Obama sends 17,000 troops to Afghanistan
 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29242187/

Escalating a war we can believe in! :321GFY

Sounds like he's making good on his campaign promise to fight the "real war on terrorism" not a war for oil in Iraq. He said many times on the campaign trail that he would increase the amount of troops in Afghanstain.

Why the surprise? He said he was going to.

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Another murderous war president. How suprising.

Not surprised disappointed. I knew he was going to do it, but I didnt think he would in his first month or however long its been.

I support more troops in Afghanistan. Also in the tribal areas of Pakistan. But I guess that's a more delicate issue.

What's wrong with sending more troops?

he is not much better than Bush,....

Yeah I was not to happy about that campaign promis.

Only 1 guy America should be interested in over there and thats Osama Bin Laden.

If the dirt fucks in Afghanistan do not give a shit about having freedom America shouldnt either. In other news, Pakistan struck a deal with the Taliban and legitimised the Taliban inside Pakistan witrh thier own borders.

Fuck them people...

Draw down bring all American troops home.

A: It saves money.
B: If the MIlitary wants to help build bridges and school maybe they should start doing so in America.

You would prefer he surrendered?

He's a hypocrite! He ran on the platform of "bring the troops home". Yes, he did say that the war "Should have been fought in Afghanistan" and "The troops should have been sent to Afghanistan". Now that he's been elected he is doing what a President has to do and not what he was elected to do.:angrysoap

Mr Obama is illuminati New World Order - hes the black version of Bush

The people behind 9/11 have put him there to do the dirty work.

24 months time you will really really fucking hate him. mark my words

p.s. did you know you guys have to serve 3 months in the army :) no boom boom for you lot :)

Maybe he can secure those opium fields. :upsidedow

Handing the country back to the elected officials is not surrendering

You think that's bad, wait til you see what's next...

Hey, on the bright side, he kept his word about Afghanistan

You're obviously not familiar with the situation in Afghanistan.

It's about 100x less stable than Iraq (which is not saying much). The Afghan government controls about 10% of the country...the rest is run by the Taliban and other terrorist organizations.

Why don't you read before you make fucking retarded comments.

P.S. Obama promised throughout his campaign that he would send more troops to Afghanistan. Stop crying.

They are going in for the smack.

You do relaize that Osama operated out of AFGHANISTAN. And that the part of Pakistan Osama is preported to being shares a border with AFGHANISTAN. The fact that it was the Taiban that let Osama train his "troops" there for years is motivation enough to deal with them finally and forever right now. what do you want the Taliban to take over again to Osama and his ilk can have safe harbor again? ther is a HUGE diference betwen the Iraq war and the war in Afghanistan. The only problem with the war in Afghanistan is that Bush basically igored it to go to war with Iraq.

If one group controls 90% of a country that in definition is stable. Unless we plan on killing 10,000s of people the Taliban will always be there. Unless we plan on invading Pakistan the Taliban will always be there. Diplomacy with the Taliban is the only thing that will stop 10s of thousands of innocent people from dying or even more if we invade Pakistan, making them 100x more unstable than Iraq. Oh yeah they have nukes that could fall into militants hands.

In recent days the Taliban has been willing to go to the table. They now have a cease fire with Pakistan.

The USA can not afford to fight this war. Our military is at its weakest point in a long time and we are on the verge of financial collapse. Just like the Taliban said we would be :error

And I knew Obama was going to do this. That does not mean I have to like it. Bush wanted to invade Iran that would not have been ok either.

Even if that group is the Taliban?

Come on, get real :1orglaugh

Besides, the primary reason for going into Afghanistan was to hunt down and to kill Bin Laden. Last time I checked, that was still unfinished business.

Looks to me like Obama is doing his job just fine :thumbsup

Osama is not in Afghanistan he might be in Pakistan but most likely is already dead. Not too many people on dialysis can live in caves and villages without electricity. Life expectancy in ideal conditions for someone on dialysis is 5 years.

