Posted on 01/25/2009 5:16:45 PM PST by markomalley
Vice President Biden, in a somber assessment of the road ahead, predicted Sunday that American casualties will climb in Afghanistan as the Obama administration shifts military priorities in the battle against terrorism.
The war in that country will get bloodier, he said, as the U.S. sends in additional troops to take back territory now controlled by Taliban militants, who were weakened when American forces invaded following the 9/11 terrorist attacks but have regained strength in recent years.
"We've inherited a real mess," Biden said in an interview on CBS' Face the Nation, referring to decisions by the Bush administration and some U.S. allies that have allowed extremists to regain their footing and the drug trade to thrive. "We're about to go in and try to essentially reclaim territory that's been effectively lost. ... All of this means we're going to be engaging the enemy more now."
Asked if this would lead to more losses of U.S. soldiers, Biden said: "I hate to say it, but yes I think there will be. There will be an uptick."
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So how does º differ from GWB in this case?
Where is the libtard outrage?
Just what the families of service members need to hear. Idiot Joe.
“We’ve inherited a real mess,”
Thye will be saying this for the next four years whenever anyone dares question the success of anything they do.
Where’s Cindy Shehag?? Quagmire alert!
Pray for America, Our Troops and Ocoward’s Guidance
yes-and it rhymes-”Barack the chickenhawk”-maybe a rapper will use that in a new hip hop song!
I hope Scary Reid and those like him do not get wind of this!
Scary will say we lost and we need to pull out.
Hey, Joe -
Any chance you, Rahm, and the POTUS Mutt have talked about how the United States can achieve VICTORY in Afghanistan?
The people you work for would like to know, Capisce?
Memo to our troops:
Watch your back...and...
take no prisoners.
But the communists over here and the main stream media will be quite as church mice about it.
“It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. Watch. We’re going to have an international crisis to test the mettle of this guy. Stand with him, because it’s not going to be apparent initially that we’re right.”
Is that like, you know, Joe, a "surge" kind of thing. We all know surges don't work. You and BO told us so.
I call for a withdrawal from afghanistan. We have no way to win there and a surge will not work as it did in Iraq.
OBama will run a PC campaign that will end up gettting troops killed for nothing.
Code blue
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