#afghan

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The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.


Michael Mullen


#al-qaeda #defeat #dismantle #disrupt #haven

We haven't been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?


Patty Murray


#been #being #bomb #build #countries

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq.


Bill Nelson


#after #al-qaeda #bin #capturing #deputies

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.


Mohammed Omar


#battle #because #begun #center #consider

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.


Solomon Ortiz


#answered #bitter #called #cold #courageously

It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.


Solomon Ortiz


#agree #certainly #cruel #currently #difficult

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.


Camille Paglia


#american #american lives #any #lives #more

The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism.


Craig L. Thomas


#afghanistan #being #bringing #change #environment

I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.


Rand Paul


#i #iraq #iraq war #voted #war

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.


David Petraeus


#advanced #afghanistan #aspirations #capacity #countries