Obama Puts Brake On Afghan Surge

London Times ^ | February 8, 2009

[Steelfish]

From The Sunday Times February 8, 2009

Obama puts brake on Afghan surge

Sarah Baxter and Michael Smith

PRESIDENT Barack Obama has demanded that American defence chiefs review their strategy in Afghanistan before going ahead with a troop surge.

There is concern among senior Democrats that the military is preparing to send up to 30,000 extra troops without a coherent plan or exit strategy.

The Pentagon was set to announce the deployment of 17,000 extra soldiers and marines last week but Robert Gates, the defence secretary, postponed the decision after questions from Obama.

[originalbuckeye]

Wait, wait, wait. Didn't Zero say we needed more troops in Afghanistan?? You mean he lied again?? The WOT is a thing of the past. We are now vulnerable to all things terrorist. Zero commands it!

[silverleaf]

waffles, anyone?

who in their right mind would serve....oh,never mind

[bergmeid]

The WOT is dead. We can’t even call it that anymore.

[PISANO]

I loathe Democrat’s and their defeatist military strategies!

[pepperhead]

Yes he was calling for a "surge in Afghanistan".

[mass55th]

The guy doesn’t have an exit strategy for closing Gitmo, but I don’t see the Dems concerned about that.

[A message]

There is concern among senior Democrats that the military is preparing to send up to 30,000 extra troops without a coherent plan or exit strategy

There is concern from Americans that Democrats are about to spend a 1,000,000,000 dollars without a coherent plan or exit strategy.

This jackass is going to get thousands of Americans killed on our home soil.

The coming terror attack will be before the end of 2011. Iran and her terror allies have to be salivating at the prospects of hitting us as we become vulnerable under the Zero.

Mark my words another Democrat another depression and then another world war looms in our future.

[LearsFool]

Sounds like we might need those troops here at home after Hussein gets done importing hamas terrorists.

[SoCalPol]

One of my Marine relatives is being deployed to Afghanistan
in a few weeks. His 4th deployment.

Thanks to the idiots who sat at home election day or voted Third Party and gave our troops Obama a fricken Marxist for comander in chief who intends to give in to the enemy

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Since the strategy is to win Obama wants something different.

[unkus]

>>I loathe Democrat’s and their defeatist military strategies!<<

Wait until he deploys a Division or two to Africa.

[rbmillerjr]

First he delays trials of terrorists.

Now Obummer wants to delay the surge back into Afghanistan, the country he claimed would be his focus on the WOT.

[celtic gal]

If you have not read the posts by many Americans on that link to the Times on Line..go read them..some get it others are moonbats who must have voted for him saying things like Obams is on targert and the generals don’t know or aren’t ready...yahyoubetcha.

I only wish Zero was living in a hut in stinky Kenya.

[Tammy8]

This is insanity. The terrorists are disrupting our supplies to our troops in Afghanistan and he is NOT going to put his focus there? Does anyone need any more evidence of this man’s incompetence at this point? I do see a lot of “buyers remorse” at this point among Obama voters- too bad for the whole country that they did not bother to educate themselves before voting.

[Jet Jaguar]

He doesn't have a clue.

Well, he may now after talking to the commanders.

Doofus in Chief.

I hope he can figure this thing out.

[padre35]

The Obamao is now Commander in Chief, if we are hit again, then it is on his head.

This is a serious mistake, even amateurs can see it as such, and yet...there the Dhimmis go again...

[originalbuckeye]

He has heard what the Military commanders want. He doesn't care. He is going to sell us out and that's that. Yeah. I have many friends and relatives with whom I'm not speaking anymore. They voted for Zero and sold out my country and my son. We may never recover from the 0bamunist.

[BerryDingle]

The Pentagon was set to announce the deployment of 17,000 extra soldiers and marines last week but Robert Gates, the defence secretary, postponed the decision after questions from Obama.

Obama should have the answers, not the questions for Gates. Someone needs to whisper into that elephant ear he is the president.