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McChrystal: More Forces or 'Mission Failure' (Drudge headline)
Washington Post ^ | 21 September 2009 | Bob Woodward

Posted on 09/21/2009 3:04:40 AM PDT by SE Mom

The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warns in an urgent, confidential assessment of the war that he needs more forces within the next year and bluntly states that without them, the eight-year conflict "will likely result in failure," according to a copy of the 66-page document obtained by The Washington Post.

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal says emphatically: "Failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near-term (next 12 months) -- while Afghan security capacity matures -- risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible."

His assessment was sent to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Aug. 30 and is now being reviewed by President Obama and his national security team.

McChrystal concludes the document's five-page Commander's Summary on a note of muted optimism: "While the situation is serious, success is still achievable."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bho44; bhodod; bhogwot; bobwoodward; democrats; mcchrystal; obama; oef; oefsurge
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To: MestaMachine; silverleaf; 444Flyer
Me to McChrystal:
YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO THE UNIFORM! YOU ARE BETRAYING OUR WARRIORS!

ME TO THE PENTAGON: When are you going to do the right thing by our TROOPS?????

McChrystal has never been in combat.

He is one of the perfumed princes of the pentagon.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
81 posted on 09/21/2009 9:39:12 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: 444Flyer

That’s funny you posted that picture. I was cleaning the garage and found a magazine talking about the 88 election.


82 posted on 09/21/2009 9:42:51 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: UriÂ’el-2012; MestaMachine
“McChrystal has never been in combat.

He is one of the perfumed princes of the pentagon.”

UGGGHHH! Nothing worse than a paper-pusher making decisions on Boots On The Ground combat policy. NOTHING!

83 posted on 09/21/2009 9:44:24 AM PDT by 444Flyer ( "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."--Mignon McLaughlin)
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To: MestaMachine

84 posted on 09/21/2009 9:51:21 AM PDT by 444Flyer ( "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."--Mignon McLaughlin)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012; 444Flyer

McChrystal was in command when they released the phony story about Pat Tilman. It cost him his promotion. He got his promotion to General for towing the obama line in Afghanistan. Quid pro quo.
obama has no intention of WINNING in Afghanistan. Bin effing Laden is DEAD. There should be bombing runs every hour on the hour after the Taliban and their poppies and their caves.
We can WIN this “war,” but not if we aren’t allowed to fight it.


85 posted on 09/21/2009 9:55:40 AM PDT by MestaMachine (One if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by Air Force 1.)
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To: MestaMachine
Nothing but undermining of those efforts right now.
86 posted on 09/21/2009 9:57:34 AM PDT by 444Flyer ( "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."--Mignon McLaughlin)
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To: LS

I am glad that you have a friend in Spec Ops. That makes you a bit of a hero yourself, doesn’t it?!


87 posted on 09/21/2009 9:59:42 AM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace
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To: 444Flyer

Great links-if you like high blood pressure and heartburn !

McChrystal should be relieved of his command for purposefully putting the lives of civilians , many of them pro Taliban ,
above those of American soldiers .
But, since he’s doing Barry’s bidding -he’ll probably get a promotion.
This is unbelievable and most repulsive and all stems from Barry’s hatred of America and our military.
The silence of the Republicans is even more disgusting.
I know McConnell and McCain started to tiptoe around the issue yesterday , but, they are too timid
and too late to save the four Marines.
How many others have died in Afghanistan because of Barry’s ROEs ?
And how many more soldiers are going to be needlessly sacrificed before someone challenges Obama’s anti military,
pro Taliban policy in Afghanistan ?


88 posted on 09/21/2009 10:07:44 AM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: Wild Irish Rogue

High blood pressure is right! I can’t imagine what the military families are thinking about all this right now. Regardless of 0 and McChluess are doing>>> America supports our troops!

Here is the list of those KIA last week (3 Marines and a Navy Corpsman):(...

“U.S. names dead from Tuesday’s Afghan ambush”

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1227617.html

“KABUL, Afghanistan — Navy medical corpsman James Layton, of Riverbank, Calif., had been ministering first aid to wounded Marine Lt. Michael Johnson, of Virginia Beach, Va., when both were killed Tuesday under a volley of insurgent bullets in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province.

