|| Front Page Top

#6 We lost four soldiers today in Afganistan to bombs like these. RoP indeed.

Posted by SR-71">SR-71 2006-02-13 17:01|| 2006-02-13 17:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Yet we give them billions of dollars each year.

For the moment. Let's not ask the troops to take on too much at one time, and Pakistan isn't the most urgent or important battlefield, for all their pride in the nukes they have but dare not use. Nor is Afghanistan any longer an important battlefield, important as it may appear to Pakistan's ISI; we've achieved our goal there of eliminating the Al Qaeda base of operations, and need now only deny them the possiblity of re-establishing themselves.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-02-13 17:53|| 2006-02-13 17:53|| Front Page Top

#8 well then they should STFU when a predator does their work for them ..... complaining = sour grapes or they're on the wrong side

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-02-13 19:25|| 2006-02-13 19:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Agreed, Frank. But I think even trying might cause them to explode... ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-02-13 21:52|| 2006-02-13 21:52|| Front Page Top

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