But aren’t the troops overstretched and need to come home? That’s what he has said before.
Please tell me this is satire.
Er, and exactly how does Mr. Obama think he has the authority to "demand" anything?
Hey, BO -- you're still just a "presumptive" nominee -- and getting less "presumptive" every day, it seems.
Like the impeached ex-President, he is already planning how much money he will make lobbying and giving speeches after he is out of office.
Two thoughts:
1) There is no more obnoxious zealot than a reformed sinner.
2) How convenient.
Can you imagine if McCain had said this???
I can’t believe BO used the word “vigor” to describe how we needed to pursue the war in Afghanistan. Sorry BO, the correct pronunciation of the word is “vigah.” That’s they way JFK used to say it. If you’re going to be “historical,” at least get the pronunciation right.
Are the nominees (presumptive and presumptuous) getting briefings designed to help them from stepping in it too big time so that Obama would be aware of our plans to beef up our forces in Afghanistan? If so, is this him positioning himself when troop deployments are announced to make yet another statement that the Bush Administration is moving in his direction?
They are desperate to make it look like this guy knows what he is doing, which he clearly doesn't. But with 300 foreign policy advisors in his stable, maybe he isn't the only one who is basically clueless and wants to run policy based on ideology (and on whoever is bribing them), and not the realities of our world or the threats we face.
So he plans on changing the Constitution to allow him to serve an additional 2 years if he gets elected?
2 + 2 = 5
thus
4 + 4 = 10.
IMO one should be able to observe that Obama doesn’t know what the Hell he is doing simply by the multitude of bit parts he routinely enacts upon the Political Stage.
If Obama knew what he was doing, he wouldn’t have so many damned advisers for various reasons, as well he wouldn’t be allowing each and everyone of them to pull him in so many different directions.
He cannot manage himself, much less our Nation.
Will he be wearing his burka?
This man is an embarrassment. His plan is nonsense, but the underlying idea is already the current policy - as the Iraqi army takes more control, more troops can come home and others redeployed to Afghanistan.
Shew. How is this guy registering more than 20% in the polls?
“Mr Obama did little to disappoint critics who accuse him of arrogance. He said the objective of the trip was to “hold substantive discussions” with national leaders “who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to ten years”.”
Does he expect to drop over dead in his third term?
No, no, this is NOT from Srappleface. No one could make this up...
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Mr Obama did little to disappoint critics who accuse him of arrogance. He said the objective of the trip was to “hold substantive discussions” with national leaders “who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to ten years”.
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***”For at least a year now, I have called for two additional brigades, perhaps three,” he told CBS. “I think it's very important that we unify command more effectively to coordinate our military activities. But military alone is not going to be enough.”***
Perhaps Obama called for zero brigades a year ago? Is Obama claiming it's alright to surge in Afghanistan to win but not alright to surge in Iraq to win?
Senator Barack Obama has demanded plans be drawn up immediately for US troops to be redeployed from Iraq to Afghanistan.
Visiting Kabul on the first stop of his first major overseas trip since winning the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, Mr Obama described conditions in Afghanistan as “precarious and urgent”.
“I think the situation is getting urgent enough that we have to start doing something now,” he told CBS television.
And I thought he just went overseas to play a little basketball. All the while he must have been using the super secret CIA undercover basketball/crystal ball allowing him to see the future in Iraq and Afghanistan. Silly me. Thank God my crystal ball shows John McCain as our next President and Barack Hussein Obama going back to Chicago and continuing his work as a community organizer while looking for employment as a high school basketball coach. Unfortunately it will be a long search it seems he is not qualified to be a basketball coach either.
I’ll do him one better. When their job is done, the troops should come home to the U.S.
This big-eared dumbo doesn’t have a clue.