Posted on 09/05/2009 4:34:04 AM PDT by GoldStandard
WASHINGTON -- The White House is facing mounting pressure from lawmakers to work harder to rally flagging public support for the war in Afghanistan.
With casualties rising, the administration is struggling to persuade voters that the war can be won or is worth the human and financial costs. Afghanistan is President Barack Obama's top foreign-policy priority, but recent polls show that a majority of voters oppose the war for the first time since the conflict began eight years ago.
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How ironic.
This goes way beyone rich.
Yeah, I think it’s funny that Obama has to turn against his own left-wing, anti-war supporters, and seek out America’s conservatives to support his failed strategy in Afghanistan.
I think it’s hilarious. The townhall discussions about the health care bill have crippled Obama. His plunging poll numbers prove it. All we have to do now is sit on the sidelines, keep our mouths shut, and let Obama’s own supporters finish him off.
I feel sorry for the troops. They can't trust the Commander in Chief. They know the intel they depend upon might be compromised or lacking. They see Obama's flunkies out trashing them in the media as mental defectives and murderers. Takes a real patriot to stick this out.
Afghanistan is Obama’s to Foreign Policy priority??
And here I thought his top priority was the destruction of Israel.
We’ve been in Afghanistan for eight years. The Soviet Union lasted ten years.
Hypocritical?
Lying?
Two-faced?
Self-contradicting?
Forked-tongue?
They will do and say anything for power.
WRT both Afghanistan and Iraq.....internal diversity and “tolerance” is not possible.....this is axiomatic, without even considering thuggery, etc.......a good lesson for mankind, whether or not one considers the behavior of islam in other countries it has infested.....
The Soviets won in Afghanistan.
Until Reagan came along.
I have a daughter in Afghanistan (for the 2nd time)...1st time there she could shoot at the enemy when she recognized them...
This time, she has to carry on a dialogue with them while dodging their bullets, if possible...
And no matter what, don’t pee on their poppies...
Yes, get them out of there as fast as we can...
“The president, unfortunately, because of the crush of everything else, hasn’t talked about Afghanistan all that much,” said Sen. Bob Casey, a centrist Democrat from Pennsylvania
Tommy Vietor, an administration spokesman, said that “the president talks about Afghanistan all the time.”
Asked recently on CNN’s “State of the Union” whether the president had sufficiently explained U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, Sen. Richard Lugar (R., Ind.) said, “No.”
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No one but idiots defending Obama’s vague intent for War think he is being clear and preceise
I think many people think what I think, and that is that ostammer is incapable of reaching and not desirous of achieving victory in Afghanistan, and therefore the war just becomes a slaughterhouse of our precious service members and a financial drain. Nobody felt this way until lately, so it’s fairly obvious that the people have no confidence in ostammer’s ability or even desire to achieve success in Afghanistan.
The ironing is delicious. ( A Bart Simpson-ism).
If we abandon Afghanistan again, we know what the outcome will be. We either get a stable anti-terrorist regime in Kabul, or we get the Taliban and Al Qaeda again. It’s ridiculous to have spent all our human resources for that outcome.
Zero tries to find his inner “warmonger”. This could get very interresting.
I am sure the loyal liberal RAT groups like Moveon.org, Kos and Code Pink will answer the call taking up the fight to push and more clearly justify Zero’s war.
(sarcasm intended)
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