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White House considers withdrawing from Afghanistan
FOXNews ^ | 09/24/2009 | FOXNews

Posted on 09/24/2009 4:29:33 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour

Edited on 09/24/2009 4:37:15 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Just announced by Jennifer Griffith in a live interview, WH has asked Pentagon for a formal assessment of a withdrawal from Afghanistan, that the Afghan War is no longer in our nations interest, blamed the Afghan elections.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; War on Terror
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To: My Favorite Headache
W. Bush should break his silence on this and start calling out the Kenyan.

No, he shouldn't. WE THE PEOPLE SHOULD.

241 posted on 09/24/2009 5:59:44 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

It is gonna happen. He changed the Rules of Engagement so our boys are sitting ducks.

This is all about humiliating our country and military for his bosses in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia and other Islamo-capitals.


242 posted on 09/24/2009 6:00:09 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's healthcare?)
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To: My Favorite Headache

He will announce another communist female to SCOTUS
and then the NWO and new currency.

NO WAIT in their NWO the international court rules...

He will just announce he is getting a kitten for his kids and Michelle got a new dress.

YEAH THAT’S IT.


243 posted on 09/24/2009 6:01:24 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: April Lexington
Well, I suppose we could just turn Afghanistan into a glass parking lot as we leave

The attack on New York in September 2001 required a response that could prevent a recurrence.

This, in turn, required a government wise in the ways of power and the instrumentalities of war, which we did not have.

These maleficent savages who inhabit Afghanistan needed to be taught an unforgettable lesson, and they still do.

Instead, they have been shown weakness after weakness, craven cowardice after craven cowardice, while in the meantime we have intruded into their domestic affairs to a literally incredible degree. My congressthing was over there this summer presuming to instruct them in the proper organization of the marital relationship.

The country does not need to be turned into a glass parking lot. That would be barbaric - murdering hundreds of thousands of innocents who only want to live out their brutal, savage, and short lives according to the instructions of their religion.

What should have been done was the nuclear destruction of Tora Bora as soon as Bin Laden's presence was confirmed (Kandahar would have done just as well, a month earlier).

The main point is that such destruction should have been immediate, implacable, and accomplished by invisible (seemingly magical) instrumentalities.

After the mushroom clouds cleared, we should have told the survivors - "Live how you like. We don't care how you raise your children, what you do with your women, what god you worship, or how, We don't care what you grow, how you choose your barbarian chiefs, how you arrange your civic affairs (to the extent that you have any). But consider this - we just delivered four hydrogen bombs to your land. We have 12 000 more. Don't f*ck with us again - and we'll be watching".

What happens now was decided after our failure to embrace victory in 2001. Withdrawal is inevitable - if not now, next year, and if not next year, then the year after that, and so on.

There is NOTHING in Afghanistan which is worth the dusty bones of a single Pomeranian Pennsylvanian grenadier.

244 posted on 09/24/2009 6:02:10 PM PDT by Jim Noble (I hope Sarah will start a 2nd party soon)
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To: LucyT

