From: "Robert Comer" 

I was being sarcastic. 

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Bob Comer


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:43d7e869{at}w3.nls.net...
> Nope - The South is bucking the trend
>
> http://newsblaze.com/story/20060118071306nnnn.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Story
.html
>
> While the overall number of violent clashes and incidents throughout
> Afghanistan had dropped over the past two months, the south had witnessed
> a negative and deadly trend in the tactics used by anti-government
> elements, Jean Arnault, the Secretary-General's Special Representative and
> head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), said
> in a briefing to the Security Council today.
>
>
> "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
> news:43d7e1c2{at}w3.nls.net...
>>I thought the south was already peaceful...
>>
>> --
>> Bob Comer
>>
>>
>> "Adam"
<""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote
>> in message news:43d7ceff$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>>>> So will Pentagon commissioned reports  join the MSM ones that the
>>>> Bushies
>>>> love to decry ?
>>>>
>>>> http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1536797&page=2
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> WASHINGTON Jan 24, 2006 - Stretched by frequent troop
rotations to Iraq
>>>> and
>>>> Afghanistan, the Army has become a "thin green
line" that could snap
>>>> unless
>>>> relief comes soon, according to a study for the Pentagon.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Speaking of making do...
>>>
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4647910.stm
>>>
>>> "The planned deployment of another 3,500 British troops
to Afghanistan
>>> is part of a big new push by Nato forces to pacify the south of the
>>> country."
>>>
>>> "The British will be in Helmand, the Canadian are already
in Kandahar,
>>> the US will take over in Zabul and it is planned that the Dutch will go
>>> to Oruzgan.
>>>
>>> However, there has been some resistance in the Netherlands to this
>>> deployment and although the Dutch cabinet has approved it, the Dutch
>>> parliament will have to vote on it in early February. "
>>>
>>> So where are the 3.5k troops coming from?
>>>
>>> Which tour? The balkan tour, the african tour, the iraqi tour or some
>>> troops who got home yesterday?
>>>
>>> Adam
>>
>>
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