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tonyt53

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1. i could not agree more. Odd things about Afghanistan is that al Qaeda was gone by 2002

Fri Jun 17, 2016, 02:06 PM

Jun 2016

The US special forces landed in the country in October 2001 and by the end of the year, they had ran al Qaeda out. The Taliban were running too. There was no need to invade, except somebody in DC wanted to put a puppet in the job of running the country.

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