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Topic started on 1-7-2009 @ 09:55 PM by SLAYER69

U.S. launches 'major operation' in Afghanistan


www.cnn.com
(CNN) -- U.S. troops have launched a "major operation" against Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, U.S. military officials announced in Afghanistan early Thursday.
U.S. Marines gather for a briefing in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on Wednesday.


About 4,000 Americans, mostly from the Marines, and 650 Afghan soldiers and police launched Operation Khanjar -- "strike of the sword" -- in the Helmand River
(visit the link for the full news article)


reply posted on 1-7-2009 @ 11:04 PM by open_eyeballs
reply to post by SLAYER69



Boy, all I can say is thank God for us Americans. If it weren't for us, I mean, shoot, who would build that country?

Also, what is so cool is... it will show all the other countries that don't attack us who is boss. Maybe if they actually do something to us we will leave them alone...then again...

But of course, it is dire that we eliminate evil from the world, so listen up foreign nations. If you harbor evil, (queue drum roll and Superman song) America will be there to take... you... out!...



(all hail Stephen Colbert)

[edit on 1-7-2009 by open_eyeballs]


reply posted on 1-7-2009 @ 11:08 PM by open_eyeballs
reply to post by Solofront



...sure...oh, you mean with resolutions, yep, they're working miracles with North Korea...


Ahhh, yes. Star for you....

bombing them back to the stone age, and or turning them into a parking lot would be the logical next step...

Sanctions, and diplomcay, oh brother, who heard of such non-sense?


reply posted on 2-7-2009 @ 01:44 AM by Floating thru Reality
reply to post by T_Clem



One would think not preventing 911 would have been enough. It's not like it wasn't the worst terrorist attack on the US in history. I'm not sure why people are willing to give him a pass on it.


reply posted on 2-7-2009 @ 02:19 AM by open_eyeballs
reply to post by Floating thru Reality



Because unless you can provide evidence, in front of a willing audience, that he was neglegent or complicit, history will show he handled it the way anyone would in office. No matter who his father was, what his oil connections, or who was his vice president and advisors were, history will paint a favorable picture of him just because he was President at the time of the attack.


reply posted on 2-7-2009 @ 02:55 AM by SLAYER69
US Marines storm south in major Afghan offensive
CAMP DWYER, Afghanistan (AFP) — Thousands of US Marines poured into Afghanistan's Taliban heartlands in an air and ground assault that marked a high-risk test for President Barack Obama's new war plan.

Dozens of aircraft ferried out US forces from bases before dawn, aiming to take control of insurgent bastions of Helmand province in the country's south ahead of landmark Afghan elections next month.




reply posted on 2-7-2009 @ 12:32 PM by SLAYER69
reply to post by Laurauk



US offensive in Afghanistan targets Taliban stronghold
As the offensive got under way, the military said that an American soldier who had been missing since Tuesday was believed to have been captured in Paktika Province, in eastern Afghanistan. A spokesman for the Taliban could not confirm that the soldier was being held by militants.

Over the past several years, British forces have struggled to permanently wrest territory in Helmand away from entrenched Taliban insurgents. The fertile province leads the nation in poppy cultivation and has become a cash cow for insurgents involved in the drug trade.

However, Helmand’s rich agriculture land and large population also make it attractive as an initial target for the new US-led counterinsurgency push, say analysts.

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