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tabasco

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15. My old division, 10th Mtn, was going up the valley of Tora Bora

Reply to jpak (Reply #1)

Sun May 6, 2012, 06:08 PM

May 2012

chasing the bastids out of caves, when AWOLBush/Cheny announced that "our allies" in Pakistan were "guarding the border" for us. I knew right then that killing Bin laden and other terrorists was not their priority.

Holding back troops for the Iraq oil grab was why we didn't have US troops guarding the border at Tora Bora.

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