Obama Issues New Orders On Afghanistan
Hey, why not send more troops…..things worked out so well in Vietnam. Yes, I’m sure someone will show up to lecture me on how this is so different from Vietnam and I am aware of those differences, but it still feels like déjà vu all over again.
President Obama huddled at 5 p.m. Sunday with his top military and national security team, issuing orders for the Pentagon to implement his plan for sending more than 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that Obama “issued orders” from the Oval Office to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Gen. David Petraeus, Adm. Mike Mullen, National Security Adviser Jim Jones, Gen. James Cartwright and chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. Before that meeting he spoke via phone with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“The president communicated his final decision on the strategy … and issued orders on the strategy’s implementation,” Gibbs said.
Obama also will be in “close consultation with our friends and allies throughout the day” because the administration believes the war “is a shared international challenge.”
December 1st, 2009 at 3:05 am
I don’t like it, but I don’t like the idea of just pulling troops out either. This isn’t much of a surprise, he pretty much said what he was going to do during the election. The progressive blogs are pitching a ridiculous fit. Olbermann had a special comment and Michale Moore wrote a disgusting letter to Obama. As far as I’m concerned, these idiots comparing him to Bush are no better then the tea partiers.
“Is this change we can believe in”. Well, you’re the hypocrite who voted for him, so yeah, suck on it! I’m so tired of the self-righteous morons who act like babies when they don’t get their way. Aaaaaarrrrghhh!
Sorry for the rant, but they are really pissing me off.
Sage Reply:
December 1st, 2009 at 10:14 am
You’re absolutely correct that this is pretty much what Obama promised when he was campaigning and one of the reasons I didn’t vote for him. I’m opposed to war in almost all incidences. War is, as my WWII vet father says, something old men start for young men to fight and die in.
timesr Reply:
December 1st, 2009 at 11:01 am
@Jen7, “I don’t like it, but I don’t like the idea of just pulling troops out either.”
That pretty well sums up my feelings on Afghanistan as well.
What makes me mad is Cheney. He was part of the administration that got us into this mess and now is critic of the administration dealing with his pile of poop.
December 1st, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Cheney was asked if he thinks the Bush administration bears any responsibility for the disintegration of Afghanistan because of the attention and resources that were diverted to Iraq. “I basically don’t,” he replied without elaborating.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/30024.html
How do you reason with a person who says that?!? Why isn’t this quote getting full attention on the networks? This should discredit Cheney completely! It’s not based on reality. Sheesh.
timesr Reply:
December 1st, 2009 at 3:00 pm
@Jen7, “It’s not based on reality.”
From an article written in 2004
“The Bush aide said this “reality-based community” consists of people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” Suskind nodded in agreement and muttered something favorable about the principles of the Enlightenment, only to be cut off by the aide.
“That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” the Bush aide told the journalist. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to study what we do.”
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/101904.html
Apparently the Bush administration never considered reality particularly relevant.
Sage Reply:
December 1st, 2009 at 5:58 pm
I remember that comment about creating reality.
Sage Reply:
December 1st, 2009 at 5:58 pm
I think he lives in an alternate universe.