Taxi Driver Online

How many lives lost and how many years ? Then were having talks with the Taliban.After all that where did we find Osama,Pakistan FFS

As of 12 June 2013, there have been 3,231 coalition deaths in Afghanistan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_ ... fghanistan

14,728 Afghan civilians have lost their lives http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21502064

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
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Some of those civilians were no doubt Taliban, armed and dangerous, but "Civilian".

What happens is not right and I do not condone real "Civilians" being hurt, let alone killed, but this time CC, you have distorted the figures.

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Chris The Fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlyi5mc ... re=related

apparently there are 12,000 other combatants dead - I presume that's the Taliban or Al Qaida?

there's sources in the above links.

I honestly thought there were more - I presume they aint including the drone strikes in Pakistan?

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

I stand corrected - "there's sources in the above links" - I did not read them, my error, my apologies.

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Chris The Fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlyi5mc ... re=related

How convenient that they can now sit down and talk, probably just before troubles worsen in Syria.

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Collateral damage!! No one kills civilians these days, or haven't you heard? Oh and precision bombing or drone strikes, used to target the enemy means we don't miss either.

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ffs we cant have troops in two places at once

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Not when HMG is busily making them redundant.

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The government is also recruiting a further 10,000 troops.

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Grandad,

The only way to peace in the area will be by talking.

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Grandad,

Yeah, between that and not invading in the first place

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Seems mad to me ,this big handover to afghans to look after there own country.Weve sure done a good job there havent we,a lot safer than when we first went in

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On April 23, Yemeni activist and journalist Farea Al-Muslimi, who had studied at an American high school, testified before a US Senate committee that right after the marathon bombings, a drone strike in his home village in Yemen killed its target.

The strike terrorized the villagers, turning them into enemies of the United States - something that years of jihadi propaganda had failed to accomplish.

His neighbors had admired the US, Al-Muslimi told the committee, but "Now, however, when they think of America, they think of the fear they feel at the drones over their heads. What radicals had previously failed to achieve in my village, one drone strike accomplished in an instant."

Rack up another triumph for President Obama's global assassination program, which creates hatred of the United States and threats to its citizens more rapidly than it kills people who are suspected of posing a possible danger to us someday.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

How long do you think the afghans we trained are going to last out ? Ironic is the Americans handing the country back to there own people.