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Afghan policeman guns 10 of his fellow officers, a day after Afghan gunmen kill 6 US soldiers[3USMC]
Washington Post ^ | Aug 10 | Updated: August 11, 1:12 PM | Associated Press

Posted on 08/11/2012 3:05:27 PM PDT by huldah1776

KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan police officer killed at least 10 of his fellow officers on Saturday, a day after six U.S. service members were gunned down by their Afghan partners in summer violence that has both international and Afghan forces questioning who is friend or foe.

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A day earlier, two Afghans shot and killed six American service members Friday in neighboring Helmand province in the south where insurgents have wielded their greatest influence.

In the first attack, an Afghan police officer shot and killed three Marines after sharing a pre-dawn meal with them in the volatile Sangin district, according to Afghan officials.

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Never forget. Will the ROE change? Will the mission change? Will the medical helos be able to go into a battle zone because they are escorted by another armed helo?
1 posted on 08/11/2012 3:05:40 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: huldah1776

Get out! Get ou! Get out!

By staying in that shithole we are only uping the body count and not changing anything. This isn’t nation building - this is stupid.


2 posted on 08/11/2012 3:09:50 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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To: huldah1776

We need to get the hell out of there.


3 posted on 08/11/2012 3:10:21 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: huldah1776

Lots of this stuff.

http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/in-the-fold-two/

Slightly older:

http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/home-in-the-fold/

Same massive flowershover.

Anyone trusting islamics is insane.


4 posted on 08/11/2012 3:27:06 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama Kills))
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Good men are dying for no good cause.

It’s time to bring this brutal folly to a swift end.


5 posted on 08/11/2012 3:27:21 PM PDT by mojito
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To: huldah1776

These people are not to be trusted.

Get out and let them go back to killing each other and beating their wives.


6 posted on 08/11/2012 3:30:12 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: huldah1776

Just Nuke the whole crap hole over their glaze the desert then build a giant wal-mart.


7 posted on 08/11/2012 3:33:38 PM PDT by bikerman (Obama lied,economy died.)
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I agree. Nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure.


8 posted on 08/11/2012 3:36:41 PM PDT by Zebra
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To: huldah1776

Our mission was to stop Al Qaida by obliterating its bases in Afghanistan. This morphed into nation building, which will never, ever work in Muslim nations.

All Middle Eastern Muslim power structures devolve to the tribal, and it matters not whether the leader at the pinnacle of that structure is a tyrannical dictator or a king. Personal power is the only power that matters and personal power is a zero sum game. No one can trust anyone else. The only rule that counts is that the one with the most power.

So, whether it is pirates or terrorists, we deal with both exactly the same. We deal harshly with them when we catch ‘em; a trial by military tribunal and an immediate hanging afterwards.

As to those nations harboring terrorists and pirates, we deal harshly, too. They will be punished until it hurts so much that they literally kill any remaining terrorists and pirates themselves.

No nation building!


9 posted on 08/11/2012 3:37:23 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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By staying in that shithole we are only uping the body count and not changing anything.

You beat me to it! We're sacrificing our most precious resource - the young men & women of this nation......for NOTHING!

Get out and let the 7th century barbarians kill themselves!

10 posted on 08/11/2012 3:40:26 PM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a Person as Created by the Laws of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man)
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To: huldah1776

The whole Islamic Democracy thing is going really well, isn’t it. Another fifty years, and maybe they will stop killing us for helping them.


11 posted on 08/11/2012 3:45:23 PM PDT by pallis
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This morphed into nation building We had not choice. The Taliban/Al Qaeda WAS their government and social structure. When we took them out we HAD to leave something in its place.
12 posted on 08/11/2012 3:49:37 PM PDT by vet7279
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“This morphed into nation building We had not choice. The Taliban/Al Qaeda WAS their government and social structure. When we took them out we HAD to leave something in its place.”

Hello? The Taliban are still there and they arn’t going away. The Afghans are who they are, a tribal people, and there is no way to force another, alien system on them.

Mostly importantly, it isn’t the responsibility of the U.S.A. to leave anything for those people. One thing we should definitely do for ourselves is burn the poppy fields - destroy the source of so much human suffering. Have you noticed? That hasn’t been done.


13 posted on 08/11/2012 3:57:53 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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I’ve read through most of the posts and the over-whelming response is “Get out.” I’m all for that — but we’re not out yet and I got a daughter going soon for a year?

I’m concerned for her. Should I be REALLY concerned? What are the numbers for troops that return safely?


14 posted on 08/11/2012 4:01:18 PM PDT by proparapi
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Nice to know that when Panetta went there our Soldiers were disarmed before being let in the room to hear him speak.

The world is upside down.

15 posted on 08/11/2012 4:03:01 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Republicans Hope people are Smart, but Democrats Know people are Stupid.)
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To: huldah1776

That whole country deserves to be made into molten glass.


16 posted on 08/11/2012 4:03:39 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Obamaid has to go.)
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To: SatinDoll

The Poppy fields is why the US is there, not “nation building”. New record crops each year. Islamics as transporters/enforcers.

Know your hidden history ;).


17 posted on 08/11/2012 4:06:15 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama Kills))
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Oh, c'mon, it ain't rocket science.

Disarming was done to insure that NO armed Afghans were around him.....US troops were not feared.

But they were included in ban to placate the locals.

18 posted on 08/11/2012 4:08:28 PM PDT by diogenes ghost
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Carpet bomb the place and kill anything that moves, that would be the right thing to do.

The Afghans are a bunch of treacherous subhumans, good for nothing but causing trouble.

Sometimes, genocide is the only morally correct solution.

Losing more Americans for no reason is not an answer.

The Afghans and the Taliban know we are leaving and are now going to start slaughtering our people wholesale, without fear of retribution.

19 posted on 08/11/2012 4:10:11 PM PDT by Rome2000 (WILLARD ROMNEY -- MORMON MELCHIDEZEK BISHOP -HIS FAMILY HAS AVOIDED MILITARY SERVICE FOR GENERATIONS)
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We need to leave a parting gift in Afghanistan in honor of our brave men and women who gave their lives there.


20 posted on 08/11/2012 4:13:31 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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