Posted on 05/27/2014 8:34:16 AM PDT by kristinn
U.S. President Barack Obama will announce plans on Tuesday to seek to leave 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan after the end of this year, a senior administration official said.
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Obama to make announcement on this later today. The time has not been set as of this posting.
9,700 of which are assigned to protect the CIA agent he just outed, and the remaining 100 to continue military operations elsewhere in the country.
Forward!
And the White House just announced Obama will speak from the Rose Garden at 2:45 p.m. EDT.
He’s announcing the closing of Gitmo. /s
If you draw down your troops to a certain level don’t they all become more vulnerable?
‘9,700 of which are assigned to protect the CIA agent he just outed, and the remaining 100 to continue military operations elsewhere in the country.’
Actually, that’s not right. They need 9,750 to protect the CIA agent and 50 to protect the opium trade Obama will use to finance his next project - his library.
Can’t we leave a couple well placed B83’s instead?
Sitting ducks
He will leave them there so they can die.
Obama will probably add that if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, period.
Stupid. 9700 trip wires for what?
That ain’t gonna make his kook base happy.
Which means he won’t speak until 3:30.
They better be dug in deep, heavily armed, and zero rules of engagement, because they are going to come after them, we already know from Benghazi they will be on their own, and left to fend for themselves, after the order to STAND DOWN comes, because we wouldn't want to hurt the 5,000+ Afghans that will be their support, and will turn on a dime.
The ZERO cannot be trusted in any adverse situation.
Just blowin off steam!
Doesn't he know that this will absolutely piss off Cindy Sheehan?!?!?
She will set up her tent on his favorite golf course and the media will be all over the place covering her and giving her face time and inviting her to 60 minutes, 20/20, This Week, Meet the Press...etc....
Yeah...Right...You bet...just after chickens learn to use their lips and whistle.
Both the colonization of Iraq and now the catbox of Afganistan have nothing at all to do with fighting “terrorism”. The never-ending cash cow of the Military/Industrial Complex. Our military is stretched to the breaking point. Now ran by Obama liberal flakes, and sodomite officers, with little 110 pound Suzie fighting this POS’s never-ending wars. Leaving 9,000 sitting ducks in an area of the world that despises us is not “ending” a damn thing. Not a day goes by that an American soldier does not die in Iraq or Afganistan, to make some fatcat war profiteer richer. Obama will leave office worth 20 times what he was worth when went into office. “War” is very profitable, and the “peace” president has no intention of ending anything. We will have bases in Syria before King Obamagabe leaves office.
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