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Originally Posted by SallyRand
But I thought that The Chosen One would bring both Hope AND Change? Will He too continue this useless war?
Sally.
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The Chosen One had people like John McCain and Dick Cheney screaming bloody
murder about pulling out and their screaming was disrupting to the point that
the Chosen One needed to make concessions just to shut them the fuck up.
The troop surge in Afghanistan was done to "quiet" people down so that the
White House could actually move into other debates like health care.
Dick Cheney was a fucking jackass about the troop surge and he galvanized the
Tea Baggers with this shit. The Chosen One could not afford to let that monster
grow. So he shut them up a little with the troop surge.
Remember Joe Binden's suggestion to scale down troops was rebuffed by
General McChrsytal in public and then backed by other power heads.
This was the start of the need to fire McChrsytal. Eventually it happend.
Bottom line : The Chosen One has had to restrain his own agenda to prevent
the congress from becoming one big filibuster with Dick Cheney and John McCain
promoting the stalemate.