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Army says morale down among troops in Afghanistan. (How you can help)
Associated Press ^ | 111309 | PAULINE JELINEK

Posted on 11/13/2009 1:24:02 PM PST by vg0va3

Morale has fallen among soldiers in Afghanistan, where troops are seeing record violence in the 8-year-old war

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; morale; notbreakingnews
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Reach out and let them know what they mean to you. Here is one site. I am sure there are many others.

http://www.anysoldier.com/WhereToSend/

1 posted on 11/13/2009 1:24:03 PM PST by vg0va3
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To: vg0va3

All our young men and women in Afghanistan need are a clear mission, the tools to complete it and the support from home. There is nothing worse than an army without purpose.


2 posted on 11/13/2009 1:25:52 PM PST by GauchoUSA
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To: vg0va3
Our troops are too honorable for this, but I wish that they would refuse to follow orders and go on strike until their Commander-in-Chief decides whether or not to win in Afghanistan or to withdraw. Obama is bleeding out our troops in Afghanistan by his dithering.
3 posted on 11/13/2009 1:29:03 PM PST by Nosterrex
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To: vg0va3

We’re going to cut and run.


4 posted on 11/13/2009 1:29:14 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (:: The government will do for health care what it did for real estate. ::)
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To: vg0va3

Just because the Commander In Cheif hasn’t a clue?


5 posted on 11/13/2009 1:31:05 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (America, 1776 - 2009. R.I.P.)
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To: vg0va3

> Army says morale down among troops in Afghanistan. (How you can help)

Well, for starters, we can impeach this lying pile of elephant dung.


6 posted on 11/13/2009 1:32:29 PM PST by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: vg0va3

Its a fine charity that I’ve supported.

But what we really need to send the troops is a real Commander in Chief, one who can make a decision instead of flying around the world apologizing for America.


7 posted on 11/13/2009 1:33:16 PM PST by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: Jeff Chandler

If Obama is not going to support the troops in the Middle East then bring them home.

If he decides he wants to declare victory he needs to stop dithering and send enough troops in to do the job.

It’s an easy choice to make...unless you’re The One!


8 posted on 11/13/2009 1:34:18 PM PST by hattend (Pray for Obama!! Psalm 109:8 Amen!)
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To: vg0va3
My Nephew Chris who spent two tours in Iraq hates A-Stand.

"It sinks here and there are a million flies"

I haven't asked him a lot of other questions but I get the feeling that they just don't want to be there and they don't want us there.
9 posted on 11/13/2009 1:34:53 PM PST by glaseatr (Father of a Marine, Uncle of SGT Adam Estep. A Co. 2/5 Cav. KIA Thurs April 29, 2004 Baghdad Iraq)
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To: BP2

Agreed, but let our troops know that we did it for them.


10 posted on 11/13/2009 1:36:01 PM PST by RC2
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To: vg0va3

ever since they found out about the results of the presidential election,..its been plunging exponentially.


11 posted on 11/13/2009 1:41:45 PM PST by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: Jeff Chandler

Sure wish I was convinced you’re wrong.


12 posted on 11/13/2009 1:44:18 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Unseal the lock box containing every document pertaining to Obama's life, TODAY!)
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To: vg0va3

I still know fellow soldiers over there and they have said that they are really pissed off this year.
There has been no back up for them and they need more help.
They are out on an outpost in HeLmund province and the problem is that the military for the UK and us are stretched out too far and we need more men

obama is really putting down morale from what I know and they are no w fed up of how they are being treated. The plan was to get Bin Laden and his sidekicks including the taliban.
The obama comes in and he says he will talk to moderates in the taliban which even the taliban laughed at because there is no moderates .

Now the white house is saying how they might just go back to how it was under clinton which was a joke.
Now he will NOT make a decision which is having an effect

This is appalling and either this President gets a grip and starts to show some leadership or the morale is going down even further


13 posted on 11/13/2009 1:46:57 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman, end of. -end racism end affirmative action)
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Every site I have been to is running this AP story, indicating that morale is down because “the war is 8 years old”. But there was no problem when it was 6 years old, or even seven.

Morale is down because they know Obama is not in it to win it - his goal is to cut and run. Who wouldn’t be low over it? My cousin’s son had a concussion, and was put back into combat a few days later, because Obama never sent the proper reinforcements. Would that not kill your morale?


14 posted on 11/13/2009 1:49:00 PM PST by I still care (A Republic - if you can keep it. - Ben Franklin)
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To: BP2

“Well, for starters, we can impeach this lying pile of elephant dung.”

- I would pay good money to see that. And to think, Bill Clinton was impeached with a lying under oath charge. What Obama has done, and will do, far surpasses anything Clinton did. This will only get worse the longer that Stalin-wannabe is in office.

What is interesting is that the military angle was not always affiliated with Conservatism. There was a time in which they were indifferent to either party, but then the Dems decided not to support them. And then that responsibility fell upon us.


15 posted on 11/13/2009 1:51:37 PM PST by Soothesayer9
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To: GauchoUSA

I had two tours in Iraq coming home in Nov. of 05 Troop moral was high because we had a real CIC and knew what the mission was- To liberate the Iraqi people from the Saddam Hussein dictatorship. My heart bleeds for the boots on the ground in Afganistan because of the cowadice of the current white house occupant. Grrrr—Spit


16 posted on 11/13/2009 1:51:44 PM PST by jesseam (Been there, done that)
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To: hattend

Yes.

I’m sure he has a lot in common with Hasan in that neither of them wish to fight fellow muslims.


17 posted on 11/13/2009 1:52:30 PM PST by Califreak (Obama's Purple Reign must be stopped!)
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To: hattend
It’s an easy choice to make...unless you’re The One!

I'm no fan of Rudy Giuliani, but he was exactly right when he spoke about Obama's inability to make a decision:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_70XZ_nCADU

18 posted on 11/13/2009 1:53:25 PM PST by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: jesseam

“I had two tours in Iraq coming home in Nov. of 05 Troop moral was high because we had a real CIC and knew what the mission was- To liberate the Iraqi people from the Saddam Hussein dictatorship. My heart bleeds for the boots on the ground in Afganistan because of the cowadice of the current white house occupant. Grrrr—Spit”

Need we say more?


19 posted on 11/13/2009 1:53:49 PM PST by GauchoUSA
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To: jesseam

Thank you for your service.


20 posted on 11/13/2009 1:56:02 PM PST by LoveUSA (When you find yourself hopelessly naked in front of the world, you might as well dance.)
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