Kerry calls for more troops to Afghanistan

AP via Boston Herald ^ | Dec. 05, 2007 | Staff

[jdm]

WASHINGTON - Massachusetts Senator John Kerry wants the United States and its allies to send 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan to help quell rising violence there.

Kerry says Afghanistan marks the front line in the fight against terrorism. He cited a dramatic increase in the number of suicide bombings and other violence there this year. And he says Taliban and al-Qaida forces have regrouped along the Afghan-Pakistan border.

Kerry urged the United States to lean hard on its NATO allies for help. More troops would make the military less reliant on air strikes, which he said results in civilian casualties and inflames public opinion in the Muslim world against the U.S.

[jdm]

...which he said results in civilian casualties and inflames public opinion in the Muslim world against the U.S.

Well, boo hoo!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Who cares what the character Kerry wants?

[massgopguy]

Did Kerry take The Flying Squirrel to Bali?

[tobyhill]

Hey Kerry, you’re not Commander In Chief!

[mimaw]

Well John dig your uniform out of the trunk up in the attic dust it off and get your skinny ass over there.

[COBOL2Java]

Perhaps the good senator can personally assist those poor soldiers who are stuck in Iraq and bring them to Afghanistan!

[goldstategop]

Let's see: John F*ckin' wants a Surge in Afghanistan. But he opposes the Surge in Iraq. Flip-flop!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[AngelesCrestHighway]

I think he should give it all up and open a wind surfing shop....

[roaddog727]

“I think he should give it all up and open a wind surfing shop....”

He wouldn’t be able to mke that work either.

[ElectricStrawberry]

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAA......SOMEONE PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!"

[Red Badger]

I think he should give it all up and open a wind surfing shop....

In Afghanistan.............

[HD1200]

Kerry would rather risk American soldiers lives than depend on air strikes to kill the Taliban. I find that offensive.

[K-oneTexas]

I'm sure our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines would love to have "A Hero and such a leader" lead them into battle.

NOT!

Here's another one who's 15 minutes of fames is all used up. Let's make a list: J F'in Kerry, awlGore, 'dirty harry' Reid, The Bimbo Sisters (Nancy, Diane, Barbara and Hillary) ... the list goes on and on. Like the 'Energizer Bunny' ... memorable in their own minds and they keep coning back. Maybe The Bimbo Sisters could take over 'The View'.

[kabar]

Kerry and the Dems consider Afghanistan the good war, yet many of the same arguments they use to get us out of Iraq could be applied to Afghanistan. The Taliban had nothing to do with 9/11. We have eliminated the Taliban government, so why are we still there? What is happening is really a civil war involving the Afghan government, the Taliban, and war lords. Afghanistan is a quagmire with no exit strategy. AQ is no longer there. The situation in Afganistan can not be solved militarily. Etc., etc.,

[avacado]

"Kerry calls for more troops to Afghanistan..."

Paging Mr. John Kerry... please pick up the white courtesy phone... It's Mr. T. Boone Pickens.

[wastedyears]

This coming from Kerry????

I don’t believe it.

[Billthedrill]

Hey, that’s OK - if it doesn’t go well he can always say he was for it before he was against it.

[Just A Nobody]

WHO??? Is that the guy that went to Vietnam once?

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[TexGuy]

Kerry: “Since the surge is working in Iraq, I supported the surge in Iraq all along, and I think that America should have a surge in Afghanistan. See, I’m brilliant! It was my idea! Look at MEEEE!”

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Sit down jackass...you still lost the election!