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  • From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
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  • Subject: [Homestead] Afghanistan model for losiing Iraq war
  • Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 09:41:19 -0700


Out of sight in debates---the first war Bush fought and lost, while planning to lose the second war in Iraq.

The Afghanistan war was lost in Tora Bora, when Bin Laden was allowed to go free. That loss was compounded by turning Afghanistan over to the Druglords, to producing 85 percent of the world's opium, and to complete chaos outside of Kabul.

Marvelouw Bush Model for failure in Iraq, where he had success in hand, and he foreclosed all avenues of success one-by-one, beginning with taking our best Fourth Armored Division out of action in the Sunni triangle, and continuing with a power-vacuum which terrorists (thank-you-very-much-Mr Bush-for no planning and no boots on the ground) gratefully filled.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10000-2004Oct5.html. (Afghanistan's drug boom, and concurrent abandonment of democracy, preparing for counter-occupation by Taliban waiting off-stage.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/06/opinion/06safi.html?oref=login (the ebb and flow of votes which might possibly reverse the tide toward reinstallation of Taliban despotism.




  • [Homestead] Afghanistan model for losiing Iraq war, Tvoivozhd, 10/06/2004

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