White House says Afghan deadline 'non-negotiable'

AFP on Yahoo ^ | 8/16/10 | AFP

[roaddog727]

Words fail me.

[beebuster2000]

How long will it be before Petraeus is thrown under the bus?

Not sure Obama has a bus big enough for that task.

[hiredhand]

Yeah... let's see just how negotiable everything is after November of this year. :-) ...maybe sooner! But we hope not. :-)

[Ben Ficklin]

"With the premature withdrawal from Iraq"

I thought he was following the timetable of the Status of Forces Agreement with Iraq that Bush signed?

[Carley]

Putting Petraeus in his place!!!

Doormat!

[La Lydia]

“Under no circumstances will we delay our surrender.”

[EQAndyBuzz]

“How long will it be before Petraeus is thrown under the bus?”

My guess is sometime next May. Then Obama can say that his Petraeus’ strategy failed and we are pulling out the troops starting in July.

Of course Petraeus was a Bush person so this fits into the narrative very nicely.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Well, maybe it’s negotiable with Ahmadinejad at the upcoming meeting. It’s just not negotiable with the Iraqis, Congress (especially the so-called right half of it), or the American people.

[wmileo]

“How long will it be before Petraeus is thrown under the bus?”

The real question is this:

'How long before Petraeus realizes what a scumbag OBAMA is?'

[Gilbo_3]

unfortunately, i dont have much 'hope' for any real 'change' this november...prayin that im wrong, but the fact that weve allowed rampant corruption w/o forcing the criminals to honor our electoral process, i think has only served to embolden them to go for broke this time around...

again, prayers that im wrong, but i forsee our 'betters' in the rin-o-p demanding that WE negotiate for the size of our own cattlecars come dec...

[fatnotlazy]

If I remember right, the withdrawal date was on the condition that the Iraqis would be able to take over and would not need us. The Iraqis are nowhere near ready. It’s still too soon to wtihdraw.

All those soldiers who fought and died. Probably in vain.

[Ben Ficklin]

There is a provision in SOFA that allows Iraq to delay the timetable, but the US can't delay it.

It is all murky there as to what will happen, but Sadr and Chalabi have the votes to determine the prime minister and they will give those votes to whichever contender takes the strongest anti-west position.

Keep in mind that when the NeoCons invaded Iraq, Chalabi was the man they planned to put on the throne.

[hiredhand]

After November, this nation has two more years of extreme suckage to suffer through. But that's a best case, utopian version. The reality is that most likely, NOTHING will get done, or undone between November of this year and the ousting of PeeBo and that is most definitely a bad thing when our economy is still sliding into the bottomless crapper. Status quo is exactly what we DON'T need.

Also (and I hate to go on about this), but it's going to suck so bad in 2012 that conservatives will be demonized by the media for preventing any "progress" between now and then, and the demo-pricks will leverage this just as much as they can through the MSM. By that time, people will forget about what's happening right now and be mad at conservatives again for being cold and heartless to the masses of poor, unemployed people. Sheep have very short memories.

The logical thing to do is to start fire bombing MSM offices. But there are moral and legal implications, so I don't recommend it. :-)