1.   He then thanked the American people for help liberating his country from the Taliban, as well as helping a decade ago against Soviet invaders.

2.   Like Americans in Vietnam, the Soviet invaders soon discovered they faced nothing like an identifiable front, a recognizable enemy or the moral clarity of World War II.

3.   Like Americans in Vietnam, the Soviet invaders soon discovered they faced nothing like an indentifiable front.

4.   Many of them have seen violence, inflicted by the Taliban or in the war against the Soviet invaders or, more recently, by U.S. and British missiles.

5.   So it arranged for every penny to go through Pakistan, which in turn decided to support seven factions waging war against the Soviet invaders.

6.   The CIA distributed the Stingers to help the Afghans fight their Soviet invaders more than a decade ago.

7.   The mines were laid over the past two decades by Soviet invaders and warring Afghan factions.

8.   We armed them to defeat Soviet invaders, as they earlier defeated imperial Britain.

9.   Bin Laden, son of a Saudi construction magnate, was a hero of the Afghan war against Soviet invaders.

10.   Bin Laden recruited Yemenis, along with other Arabs, to fight alongside Afghans against Soviet invaders.