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Michelle M. says families want answers about the Camp Bastion attack back in September. I've done some research and I believe I've found some of the answers.
First off, it turns out we're fighting a war in Afghanistan! It further turns out that wars are activities in which groups of people attempt to kill other people and damage their equipment. And it seems that the Taliban, our enemy there, are among the toughest SOBs on the planet, and they are quite good at locating security weaknesses and at killing people.
I also learned that Camp Bastion, built and run by the British, is huge -- about 20 sq. miles with 30,000 residents, meaning that it's surrounded by many miles of fence that a crafty enemy with evil intent might ....
While Secretary of State Hillary Clinton boozes it up in Australia and the Pentagon grapples with more floozy eruptions, outraged military families are still waiting for answers about the forgotten 9/14 attack on Camp Bastion.
Muckrakers and distraction engineers are having a front-page field day with the so-called "sex scandal." But for surviving relatives and colleagues of heroic Marine Lt. Col. Christopher Raible and Sgt. Bradley Atwell, it's the national security scandal at Afghanistan's Camp Bastion that deserves headline coverage.
There's been a virtual blackout of the alarming story in the national press. As I reported last month, the meticulously coordinated siege by...
Did they miss this piece when they (she?) were censoring, or did they just want to leave this piece so other THers would have a place to hang inane comments?