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Obama Rejects Afghanistan Options
Reuters ^ | Nov. 11, 2009

Posted on 11/11/2009 6:49:01 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, a senior administration official said Wednesday.

Obama is still close to announcing his revamped war strategy — most likely shortly after he returns from a trip to Asia that ends on Nov. 19.

But the president raised questions at a war council meeting Wednesday that could alter the dynamic of both how many additional troops are sent to Afghanistan and what the timeline would be for their presence in the war zone, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss Obama's thinking.

The president is considering options that include adding 30,000 or more U.S. forces to take on the Taliban in key areas of Afghanistan, and to buy time for the Afghan government's small and ill-equipped fighting forces to take over. The other three options on the table are ranges of troop increases, from a relatively small addition of forces to the roughly 40,000 that the top U.S. general in Afghanistan prefers, according to military and other officials.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhogwot; ditheringfool; nationalsecurityfail; nss; oef; oefsurge; surrender; treason; whiteflag
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1 posted on 11/11/2009 6:49:02 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Surrender is not an option!

For Obama it is the only option!

2 posted on 11/11/2009 6:50:40 PM PST by AU72
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To: Free ThinkerNY; Nachum; Cindy; kristinn

Ping


3 posted on 11/11/2009 6:51:42 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: AU72

PULL THEM OUT. They don’t need to be risking their lives under his disasterous watch.

Hunker down and get ready for the worst..he is hell bent on destroying America.


5 posted on 11/11/2009 6:52:06 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: Abbeville Conservative

He has no plan that HE can PUBLICLY support.


6 posted on 11/11/2009 6:53:31 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: Abbeville Conservative

He’s just HFG.

Human F’ng Garbage.


7 posted on 11/11/2009 6:53:45 PM PST by bfree (The revolution is coming and it will be violent)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Barack Hasan Obama is such a drama queen!


8 posted on 11/11/2009 6:56:22 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: bfree

Above your pay grade, you LOSER!?


9 posted on 11/11/2009 6:56:29 PM PST by hal ogen
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To: Free ThinkerNY
What an unprincipled, clueless, narcissistic buffoon.

The rest of the world laughs, Barry.

They laugh.

10 posted on 11/11/2009 6:58:46 PM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He’s been “mulling” for months now. Pretty soon he’s going to morph into that Greek statue of that guy thinking, with stone drool oozing out the corner of his mouth.


11 posted on 11/11/2009 6:58:59 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Free ThinkerNY
But the president raised questions...

DumBO is too stupid to raise the toilet seat yet a question. Who really ask the question?

12 posted on 11/11/2009 7:00:11 PM PST by depressed in 06 (ZerOcare: Bureaucratic best practices equals death panels.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Overnight he went from voting “present” to deciding whether to risk the lives of men he can't possibly measure up to.

Waaayyyy over his head.

13 posted on 11/11/2009 7:00:57 PM PST by ryan71 (Smells like a revolution)
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To: AU72

“A Dither, A Dather, tell us about your Father ...”

Sing it again ...


14 posted on 11/11/2009 7:01:13 PM PST by dodger
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To: Abbeville Conservative

Every time I see something like this that is exactly what crosses my mind. To think these idiots put this guy in charge when he never made a decision in the Senate is what is so ridiculous, and now our soldiers suffer.


15 posted on 11/11/2009 7:19:55 PM PST by ohiogrammy (12)
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To: ohiogrammy

John Bolton speaking about this on Greta now.


16 posted on 11/11/2009 7:24:52 PM PST by MestaMachine (One if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by Air Force 1, 4 if by Thread.)
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To: MestaMachine

Bolton says obama’s indecisiveness could lead to the fall of the government in Pakistan.
Oh, goody./s


17 posted on 11/11/2009 7:28:29 PM PST by MestaMachine (One if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by Air Force 1, 4 if by Thread.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

As if he needed to give me more reasons to vomit over him.


18 posted on 11/11/2009 7:28:56 PM PST by diverteach (http://www.slapobama.com/)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Obama is still close to announcing his revamped war strategy — most likely shortly after he returns from a trip to Asia that ends on Nov. 19.

Here is 0bama's "war strategy" - taken directly from the pages of the French Military:


19 posted on 11/11/2009 7:43:43 PM PST by TheBattman (Pray for our country...)
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To: AU72

There appear to be a few FReepers who support the surrender option as well.


20 posted on 11/11/2009 7:44:57 PM PST by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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