“McChrystal makes clear that his call for more forces is predicated on the adoption of a strategy in which troops emphasize protecting Afghans rather than killing insurgents or controlling territory.”
~~~
McChrystal is a damned fool if he thinks that there is any

better way to protect Afghans than to kill insurgents!!!

SEARCH AND DESTROY!!!


245 posted on 09/24/2009 6:02:15 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: Frantzie

Yeah I remember reading an article on the rules of engagement. It was mixed in with our soldiers having to read miranda rights to the ragheads. I can’t believe what I just said (typed) is realITY.

You know what, bring em home.


246 posted on 09/24/2009 6:04:01 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: SoldierDad

My brother just got his clusters pinned, and is trying to get back to a deployed combat unit.

The waiting list for officers is HUGE....


247 posted on 09/24/2009 6:04:08 PM PDT by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
Man he sure it making it easy for the Republican who runs against him in 2012, all he has to do now is raise taxes on the middle class and he will be easy to paint as the tax and spend weak on defense liberal people love to vote against :)
248 posted on 09/24/2009 6:06:08 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

That’s why we need to cut back on the perks. I wonder why no one has ever come up with the idea of creating a website that details how much money is spent and it could be a periodical permanent thing that keeps the politicos on their toes. America is really taking their lives back and I think we’re going to be just fine.

Remember, no one thought the country would even be created against the brits. Then there was the civil war and both world wars.


249 posted on 09/24/2009 6:09:09 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: pollywog

All in only nine months.


250 posted on 09/24/2009 6:10:01 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; LucyT; 444Flyer
•Obama has yet to define U.S. objectives in Afghanistan

Obama has yet to define U.S. objectives in AfghanistanAs the Obama administration and Congress begin a heated debate about how many more American troops to send to Afghanistan, military observers, soldiers on the ground there and some top Pentagon officials are warning that dispatching even tens of thousands more soldiers and Marines might not ensure success.

Some even fear that deploying more U.S. troops, especially in the wake of a U.S. airstrike last week that killed and wounded scores of Afghan civilians, would convince more Afghans that the Americans are occupiers rather than allies and relieve the pressure on the Afghan government to improve its own security forces.

The heart of the problem, soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and some officials in Washington told McClatchy Newspapers, is that neither Barack Obama's White House nor the Pentagon has clearly defined America's mission in Afghanistan. As a result, some soldiers in the field said, they aren't sure what their objectives are.

neither Barack Obama's White House nor the Pentagon has clearly defined America's mission in Afghanistan. As a result, some soldiers in the field said, they aren't sure what their objectives are.

nor the Pentagon has clearly defined America's mission in Afghanistan. As a result, some soldiers in the field said, they aren't sure what their objectives are.

As a result, some soldiers in the field said, they aren't sure what their objectives are.


KHAWJA JAMAL, Afghanistan — Put on body armor, check weapons, cover head and shoulders with a scarf.
That was the drill for female American Marines who set out on patrol this week with a mission to make friends with Afghan women in a war zone by showing respect for Muslim standards of modesty.

251 posted on 09/24/2009 6:11:53 PM PDT by MestaMachine (One if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by Air Force 1.)
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To: My Favorite Headache

click and scroll down below

http://www.politico.com/politico44/wbarchive/whiteboard09242009.html

gibbs told reporters to stop reading London tabloids...

hmmmmmmmmmmmm then we may find out that 0bama is in possession of the new global currency.

remember CBS did not report this yet

http://www.futureworldcurrency.com/Documents.asp?DocumentAreaID=44&DocumentID=209


252 posted on 09/24/2009 6:12:55 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: silent_jonny

“This would be political suicide”

I’m not so sure. I have been waiting for the Dear Leader administration to come up with a major distraction. The arresting of terrorists this week, and now the potential big announcement about Afghanistan is a very clever diversion from the health care debacle, which Congress will push through while everyone is focussed on Afghanistan.

I don’t think we should underestimate the cleverness of the evil one.


253 posted on 09/24/2009 6:18:54 PM PDT by Happyinmygarden (Yes, actually, I have pretty much seen and heard it all before...)
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To: Just A Nobody
Yes, I would... and I bet that I worked to elect him twice to an extent few did and I gave the maximum amount both times. That earns me the right to complain and bitch about a man that let me down on so many levels... granted he did some very good things too... but his silence does not help the Nation and the Nation needs him to speak out.

LLS

254 posted on 09/24/2009 6:21:44 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

If 0bama isn’t going to get serious about winning (which he isn’t) we should absolutely leave. Why have any more Americans die to prove he his ‘tough’ on terrorism? Hate to say it, but the sooner Mullah Omar and OBL roll back into Kabul in style, the sooner we can hang a lost war on 0bama.


255 posted on 09/24/2009 6:21:47 PM PDT by Lou Budvis (Palin/Bachmann '12)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

I hate to see us lose another war, but if he is hell bent on losing let’s lose it now and at least save some of our troops lives.

Sure we will pay the price when another 9/11 happens, but he isn’t planning on stopping that anyway.


256 posted on 09/24/2009 6:22:07 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: Just A Nobody

well said. he is a sleeper the enemy is within.


257 posted on 09/24/2009 6:24:15 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Rant:
How dare you Obama! You have just made it that thousands of our soldiers lives were lost for what? Nothing! I hope you can sleep at night, Mr. President. You have left America wide open for attack and appeased our enemies, while calling the beacon of Freedom in the world worse than Hitler. Shame on you Obama.
/Rant


258 posted on 09/24/2009 6:24:19 PM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: Thunder90

My language is way harsher and not politically correct.


259 posted on 09/24/2009 6:25:11 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: All

http://www.davidlimbaugh.com/mt/archives/2009/09/new_column_obam_25.html

September 24, 2009

“New Column: Obama’s Competing Waterloos”
by David Limbaugh

SNIPPET: “Sen. Jim DeMint predicted that Obamacare would be President Barack Obama’s Waterloo. While that’s certainly a strong possibility, Obama has other Waterloos in the wings competing for the prize, such as his monstrous deficits and his disastrous foreign policy.

The Heritage Foundation reports that Obama’s budget would produce $13 trillion in deficits over the next decade, even more than the outrageous $9 trillion previously projected. This is nation-shattering stuff, folks, and Obama and his minions remain unflappable, intent on staying the bankrupting course, sporting Alfred E. Neuman, “What, me worry?” expressions. The fact that we know they can’t be that oblivious is what makes us wonder whether something more sinister lurks in their motives.

But Obama’s foreign policy is shaping up to be every bit as dangerous. Because he has lived in a relatively cloistered political world — surrounded and shielded by mostly fellow leftist radicals — he apparently doesn’t realize just how repugnant his appeasement policies and mantralike derision of this nation are to most Americans.

When I first heard that he was Mirandizing al-Qaida on the battlefield, I thought it was political satire. But it wasn’t, any more than his scrapping of long-range missile defense or his apparent plan to unilaterally disarm us of our nuclear weapons.

Then there’s Afghanistan...”


260 posted on 09/24/2009 6:31:29 PM PDT by Cindy
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