Re: Kennedy In The Cuban Missile Crisis

"Tiger" <Lana_sands@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Raymond O'Hara wrote:
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>>>Raymond O'Hara wrote:
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>>>>"Tiger" <Lana_sands@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>Raymond O'Hara wrote:
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>>>>>>"Tiger" <Lana_sands@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>>D. Spencer Hines wrote:
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>> the taliban is resurgent and killed 41 in kabul yesterday.
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>> and we are still where we were 5 years ago in iraq except things are
less 
>> stable.
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>> you have a weird idea on what is victory
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> Who's flag is still flying? Ours. Who has government control? Our side.
> Who has the popular sup****t of the people? The folks protecting them or 
> the guys who blew them up while waiting in line for a job. Who has
cobtrol 
> of the airspace & sealanes? We do? Who has won every major engagement?
We 
> have. Who has lost more of there command structure? The bad guys. Who
has 
> established constiutions, Governments,working secuirty forces, expanded 
> freedom for women, and are actively fixing the infastructure?????? THAT 
> WOULD BE US!!!!
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> Those is factual benchmarks of military victory, not a defeat. Till your

> guys take ground, hold governmental power, defeat in battle operating 
> forces they have not won Jack ****! One car bomb does not put you back
in 
> power in Kabul or sends Nato away.
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