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Originally Posted by Packard fan
Remember 9-11? THAT'S why we went after Afghanistan cause Osama and his boys were hiding there. Iraq IMHO was a mistake tho keeping a gun pointed at Iran is def Ok.
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Well, he was in Pakistan, as I recall, wasn't he?
So we killed how many thousands of Afghani's who did nothing, for what?
Why are we still there, exacerbating the problem?
Are you a military member, willing to go to the sandbox to play/kill, for what?
We've been messing with the ME since the 1940s.
We've overthrown governments to place out "friends" in power.
The Afghan war 10 years later: A look at the numbers – Afghanistan Crossroads - CNN.com Blogs
Here are some stats, is it worth it?
FCNL: Ten Years Later: Talking Points and By the Numbers
The human and economic costs of a decade of war are simply unsustainable. Upwards of 30,000 Afghan civilians have been killed since 2001, and an immeasurable number have been wounded.
Afghan Civilians | Costs of War
By conservative estimate, 12,500 Afghan civilians have been killed
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