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going back a few years .. 1982...
does the Falklands have oil.............?


answer... yes but its so deep we can't get to it yet with current tech no..

might be the same answer for another sandy poppy harvesting desolate place...

but what the heck do I know...?

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Afghan has a natural gas pipeline.

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Source?? I'm pretty sure this is difficult to substantiate, unless you rely on Alex Jones/Prison Planet/Michael Moore et al.

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Think you'd need to be smoking the national export to believe western style democracy would work in Afghan. tbh

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and now this

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8341659.stm

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Ed - would I be correct in thinking that you were once sympathetic towards the Afghan war?? or was that just the war in Iraq?

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The war in Iraq. But I have received enlightenment, and it was quite a shock when it became public knowledge that we had been systematically lied to over the sexed up dossier.

The Afghan venture - what a mess.

I don't have any easy quick fix solution, but it might help if western countries generally stopped trying to impose 'westernness' on people who don't want it.

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Enlightenment is a good thing. i'm pretty sure that the basis for the war in Iraq wasn't the only thing that we have been lied to about either.

Afghhanistan is a mess. And I agree that we shouldn't have any involvement.

Thing is, I don't think we're trying to impose 'westerness' (or democracy) for the good of us (security/terrorism etc) or the people who live in these countries unfortunately.

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Arc, do me a favour please...when you quote someone leave the name of the person you are quoting in the quote. Saves me time having to read back up to see who said it first etc.

I'll find the source for the Karzai thing if i can.

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Thanks.