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2005-03-03 Afghanistan/South Asia

NATO sends first peacekeepers into western Afghan province

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Posted by Fred 2005-03-03 00:00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Spain, Greece

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-03-03 9:39:35 AM|| 2005-03-03 9:39:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 It may have sopmething to do with this

Afgan Female governor

I guess NATO high command figures if a girl can run the place it should be safe enough for NATO to venture forth and keep the peace.

Posted by Michael 2005-03-03 10:57:39 AM|| 2005-03-03 10:57:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 No picture, Michael? C'mon... is she cute?

Posted by Bobby 2005-03-03 3:57:36 PM|| 2005-03-03 3:57:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Powerful women are always attractive, or so I'm told. Think of an Afghan Condi Rice, although probably without the boots. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-03 4:19:13 PM|| 2005-03-03 4:19:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Not quite. Here's her picture:

But, image isn't everything.

However ... "An initial deployment of Italian troops had started to arrive in the main western city of Herat, where they will later be joined by soldiers from Spain, Greece and Lithuania.

The Balts have been waiting about a century to blow some stuff up. The Lithuanians are good to have on your side.

Posted by Baltic Blog 2005-03-03 4:32:22 PM|| 2005-03-03 4:32:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Thanks for the picture. I admire her, anyway! She's got courage!

Posted by Bobby 2005-03-03 4:46:25 PM|| 2005-03-03 4:46:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I'd hug her.

Posted by half 2005-03-03 6:46:46 PM|| 2005-03-03 6:46:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Actually, give her Western clothes, cosmetics and contact lenses, and she'd turn some heads. Those cheekbones are to die for -- and courage, too! Some people have all the luck ;-)

/silliness

As for the Lithuanians, I'm sure there are still a few arms caches for them to explode. Then afterwards they can head to Iraq, where there is probably enough exploding to do for another army of troops. The Spaniards and Greeks can just try to justify to themselves why supporting Afghanistan is acceptable, but Iraq isn't. I'm glad they're there, and I realize they are conscript troops, but fooey on them anyway.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-03 8:22:29 PM|| 2005-03-03 8:22:29 PM|| Front Page Top

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