“If we leave this house, the people in the house in front of us will shoot us,” were the last words that Marine Staff Sgt. Aaron Kenefick, of Roswell, Ga., was heard calling into his radio before it went silent. Marine Gunnery Sgt. Edwin W. Johnson, Jr., of Columbus, Ga., died alongside them.

Layton was 22; Michael Johnson, 25; Edwin Johnson, 31; and Kenefick, 30...”


89 posted on 09/21/2009 10:17:01 AM PDT by 444Flyer ( "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."--Mignon McLaughlin)
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To: 444Flyer

of=of what


90 posted on 09/21/2009 10:18:16 AM PDT by 444Flyer ( "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."--Mignon McLaughlin)
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To: 444Flyer; All

One more article:

“Ambushed Marines’ Aid Call ‘Rejected’”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2340992/posts


91 posted on 09/21/2009 10:20:40 AM PDT by 444Flyer ( "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."--Mignon McLaughlin)
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To: 444Flyer

Above article was in lineup on #48.


92 posted on 09/21/2009 10:22:46 AM PDT by 444Flyer ( "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."--Mignon McLaughlin)
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To: Wild Irish Rogue
I need to make a correction to my post at 89. (Sorry, I was cutting and pasting.) This incident happened nearly Two weeks ago now and NOT “last week”. Occurring on Tuesday the 8th of September.
93 posted on 09/21/2009 10:37:43 AM PDT by 444Flyer ( "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."--Mignon McLaughlin)
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To: RummyChick

“so if it was confidential..who leaked it and why?

And isn’t this some kind of crime to leak this kind of info?”

Yep, that’s exactly what the wapo were going for with that little snippet.


94 posted on 09/21/2009 10:49:51 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: RummyChick

I belong to an organization called Soldier’s Angels, www.soldiersangels.com, founded by the granddaughter of Gen. George Patton. This is how it works...the soldier submits his name for adoption, and you sign up to adopt a soldier for x amount of months. You agree to send a care package once a month, and a letter or card to the soldier once a week. I also belong to the Soldier’s Angels Letter Writing Team...I signed up to send a letter of support to two soldiers per week. Soldier’ Angels then sends me the names/addresses of two soldiers every week who submitted their names to receive letters. I can bow out of the Letter Writing Team at any time.

Soldier’s Angels is in need of volunteers to adopt a soldier....these young men and women are so appreciative of my letters to them...some of these soldiers have sent me a thank you note, and on occasions they have sent me some tokens of their stay in Afghanistan...it is touching and so appreciated by me. I have especially noticed that the soldiers from Afghanistan are in dire need of personal items; soldiers told me they’re in a remote location with no showers,chowhall or sleep trailers and in some cases no PX available...these soldiers are in need and need your help. Please check out Soldier’s Angels’ web site, and help out a soldier. These soldiers need our written support and a helping hand..there are more soldiers names being submitted than there are volunteers in some cases. God bless our soldiers, “our home team”, our “Band of Brothers and Sisters.”


95 posted on 09/21/2009 11:40:46 AM PDT by itssme
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To: itssme

Bump to save place & sign up tonight.


96 posted on 09/21/2009 11:52:28 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (Since they call Bush, "Dubya" then I must insist on calling Barry, "Hussein" *2009=1984 on steroids*)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

No, this is cover for Obama with his “people” or should I say sheeple. He’s going to send the troops and always was. Afghanistan, unlike Iraq, so the Dem line goes, is the right war.


97 posted on 09/21/2009 12:03:04 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: SE Mom

Someone posted “We need a Commander in Chief, NOT an insurance salesman!” on FR last week. I’m now going to makestickers and turn that into a bumpersticker.


98 posted on 09/21/2009 12:31:36 PM PDT by philled (A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.-- GB Shaw)
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To: ItisaReligionofPeace

No, not at all. It just gives some little bit of insight from the guys on the ground, and the more the better.


99 posted on 09/21/2009 1:22:24 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: ladyvet

He’s going on Bobby Flay’s cooking show next, along with other shows, and I am not kidding.


100 posted on 09/21/2009 1:49:47 PM PDT by PghBaldy (Obama Hijacks 9/11: http://www.serve.gov/assets/documents/09_0828_potus.pdf)
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