If you don't know whats going on:

The Taliban (about 600 Taliban insurgents) have seized dozens villages in the south of Afghanistan. NATO and the Afghan army are going in to try and get the Taliban out of power in those villages. Leaflets were dropped by plane on the villages to warn to citizens to take cover before the battles started. The Taliban is getting hunkered down for it.

I keep refreshing the CNN website every several minutes for updates.

On a wholly separate issue, the fact that Mozilla Firefox doesn't recognize the word "Taliban" in the spell check annoys me.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/17/afghanistan.fight/index.html#cnnSTCText" target="_top">http://http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/17/afghanistan.fight/index.html#cnnSTCText
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1815258,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics" target="_top">http://http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1815258,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics

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I read the body count out of the paper
And now it's written all over my face

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I hope news teams go over there so we can watch it live

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I wouldn't be able to leave my couch and TV then.  

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I read the body count out of the paper
And now it's written all over my face

IE. Darfur, etc.

Fuck Afghanistan.

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I'm partial to thinking that I don't really care. All I want are Canadian troops out of Afghanistan and into places that are begging for our help.

IE. Darfur, etc.  

Fuck Afghanistan.

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Afghanistan still needs help. Fuck Iraq is more like it. Those soldiers should go to Darfur, personally kill all the Janjaweed, and not bomb any civilians like in Iraq.

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I read the body count out of the paper
And now it's written all over my face

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Quote: from Takinam at 4:58 pm on June 17, 2008

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I'm partial to thinking that I don't really care. All I want are Canadian troops out of Afghanistan and into places that are begging for our help.  

 IE. Darfur, etc.

 Fuck Afghanistan.

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Afghanistan still needs help. Fuck Iraq is more like it. Those soldiers should go to Darfur, personally kill all the Janjaweed, and not bomb any civilians like in Iraq.

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QFT. Well said.

I had no idea this was going on. I need to get back to watching the news...

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Lost 30 lbs since I started my diet, 100 away from the goal as of Nov 1.

Honestly, its going to be a big battle, and its going to be sad, because several civilians are going to get killed, but like I said, Im not to worried about it.

Between the Afghan army, and the UN, and all the weapons the US special forces smuggled in there the past 20 years, I dont think it will be to bad.

Now of course, the guns are probably in Taliban hands by now, but still, I dont think things will get to far out of control.

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Kids in the back seat can cause accidents.
Accidents in the back seat can cause kids.
Moral: Drive a two seater

I heard that somewhere,
and it expresses what I feel about this whole snafu in the middle east.

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The city sleeps through train lights
Stars in the sky are all that keep her alive