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Title: Poll: ‘No’ to US wars at all time high
Source: [None]
URL Source: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/139299.html
Published: Aug 20, 2010
Author: PressTV
Post Date: 2010-08-20 10:37:34 by christine
Keywords: None
Views: 166
Comments: 14

A new opinion poll says the number of Americans opposed to the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is at an all time high.

The CNN opinion poll found that 62 percent of the American people now think that the war in Afghanistan neither can be won, nor should it be fought at all, the Press TV correspondent in Washington reported on Thursday.

The poll also found that 69 percent of the Americans are now opposed to the US war in Iraq and favored the US President Barack Obama's plan to withdraw 50,000 US troops from the country.

The poll, on the other hand, shows 30 percent of Americans support the wars.

About 50-thousand American soldiers will remain in the war-torn Iraq until the end of 2011 to help train Iraqi forces. The nearly seven and a half year war has claimed the lives of nearly 4500 American troops and cost more than $900 billion.

It is estimated that the US war in Afghanistan will cost nearly $105 billion in the 2010 fiscal year. The figure is expected to rise in 2011, as costs per service member in Afghanistan are almost twice as expensive as they are in Iraq.

The United States has about 87,000 troops involved in the Afghan war and with more deployments on the way, the number is expected to reach over 100,000 by next year.

The combined costs for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have surpassed one-trillion dollars.

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#9. To: christine (#0)

Barack Obama's plan to withdraw 50,000 US troops from the country.

Troops that could very well stop the invasion from me-he-co, but I digress.

I don't know why Obummer has such a hard-on for Afghanistan, there's nothing there but a bunch of flea-bitten turd-worlders. Let them kill each other, it's the only thing Afghani's excel at.

X-15  posted on  2010-08-20   12:26:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: X-15 (#9)

I don't know why Obummer has such a hard-on for Afghanistan, there's nothing there but a bunch of flea-bitten turd-worlders.

Afghanistan has $1 Trillion worth of precious minerals.

www.nytimes.com/2010/06/1...asia/14minerals.html?_r=1

"U.S. Identifies Vast Mineral Riches in Afghanistan" 06/14/2010

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The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe.

An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries for laptops and BlackBerrys.

The vast scale of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth was discovered by a small team of Pentagon officials and American geologists. The Afghan government and President Hamid Karzai were recently briefed, American officials said.

While it could take many years to develop a mining industry, the potential is so great that officials and executives in the industry believe it could attract heavy investment even before mines are profitable, providing the possibility of jobs that could distract from generations of war.

“There is stunning potential here,” Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the United States Central Command, said in an interview on Saturday. “There are a lot of ifs, of course, but I think potentially it is hugely significant.”

The value of the newly discovered mineral deposits dwarfs the size of Afghanistan’s existing war-bedraggled economy, which is based largely on opium production and narcotics trafficking as well as aid from the United States and other industrialized countries. Afghanistan’s gross domestic product is only about $12 billion.

“This will become the backbone of the Afghan economy,” said Jalil Jumriany, an adviser to the Afghan minister of mines.

American and Afghan officials agreed to discuss the mineral discoveries at a difficult moment in the war in Afghanistan. The American-led offensive in Marja in southern Afghanistan has achieved only limited gains. Meanwhile, charges of corruption and favoritism continue to plague the Karzai government, and Mr. Karzai seems increasingly embittered toward the White House.

So the Obama administration is hungry for some positive news to come out of Afghanistan. Yet the American officials also recognize that the mineral discoveries will almost certainly have a double-edged impact.

Instead of bringing peace, the newfound mineral wealth could lead the Taliban to battle even more fiercely to regain control of the country.

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#14. To: scrapper2 (#11)

As soon as we leave Afghanistan, the Communist Chinkernese will cut a deal with the various local warlords and start mining. They've done it all over the African continent and Afghanistan will be no different.

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