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Pentagon Plans to Send More Than 12,000 Additional Troops to Afghanistan

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It took me 2 seconds to find this on Google http://www.heritage.org/research/nationalsecurity/cda05-08.cfm . Do your own research buddy. Plus I was and am still in the military. Don't presume to contradict what I see with my own eyes every time I drill with my reserve unit plus the 7 years I spent on active duty. The truth is that the poor kids who want to make something of themselves are just what the military wants and gets. I got a 33 on my ACT and a 1275 on my SAT. I also had a 2.0 GPA because I was working 40 hours a week at Diary Queen to help support my fatherless family since I was 16. If I had been anything but a white male I would have had Ivy league recruiters kissing my ass to come to their school...but instead I had to earn my G.I. bill. I AM a victim of racism but boo friggity hoo. Just don't tell me to do my research when you cant take 2 seconds to do a Google search.

MicSix of AL 11:56PM August 26, 2008

Well ,I love peace. I met my girlfriend on a great dating site
http://www.NaturistMeet.com
We come from different countries ,so I don't like any war between our countries...

henry of NY 6:15AM August 22, 2008

Bush is logical. Now that his oil pipeline in Georgia is cut off due to the war there, and no hope in sight of restoring the flow of oil there soon, he is putting all of his efforts into forcing an oil-pipeline solution in Afghanistan. This is as likely to be succesful as a car with square weels winning the races at Montecarlo. RIP.

Walkyre 3:48PM August 21, 2008

i hate it with passion,what is it you ask, the passionate and ignorant who live on jingoisms of effete ameerika swaddled in their narrow sighted hedonistic outlooks,failing to see that people everywhere are basically the same in their want for liberty and a little joy in life......so if your such the war mongering idiots who see amerika as the 'biggest&best its time you get out and look at the real America and see the suffering of your fellows and the others out in this world...go get out now,leave your narrow inrealistic perspective and take a good goddam look............

thomas of VT 3:33PM August 21, 2008

Memo to Kellee: You may think ignorance is bliss but you will live to see the day when you ask yourself "what was I thinking to be so blind?" As our police state unfolds you may want to refer back to the Constitution to see what rights you still have left. Already gone are Ammendments 1,2,4,5,6,8 and 10. I have a suspicion you were not taught these in school. That way you won't notice when they're gone.

robertsgt40 of TX 3:05PM August 21, 2008

Swell. I gues it's time for a little more "surge" success. Where you gonna get the troops Buck? About time to fire up the draft. I guess all we need is a national emergency. Like a PNAC "New Pearl Harbor" redux. Why not just send in some more Blackwater thugs?

robertsgt40 of TX 2:55PM August 21, 2008

Again I say leave if you think your life is so bad here....

Kellee of 2:07PM August 21, 2008

don't you dare call us unpatriotic who stand up against this (American) Government's lies, thuggery, and rape of our rights, minds, and future. Many top people knew in advance iof the 9/11 attacks, and the Government broke into my home after I wrote some online materiel. Take your ill-informed bullying and misplaced loyalty and shove it where the sun don't shine.

Philip of NV 1:57PM August 21, 2008

You are so full of ****. If you actually think we live in a country where the government would kill it's own people ti "Further its own Agenda" you need to leave this country. Because I don't think your life is worth my husband risking his life defending your freedom.

Kellee of NY 1:41PM August 21, 2008

It was in Afghanistan, not in Iraq that US Government would have to send 100 000 US troops + Nato and allied forces, (from 2002), the problem would be sorted out°

E.Brechon 1:04PM August 21, 2008