Posted on 09/10/2009 5:30:21 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
WASHINGTON -- Democratic leaders in Congress urged the Obama administration Thursday to quickly produce a plan for winning the war in Afghanistan or risk widespread opposition within the president's own party to a new troop buildup.
Simmering congressional frustration could lead to tighter scrutiny and more limited resources, even if Capitol Hill ultimately does approve sending more U.S. troops to the war-torn nation, aides said.
"I don't think there's a great deal of support for sending more troops to Afghanistan in the country or in the Congress," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the highest-ranking Democrat to signal that a push for more troops will get a skeptical look.
Democratic Rep. John P. Murtha, chair of the powerful House Appropriations panel that oversees military spending, described himself as "very nervous" about sending more troops to Afghanistan and cited limited funds to do so.
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But, but... Obama said victory was not our goal in afghanistan...
The democrats have become accustomed to freedom at someone else’s expenses. They don’t have a hair on their behind.
Dems hated the Iraq war and said again and again that Afghanistan was where we should be focusing our efforts.
It is the Republicans who giving Obama a blank check for the endless Afghan War who don’t understand.
It’s his tar baby now!!
They never supported the troops or the mission at all.
The Afghan Front was never more than a political tool for the Liberals.
Their contempt for the Armed Services is endemic to their kind. They only approved of it so they could complain we needed to send all our forces there.
Those 4000 servicemen killed are no more than a political tool for them as well.
Father in heaven please please keep our brave soldiers in your Holy covering. FOLKS it’s time to pray hard for our military men and women. GOD BE WITH THEM!! sniff :(!
Didn’t he mention going in to Pakistan during the campaign?
shocking. </s>
THIS CANNOT BE! For 5 years we heard how Iraq was the evil, blood-for-oil BusHalliburtonMcChimpyHitler battle, Cheney’s War to kill all non-WASPs in the world.
And Afghanistan was the “right war”, the one that was morally perfect, to be fought, and to be won because “it’s the right war at the right time against the right enemy”.
The republicans are not in the white house and are not controlling the purse strings. Good try but that one doesn’t float. Obambat has ZERO experience with anything military and it shows. He is president only because he is black and that is not a qualification to be commender in chief.
You watch. These lunatics are going to leave our guys over there with their rear ends hanging out before all is said and done.
You may not think he is qualified (I don't either) but he is commander in chief like it or not. The Republicans DO control the purse strings. A coaliton of Republicans and antiwar Democrats could well have the necessary votes to cut off funding. Strange bedfellows you say? Perhaps....but no stranger that the Obama/Palin pro-war coalition. The only question is this: do the Republicans have enough courage to turn against Obama's war?
I meant to say “You may not think he is not qualified....”
Again, I agree with you that he is not qualifed. That does change the fact that he is commander in chief.
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