Afghanistan going down the toilet


	Afghanistan going down the toilet

kelvin273

2-27-2008 8:40 PM

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afghanistan, war.war on terror

kelvin273 says:

So basically postwar Afghanistan is looking a lot like postwar Iraq now. The Iraqi invasion (and the timing) just look better all the time. :-/

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