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phish420 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 10:17 AM
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Rasicot just said...
...that the area bin Laden was in in Tora Bora was an area inside afghanistan THE SIZE OF TEXAS!!

FUCKING LIARS!!!
Afghanistan ITSELF isn't anywhere NEAR the size of texas...how can a region inside be that big?!? LOL!

WE DONT BELIEVE YOUR LIES!!

TWO MORE DAYS!!
TWO MORE DAYS!!
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Mr_Spock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 10:20 AM
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1. That's hilarious! How damned stupid do these Repuke freaks think
people are?? Don't answer that. :D
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bullimiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 10:21 AM
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2. look at this article
If I read correctly tora bora is 100 square miles or so. right?

thats a little smaller than texas.
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 10:31 AM
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4. you forgot the link
and Texas has got to be many tens of thousands of square miles.

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UL_Approved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 10:37 AM
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12. Its bigger than Montana...
...and we come in at about 130,000 Sq. miles. We have single family ranches bigger than Tora Bora here. BTW, I apologize on behalf of my state for Mark Raciot. Little fucker took us to #48 in economy and had his hand in Enron.
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 10:37 AM
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11. he mispoke
he meant to say it was smaller than the State of Rhode Island

Rhode Island is the smallest state in size in the United States. It covers an area of 1,214 square miles
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HawkerHurricane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 10:27 AM
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3. Birth of a sound bite
"It's about 100 square miles, about the size of my ranch in Texas" - US Army Officer

"It's about the size of Texas" - GOP spinmiester
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phish420 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 10:33 AM
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7. LOL!! Thanks for that perspective!!nt
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Cats Against Frist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 10:36 AM
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10. Once again, the GOP echo chamber does its work
laundering your sentences crazy.
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 10:32 AM
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5. Where did he say that???
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 10:32 AM
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6. where did he say this
and did the reporter question this outlandish "fact?"

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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 10:34 AM
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8. I stopped listening to that idiot months ago.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 10:35 AM
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9. This bunch will say anything
Outright lies don't faze a group that's been feasting on unicorn blood, if you know what I mean.
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 10:40 AM
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13. Emailing to Team Kerry...
This is worth a major goofing on by Joe Lockhart!!!:D:thumbsup:
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 10:41 AM
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14. W: "this is a hard country to defend"
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Demonaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 10:44 AM
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15. he meant vertically, if you compare the cubic size of Tora Bora
versus the square meter size of Texas you'll find he's correct.......Head explodes!
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progdonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 10:45 AM
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16. here are the facts from Encarta
Texas land area: 268,581 sq mi

Afghanistan land area: 251,825 sq mi

So, the entire nation of Afghanistan isn't even as big as Texas, and--just looking at the map--Tora Bora probably accounts for about 10% of Afghanistan's land area.
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