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Posted by: markmawn2 1 year, 7 months ago

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markmawn21 year, 7 months ago

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Read and learn from someone who is there (a civilian).
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02222008/tran...
BILL MOYERS: To help fight the insurgents, right? What's happening to that money?
SARAH CHAYES: Well, we're paying a billion dollars a year to Pakistan, which is orchestrating the Taliban insurgency. So, it's actually US-taxpayer money that is paying for the insurgents, who are then killing, at the moment, Canadian troops. Now if I were the government of Germany or France, I'd have a hard time putting my troops in that kind of equation. I would demand from Washington, that Washington require a lot different behavior from Pakistan.

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  abntv1 year, 7 months ago
  
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  Boy you lost it with the Bill Moyers link...no way I listen to the hot air balloon.....does balloon have two ls
  
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