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I do if it's something I never heard before.
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Some interesting facts about the Soviet - Afghanistan war.
- bowser -
9/22/2013 3:53:39 AM
Not even Bush wanted to go into Afghanistan.
- ER -
9/22/2013 4:21:40 AM
Well, most histories say he did. He did not want to be perceived as weak after 9-11.
- bowser -
9/22/2013 5:44:07 AM
That was his job, Bowser.
- ER -
9/22/2013 3:04:26 PM
Which is it? He didn't want to go, or it was his job and he did want to go?
- bowser -
9/23/2013 6:21:57 AM
No contradiction.
- ER -
9/23/2013 2:48:52 PM
He wanted to go. Badly. The easiest reads are Woodward.
- bowser -
9/24/2013 1:19:34 AM
Bowz, if I had been in his shoes, I would have been dying to attack Afghanistan.
- ER -
9/24/2013 1:32:17 AM
I can't keep up. "Not even Bush wanted to go into Afghanistan. by ER"
- bowser -
9/24/2013 6:17:52 AM
I don't think you're seeing my point.
- ER -
9/24/2013 2:23:32 PM
Stop guessing and read the histories.
- bowser -
9/25/2013 4:50:15 AM
Aren't the historians guessing, too?
- ER -
9/25/2013 1:19:05 PM
Just for fun.
- bowser -
9/26/2013 12:34:17 AM
Just curious...
- TB -
9/23/2013 2:58:51 PM
Allow me to enlighten you...
- ER -
9/23/2013 5:04:09 PM
Good find.
- TB -
9/23/2013 5:47:38 PM
Nuts.
- TB -
9/23/2013 6:04:07 PM
Tom. It doesn't matter. Let it be.
- ER -
9/23/2013 7:19:51 PM
Sorry. I LIKE information.
- TB -
9/23/2013 7:21:06 PM
Information is not wisdom. It's not even knowledge.
- ER -
9/23/2013 7:34:55 PM
Dude, I LIKED your link.
- TB -
9/23/2013 8:06:16 PM
I appreciate you enjoyed my link.
- ER -
9/23/2013 8:12:46 PM
I do if it's something I never heard before.
- TB -
9/23/2013 8:20:29 PM
I guess by now you know Elisee was no statist.
- ER -
9/23/2013 8:30:33 PM
No oil in Afghanistan, but check the map.
- bowser -
9/23/2013 4:43:59 AM
Missed again, young Jedi.
- ER -
9/23/2013 2:41:37 PM
Again, look at a map.
- bowser -
9/24/2013 3:52:15 AM
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