Did you know the US  has between 16,000-19,000 troops in Afghanistan?
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For a sisi you make good points keep it up.
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lol, tens of millions.\nhttp://scotthortonshow.com/\nhttp://thestressblog.com\nhttp://www.kaos959.com\nhttp://www.antiwar.com\nmoney, http://www.philipdru.com/griffin_stream.html\neducation, \nhttp://www.philipdru.com/taylor_stream.html\nhttp://www.philipdru.com/gatto_stream.html\nww1 wilson,\nhttp://weekendinterviewshow.com/InterviewDisplay.aspx?i=88\nww2 http://www.philipdru.com/stinnett_stream.html\nnam http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/InterviewDisplay.aspx?i=108\nbush & clinton http://www.philipdru.com/triplett_stream.html\nisrael \nhttp://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8730\nhttp://www.philipdru.com/webb_stream.html\niran http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/InterviewDisplay.aspx?i=131\ngovernment explained simply,\nhttp://weekendinterviewshow.com/InterviewDisplay.aspx?i=98
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its over 150k civilians since 03 \nbut the big one\nalmost 3000 brave Americans who didnt have to\nBecause of George "I have no regrets" Bush
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I agree 100% with you on this one!!!! There are 20,000 troops in that region, and I have several friends with whom I served with in the past in that region. From e-mail contacts my friends are saying that everything is "hush-hush"!!!! It is the media that has the "lose lips" with bogus reporting, and to win this war against terror most battles need to be kept in the dark!!!
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When the liberation of Afghanistan was complete, the US Government announced that all satellite imagery from the area had been purchased by the USA for an indefinite period of time. It is not possible for anyone outside of the US Government to have access to satellite photography in Afghanistan.\n\nAlso, physically it is very difficult for independent news sources to actually get anywhere outside of Kabul. The country is extremely mountainous and the road infrastructure is in ruins. The country has literally millions of landmines that were placed with little rhyme or reason. Even if the people who placed them wanted to pay to remove them, there are no maps of where they are because they were simply dropped from helicopters or planted by roving patrols.\n\nIraq, no matter what anyone wants to say, is a relatively modern country with an adequate transportation net except in the Kurdish areas (again, mountainous plus it was heavily persecuted under the Hussein regime). Iraq has extensive open borders with several countries that would not mind the Coalition being embarrassed by reporters who can sneak in just as easily as terrorists can (maybe they carpool together?).\n\nAlso, there just isn't as much interest in the viewing public for information coming from Afghanistan. The US presence is about 1/5 the size in Iraq, and the forces there are largely Special Forces who are not supposed to be photographed anyways. The bulk of the Coalition forces are actually not American, so that would shoot down the whole "Anti-American Conspiracy Theory" that we hear so much about (a French soldier was just killed there the other day, in case anyone cares).
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Overtly, the US invaded Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban and find Osama Bin Laden.  Neither of these has yet been completely accomplished.\n\nThe Taliban continues and last month had even made a bit of a comeback.  The conditions, such as the treatment of women, are even worse now than they were at the time of the Taliban.\n\nThe reason is because the Bush administration is full of idoits that don't know how to fight wars.  In Afghanistan, like Iraq, there were far too few troops sent to do the job.\n\nUnlike Iraq, the troops in Afghanistan never intended to occupy the country.  The administration naively believed that the Afghani people would greet the troops as liberators and band together to establish a western-style democracy.  This hasn't happened.\n\nToday, the new Afghani government controls only Kabul.  The rest of the country is in the hands of warlords who are at least as bad as, or worse than, the Taliban.  The Taliban contines to hold some territory as well.\n\nLaws are almost non-existant in Afganistan, and the US has done next to nothing to help.  Kabul still hasn't been rebuilt since the Soviet invasion, and the US has allocated no money to do so.  The "aid" that the US does provide isn't even sufficient to train and maintian the security forces that act as the new government's personal bodyguards.\n\nIf the US left today, it would hardly make any difference.  The number of troops and resources dedicated to Afghanistan is so small that it might not even be noticed of they were withdrawn.\n\nThe handling of this war should be a source of great shame to the Untied States.  The Afghani people were the poorest in the world before the invasion, and now they are even worse off.\n\nAmerica, the richest country on the planet, could easily rebuild the country and could do much to help restore order, but won't.  No reason has been given for this since the American press and people have already forgotton about Afghanistan.
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yes, the US has troops in Germany.
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It is estimated that 60,000-65,000 insurgents have been killed in the same time frame as our 2,500. That is about 30-1. Our soldiers are well trained.
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Huge by todays standards. Several Million men plus late in the war old men and boys in home defense units. Exact figures? About 13 milion
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US dead: 58,226\nUS wounded: 153,303
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Oh yeah, and there are reports of 100,000 civilians & 2500 American troops dead. You forgot that part.
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From one who was there, and lost all his men, and lived to tell, you are very welcome. I was in Afghanistan in 2002. 19 yrs old. We had and are still having a hell of a time over there. We(the armed forces) need all the support we can get. On another note though, If I had the choice to go and fight knowing what would happen all over again, I would go in a heart beat. No thanks necceccary. We are just doing our job. (Semper Fi!)
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Don't listen to KKiaserdrago he must be all of 12. Our Military right now is being stretched to its limit. We're throwing all our resources into a war that makes no sense. And did we really catch the guy who masterminded the sept 11th bombing. No we didn't he's still out there plotting. I think we need to pull the guys back here and start protecting our own land here before shipping them overseas to fight in a wasteful war that's getting hundreds of our boys killed for nothing.
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I would say yes. 504 Billion next year budgeted, that's 40% of the world's military budget. Throw in our Allies ,like Britain and NATO, and it jumps to 70% of the world's military budget. OOOh, everyone is so worried about China, they're spending 39 Billion on their military next year. Let's say that's a conservative estimate and double it, China won't spend 200 billion on their military until 2025!
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Every country that has an embassy has US Marines in it.  Between Joint Task Forces, Port Calls, Humanitarian Missions, War theaters, and anything I missed, I think the figure is 111 nations host US troops.
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Do you know anything about terror.... how long it takes them to plan an attack... it took 9-11 six years to plan... it just doesn't happen overnight... \n\nHere are Bush's priorities: \n\nThe number of American troops serving in Afghanistan, currently about 19,000 in 2005, so it's probably less now (according to the DOD http://www.defenselink.mil/news/dec2005/...\n\nIn Iraq we have 133,000 troops (according to a recent reuters story\nhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060523/ts_n... )\n\nSo we have 19,000 troops fighting terror... THAT'S IT... yeah... he's doing great... there are no al-Quida links to Iraq....
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Country Troop size (millions) \nChina 2.270\nUSA 1.414\nIndia 1.298\nN. Korea 1.082