http://www.70news.com/2008/12/11/breaking-news-us-to-send-more-troops-to-afghanistan/ News, Politics, Obama, Breaking News, Headlines, Crime, Truth, cnn, Food Raid, Michael Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:24:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.70news.com/2008/12/11/breaking-news-us-to-send-more-troops-to-afghanistan/#comment-143 Mike Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:25:54 +0000 http://www.70news.com/?p=421#comment-143 The facts are simple: Afghanistan has never had a central government, it has been ruled for thousands of years by local and regional tribal coalitions. 120,000 elite Russian soldiers could not hold it. HOW IN THE HEL ARE WE GOING TO BUILD A NATION OUT OF IT WITH 30,000 TROOPS? OR 60,000? OR 90,000? Get real, did we not learn anything from the Vietnam conflict?? Are we as stupid as Bush and the republicans thinks we are? That is hard-earned taxpayer money being thrown away on an unwinnable occupation. The facts are simple: Afghanistan has never had a central government, it has been ruled for thousands of years by local and regional tribal coalitions. 120,000 elite Russian soldiers could not hold it. HOW IN THE HEL ARE WE GOING TO BUILD A NATION OUT OF IT WITH 30,000 TROOPS? OR 60,000? OR 90,000? Get real, did we not learn anything from the Vietnam conflict?? Are we as stupid as Bush and the republicans thinks we are? That is hard-earned taxpayer money being thrown away on an unwinnable occupation.

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