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I thought the one good thing about this president would be he'd finally get us the hell out of Iraq and Afghanistan. But so far all we hear every other day is how soldiers are getting killed and we're signing more and more defense spending bills. Getting sick of paying for the war machine. Come on Obama do at least one thing you campaigned on...
The list of promises he has broken is endless...
Im a conservative but i was hoping he would actually follow through on this as well.
I think he is ticking off most of the moderates who voted for him.
Iraq withdrawal is submect to Status of Forces Agreement that was signed by Iraq and the United States under George W. Bush. You can be sure that Obama will pull a few token troops out of Iraq a little early in order to make it seem that he's the anti-Iraq-war person that he says he is. And you can be sure that liberals will parade in front of the cameras touting such, although it will be clear as day what the motive is: political gamesmanship.
As far as Afghanistan goes, I support increased operations in the region. However, I do not support the 18-month timeline. Either you go in to win, or you go home. Obama will be judged by history by that timeline if he follows through with it. And it won't be pretty.
I thought the one good thing about this president would be he'd finally get us the hell out of Iraq and Afghanistan. But so far all we hear every other day is how soldiers are getting killed and we're signing more and more defense spending bills. Getting sick of paying for the war machine. Come on Obama do at least one thing you campaigned on...
If he did get us out of Iraq and Afghanistan you'd scream we were surrendering.
Come on zz4guy, at least be honest when you start these silly threads.
Iraq withdrawal is submect to Status of Forces Agreement that was signed by Iraq and the United States under George W. Bush. You can be sure that Obama will pull a few token troops out of Iraq a little early in order to make it seem that he's the anti-Iraq-war person that he says he is. And you can be sure that liberals will parade in front of the cameras touting such, although it will be clear as day what the motive is: political gamesmanship.
As far as Afghanistan goes, I support increased operations in the region. However, I do not support the 18-month timeline. Either you go in to win, or you go home. Obama will be judged by history by that timeline if he follows through with it. And it won't be pretty.
obama has always been against a 'timeline' for getting out
"I've never said that troops should be withdrawn. What I've said is, is that we've got to make sure that we secure and execute the rebuilding and reconstruction process effectively and properly, and I don't think we should have an artificial deadline when to do that."
Senator Barack Obama (Democrat, Illinois)
During an interview on "Chicago Tonight" with Elizabeth Brackett
April 5, 2004
I seem to recall Americans both right and left in 2006 uniting and electing a bunch of democrats to congress in a desperate act to thwart the wars. And here we are.......
It's pretty clear that we the people are no longer in the driver's seat.
I don't personally have an issue with either war but more on how the war is being fought. While some people tend to think the US military was defeated in Vietnam and is presently being defeated in Iraq and Afghanistan, they couldn't be farther from the truth. In each case our military has suffered humiliating defeat at the hands of our own government. It's time to either fight a war for real or come home. While I strongly support a civilian command of the armed forces, I oppose inept micromanagement. Leave war to warriors and let them do their job.
Since no one seems to have the stomach for a real war, I say quit.
Wait till Obama eff's up Korea...we'll be pouring troops in over there too.
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