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Title: Gen. McChrystal Seeks 20,000 More Troops for Afghanistan (Obamaphiles revel in blood of American troops as "Hope and Change" is implemented in DC)
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anti-war.com
URL Source: http://news.antiwar.com/2009/08/28/ ... 0-more-troops-for-afghanistan/
Published: Aug 29, 2009
Author: Jason Ditz
Post Date: 2009-08-29 10:45:31 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Views: 231
Comments: 15
According to a report in the Saturday edition of the Independent, top US commander in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal will request another 20,000 troops for the war effort in Afghanistan, on top of the escalation already provided by President Obama, when he issues his new “plan” for the nation. Shortly after taking office President Obama approved the addition of another 17,000 to the war effort as part of an attempt to turn around the sagging war effort. He added another further 4,000 troops in March as part of his new “comprehensive strategy” at the time. Needless to say, the strategy did not work, and the situation in Afghanistan has continued to worsen. Gen. McKiernan was ousted in May, and Gen. McChrystal was put in place to attempt yet another new strategy. The release of that strategy has been delayed, but has long been assumed to be another escalation, which the administration seems only too eager to oblige. At the same time, three high profile polls show that the American public, long supportive of the military effort in Afghanistan, has had enough and is now firmly opposed to the conflict’s continuation. Though the war seems far from foremost in the minds of many voters right now, a further escalation could have political consequences down the road. Likewise, the ability of the military to provide yet another 20,000 troops even as it continues to keep over 130,000 troops on the ground in Iraq is very much in doubt. Though the US may be able to coax a few thousand more troops out of the virtually lame duck Brown Administration in Britain, the vast majority would have to come from the US, and would put the joint commitment on the ground in the two major wars at over 200,000 troops at any given time.
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#1. To: Hayek Fan, Mikey the Weasel, Ferret Mike, - The Weasel (#0)
It looks like the Gen is a CFR buttboy, I'm sure he has America's best interests at heart (not) "spent another year as a military fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations" "America without her freedoms, is like a body without a soul" - Adam Kokesh
The Russians were even more ruthless than we are, and they got kicked out. I just wonder if Russia has their own version of Charlie Wilson working there. .
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they need ya, Mike!
I think he believes his time is better spent here singing the praises of the Obamasiah.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Leftism is a mental illness.
As a vocal supporter of Barack Obama and the Democan Party, Ferret Mike has the same agenda for the United States as Obama and the Democans. That agenda includes destroying the small farmer in order to create a better business environment for agribusiness, continuing the war on terror in order to create new anti-terror laws domestically and create business for the MIC, creating a nationalized health care system that benefits big pharmaceutical companies and the medical establishment, and the massive increase of federal employees, which, in turn, will increases the mandatory membership of the federal employees union. Obamatards are the carbon copies of the bushbots before them. Everything they hated under Bush is now OK because Obama is doing it.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 The purpose of the legal system is to protect the elites from the wrath of those they plunder.- Elliott Jackalope
Only this time they think they have a mandate from We The People to finish the job of shredding the Constitution, eliminating Liberty, and driving the term 'Freedom' from the American Lexicon.
COMRADE! Why are you not showing your Party affiliation and showing proper respect for Dear Leader? Put your Barackstika armband on RIGHT NOW!
Hitting below the belt, eh? :>)
TRAITORS TO AMERICA AND BRAINWASHED IDIOTS SUPPORT AND DEFEND ISRAEL. TO HELL WITH ZIONISTS AND THIER AMERICAN FRONTS: AIPAC/PNAC/ADL/JPCA/NAACP/CFR/FEDERAL RESERVE/NWO/SPLC/JINSA/ACLU/FPI/CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS/AEI/FEDERAL MEDIA/HOLLYWOOD, et. al.
Lets see now, where and HOW will we raise another 20,000???????
19,999. Mike's volunteering. ;)
Mike and 19,999 Mexicans.
Good. It's time for him to gear up or shut up.
Crunch time is nearing. The barrel is empty. I see some Doctor is refusing to go to Iraq. This army is coming apart at the seams.
This country's about ready to come apart at the seams.
The huge majority of Americans are blissfully unaware, totally unaware. They are programmed, trained to be content.
General Stanley A. McChrystal
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_A._McChrystal
#2. To: Hayek Fan (#0)
(Edited)
#3. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
#4. To: christine (#3)
Lord Acton
#5. To: James Deffenbach (#4)
I think he believes his time is better spent here singing the praises of the Obamasiah.
There's no place better thanTurtle Island.
#6. To: christine, Ferret Mike (#3)
#7. To: Hayek Fan (#6)
Obamatards are the carbon copies of the bushbots before them.
#8. To: christine (#3)
they need ya, Mike!
#9. To: Hayek Fan (#0)
Likewise, the ability of the military to provide yet another 20,000 troops even as it continues to keep over 130,000 troops on the ground in Iraq is very much in doubt.
#10. To: Cynicom (#9)
#11. To: christine (#10)
19,999. Mike's volunteering. ;)
#12. To: christine (#10)
19,999. Mike's volunteering.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#13. To: Esso (#12)
#14. To: Cynicom (#13)
#15. To: Lod (#14)
This country's about ready to come apart at the seams.
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