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Friday, November 20, 2009 at 09:08AM The USA in Afghanistan
Obama is Looking for an End Game
So Are We!
By Tom Barnes, Staff Writer
In yesterday's Washington Post, we learned that President Obama is searching for an 'endgame' in Afghanistan prior to deciding on troop commitments.
It is a good idea, eight years late, but a good idea none the less! What a mess.
In a related story we find that American military intelligence has found that the Afghan Minister of Mines has almost certainly taken a $30 million dollar bribe from the Chinese in order to allow them to mine for copper on a sole provider contract.
Hmmm! Maybe I have been wrong about the Afghan government all along.
Maybe they really are learning how to govern themselves modeled on how we operated in Iraq! Help! Read More >>>
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