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Obama Says a Way Out of Afghanistan Is Needed
NY Times ^ | 3/23/09 | Helene Cooper

Posted on 03/23/2009 8:05:45 AM PDT by pissant

WASHINGTON — The United States must look for a way out of the war in Afghanistan, President Obama said, in a signal that the military build-up in Afghanistan will not be open-ended and will lead to the eventual withdrawal of American and NATO troops from the country.

“There’s got to be an exit strategy,” Mr. Obama said in a wide-ranging interview shown Sunday on “60 Minutes” on CBS. “There’s got to be a sense that this is not perpetual drift.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: fakepresident; larrysinclairslover; marxistquisling; obama
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What happened to the "afghanistan is the central front of the War on Terror" gum flappin?
1 posted on 03/23/2009 8:05:46 AM PDT by pissant
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He's building up a police force of 400k in Afghanistan of a population of 30 Million and then leaving.
2 posted on 03/23/2009 8:07:11 AM PDT by BGHater (Tyranny is always better organised than freedom)
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To: pissant

We all might just as well have voted for R-U-N Paul. So much for complaining that the Iraq war was taking the focus off of the real war (that being Afghanistan). Yet another lie told by The One.


3 posted on 03/23/2009 8:07:28 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier presently instructing at Ft. Benning.)
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Just tell Michelle to get her pumped arms over to that sewing machine and start stitching up some white flags.


4 posted on 03/23/2009 8:07:37 AM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: pissant

OMG

Obama’s 100 day “war on challenge” is wearing him down

Well, just pick a withdrawal date and publish it in the NYT, dumbo. That seems to be the accepted democrat exit strategy


5 posted on 03/23/2009 8:07:53 AM PDT by silverleaf (Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose")
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To: pissant
“We Surrender!”
6 posted on 03/23/2009 8:08:38 AM PDT by grobdriver (Impeach Obama for Incompetence!)
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To: pissant

I’d suggest hiring Sherman and leave for the Gulf via Qom.


7 posted on 03/23/2009 8:08:47 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: pissant

Obama’s War On Terror:

1. Talk tough to get elected
2. When ground commanders make requests - send half
3. Appease enemy while voters are not looking
4. Appease enemy while voters are looking
5. Surrender


8 posted on 03/23/2009 8:09:41 AM PDT by mort56 (He who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither. - Ben Franklin)
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Does he still think Pakistan is the exit strategy?


9 posted on 03/23/2009 8:09:43 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: pissant

gum flapping, otherwise known as jive talk.


10 posted on 03/23/2009 8:10:28 AM PDT by Tarpon (It's a common fact, one can't be liberal and rational at the same time.)
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What in the world is wrong with this clown? He sends a additional 13,000 troops (30,000 asked for) to the region, and NOW HE WANTS “EXIT STRATEGY’?! Kinda makes you continue to ask, “who’s REALLY pulling the strings?”


11 posted on 03/23/2009 8:10:39 AM PDT by GWMcClintock ("When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?" Ps. 11:3)
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To: GWMcClintock

surrender Zero.


12 posted on 03/23/2009 8:11:56 AM PDT by scooby321
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To: pissant
Can anyone really believe this guy is sane?
13 posted on 03/23/2009 8:12:32 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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14 posted on 03/23/2009 8:13:18 AM PDT by MediaMole
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Did he giggle when he said this?


15 posted on 03/23/2009 8:13:41 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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He has just declared failure. He is afraid to be at war because he only knows how to be a street thug.

The cowardly left is killing us

The man is a menace and a threat to America.


16 posted on 03/23/2009 8:13:52 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . John Galt hell !...... where is Francisco dÂ’Anconia)
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He's a coward , a sympathizer or both.

Anyway, you spin it, he's put us in danger, he is the enemy within.

17 posted on 03/23/2009 8:14:41 AM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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Kommander Klutz’ new strategy 60 days after inauguration.


18 posted on 03/23/2009 8:15:19 AM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To understand an “exit strategy” from a war, you need a true Commander in Chief that the military will follow. Along with that, if you are going to fight a war, FIGHT THE WAR. Don’t go in half assed. Even the Romans understood the idea of “Overwhelming force”. Instead of 17,000 troops, send in 40,000 and hit them with everything we have.


19 posted on 03/23/2009 8:15:27 AM PDT by RC2 (http://www.youtube.com/user/Funbobbasso)
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To: GWMcClintock
What in the world is wrong with this clown? He sends a additional 13,000 troops (30,000 asked for) to the region, and NOW HE WANTS “EXIT STRATEGY’?!

That is his exit strategy - send only enough troops to lose.
20 posted on 03/23/2009 8:16:12 AM PDT by slumber1
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