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unhappycamper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 11:18 AM Original message |
Gen. Petraeus: Afghan victory not a ‘sure thing’ |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
1. I'm guessing it would be helpful if someone could articulate what exactly "victory" looks like in |
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somone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
2. Not even a catastrophic success? |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
3. General MOTO! How long did it take you to figure that out, General? |
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GSLevel9 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:04 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. let's face the facts... |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
4. Didn't Custer say the same thing at the Little Big Horn? |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
5. Well d'uh, I could have told you this ten years ago and saved everybody the trouble |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
6. A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. nt |
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driver8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
7. File this under "No Shit, Sherlock." |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 11:51 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. We're just a bunch of dirty fucking hippies |
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driver8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:16 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. It just amazes me that we didn't learn anything when the Afghans kicked the shit out of the Soviets. |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
9. Yet they will keep spending the 100's of millions a day to keep fighting, IDIOTS! |
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NI4NI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
12. If Obama (or any Dem) said that, imagine the backlash n/t |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
13. whatever "victory" is supposed to mean |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
14. GET OUT NOW!!! GET OUT NOW!!! GET OUT NOW!!! GET OUT NOW!!! |
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bluedigger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:40 PM Response to Original message |
15. No war is ever a "sure thing". |
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leeroysphitz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
16. Especially when nobody in charge has bothered to define "victory" in any concrete terms. |
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