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Time running out on Afghanistan, US fears
UK Guardian ^ | March 27, 2009 | # Simon Tisdall and Ewen MacAskill

Posted on 03/27/2009 6:31:24 AM PDT by Nutmeg08

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To: Nutmeg08

To prevent duplication, always use the source title. Thanks.


81 posted on 03/27/2009 10:36:56 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: ari-freedom
we support the troops and the mission but not the commander in chief...because he doesn't support either

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Really? What exactly is the mission?

What if TOTUS' anti-Israel people push for US troops in Gaza under UN control, with their guns pointed at Israel? That's what his special advisor Samantha Powers called for. You gonna support that mission? I'm not.

What if TOTUS decides to use US troops in Africa with no benefit to our security or economic status? What if it costs even one US soldier's life? You'd support that mission? I wouldn't.

Germany in 1938 was full of good little Germans who bought into the "you can't support the troops if you don't support the mission" nonsense. Are you a 'dood little German'? I'm not.

82 posted on 03/27/2009 10:44:38 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: concerned about politics

I hope your right

But I for one am not distracted.


83 posted on 03/27/2009 10:57:02 AM PDT by Munz ("We're all here for you OK? It's a circle of love" Rham Emanuel)
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To: wtc911

we were in afghanistan because of 9/11. remember that?


84 posted on 03/27/2009 12:23:26 PM PDT by ari-freedom ( Hail to the Dork!)
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To: Nutmeg08

Every time he says, “Tall E bonn” the Banana Boat Song starts up in my head.

A close family member came back from Afghanistan two days ago. I learned:

1) The troops aren’t really fond of O.
2) The forces in Afghanistan need $$$ support.
3) When they have the “fallen comrade” ceremony and there are four caskets...THEY are aware that it is a “war”.

I just wanna know. What’s his EXIT strategy?


85 posted on 03/27/2009 12:26:50 PM PDT by Winstons Julia
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To: ari-freedom
No kidding.

You didn't answer my question...

If TOTUS puts our troops in Gaza facing Israel and under UN control, which is what his chief policy advisor for the region has called for, would you support the mission?

I would not.

What is your answer?

86 posted on 03/27/2009 12:36:02 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: wtc911

of course not. But I’m not going to be against fighting al qaeda just because the president isn’t a republican.


87 posted on 03/27/2009 12:38:55 PM PDT by ari-freedom ( Hail to the Dork!)
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To: ari-freedom

Well, maybe Obama will nail Osama, unlike Dubya who failed to do so.


88 posted on 03/27/2009 12:42:45 PM PDT by swarthyguy ("We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds," ISI Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha)
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To: ari-freedom

Then you too fall into the category that I described, freepers who realize that you can support the troops but not the mission. That was my point.


89 posted on 03/27/2009 12:45:54 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

A year before US public support wanes?!?!?!?!? WTF? I thought the public was 100 percent against US involvement in Afghanistan — that is after all what the Demwits and the other leftwing demagogues have been preachin’ for most of the last decade!


90 posted on 03/27/2009 2:56:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: reaganaut1

It depends on the mission——flawed leaders create flawed missions. Clinton saddled us with that and so did Bush...I’m afriad this A-Hole will do the same.


91 posted on 03/29/2009 7:42:00 PM PDT by eleni121 (Kosovo is SERBIA forever! no matter what NATO/Bush/Clinton/McCain/Obama demand)
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