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NY Times: The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials. (skip) An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries for laptops and BlackBerrys. ——- A trillion dollars worth of minerals in Afghanistan and many trillions of dollars worth of oil in Iraq. Haven’t we had thousands of troops in both countries for years. I know we are spreading democracy or fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here or some other nonsense.  It has been so many…
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