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To: Don Hurst who wrote (616122)	6/14/2011 2:16:53 PM
From: Bill	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1582530

When is your war president going to stop killing people and bring our troops home?

To: Don Hurst who wrote (616122)	6/14/2011 2:22:34 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1582530

Don, I read an article that claims each Taliban we kill in Afghanistan costs at least $50 million dollars. Some claim this is far to LOW. Since we're not fighting for territory, it's the only metric to use. The Taliban aren't even AQ, but just want foreigners out of Afghanistan. They wouldn't attack us here and aren't international terrorists. We've been doing this for over a decade. It ain't working.

To: Don Hurst who wrote (616122)	6/14/2011 2:24:03 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1582530

>> Read his book I read the book and it was nothing more than the typical liberal hatchet job. His idea of "cost" doesn't comport with anything that is sanely recognized as such. The original claim was that it was a "trillion dollar war". A year later, he revised it to three trillion. Which brings up the question: HOW IN HELL DO YOU HAVE ANY CREDIBILITY WHEN YOU UNDERESTIMATED IT BY 200% ONLY ONE YEAR EARLIER? The answer, of course, is that the number just wasn't big enough to get any attention, so he was FORCED to make it bigger. Which he did by grossly exaggerating everything, and including as "cost" things which no sensible person would have done. Interestingly, only liberals fell for it, and only the analytically challenged ones, at that.