AFP - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Afghanistan might end up being tougher to subdue than Iraq, days after visiting both war zones.

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Have you been to either country? Seems he has much better data than you do.

am sure that he probably has a lot better data intelligence about the situation than me......and yet could have told him years ago that "Afghanistan might end up being tougher to subdue than Iraq"....haha

How so? I'm curious.

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because the Afghani's are a tough bunch .......know those mountains better than anyone.....ask the Soviets.

maybe he (Obama) hadn't heard that Russia couldn't defeat Afghanistan? Some expert Obama is, lol. Oh wait, he is an expert on community organizing, whatever that is.

Well considering that had we put in a decent amount of troops instead of 15,000 maybe we wouldn't be having this conversation. Bush sure knew very little about war, this is evident in placing more in Iraq than Afghanistan. Had we cut the head off the snake straight away and listened to the Brit's advice on the matter (ya know since they have been in 3 wars in Afghanistan) again we would not be having this conversation. Obama obviously knows more since he is admitting it'll take longer.

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