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Obama to Hear From McChrystal for First Time Since Troop Request
fox ^ | 9/30/09 | staff

Posted on 09/30/2009 8:40:50 AM PDT by Nachum

President Obama will hear from his top commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday for the first time since the general warned that America's mission in the unstable country will likely fail without more troops.

The president is attending the first in a series of Afghanistan strategy sessions with his national security team amid criticism that he has not acted quickly enough to address the challenges U.S. forces face there, and that he has been downplaying advice from Gen. Stanley McChrystal.

The security team includes top military and diplomatic officials with whom Obama has been in regular contact. But McChrystal, who will join the private meeting via video feed, has talked with Obama only once since taking over U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan over the summer.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hear; mcchrystal; obama; troop

1 posted on 09/30/2009 8:40:50 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping


2 posted on 09/30/2009 8:41:07 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Uh huh. Why NOW, Zero??? ‘Cause you got caught!


3 posted on 09/30/2009 8:42:21 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ('They're drinking the juice.'~ Barack H. Obama)
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To: Nachum
When is he going to attend these sessions, and when will he make a decision?
4 posted on 09/30/2009 8:43:33 AM PDT by GI Joe Fan (GI Joe represents Real American Heroes, not a bunch of globalist drones.)
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To: Nachum
How magnanimous of him!

His majesty is granting an audience to one of the lower level serfs.

5 posted on 09/30/2009 8:44:48 AM PDT by Never on my watch (The lunatics are in the White House - meet me on the dark side of the Moon.)
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To: Nachum

I hope this doesn’t distract him from his efforts to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago. /s


6 posted on 09/30/2009 8:45:44 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Why NOW, Zero??? ‘Cause you got caught!

Sheesh, you're cynical.

He had to wait (Letterman) to get the (MTP) important (Olympics) business (Iran asskissery) out of the way.

7 posted on 09/30/2009 8:46:07 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Nachum
I saw a report that Zero, Biden, Hillary!, Petreaus, Gates and McChrystal(by phone) will be determining the strategy for Afghanistan today. I'm looking at the list and wondering why Zero, Hillary! and Biden should have ANY input on strategy. Not one of them has ANY Military experience. We are being led by buffoons who think they know better than experienced Military what the Military should do. Lord help us!
8 posted on 09/30/2009 8:47:16 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: Nachum

Could I be brutally frank here?

A) BHO could care less what Gen. McChrystal thinks.
B) BHO could care less what other military leaders including Gen. Petraeus and Adm. Mullen think.
C) BHO could care less what allies like the Czech Republic, Poland, Israel, France and the UK think.
D) BHO could care less about our troops, re-enforcing them or properly supplying them.
E) BHO could care less what Iran, Venezuela, or North Korea do. He has no intention of thwarting their military ambitions.

He is now off to Copenhagen trying to bring back the goodies to Chicago—now there is a big priority for him.


9 posted on 09/30/2009 8:48:11 AM PDT by Welcome2thejungle
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

And how many times have you spoken with David Letterman, Katy Couric, David Gregory and the Olympic Committee?


10 posted on 09/30/2009 8:49:48 AM PDT by justapicker (I don't want the cheese, I just want out of the trap)
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To: justapicker

This guy in office is nothing more than a playboy acting like a leader. Too bad, you are nothing but a failure.


11 posted on 09/30/2009 8:58:41 AM PDT by freebird5850 (O-Bomba is not the Messia. Jesus was a carpenter and could build a cabinet!)
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To: Nachum

Meanwhile, Michelle has flown to talk to the IOC committee and campaign for the 2012 Olympics to be held in Chicago.

That means that all the blather about using less energy and Flobull Warming is not applicable to The One and his family.
Now, there will be 2 flights to get both NObamas there for IOC members to schmoooooze with them.

They are both arrogant jerks.

Excuse me while I go puke...


12 posted on 09/30/2009 9:30:40 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

2012 meant 2016


13 posted on 09/30/2009 9:31:21 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: originalbuckeye

Mullen, Petraeus, et al will be able to get the message across to these civilians. Sad part is that he’ll have to VTC in to participate and that means Obama and crew can mute him whenever they want or they can have some “technical difficulties” that hinder the meeting.

Bet there will be a lot of junior folks running around fetching coffee for those in attendance...would love to be a fly on the wall at this meeting just to see how Obama handles his general outing that he hadn’t spoken to him in over 70 days. I hope McChrystal doesn’t get a “new one (a..h...)chewed on him” but I’m sure every military person in the room is thinking BOHICA...


14 posted on 09/30/2009 9:46:35 AM PDT by sassy steel magnolia (USAF life and Navy wife...God Bless the USA!)
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To: ridesthemiles
Freudian slip, I suppose because we are all thinking about 2012 in the hope that this nightmare will end.

But that did make me think about the Olympics and if Obama were still in office, how Obama would be high up on an ancient Greek Olympic altar, reviewing the procession of ‘his’ nations. I can see a replay of the the ‘36 Berlin Olympics. Will we have a Jesse Owens?

15 posted on 09/30/2009 9:49:01 AM PDT by Never on my watch (The lunatics are in the White House - meet me on the dark side of the Moon.)
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To: Welcome2thejungle
BHO could care less what Gen. McChrystal thinks.

I think you are wanting to say couldn't care less. If he could care less that means he has some care which we all know doesn't exist.

16 posted on 09/30/2009 10:03:00 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: corkoman

Thanks for the correction!


17 posted on 09/30/2009 11:15:53 AM PDT by Welcome2thejungle
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