We tried this, only ten years ago. And, we ignored Pakistan and Afghanistan back in 2000 and 2001.

What did it produce?

..9/11

:helpme

Taliban are not some terrorist group

American taxpayer funds terrorism - FACT motherfuckers

Wonder how that gas pipe is doing in Afghanistan - thats why they invaded.

Bush SOLD America OUT - hes a little bitch.

Wow, the ignorance in this thread is powerful. The need to hate beyond all reason is pretty powerful when it comes to politics.

Bush sends way more than that to Iraq based on lies for his own personal reasons and sheds no tears for those that die there and you praise him... if Obama had done exactly what Bush had done, I could only imagine the hate threads you'd make then!

You really make no sense to me at all. Seriously. Emotion over logic. They're the other political party. Hate at all costs... even when he does what he promises!

I supported Bush at the very beginning. Now I do not. I dont see what is being so hateful because I dont want to see 10s of thousands of innocent people die. I learned from the mistakes Bush made.

This bullshit Bush did this and Bush did that excuse is old and tired. Dont you want Obama to be BETTER? Not just a little less shitty? I know I do.

Obama's just protecting his poppy fields . . . . sucka's

The Taliban had truces with Pakistan before and broke them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...071500396.html

In my opinion, sending troops to where they are needed, rather than where they server his own purpose, is better.

Not lying about his intentions, is better. Not lying to the entire world to suit his own purposes, is better.

He said he'd do this, he did it.

Would I rather there never be any wars and everyone lives peacefully and no one dies? Of course. But that's not the reality of it right now and there's still a battle to be fought in Afghanistan.

At least they're not being sent into a country that doesn't want them there just to die by random car bombs. That's not better.

Was he supposed to just sit around with his thumb up his ass for the first month? There's only 48 of them in a term. :2 cents:

I wouldn't get on Obama about this - I'd get on him/congress for removing the pay cap in the stimulus bill after they passed it, before he signed it...that was pretty atrocious.

We are not wanted in Afghanistan or the middle east. That was the main reason for the attacks on 9/11. The sooner we learn we will not win the war on terror like this the better. Because as of right now the terrorists are winning. And it does not matter how many innocent people we kill. In fact the more innocent people we displace and kill the more the terrorists win.

We need real change not the same broken foreign policies.

Obama is doing what he said he would. He's obviously a better president than Bush in many ways. What good can come out of invading Afghanistan... I don't know, probably a lot. Maybe Bin Laden is there, maybe he's not. It's more than likely that he's sending troops to Afghanistan based on information we dont know.

He's in one of them and on the border of the other.


Two words: electrical generator. They're not all that hard to come by; or to operate.

Yes, he might be dead already, but I rather doubt it.

War on terror is FUCKING FAKE

made up by the media, complete utter fucking bullshit

9/11 was an inside job - false flag operation by the US Gov - pretext for war

if u really want to know whats really going on, turn on the news and its the exact opposite of what they are telling you.

Yup I can see him hopping this on the back of a camel and going through some of the most rugged terrain on earth :1orglaugh

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I believe in it. It's called payback. You kill two thousand of us, we kill you back.

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actually im totally behind US & Canada's involvement in Afghan. yea its not all great for the people, but the Taliban needs to go. North korea should be next.

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hoping it could result good output heheheehe!!!!!!!!!!!1

Over 800 innocent people killed by our troops LAST YEAR alone over 2000 total because of our presence. So how many till we are "even"? :Oh crap

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Obama worshippers continue their ass kissing like there's no tomorrow. He's gonna come with giant black dildo and fuck them in the ass with no lube, they will still go chanting "Yes, we can!"

That was something expected, wasn't it?

This should have been done in the first place, many years ago. It was a job left unfinished. It would be irresponsible of our country to just leave Afghasnistan as is.

UK and Canada, along with a few other Nato soldiers, have been heavily involved in Afghanistan since the invasion, it is really only fair that the United States America sends some more to help us out..

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