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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: sea_biscuit who wrote (79564)9/21/2006 6:43:50 PM
From: TimFRead Replies (1) of 81568
 
If Iraq had never happened there wouldn't have been anywhere near the number of soldiers in Afghanistan that there are today in Iraq. So the 90%/10% argument is rather bogus.

As for Musharraff

1 - There wasn't much choice.

2 - Quite a few Al Qaida leaders and operatives have been killed and captured in Pakistan.

By allowing warlords to raise bumper crop after bumper crop of opium

Actually that might have been a good idea. We tried to stop them from raising their biggest cash crop, driving some of them to side with the Taliban.
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